A Special Bloggin Deconstruction of Mayor Eric Gar-SOFT-ee's Statement on ICE Raids

The MIA, Second Term-seeking Mayor Eric Gar-SOFT-ee has released a Statement on the alleged, community-disrupting, SURGE of ICE Raids ............, which is the subject of a Special Bloggin Deconstruction of its contents, that the Upward-aspiring Politico will not defend in any Candidate Forums/Debates.  

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

"Today I spoke to the Deputy Director of ICE’s Los Angeles Field Office and made it very clear that I want greater transparency about ongoing operations and the status of all Los Angeles residents who may have been arrested or detained.

From the LA Daily News regarding ICE Raid ......, targeting Criminal Aliens.

Among those arrested, according to ICE:

• A Salvadoran national who was allegedly part of the MS-13 gang. He was arrested in Huntington Park and was wanted in his native country for aggravated extortion, ICE said.

• A Brazilian national arrested in L.A. and wanted in Brazil for alleged cocaine trafficking.

• An Australian national from West Hollywood. He was wanted on suspicion of lewd acts with a child.

Did Mayor Gar-SOFT-ee spaek out so FORCEFULLY (or after be force by Najee Ali and Earl Ofari Hutchison) in the aftermath of the African-American-targeted Firebombings in Ramona Gardens?

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Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Tuesday

Wendy Greuel may have thought she was advancing her Mayoral chances by disclosing the existence of a special program that allowed the Mayor and Council Members to fix parking tickets for high profile supporters - that is until the Mayor disclosed Greuel herself had used the program during her time on the Council.  Despite that - in true LA City Council closing the barn door after the horse has left style - the cat is out of the bag and CM Dennis Zine is now heading up an investigation of the program.  In the meantime, Paul Hatfield looks at the Mayoral campaign implications of the whole issue.




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Shaw Family on the Air

Vote them Out; Time For American Justice! Jamiel Shaw II, was murdered on March 2, 2008. Jamiel Shaw II, was murdered by a gang member living in the USA illegally, while his mother was serving in Iraq. Most of the politicians in Los Angeles support illegal alien gangs and sanctuary cities. Jamiel's family received no support from local politicians regarding Jamiel's Law. 

Jamiel's Law will deport illegal alien gangs out of the USA. When will politicians begin to support American Citizens who were murdered by illegal aliens? Jamiel's parents will talk about Jamiel and the far too many Americans who lost their lives at the hands of people who were NEVER supposed to be living in America.

On BlogTalkRadio tonight at 9pm.

District Attorney to seek the Death Penalty in Murder of Jamiel Shaw Jr.

"In memory of Jamiel Shaw Jr."

According to KRLA 870 AM, the Los Angeles County District Attorney will seek the Death Penalty in the murder of Los Angeles High School Student Athlete, Jamiel Shaw Jr.

Pedro Espinosa, a illegal alien gangmember, is being tried in the murder of Shaw Jr. Espinosa's immigration status at the time of the murder, became the catalysis in the efforts of many to place "Jamiel's Law" on the ballot. Jamiel's Law would of overturn LAPD's "Special Order 40" which states that LAPD officers cannot ask for the immigration status in the course of questioning "persons of interest" in criminal investigations.

The cause of Jamiel's Law galvanize local talk radio and spur debate in the political bloggersphere.

Jamiel Shaw Sr. will be appearing on KFI's "John and Ken Show" in the last hour (6:00 PM) and on KRLA's "Kevin James Show" this evening (9:00PM-1:00AM).

Your thoughts...................

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Friday

The LA Times has a profile of Mayoral candidate Walter Moore of who Cal State Fullerton professor Raphael Sonenshein, said "somewhere between a minor candidate and major candidate. If someone's going to have a splash, it's going to be him . . . but it's not nearly enough to unseat the mayor." Also uncovered by the report is that Moore did not contact the family of slain teenager Jamiel Shaw before pursuing his death as a campaign issue, "We actually heard about it on the radio. We weren't happy with that,"Althea Shaw told the Times. Councilman Dennis Zine accused Moore of playing politics with Jamiel's death telling the fishwrap "The fact is, I just don't think it's appropriate to use a tragedy to run for public office."

In the Times piece Moore also states that "You got people butchering goats in their frontyard. You've got barnyard animals running around." I haven't seen any goat butchering and I don't know if that's a Wiccan ritual but when it comes to barnyard animals maybe Moore means South LA.  Janice Hahn has a solution though - allow each home to have one rooster.  However that might mean a ban from Jan Perry on Kentucky frying those chickens.

Sea creature antics big news at Pulitizer Paperweight winning WWG's "blog."  "An octopus at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium opened a valve on its tank and flooded the place with seawater."

Speaking of our favorite faux Pulitizer prize winning suburban Anglo crank, fresh from the Sherry (Shirley?) Bebbitch-Jeffe cocktail circuit, Westside White Guy blurbs the Zuma Dogg-Craig Rubin incident story and somehow works in a gratituous slam on Weekly Deputy Editor Jill Stewart, one of the only media "outlets" in town that doesn't - unlike Old Kev - take it up the patoot from Villlaraigosa and the LA kleptocracy  - and completely misrepresents a story she's written.  Westside White Guy can push for his press club martini stained status quo but as his beloved fishwraps fold and the government he supports is slowly getting unmasked, the world as Roderick knows it may soon be coming to a drastic and sad end.

I've been having big problems this week with Time Warner cable internet and so have others.  Apparently the cable provider has been the victim of denial of service attacks by hackers.  Credit, Time Warner?

I'm Not Prepared to Throw the Shaws Under the Bus

Much has been written and said about the reported disqualification of the Jamiel's Law petition by the City of Los Angeles.

The City Clerk's office reports that only about 18,000 signatures were turned in; about a quarter of those required to even consider placing an initiative on the ballot.  At the same time, on this blog, Althea Shaw, the aunt of Jamiel Shaw, the murdered 17 year old athlete the effort centers around, claims she was certain the family and their supporters had upwards of 76,000 signatures.  Still too close for comfort but at least enough to get you in the door.

Claims made by Shaw that perhaps some petitions were allegedly lost, misplaced or otherwise misappropriated by City personnel have stunned and surprised many. 

I don't presume to believe that some type of "grand conspiracy" is in play here; however the entire incident leads to questions that should be at least answered.

1. What was the chain of custody of the signed petitions from the time they were turned into the City Clerk by the Shaws until they were returned to Ms. Shaw.
2. How are these documents secured? What are the security measures in the facility where the documents are stored? Who has access to these facilities and are these individuals supervised or monitored at all times?
3. What advice did Mayoral candidate Walter Moore give to the Shaws? Did they follow it? Why wouldn't Moore - as the instigator of the movement and an educated, successful attorney - make sure procedures were in place such as asking the Shaws to copy their signed petitions and otherwise document them?
4. If Moore himself did not have the time nor desire to manage the drive himself, considering that the Shaws had little if any political experience prior to losing their son, why didn't the candidate recruit someone to consult and provide technical support to the Shaws considering that he has been banking a major part of his campaign on the Jamiel's Law issue?
5. And finally, with all due respect to the Shaws, if the City's position is accurate, how could they make such an inaccurate estimate - not only when the petitions were turned in but in the progress reports that were given along the way?
   

 I believe that it is possible that the Shaws - who were motivated by grief and a legitimate demand for justice - did not have the complete set of political tools at their hands and could very well have made a series of unintended mistakes in the effort.  That being said however I feel that they were sincere and honest in their efforts and may have been further victimized by various politicial agendas in this town.

Jamiel's Law has 76,000 signatures

Walter Moore emails me:

I just got off the phone with Althea Shaw, who told me that, shortly before 5:00 p.m. today, she and her family filed over 76,000 signatures to put Jamiel's Law on the petition!

KNBC reports:

A last-minute push Friday from supporters of "Jamiel's Law" resulted in more than 76,000 signed petitions that could get the initiative on the city ballot next spring. The family of Jamiel Shaw, a 17-year-old high school football player who was killed in March, gave the signed petitions to the City Clerk's Office just before the 5 p.m. deadline.

Other media continue to report that the signature drive fell short. In order to qualify for the March ballot, 73,963 of the 76,000 signatories must be registered voters in the city of Los Angeles, which leaves little room for error—3% to be exact. Needless to say, today was an incredible finish, but the nail-biting will continue well into next week.

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday

Oh no! Digital billboards featuring Ellen Degeneres are igniting fires of discontent, giving a Raison d'être to the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council for the first time since Jason Lyon stirred the pot.  In the meantime a cash-strapped City of Los Angeles has figured out how to make a buck off the situation.

David Horowitz' Front Page Magazine has a piece on Jamiel and Anita Shaw and their mission to pass Jamiel's law.  Another 23,000 signatures are needed by December 5th.  Your help is urgently needed to help make the goal.

All the votes are yet to be counted but Measure R is still inching towards passage.  LAist has a rundown of the wish list of public transit projects that politicians would like to build with the increased sales tax.  Question: what happens when the bad economy and rises in other taxes fails to bring in the expected revnue?

Goofy old liberal Bill Boyarsky - among those waiting for the New Deal and the second coming of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - thinks the election of Obama and the passage of big boondoggle taxpayer government works projects will be the water that lifts all boats. Problem is Bill, this isn't 1932 and the economy works a lot differently than when Duke Ellington sang It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).

Jamiel's Law Gets Support of the Midtown North Hollywood Neighborhood Council

Disclosure: I am a member of the Midtown North Hollywood Neighborhood Council Board of Directors.

Wednesday evening Jamiel and Anita Shaw spoke before the Board of Directors of the Mid-Town North Hollywood Neighborhood Council, re-telling the tragic murder of their 17 year old son Jamiel and their efforts to pass Jamiel's Law, which will provide one tool against ending gang violence.

The Board passed unanimously passed a resolution is support of Jamiel's Law when it comes to the ballot as well as called on the City Council to move a similar measure sponsored by Council Member Dennis Zine out of Jack Weiss' Public Safety Committee so it may proceed to a full vote by the Council.

Jamiel and Anita Shaw speak to the Midtown North Hollywood Neighborhood Council

At the same meeting, the Council also approved a resolution I authored offering our support for the Los Angeles City Council's position in opposition to Proposition 8, a measure on the November California ballot that would overturn a recent court decision allowing same-sex couples to marry legally.

A previous decision by DONE and the City Attorney has ruled that Neighborhood Councils may not take positions on state or federal legislation however we determined that our Board could take a position supporting the City Council's position.

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Friday

If you were wondering where Mayor Villaraigosa was Thursday evening, do not fret, we've tracked him down.  He was all the way in San Antonio, Texas, spending some of that 89% of his time that he doesn't attend to City business attending a fundraiser in honor of, well, Mayor Villaraigosa hosted by Democratic stalwart Henry Cisneros.

Just two weeks left to sign the petitions for Jamiel's Law.  The Shaws and their supporters are doing a great job getting to lots of events and getting a ton of signatures but any petition drive needs to get at least twice as many signatures as required to ensure success.  Read this article here to see where you can sign if you haven't yet.


If you missed it, we have video of Mayor Villaraigosa's Deputy Mayor Jim Bickhart sleeping on the job at a recent meeting.  No matter how you spin, its reminiscent of Councilmember Greig Smith who uses Council meetings for nap time.


Thefts of copper wire from City street lighting polls have reached epideminc proportions.  The light poles are destroyed when the wire is stolen resulting in significant costs to the city.  DWP and LAPD representatives held a news conference Thursday asking the public to keep their eyes open and report any suspicious activity.

Anti-billboard hysteria over at the LA Weekly has reached bizarre levels.  The Weekly's Jill Stewart declares that City leaders to create Times Square-esque zones in downtown LA is the result of "male penis envy."

Looking for a cute two bedroom home just a two minute drive from home games at Dodger Stadium? CurbedLA has a cozy cottage that can be yours for just about a quarter mil.

Help Gather Jamiel's Law Signatures

This weekend you have a few opportunities to gather signatures for Jamiel's Law or at least come and sign the petition yourself if you haven't already:

USC Football Game (game sold out, over 100,000 will be there)
L.A. Coliseum
3636 S. Figueroa
(Many people come early to football games. Plan to be there at Noon, stay as long as you can)

UCLA Football Game (thousands will be there)
Rose Bowl
Pasadena, CA
(Many people come early to football games. Plan to be there at Noon, stay as long as you can)

Granada Hills 8th Annual Street Faire (12,000 - 15,000)
Granada Hills Chamber of Commerce
On Chatsworth Street, between Zelzah and Encino Avenues
(Event starts at 10:00am - 5:00pm, plan to be there at 9:00am, stay as long as you can)

A Volunteer's Story of Today's Jaimiel's Law Rally at Leimert Park

Volunteer Chelene Nightingale sends the following report:

A completely successful event! Our mission was to collect Jamiel's Law petition signatures, raise awareness about Jamiel's Law, support the Shaws, register voters, and to let the city officials know that Jamiel's Law not only has mass support, but also brings unity in all our communities! Our mission was completed!!

116 signatures were gathered today. (And the Shaws were staying until 5pm, so I am sure they gathered a few more. Althea told me their average on Sundays is usually only 20-25 signatures.). In addition 10 completed petitions were turned in by supporters. The Shaws also brought a large stack of blank petitions which were all distributed out to supporters promising to collect signatures!! And two people registered to vote!!

ABC 7, our local friendly American media, showed up to interview us!! We really appreciate ABC 7!! And also a big thank you to William Gheen who had us on air live for his national Last American Standing Show! It was really nice that we had an entire listening audience supporting us!! Thank you.

Over 100 ralliers showed up today with Jamiel Shaw signs and American flags! Many new faces!!! And of course several old friends!! Heather, great to see you!! LAPhil, glad you decided to attend!!

Our ralliers were fortunately met with a VERY supportive community!! The honks of support were really amazing!! And many pulled over to sign the petition!! (Quite the contrast of last year's Leimert Park march.)

Today we broke in the new SOS bullhorn donated by the lovely Ohighglass!! (And thank you Blackfelines for picking our new bullhorn up and bringing it to the event!!) Many special guest speakers helped us break in the SOS bullhorn!! A special message of gratitude to radio talk show host Terry Anderson, the next mayor of LA - Walter Moore, and of course Jamiel Shaw, Sr. - always an impactful speech!!

Other great speakers included congressional candidate Ted Hayes, Board of Education candidate Rabbi Nachum Shifren, the always lovely Barbara Coe, the very passionate Frank Jorge (very powerful speech today), David Hernandez who constantly defends our community - this time with Prop R. Keith Hardine who announced today he will indeed run for LA City Council!!(Bravo), the very articulate Terrance Lang, and many other supporters of the Shaws and Save Our State. And although he did not speak, a special thank you to talk show radio host Kevin James for coming out to support our rally!!

Thank you everyone!! LA needs Jamiel's Law and today we came one step closer to achieving this goal!

We did not have any counterprotesters today! There were only a couple minor incidents. One was winding down as I showed up at 10:45, a local did not want us there apparently. Also there was a permitted event at the park today and the lady running the event was apparently not a Jamiel Shaw supporter. She tried to get the city services gestapo (fake police) to remove us. A rumor floated around after one of our ralliers overheard her tell someone that the police were going to come and remove us from the park. I am sure after last Sunday's raid this idea was quickly dismissed.

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Friday

The Shaw Family will return to Leimert Park this Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to gather signatures for the petition to put Jamiel's Law on the ballot. Mayoral candidate Walter Moore will be there from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. passing out yard signs and bumper stickers. There's even a rumor that the old, dead Republican Mayor may be in attendance.  (Leimert Park is located at the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and W. Vernon Avenue.)

The City wants you to save water but it doesn't look much effort is being made by the City itself. Zuma Dogg has great video of broken City sprinklers doing a water show in Venice.

Just in time for election day in November Councilman Bernard Parks and rap artist and actor Snoop Dogg will be honored by the West Coast Regional Hip Hop Awards on October 25th.  The awards show will be held at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles, will be hosted by actress and model Porsha Coleman, Westside Radio’s Julio G, and comic T.K Kirkland.

Santa Ana school board member Rosie Avila is challenging Orange County Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.  Avila war born in Guatemala and has served on the school board for 17 years.  Avila is a strong advocate against illegal immigration and bilingual education and decided to bring her experience as an immigrant to the issue.

Leimert Aftermath: Throw Bernie Under the Bus?

As we continue to dig deeper into the raid on Leimert Park Sunday and alleged harrassment of the Shaw Family by City officials, something kept coming up.  The desire to place responsibility for the raid on Council Member Bernard Parks.

According to Zuma Dogg, police officers told him that the City Attorney was directed by the Council office (Bernard Parks) to conduct the raid on the park.  However, Council District 8 officials told Zuma Dogg that the office had nothing to do with the raid and had no direct knowledge of it beforehand.  Councilmember Parks Chief of Staff, Bernie Parks, Jr., told me directly that his office had no involvement or prior knowledge; when the news reports hit Monday was the first he was aware of it.

However this in direct conflict with the previous statements of an LAPD officer and a City report obtained by a source to the Sister City that listed Council District 8 as one of the participating agencies in the task force.

So obviously someone is not telling the truth here. Now this is where I digress into speculation.  After talking with Bernard Parks, Jr. as well as a few other individuals I believe that Parks' office is telling the truth about their involvement.  If the Council office has involved I doubt they would lie about it.  On the other hand officials of the LAPD Southwest Division have already demonstrated inconsistencies in their comments on the matter.

It is well known that there is no love lost between Council Member Parks, a former LAPD Chief and current Chief William Bratton.  Chief Bratton as well is a strong advocate against Jamiel's Law and has been critical of the Shaws and their supporters.  What better way to kill two birds with one stone - rattle the Shaws and finger Bernie for the effort.

Of course there is no evidence yet that Chief Bratton was involved in the planning of the raid nor that the Council office is telling the truth.  But at time when Councilmember Parks needs every Black vote he can get, I don't see him planning a secret police action against the Shaws. 

After all, Chief Bratton has endorsed Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas, Parks' opponent for Supervisor.

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday

The effort to pass Jamiel's Law is having a positive effect.  Los Angeles County has hired additional staff who will be responsible for interviewing jailed gangbangers about their immigration status. Those here illegally will be turned over to the Feds.  Kudos to the Sheriff and the Board of Supervisors!

A portion of Reseda in the San Fernando Valley has been renamed Reseda Ranch.  The purpose of this is to prevent developers from developing the large lots that dominate the area.  Not sure if this will work; imagine if you worked hard to buy some property and when the time came you couldn't realize a decent return on your investment because of the efforts of some dumbass ex-motorcycle cop riding on a horse.

Blogger David Markland reports that theives posing as DWP and construction workers are ripping people off in Hollywood.  Markland has video of a crook dressed in hard hat and vest stealing a bicycle near his home.

Wednesday HaikuLA introduced Mayor Sam readers to Leryn Franco, javelin thrower for Paraguay in the Beijing 2008 Olympics.  If you want to see more of this athletic hottie you can click here and here.

Illegal Vending in Echo Park

This video is a few months old but incredible nonetheless. While the full weight of Los Angeles Police force is brought out to stop the Shaw Family from collecting signatures and giving out free hot dogs in Leimert Park, illegal vending continues for blocks in Echo Park, turning the local landmark into one continuous swap meet - with nary a Recreation and Parks nor LAPD officer in sight.

Now before someone says here you go again beating up on the Mexicans. It has nothing to do with race. I wouldn't care if it was a group of Slovokians, Thais and Belgians in the park selling used plumbing supplies on the grass. The question is where is the equal application of the law?

Leimert Park Raid Not LAPD? Oops!

WitnessLA.com is reporting that LAPD's presence near the Leimert Park raid on the Shaw Family was coincidental. So who are the officers in this pic? Who demanded social security numbers of the Shaws and threatened them if they didn't comply?

They're Office of Public Safety police, aka General Services police. OPS is the one-size-fits-all solution to all of the City's patrol needs that LAPD won't do. Devised as a way to increased efficiency and as a supposed cost-savings measure by Jim Hahn and Wendy Greuel, they're now a completely sacred cow in this City government, soaking up millions in Public Safety money, equipment, and Homeland Security grants while delivering often sub-par or non-existent services to other departments such as the Zoo, Library, Convention Center, and Rec and Parks who previously received these funds to safeguard their own facilities. In some cases OPS might not be doing much service for the public, but if there is a high profile press or government event, you'll magically see dozens of OPS officers instantly materialize around the cameras and politicos.

So how sacred is OPS in Los Angeles? Laura Chick absolutely refuses to audit them, even though their creation and very existence is supposedly one of efficiency. More sacred than Rocktard's office, then.

OPS looks an awful lot like LAPD on the outside. Their uniforms are almost identical so it's not a surprise that the Shaws may have thought that was who was asking them for their SSNs. This common misidentification is probably one LAPD should back away from quickly, however, given the sensitive state of affairs with race relations and the Consent Decree. Why? OPS leadership, especially Chief Gary Newton and Captain Richard Musquiz, have backgrounds that would cause a lot of trouble for LAPD if they were actually LAPD.

Newton's forays into Nevada law enforcement activities between Los Angeles jobs are rife with rumors along with rumored racially offensive body tatoos and having been illegally promoted within this City.

Better documented is Musquiz, who is in charge of the OPS patrol officers. As such, his leadership sets the attitude for this group. Musquiz has been fired from the Huntington Park PD for beating a handcuffed suspect. Musquiz did appeal and lost. (read the case here). A little over a decade later while he was a Los Angeles Housing Authority officer, the Congress of Racial Equality sought to have him fired for the same incident in 2000. Musquiz is quoted in the Nevada Appeal News as claiming the actions of the civil rights group were a result of disgruntled officers at the Housing Authority. However, it was actually an FBI investigation into Huntington Beach PD issues that brought Musquiz's dismissal to light. One has to wonder what the real story is with Musquiz's time with the Los Angeles Housing Authority.

Regardless, officers with these kinds of backgrounds are not typically considered LAPD material, yet OPS has not one but two in major leadership roles. These two officers of questionable backgrounds have an entirely new police force at their disposal completely unfettered by any kind of consent decree or any real oversight. An entire force that is easily mistaken for LAPD by the public. So what's a little social security number between friends, eh?

An audit by Ms. Chick may be just the thing to bring some much-needed transparency and accountability to OPS. In the meantime, there is a rubber-stamp Office of Public Safety Oversight Committee that meets once a quarter out of formality in what usually amounts to a multi-agency gladhanding session. Anyone who has issues or comments related to OPS and their performance may want to visit this committee, especially the Shaws. The Office of Public Safety Oversight Committee next meets on September 16, 2008.

In the end, it'll be interesting to find out if LAPD really was or wasn't involved -- this remains to be discovered for certain. But we definitely know OPS was, and the biggest question of all still begs to be answered: who ordered this?

Bernard Parks, "this is your time"

Memo to the campaign of "Bernard Parks for Supervisor".

Rarely does an candidate for political office get "two hanging curve balls" of community issues to hit in the ballgame that is your contest for the 2nd District Board of Supervisor Seat against Mark Ridley-Thomas.

First, American citizens in your council district are being harassed by a politicize LAPD, for simply petitioning City Hall to let the voters decide the faith of a law, "Jamiel's Law", that would protect American citizens from crimes committed by illegal alien gang members.

Just think of all the free T.V. time you could of reap by showing up at Leimert Park, minutes after yesterdays "exercise in First Amendment bashing",to denounce Chief Bratton and Mayor Villaraigosa for inserting politics into the selective enforcement of city codes.

What a chance to take out those long-festering bitter feelings by bashing that arrogant, pompous north easterner who wasted no time in rubbing his endorsement of Mark Ridley-Thomas into your bruised ego, and is asking for someone 's Social Security number a violation of Special Order 40?? That opens the hypocrite angle to attack Bratton.

Second, there is a "Tsunami" of an controversy brewing within the fiefdom of Tyrone Freedom's SEIU 6434 family empire.

Thousands of working poor are having their meager pay checks "taxed" to fill the coffers of your challenger Mark Ridley-Thomas and family members bank accounts, according to dissidents within the local and SEIU. And it doesn't help the cause of Freeman when the "Old Gray Hag On Spring Street" resorts to the concept of "investigated reporting" (remember their Rampart reporting??) to fill column inches.

This your chance to stand up for the right of workers (mostly latino BTW) who had no say in how their dues money were being allocated. Also don't forget about exploiting that certain "Republican Slate Mailer"?? that could highlight Ridley-Thomas's true feelings for workers rights.

Bernie, with the Daily News reporting today that your campaign is reaching "Dysfunctional Mass" now is the time to hit these two issues out of the political ball park, take that Chamber money and run past home plate in November into the 2nd District seat.

***Props and Credit to Zuma Dogg for his great photo of the "Bitter One"***

Proof that City Council doesn't Care

City Council didn't get to public comment until 4 1/2 hours into today's City Council meeting.

They are trying to suffocate people from getting a lousy two minutes to comment, even on important issues like Jamiel's Law. But they'll pat each other on the back for hours, bring in mariachi bands, and fawn over the criminal, cheating mayor and Fabien Nunez as they pick-pocket-the-public.

Raise fees, reduce rates, and thicken density, but God help you if you want to have your say for a few minutes.

When Gangs Rule

The power of gangs here is so deep now that there is an open season on even our men and women in law enforcement.

Our politicians and even the Chief of Police denies and deflects the problem.

When will We-the-People finally demand action?

The Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2188 and Ladies Auxiliary, are asking for the support of our community to help raise funds for the family of fallen Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Juan Escalante. Juan was gunned down outside his home in Cypress Park.

The Fraternal Order of Eagles are hosting a PASTA DINNER on Thursday, August 14 from 4 pm to 8 pm. Donations for the dinner are $10 per plate. The Eagles Hall is located at 1596 Yosemite Drive at Townsend in Eagle Rock, 90041. 323-257-8869

All proceeds from this fundraising event and any donations will benefit a fund set up for Deputy Escalante's family.