A LA Times October Surprise Targets City Hall's "Political Tricks and Contributing Treats Proclivities"

Will a LA Times Investigated Report, outing an alleged "$600,000 Washing of Campaign Contributions" to City Hall Politicos by a Harbor Gateway Apartment Developer, become the October Surprise that adversely affects Measures JJJ and HHH on Election Day?

The LA Times still knows Investigated Reporting (occasionally). 

LA County Board of Supervisors Candidate Janice Hahn ($203,500) and CD-15 City Councilman Joe Buscaino ($94,700) love the smell of "washed campaign contributions (allegedly)".

** Blogger's Note: What came first in CD-15's Harbor Gateway Community, the Political Money Laundromat or the $72-Million Apartment  Complex, both owned by a certain Samuel Leung? The answer as reported in a LA Times Investigated Report and political ramifications ensuing from the reactions via various community members, is bound to have November (and March) Elections cogitations 

For former CD-15 City Councilwoman (and current LA County Board of Supervisors Candidate) Janice "Money Babs" Hahn, the timing could not be worse as she is force, again to deal with questionable campaign money issues.

Former LAPD Senior Lead Officer, turned "Money Babs" Hahn's replacement on the City Council Joe Buscaino has pledge to return all questionable contributions pending he results of a Ethics Commission Investigation. 

But for every "Average Joe (Politico)" on the City Council, there are the likes of Nury Martinez, Mitch Englander ........., and the Developer's "Perpetual Bridesmaid" Jose Huizar who have remain silent regarding the latest City Hall "Pay to Play Expose"  ............, and HOPEFULLY the result will be an adverse outcome for Measures JJJ and HHH on Tuesday Ballot.

As Neighborhood Integrity Initiative Frontperson Jill Stewart stated to the LA Times.

“We need to know whether L.A. city officials are selling their votes,” she said. “Every city needs housing. Most cities don’t go corrupt in order to do it.”

......., and come again in March, voters can put a freeze on this corrupt process until needed reforms are inplemented----Scott Johnson.

The Sea Breeze Apartment Complex.

Mayor Sam Exclusive: Democrat Ralph Pacheco to endorse Republican Steve Napolitano for Board of Supervisors, District Four??

In a Mayor Sam Exclusive, it appears that Whittier DEMOCRAT Ralph Pacheco will be throwing his support behind REPUBLICAN Steve Napoliano in his November run-off battle with ultra liberal Congresswoman Janice Hahn in Supervisrial District 4.

"Napolitano for Supervisor Sign" on property of former Democratic Challenger Dr. Ralph Pacheco's Uptown Whittier Business.

** Blogger's Note: Sources are telling Mayor Sam Blog that Dr. Ralph Pacheco is being pressured by DEMOCRATIC STATE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ANTHONY RENDON to endorse Hahn. Pacheco has a long history of bucking the political party line in the past by endorsing several GOP members against key Democratic office holders. This sign popped up in front of Pacheco's Uptown Whitter business office. No formal announcement of the Pacheco-Napolitiano Alliance has been made public, but sources with keen knowledge of the situation tell Mayor Sam Blog, "it's a done deal." Pacheco pulled in 16 percent of the overall vote in last weeks Primary election against the well funded and political entrenched Hahn, and Napolitano who is the hand picked choice by Don Knabe himself to succeed him on the powerful five member Board of Supervisors----Scott Johnson in CD 14

Saturday Thoughts on the "Selfie Politics" of Racial Identity/Immigration

The blowback over the recent Charleston, South Carolina Church Massacre and GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump's Generalization of Mexican Illegal Aliens takes on a local dimension.

When will we heed the words of MLK and forgo the Politics of Racial Identity? 

** EVENING UPDATE: Please give the courtesy of listen to this evening's KRLA 870 AM Randy Economy Show at 8 PM, as he interviews Republican Assemblyman Matthew Harper regarding colleague's Roger Hernandez's Act of Intolerance directed at him during a recent committee hearing---Scott Johnson.



A blogging bit of disclosure on this outer wise, beautiful Saturday afternoon, due to a recent allergic reaction, a certain blogger has taken on a physical "Red Neck-like Persona", but contrary to the past rhetoric of lucrative, one percent Charter Educators/Indoctrinators Mr. and Mrs Mark(os) Aguilar-Ferguson, our musings have been, and will continue to be predicated on the beliefs of MLK that we should judge the subjects of our commentary, based upon the content (or lack of, in the case of Mark(os)/Minnie) their respective character ......., and not skin color.

That said, the sad reality is that Racial Identity Politics is striving in the wake of the vile, Charleston, South Carolina Church Massacre and the misguided, generalizations of Mexican Illegal Aliens by Billionaire Developer and current Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. 

There was once a time when a evil act of terror or the utterances of a ego-driven persona, were kept within the focus of the actual event (ie. lets not make it more than what it is), but in the "Age of the Selfie", our inner-narcissist cravings (especially among the political class), prompt many of us to become part of the act ........, which removes the victims (and the facts) from their needed focus of attention.

In the wake of the vile murders of nine Americans (of African Descent) by a solitary, deranged young man in Charleston, South Carolina, what was a remarkable, empowering moment of faith-driven, show of character by the families of the victims, was turned into an intolerant spectacle (with attached political opportunism) of historical recrimination as the practitioners of Racial Identity Politics sought to cleanse from the cultural landscape, "hijacked symbols of hatred", that were a byproduct of a tragic American bloodletting ......, that later led to a forgotten time of national reconciliation.

Locally, Congresswoman Janice Hahn, who just so happens to be running to become the second member of the Hahn Political Family, elected to the LA County Board of Supervisors, is inserting her "Selfie" into the post Charleston recrimination efforts, by calling upon the Wilmington area, Fort Drum Civil War Museum, to remove for sale, all Confederate Flags (which achieved the desired goal of garnering press ...., and blog coverage).

But unfortunately for Congresswoman Hahn, her "Selfie Moment" was usurped by the local visit yesterday of "Mr. UberSelfie", supposed Republican Presidential Candidate (** who has given The Clintons mucho dinero) Donald Trump.

Trump, who espoused his own factually-challenged brand of Racial Identity Politics, by his recent generalization of Mexican Illegal Aliens, was given some inconvenient validation, via the San Francisco Murder of Kate Steinle, that repeatedly-deported (and Sanctuary City-protected) Illegal Aliens do kill.

Its was also an inconvenient truth to the Los Angeles Racial Identity Politics Supporters of LA's Sanctuary City policies, that high-school student Jamiel Shaw Jr. became a victim of Illegal Alien Gang Member Pedro Espinosa in 2008, igniting a debate over LAPD's Special Order 40 and its cooperation with ICE. Jamiel Shaw Sr. has come out in support of Donald Trump on the issue of Illegal Immigration and is schedule to introduce Trump today, at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona.

Yet, back in California, Sacramento politicos, led by "State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon the First" orchestrated a "Selfie Moment" of recrimination against Trump (and Senator Ted Cruz), by announcing legislation that would disinvest California from any Trump-owned fiscal entity.

......., meanwhile another victim of a Illegal Alien Murderer, and the inconvenient facts of a fail Sanctuary City Policy, become mere footnotes as the divisive rhetoric of Racial Identity Politics continues on across the choreographed, selfie, cybersphere.

** Evening Update: Jamiel Shaw Sr. and sister Althea are part of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump's Press Conference with families of people killed by Illegal Aliens.

 

Your thoughts ..............
Scott Johnson in CD 14   

TGIF Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine

As another bloggin work week gives way to another 2015 Campaign Weekend, the likes of CD 15 City Councilman "Average Joe" Buscaino, Congresswoman Janice "Babs" Hahn and former "Failure Mayor" Antonio Villar, are mulling thoughts of future political opportunities. 

All aboard the ship of possible future political adventures for a current CD 15 Councilman, Congresswoman and ex Mayor. 

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