Boks Out, Levine In?

What happens when your dad tries to buy you a State Senate seat but you wind up losing to a beloved liberal kook? Perhaps your dad buys you a job as a department manager with the City of Los Angeles.

HaikuLA has been covering extensively the general upset and disapproval of just about everyone in city of Los Angeles Department of Animal Services General Manager Ed Boks. Its probably to safe to say Boks' days on the job are numbered. So if Ed is about to hear "You're fired!" who gets the job?

This evening a very reliable inside source tell us it's none other than termed out Assemblyman and failed State Senate candidate Lloyd Levine. Levine's father is the influential rainmaker and political consultant Larry Levine. Is it possible that the elder Levine has made a deal to get a job for his soon to be unemployed son? We may soon find out.

Blumenfeld's "Stacking the Room" Comes to Head Tonight

40th AD Democratic candidate Bob Blumenfeld got caught with his pants down around his knees trying to "stack the room" (his words) to gain the endorsement from two different Democratic organizations. In both instances the candidate failed and no endorsement was given.

Linda Sutton writing at Calitics captures the next site in the circus tour, the endorsement of the Stonewall Democratic Club. According to Sutton, the father of our favorite backstabbing nanny bachelor (you know who) bought at least 80 memberships (and hence votes) putting them on his credit card just before the deadline hit. The fun starts tonight.

In the meantime, Blumenfeld's opponent Stuart Waldman announced an endorsement that didn't require a credit card, that of Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo.

Bootleg Video of Michael Levine

I was at the Michael Levine LIVE! event over the weekend and shot the video below. It will be part of a documentary to be released at a later date but Mayor Sam viewers get to see it here first.

At first blush, there doesn't seem to be a direct link between politics--supposedly the common thread for all of our postings and musings here--and a talk on public relations. But like many politicos/communicos will tell you, perception matters and there must be method to your madness if you want to be at the top of your game--whatever arena you play in.

I liked his professional/personal code of the "Three O's" and "Voluntary Homework Assignment" and found it highly adaptive to our world of politics and public affairs. There are five videos in total; warning: he drops a few f-bombs and uses some provocative imagery.

FYI. Levine is the same guy who wrote Guerilla PR and authored several other books on business and public relations. I love his closing quote from the "poet of our time," Bob Dylan:

When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world.