Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday

Joining the Westside White Guy in downplaying or poo-pooing Ron Kaye's bitch slap against LA, BlogDowntown gets the headcount wrong and goes off into non-sequitirs from the City's semi-colorful past.  How about focusing on what was said rather than what people were wearing?





How does Councilmember Greig Smith plan to help with the City's budget woes? He will forgo six days of his six figure salary.  Maybe he can coordinate that with one of the many junkets Council Members are taking so at least he can eat for free.



Thanks to John McCain's get tough stance on immigration (since when?) and the support of America's most powerful Latino leader Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Barack Obama stands to win more Latino votes than the presumptive Republican nominee.  Well that's what a Colorado political website says anyway.

  

The President of the Neighborhood Council in Palms wanted to appoint his successor but ran into a snag: the Council by-laws.  Apparently President Todd Robinson wants to quit and was going to appoint a Vice President.  The problem is you can't appoint a Vice President and the spot is open to all stakeholders.

 

The folks at the very excellent Foothill Cities Blog are running a City Hall photo contest.  You can submit photos of any city hall anywhere and win some big time bragging rights and some great prizes.  There's even a photo of a so-so copy of Pasadena City Hall in Japan!



And finally, things are getting wild in Altadena.  A local blog details with photos the visit of a bear, a mountain lion and a deer who apparently had his entire midsection chewed up by a mountain lion.