Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Friday
What is the City of Los Angeles doing with some of it's Federal stimulus money? Buying up houses, refurbising them and renting them or selling them. Since when did the City of LA become a real estate developer and property management company? This is so not a function of government and yet another sign of Obama's creeping socialism. The City of LA can't pave streets, run a zoo, keep water rates down or anything else succesful. The better move would be to lower taxes and encourage investment so private individuals could buy homes and provide affordable housing. As it is high taxes and strict regulations make only high value housing profitable. Who's behind this? Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Congresswoman Maxine Water. We all know how Maxine deals; so expect lots of fraud, waste and abuse here.
Speaking of Villaraigosa and shadiness (the two do go hand in hand; hope the Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom people are writing all this down) two major contributors to his 2005 Mayoral campaign have been ordered to pay a significant fine. Sean Anderson and Richard Manhire, owners of Miami-based Travel Traders, agreed $108,000 in fines as part of a settlement with the Los Angeles Ethics Commission where they admitted to laundering campaign contributions for the Mayor. Travel Traders had been seeking major contracts to run concessions at LAX, had dinner with the Mayor and the next day the pair began making contributions to Villaraigosa.
Bitter Bernie continues his resentful hatred towards the LAPD, the agency he once led and was fired from, now wanting the City Council to decide when officers can blow the siren and speed in the pursuit of fighting crime. Do we really want the Clowncil members making these decisions or the trained professionals who make up the LAPD?
LA Times reporters don't understand why they will be soon out of job. The market is changing and if they don't change with it; there will be no more LA Times. The reporters - standing on journalistic "principles" - are up in arms that the Times ran an ad on the front page for an NBC show. It was a creative effort at a time when both newspapers and advertisers have to be creative (sorry guys Macy's ad on the back page don't pay the bills anymore). But hey it's better to be broke right?
Here's one where we have to give credit to Walter Moore. All of a sudden now there's a ruckus about the Clowncil and Mayor's $1 million calligraphy budget. Uh, Wacko pointed that out long ago, way before he got all hung up on sanctuary city Kentucy Fried Chickens. Does it take a recession to finally illuminate fraud, waste and abuse? I guess so.
And finally someone at Curbed LA must have taken one of our April Fools' stories seriously. No, Eric Garcetti has not announced he's running for Governor. At least not yet.
Speaking of Villaraigosa and shadiness (the two do go hand in hand; hope the Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom people are writing all this down) two major contributors to his 2005 Mayoral campaign have been ordered to pay a significant fine. Sean Anderson and Richard Manhire, owners of Miami-based Travel Traders, agreed $108,000 in fines as part of a settlement with the Los Angeles Ethics Commission where they admitted to laundering campaign contributions for the Mayor. Travel Traders had been seeking major contracts to run concessions at LAX, had dinner with the Mayor and the next day the pair began making contributions to Villaraigosa.
Bitter Bernie continues his resentful hatred towards the LAPD, the agency he once led and was fired from, now wanting the City Council to decide when officers can blow the siren and speed in the pursuit of fighting crime. Do we really want the Clowncil members making these decisions or the trained professionals who make up the LAPD?
LA Times reporters don't understand why they will be soon out of job. The market is changing and if they don't change with it; there will be no more LA Times. The reporters - standing on journalistic "principles" - are up in arms that the Times ran an ad on the front page for an NBC show. It was a creative effort at a time when both newspapers and advertisers have to be creative (sorry guys Macy's ad on the back page don't pay the bills anymore). But hey it's better to be broke right?
Here's one where we have to give credit to Walter Moore. All of a sudden now there's a ruckus about the Clowncil and Mayor's $1 million calligraphy budget. Uh, Wacko pointed that out long ago, way before he got all hung up on sanctuary city Kentucy Fried Chickens. Does it take a recession to finally illuminate fraud, waste and abuse? I guess so.
And finally someone at Curbed LA must have taken one of our April Fools' stories seriously. No, Eric Garcetti has not announced he's running for Governor. At least not yet.
Labels: Bitter Bernie, calligraphy, curbe, eric garcetti, Ethics Commission, LA Times, lapd, maxine waters, mayor antonio villaraigosa, shadiness, stimulus money, walter moore
Posted by Michael Higby @ 4/10/2009 02:00:00 AM
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