Open Thread for Friday

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Zuma Dogg illuminates a Daily News story about the dog and pony show that are the Los Angeles City Council meetings with all the time they waste on silly procolamations and presentations.

For Mr. Snark who says that the bloggers here have never got a City proclamation:

We all love The Beatles but...

If you wonder why your Los Angeles City Council doesn't get much done, here's yet but one part of the problem: excessively long "presentations" at Council Meetings.

Here Tom LeBong gets six minutes to bloviate about a radio show that plays old Beatles records.  I love the Beatles and always have.  I remember when they were actually around. I have listened to Breakfast with the Beatles many times over the years on Sunday mornings.



But riddle me this Ringo, why do we spend all this time on a weekly radio show, when DWP ratepayers only get one minute to address their elected officials about incurring $3 billion in debt. (And by the way Tom LeBong is the number one complainer about public comment and consistently seeks to limit it despite Council President Eric Garcetti having to school LeBong in the law.)

I understand the emotional importance of these proclamations.  Especially when a bunch of kids who have done something good get to be recognized.  However our Council meetings should not take up this time.  Have an event once a month on a Saturday or Sunday, everyone come down to City Council and bloviate.

Let's stop using the public time for non-business issues.