Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Sunday

Think what you might about Zuma Dogg and Matt Dowd but if what the Mutt reports is true, I am aghast. While holding down a Venice Beach performance space for Dowd as the Kiwi gadfly ran an errand, Zuma was hassled by Venice Beach officials and LAPD officers who wanted to hand the space over to a "performer" who juggles machetes from a ladder. Oh yea that's really something servants of public safety should be protecting!

An audit by City Controller Laura Chick makes the finding that Los Angeles World Airports chief Gina Marie Lindsay did not unlawfully influence two different evaluation panels to choose a contractor which she had previous ties to in the awarding of lucrative construction contracts at LAX. However, insiders at the Airports department say otherwise.

Yet another tax increase! Assemblyman Mike Feuer got his fellow members to pass a local sales tax increase to fund the MTA. However you'll get a chance to vote on it, probably in November.

South Bay Area Congresswoman Laura Richardson who lost a home in Sacramento following foreclosure has two other homes in Long Beach and San Pedro that have fallen into default at least six times according to The San Diego Union Tribune. Richardson acknowledged using her personal funds to pay for her campaigns instead of paying her bills. She will face two challengers in Tuesday's Democratic primary.

Looks like Bob Blumenfield has secured the animal wacko vote. Too bad cats and dogs can't vote though. Well at least not yet; don't put any ideas in Richard Alarcon's head.
And finally, If you're looking for some interesting family entertainment, check out the Toy Theatre Festival at the Music Center on June 14th. Toy Theatre is a genre of puppetry in which plays are enacted using two-dimensional rod puppets in a small model theatre.