Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Tuesday

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Round 8 of Ali-Foreman, the legendary "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire 1974. The younger and more powerful George Foreman was the aggressor throughout the first seven rounds while the older yet highly conditioned Muhammad Ali played rope-a-dope. Then, with Foreman punched out, Ali struck in the 8th round.


William Bradley , in an engaging piece at Huffpo, equates the Jerry Brown victory over Meg Whitman to the Ali-Foreman 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" match in Zaire;

"...the dust is still settling on Brown's resounding landslide victory -- 54% to 41%, a margin of more than 1.2 million votes over billionaire Meg Whitman -- absolutely shattering the biggest spending non-presidential campaign in American history. In the process, Brown broke the record for the most votes ever received by a gubernatorial candidate, leading a Democratic sweep for the statewide ticket.
...Which is not surprising, since virtually all the state and national press early on anointed Whitman as an unstoppable high-tech juggernaut of a campaign run by the best consultants in the business. Up against poor old Jerry Brown and his ragtag little band. When in reality, it (Brown vs Whitman) was Ali-Foreman '74 all along, with what I called Brown's Zen rope-a-dope approach unfolding as anticipated."  

Well played Jerry, well played.

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Sunday One-Liners and Open Threadies

 One sentence at a time, that's all we ask;

-Doug McIntyre on the sad state of the GOP in California.

-Sen. Bernie Sanders on MSNBC suspending Keith Olbermann.

-I'm not sure what this means, but evidently, it's very important.

-Candidate filing for LA City Council election 2011 begins on Monday.

-Please visit my new blog that covers the behind the scenes shadiness of a developer that has lost his mind, and the PR firm (Consensus Inc) that is being paid to make his dreams come true.

-In California, at least, experience counts.

- And finally, Goodbye Meg, we'll miss you! Much Love, television and radio station advertising departments across the state;

Notes on the November, 2010 Elections Scorecard

"Governor Moonbeam, Part Two"

** We start our Notes on the November, 2010 Elections Scorecard, with a moment of reflection in tribute to the late Los Angeles Times and Herald Examiner Sports Writer Allan "Mud" Malamud. His "Notes on the Scorecard" was a must read for sports fans for years in Los Angeles. Maybe Mud can comment from the "Great Redwood Bar in the Sky" on yesterdays proceedings.

Winners and losers in yesterday' elections.

Winners:

Congress in Washington.

Part Two of Governor Moonbeam in Sacramento.

Doonesbury Cartoons.

Union Pension Funds.

The bottom line of those who profited off Meg Whitman's $150,000,000+ campaign expenditure.

California's Labor Unions

California Democratic Party.

Kamala Harris.

Criminal Rights.

Trial Lawyers.

The late State Senator Jenny Orapeza.

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.

Twenty-year old Republican Assembly Candidate Alvaro Day in the 44rd Assembly District, who gain by losing against Anthony Portatino.

43rd Assembly District Police State.

The junk science of Global Warming in California.

California's Conservatives who watch the moderates crash and burn yesterday.

All the Nickys in California.

The "Female Antonio" in Orange County, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.

** BIG WINNER, Prop 20 that kills off Gerrymandering. Note to Congressman Howard Berman the Latinos are coming!! The Latinos are coming back to your district!!

Veteran Political Consultant Michael Trujillo's chances of working for Hillary again in 2012.

Losers:

Female Billionaires who change their political stances to suit the electorate.

Not Governor in 2010 or U.S. Senator in 2013 Mayor Antonio Villar.

Californian's Pocket Books in the near future..

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

District Attorney Steve Cooley.

Anyone under or soon to be under investigation by the District Attorney.

Fiscal sanity in Sacramento.

Public employees in California when the fiscal well runs dry.

Pot Heads and their Cartel allies.

The Death Penalty in California.

Victims Rights in the California Attorney General Office.

California State Parks.

Freedom of the Press in a certain Assembly District.

District Attorney Carmen Trutanich, not that would be a bad thing in the future.

Carly.

California's Fiscal Future.

Obama.

** BIG LOSER, Berman-Waxman Machine's Prop. 27 that would protected the practice of Gerrymandering.

From the LA Weekly: "The Soft Revolution Ends Gerrymandering"

Your thoughts...............

Scott Johnson in CD 14

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Monday

Senator Barbara Boxer has sought to hit hard in defining a negative image for her opponent Carly Fiorina.  However those who attend her rallies and hear Fiorina speak in person find a different person than what Boxer, one who is warm and has ideas for California.  The GOP challenger will have to overcome Boxer's commercials; however I predict a stunning repudiation of Boxer buoyed by Meg Whitman's multi-million dollar ground war will lead Fiorina to a three point victory over Boxer.  So long Babs.

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Meg Jeered at Women's Conference Today

She refused to stop running negative ads. The response was immediate. And she wonders why voters find her distant and cold?

Cartoon Animation Political Ads - The Shape Of Things To Come?

By David Berger

Xtranormal.com has been around for a while, and is becoming better known as it has been the source of some hilarious 'debate' animations, like the one that recently went viral over consumer complaints about the iPhone 4.



If you can type, you can create an animated video, quickly, cheaply and actually quite effectively, so it's no surprise that the opportunities presented by Xtranormal for inexpensive but effective political ads has been picked up by underfunded political campaigns.

Here's one for Prop 19 which, is currently going down in flames (51% to 39%) according to a recent LA Times/USC poll.



The possibilities for political comment and satire are endless - just think of Nicky Diaz's first meeting with Gloria Alred? or eMeg's reaction to Whoregate?

David Berger is a Deputy District Attorney for the County of Los Angeles and a former candidate for City Attorney of Los Angeles.

NOTICE: The comments views and opinions expressed above are personal to the writer and are not in any way authorized, approved or endorsed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office or any candidate.

Senior Citizen Hippies for Meg

From my formerly liberal, 1960s, Black Panther, Brown Beret, Peace and Freedom Mom who got her head stomped by LAPD in 1967 protesting LBJ and the war in Century City:

"Just can't believe it took me so long to see thru the Democratic deceit and fraud!!! Oh my."

She marked her absentee ballot today for Meg Whitman.

Brown Lead Widens after Whoregate

In the first major poll after the much publicized incident of a Brown staffer referring to Meg Whitman as a whore, Jerry Brown  gains a point from a pollster that normally skews Republican! Rasmussen now has Brown easing away with a 50-44 lead over Meg Whitman.

Phillips: Whitman - Paladino Was Wrong

Wednesday evening KABC talk host John Phillips interviewed Republican Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman where she called out New York GOP candidate Carl Palladino for making anti-gay comments. The story has been picked up by both Yahoo News and the news magazine The Advocate.

On an unrelated note Phillips Thursday will interview porn hustler and former candidate for President and Governor Larry Flynt.

BREAKING NEWS: Jerry Brown Calls Meg Whitman a "Whore"

Jerry Brown needs to learn that when you leave a voicemail make sure you hang it up.  Jerry was leaving a voicemail for a Los Angeles Police Protective League official to get their endorsements. What Jerry didn't know was that the voicemail was still recording.  Brown is clearly frustrated, in an exchange with various aides, discussion ensues in which what the LA Times reports is an unidentified male voice referring to Meg Whitman as a "whore" over her position on police and public safety pensions.  However if you listen to the recording, which is on the LA Times website, I am certain you hear Brown using the word whore as well. (listen to the recording about two minutes in - it is clearly Brown's distinctive voice saying "What about saying she's a whore?")

Not a bright move on the Brown campaign part.

UPDATE: Brown apologizes.

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Monday

UPDATE/CORRECTION: In reviewing some of Joe B's posts about Meg Whitman I realize that I erroneously judged him to be posting a level of vitriol similar to that of posts made by Mulholland Terrace on Griffith Park Wayist. This was a mistake so I have corrected my post accordingly and offer my apologies to Joe B for my mistake and not well thought out comments.

Lots to consider as the race for California Governor pulls it into it's final month. Following a technically challenged Spanish language debate in Fresno one can easily find Jerry Brown agitprop on the web as well as those on the right who have a take that eMeg is actually doing well. Most interesting is that the always astute LatinoPoliticsBlog was not as impressed with Jerry while supporting him yet not at all showing the teeming hatred for Meg as seen in posts by Mulholland Terrace. As the kerfuffle over Meg Whitman's illegal alien former maid whimpers out barrister Gloria Allred takes a beating from fellow attorney Greta VanSusteren and explosive rumors come out alleging well heeled supporters of Jerry Brown have arranged for a cushy job for former Whitman maid Nicky.

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Gloria Allred Destroyed by Fellow Attorney and Democrat Greta VanSusteren

Brown and Whitman Meet Again in "El Festival del Amor del Latinos"

Nicky Santillan was part of our family, until she wasn't.


from Neon Tommy;

"The second televised debate between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman will take place Saturday in Fresno.

For Meg Whitman, the timing couldn’t be worse.

The debate is aimed at Latino audiences, and is being aired on Univision with Spanish and English subtitles. Brown already had the edge with Latino voters coming into this week, but now that the Whitman maid scandal has erupted, Whitman’s going to have to work extremely hard simply to maintain the portion of Latino votes she does have."

The debate is being held in Fresno, a city that Meg recently referred to as "looking like Detroit. It's awful."

The debate will be held at 11am and aired on Univision at 4pm. If anyone is aware of other viewing options please let me know.

Post Debate Round-Up;

OC Register

WSG

SF Chronicle

Mercury News

AP

No Hotsheet Today

Go ahead and debate the snoozefest I mean Whitman-Brown Debate. (video)

Tweets about Jerry
Tweets about Meg

LA Politics and Donuts for a Saturday

The Clean Sweep campaign gets its first candidates' forum off the ground this afternoon.  Among the candidates confirmed are not only Phil Jennerjahn and Stephen Box in CD4 (worth the price of admission alone) but the only incumbent with the cahones to show up, Bernard Parks, and his Betty Pleasant appointed opponent, Foreskin Hogan Family or something like that, a previous campaign ethics violator.  Despite that nearly most of the candidates who are showing up are koo-koo for cocoa puffs Clean Sweep did make a very good move in snagging local reporters Michael Linder and John Schwada as moderators.

A funny thing happened on Mitch Englander's way to get anointed as the next Clowncilman from CD12. Ali Wolter reports that popular community activist Kelly Lord has filed to run.  Now Lord will have to convince us he's going to raise money, build an organization and not just run a vanity campaign but it appears that voters tired of the status quo and the special interests may have an alternative in Lord.

Jose Huizar wants the City to run all elections almost entirely by mail. Tell me how that isn't an invitation to fraud.

Any of you carpetbaggers who want to move to a new district to run for City Clowncil next year better move there and get completely moved in by October 9th.  Otherwise Steve Cooley will come and slap a felony charge on you.

Phil Jennerjahn spends the night with Meg Whitman.

Last year I got an invite to the blogger prom. This year no one from Mayor Sam did though I'm certain we have a larger readership than most of the blogs invited. However when I recently referred to "The Midnight Swin" as a place where "hedonistic, narcissistic, brain dead young people engage in self-aggrandizing stupid events." I think the blogger who wrote about that event blackballed me.  She runs the Blogger Prom.  Kind of a head cheerleader for the nearly thirtysomething set.

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Friday

Which way to the Mexican buffet?


Rut-Roh! Fresh from getting a pass from the Justice Department for his pink panties treatment of prisoners, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio may have gone all Rizzo on us and misspent $80 million dollars of taxpayer money pegged for jail operations on lavish trips abroad, hotel upgrades, and huge restaurant tabs!
Where's that partisan outrage?

-Meg Whitman has stopped spending money long enough to follow tightwad Jerry Brown's lead in finally announcing her opposition to Proposition 23, the Big Oil/Koch Bros backed bill that would put the brakes on AB32. She's against Prop 23....sort of....as long as she can suspend implementation of AB32 until all the bad guys can find a legal loophole to get around it.

Speaking of the Tea Party Puppetmasters, Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina finds herself in a cozy relationship with the Koch siblings after they sponsored a fundraiser for her in Washington yesterday to help raise funds from the many special interest lobbyists that are looking for a friendly doormat should she win in November.

LA County Supes are stepping up and doing what the state should have done some time ago. Foam containers for food and drinks are being banned at "most county facilities, including restaurants, catering trucks, hospitals, golf courses and concessions" After a trial period, an expansion of the ban will be considered. Plastic Bags next, we hope?

Happy 90th Birthday wishes to Mickey Rooney!

Your turn.

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Thursday

-On 10/10/10, inspired by a 30 year old tradition originating from Bogota, Colombia, CicLAvia gets to do what only a presidential motorcade has done in the past; clear 7 1/2 miles of LA streets of cars for 5 hours.
Instead of secret service agents riding on the side of black suv's, the streets will be open only to pedestrians, skaters, and bicyclists.
CD4 candidate and transportation advocate Stephen Box couldn't be happier!

-In case you didn't know, Californians want to legalize marijuana, and not just for the recent tsunami of stressed out suffering teens that flood our local "collectives" up here in Sunland-Tujunga.

-Are Canadians wimpy? Of course they are.
The Canadian Dept of Foreign Affairs has issued a travel warning for citizens thinking of traveling to Mexico. Maybe the Canadian gov't is just covering their ass, but Mexico is as safe as just about anywhere else that's outside of Bel-Air. Just don't be buying drugs or trying to muscle your way in on somebody's human smuggling operation. My good friend, Abby Diamond, just returned from a very relaxing trip to northern Baja's Guadalupe Canyon, and an adventurous 61 year old guy from El Cajon is about to embark on a 1500 mile walking trek of Baja with his burro Don-Kay and 2 dogs.

-Jerry Brown began his campaign for governor just a few short weeks ago and already has gained significantly in the polls over billionaire Meg Whitman, who has been campaigning for almost a year to the tune of $120 million and at least that many annoying radio spots.

-E-Bay founder Pierre Omidyar, says he will NOT endorse Meg due to her support of Prop 8 and her selection of former governor and Prop 187 proponent Pete Wilson as her campaign manager.

And finally, Oh boy am I glad my name isn't Robert Rizzo, who's only barely good news for the day was that a judge reduced his bail from $3.2 million to $2 million. That should help!

Your turn.

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Wednesday

Fans in the Foothills are looking forward to a second act for Paul Krekorian in next year's election.  Except Lakeview Terrace activist Kristin Sabo who isn't yet convinced that Krekorian will fight creep from the CRA into the North Valley locale.

The bacon truck is the next big thing.  Not sure what Hamburger Jan Perry thinks of them rolling through South Central.  She's more concerned with imposing a nanny state on South Central LA where hamburgers are more dangerous than bullets.

Everyone is aghast at public pensions these days.  Meg Whitman has a great idea as she wants to put these pensions on the ballot for the people to chop up.  As opposed to Jerry Brown who want to put pensions on the state credit card.

Phil Jennerjahn has some fuzzy math on Tom LeBong's pension.  Still his overall premise that this guy shouldn't retire in luxury on the public dime is correct.

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Thursday

Los Angeles's public libraries serve tens of thousands of school children every day yet they are under attack from the City's Mayor.  Patrick Range McDonald, writing in the LA Weekly, reports that the City has decimated the libraries through draconian budget and service cuts.  While the economy has hampered public budgets all over the country, of major cities, only LA's elected leaders have not fought to save the venerable institutions.  McDonald notes that Mayor Villaraigosa, like Mayor Bloomberg of New York, chose to cut to the bone in the library's budget.  Unlike New York however LA's City Council rolled over and allowed the Mayor to strike a blow against literacy.

There's more...

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The Billionaire Democracy

She's done it!

Meg Whitman has spent more of her own money on her campaign than any candidate for political office in US history! Her personal contribution to buy the governorship of California has reached a staggering $119 million and counting.

This is either one hell of a vanity project, and/or sadly, California may be about to be sold to the highest bidder.