Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday

Rick Orlov says that the Mayor is concerned about his image as he gears up to run for Governor so he's been showing up on time the last few days. In the meantime the Mayor is once again off on another junket to Washington, D.C. armed with a $6.8 billion wish list for Federal earmarks for Los Angeles. 

Yet another fishwrap shows its lack of understanding of the LA poltical scene with the headline, "After Easy Reelection Win, Mayor Villaraigosa’s Run for ‘Gov’ Likely." Easy? 

I thought he was headed to France? Walter Moore over at CityWatch kvetching about his election loss and his lack of media coverage.  That's been discussed.  Joseph Mailander had some of the best pieces charting how the local fishwraps failed to cover the election.  They didn't.  It sucked.  Move on.

On the heels of the Zuma Dogg video of Monica Garcia, LAist captures an LA Department of Transportation officer driving official parking enforcement city vehicle #01522 while talking on her cell phone.

Speaking of Zuma Dogg has he perhaps parlayed his notoriety into a potenial commercial spokesman career? A limousine company offered Zuma a job as a commercial pithcman directly on the Dogg's blog.  A Zuma Dogg move from politician to commercial pitchman would not be unprecedented. Geraldine Ferraro, Mario Cuomo, Tip O'Neill and others all went on to star in TV commercials following their political careers. Also: Zuma issues a statement on his blogging and political future.

The Lincoln High blog takes us to task for one article, agrees with us on another and gives a spot on analysis of some your favorite Mayor Sam dum dums.

Notes from Los Angeles has a delicious photo of a cornucopia of salsas at Cactus Taqueria in Hollywood.  Had Walter Moore been elected Mayor would this turn into a salad bar with thousand island and ranch dressing?

Could a County Employee Be Posting Racist Blog Comments and Whitewashing Wikipedia?

SaveOurTacoTrucks.org is fighting the good fight against bureaucrats who want to shut down the wagons that gringos like Joe B. (his favorite: the one outside the Target in North Hollywood) love to frequent and often dispense delectable regional cuisine out of various Latin nations.

Now in a stunning development the folks at the pro-taco truck campaign's blog have discovered that the source of racist, anti-white (and anti-taco truck) comments posted on the site several months ago came from the same IP address that was found to be editing County Supervisor Gloria Molina's Wikipedia entry.  (Gloria is opposed to taco trucks.) Let's let the taco truck folks continue:

Now, there’s also something much less obvious about this post that we noticed. Every time a comment is posted, the IP address (essentially a unique internet ID) is noted. Interestingly, the IP address (159.83.252.234) for the two posts is registered to the County of Los Angeles.

Stay with me, because it gets better.

In April, somebody took the time to post a section about the controversy on Gloria Molina’s Wikipedia page. On September 10th, the entire “Controversy” section was wiped out, white-washed like a mural in the Arroyo Seco. Fortunately, Wikipedia also notes the IP address of anybody who makes a change to an article. Want to guess the address responsible for this change?

That’s right, the exact same eleven digits: 159.83.252.234.

So what we have here is someone using an LA County computer to post hateful, racist comments on SaveOurTacoTrucks.org that is also whitewashing Gloria Molina's Wikipedia entry on a regular basis.  Hmmm, time for an investigation?