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Monday, July 06, 2009

Morning Briefs and Outtakes for this Day after the "Fifth of July" Celebration in CD-14

" The "Mayor" speaks on the cost of Michael Jackson Memorial"
*Acting Mayor/ Councilwoman Jan Perry got her face time this morning on CBS's "Early Show" as noted at the Time's "L.A. Now Blog" .
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry said she was concerned about the cost involved in Tuesday's huge Michael Jackson memorial and would "love it" if the Jackson family helped pay some of those bills.
But Perry, speaking on the CBS "Early Show," said city officials have not heard from the Jacksons. Perry, who represents the downtown area, said she did not have a cost estimate for police and other city services that will be needed Tuesday.
*Ron Kaye's OurLA.org writer and CD-14 activist Monica Harmon has some choice comments about allocating city resources, ie. cash, to cover the cost of "maintaining public order" for tomorrow's Jackson Memorial.
*Downtown News Editor and "Scribe of Wit" Jon Regardie had some salient observations and commentary from last week's swearing-in festivities at City Hall.
A note to Mayor Garcetti/Hertzberg/Caruso/Perry/Chick/LaBonge/Wesson/Nuñez/Alarcon (hah! That last one made me laugh as I wrote it) or whoever else envisions him or herself as having a chance to take the oath of office on July 1, 2013: You may want to rethink the idea of allowing other newly elected officials to approach the speaker’s podium on the day you ascend to power. It certainly seems like a magnanimous gesture, but you may get more than you bargained for. (Hey Jon, you forgot Huizar in your list of names, signed Jose Huizar.)
Villaraigosa was very good at the morning event. His 31-minute address was thoughtful and laid out a clear agenda, with notable goals and even a vague allusion to his first-term shortcomings. He was better than he has been in a long time.
But Trutanich was even better. Maybe it was partly because, as a political outsider, he’s still got that new car smell. Maybe it was because, as the son of a San Pedro cannery worker who made it into office as much on his own campaign as on the fact that people hated his opponent, few really know what to expect.
During introductions at the event, Nuch earned the biggest round of applause (master of ceremonies Derek Fisher — yes, the Laker, and no, I have no idea why he was the MC — got the second best response). Nuch got better from there. (And the next day Villar and Parker jets off to Africa to role play Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt.)
*That CD-14 bastion of low rents, no oversite and dubious dealings known as El Pueblo is the latest to face an audit from the City Controller's Office. That was met with this retort from El Pueblo Commission Member/ Southwest Society Member/ Woman of the Year, Carol Jacques
Although she had yet to read the report, El Pueblo Commissioner Carol Jacques was critical of the audit, noting that interim City Controller Rushmore Cervantes was a former general manager at El Pueblo.
“I felt there was a conflict of interest there,” she said. “I think you have a guy that was here last time four years ago. It’s like him auditing himself about things he should have completed.” (Wonder how Ms. Jacques would feel about an audit detailing the cost of favors, appointments, and public giveaways to members of the Southwest Society ??)
.....and as we enter the first full week of the 2009-2010 Fiscal Year, is Jose Huizar Deputy Chief of Staff Henry Casas still on the city payroll and why ??
Your thoughts........

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24 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Hey Jon,

In CD-14 we use LAPD and General Services Police to make sure that no one interrupts his "Gordoness" Huizar.

July 06, 2009 11:48 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Now we know why Carol Jacques of the Southwest Society thinks continuing to give away Griffith Park to the Autry Museum for $1 per year is OK. She is doing it for other non-profits at El Pueblo.

Old habits are hard to break even when the City Controller exposes the incompetence of the El Pueblo's leasing activities over the last several decades.

July 06, 2009 12:06 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Yeah and then the so-called Councilman Jose Huizar turns around and tells LAPD, "You are trigger happy cops." (Hollenbeck P.D./Hazard Shooting 2008)

He is such an ass hole with no common sense...

July 06, 2009 12:42 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Alarcon has only slightly better chance of being Mayor in the next 20yrs. as Red Spot has of getting laid.

July 06, 2009 12:54 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Antonio and Ace sure messed up aksing Nuch to speak at what is always the Mayor's solo event, thinking he was still such a star. Of course Nuch stacked the place with his biggest supporters while Antonio gave his tickets to staffers and even his own family couldn't help falling asleep behind him. Only Lu looked thrilled to be there, waving at people and planning on jetting of to Africa the next day.

Antonio and Ace couldn't get Mother Theresa elected to the local church fundraising used clothing bazaar these days and have no sense of how to respond to the hot button issues people want. They messed up Measure B that it mobilized a grass-roots movement that went after his buddy Jack Weiss to get even with him, he's been pushing density in areas where people are afraid of the kind of influx Ed Reyes, Alarcon and the other Latinos talk about, he's ignored the illegal immigrant problem totally except to want to build them affordable housing and tell the feds not to bust places where they work, and he wonders why white people and a lot of blacks don't like him.

He's been hurting the Democrats by giving the rightwing Republicans like the ones who voted for Moore and take rightwing talk radio as gospel the ammo they need to take over and that sucks. There are "law and order" Democrats and Jack Weiss is one of them but this city has gotten so damned polarized.

We need to come together over jobs, services and good schools for the middle class, clean air an safer, better roads, mass transit. He gave a good talk but fewer people are still listening and willing to "roll up their sleeves." We're waiting to see him set an example and being out of town leaving Perry in charge of this Jackson financial burden and strain on LAPD isn't a good start.

July 06, 2009 1:17 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Next year . . . SIXTH of July Festivities in Distrito Catorce, and then we'll just keep adding a day each year, until it meets up with Mexican Independence Day in September.

July 06, 2009 1:47 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Word is the Mayor just hired Emanuel Pleitez. WHERE THE HELL IS HE FINDING THE MONEY?????

Its nice to finally see the dialogue out there about why the taxpayers are footing this bill. The politicans use LAPD to campaign always talking about public safety except Huizar who hates cops. Fox 11 is saying the city is abusing the use of LAPD all over town for this charade of a memorial. Why doesn't Jan Perry have a damn press conference and ask AEG and Jackson family to fork over the money they owe the city?

July 06, 2009 2:17 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Thank you Red Spot. OMG its all over the internet now how badly Jan Perry handled this fiasco as acting mayor. Where are the other clowns? They are getting ripped across this nation for being a bunch of goons not knowing how to deal with a event of this magnitude. LAPD are the only ones doing a great job yet getting screwed by having to pay for all this shit.

July 06, 2009 2:28 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

HUizar is not a "so-called Councilman", he is the duly elected Councilman.

Mayor Villaraigosa, is not a disgraced, loser; he is the Mayor of the second largest city in the country.

But you guys are a "so called Mayor" and a spot someone was looking for all month to be sure she wasn't preggers.

Why not get some hard news and cut the name calling? It has descended to the ZD level where every permutation of names is a challenge to make it more disgusting.

Get off the junk and go back to ideas and issues, please.

July 06, 2009 2:59 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I can't believe that the readers are bitching and moaning that the mayor left for vacation when Michael Jackson died. (after first moaning about how he would be trying to foist himself onto the family and become a part of their memorial) If the mayor bought a vacation package to Africa, then he's not going to leave town because a pop singer died. Not even one who is as phenomenal as Jackson.

I'm learning that you people here just love to bitch about the mayor. If he does A - he's wrong. If he does B - he's wrong. Can't he do anything that would be okay with you? Besides move away, resign, etc.

July 06, 2009 3:17 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I'm no Michael Jackson fan, but what is the City supposed to do? Maybe Zine will introduce a motion to ban celebrity memorial services, except his own I'm sure.

I don't think the Jackson family has much money. The Michael Jackson estate has assets but control over that is going to be in the courts for quite a while.

Besides, aren't all those people from outside LA pumping up the local economy?

July 06, 2009 5:55 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

3:17 Tony just has that touch. And it was really good for him to let Jan Perry fumble through this dilemma. She's always been expendable.

On Perry's request that the Jackson family might chip in? Now she's really taking Tony's "dreaming" idea to heart with that one. Since he took Lu Parker, I doubt he's doing much thinking about all that.

Tony left in a nick of time or he'd be tne one wasting his breath on recouping the expenses.

in L.A.

July 06, 2009 5:57 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

5:57, you've got it slightly wrong though. It's Zine who's letting Jan Perry twist in the wind because "she's always been expendable," and let's face it, she is. She's an idiot who battles Bratton on 12/3, insists LAPD is still racist, demands her own sign district and setting an example for Wesson, Reyes, Hahn etc. while conveniently blaming Weiss along with Zine for opposing this but then trying to craft an ICO to accommodate special sign districts.

Which brings us to the one who's REALLY grandstanding, holding press conferences to blast "the city" i.e. Perry for not having demanded that AEG foot the bill -- bald backstabber, blabber-mouth buffoon Zine.

Sure he and Trutanich took her along for the ride on their Harleys but Zine's hoping to get Chief when Bratton leaves or even mayor lord help us, so having slimed Weiss on every rightwing talkshow for 2 years on behalf of Trutanich, he's picking off Perry who's been talked about as maybe the first black woman Mayor. Dope that she is, but ethnicity counts.

The Jackson family is profiting just as much as AEG so if anyone pays they should too. No they're not poor, but the will hasn't been paid out yet. However they're taking this "memorial show" on the road to upto 50 cities and Joe Jackson's promoting some sort of record deal at his son's memorial "appearances." All with sage advice from Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

And where's Parks, the half-million dollar a year with pensions "budget hawk" now? Away somewhere too or like Zine, letting Jan Perry take all the heat because they know she wouldn't be upto it so there's one less of them now that they smell a lame duck Mayor. Pathetic lot but lowest of all is Zine.
The idea of THAT being Mayor, chief or ANYthing is impossible. You might as well have zuma dogg.

July 06, 2009 6:31 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Paying for the Jackson memorial service- NO WAY! Let the Staples Center and the Jackson's pay for it. Our city is laying people off and raising taxes and fees. Our state is in the midst of the biggest budget crisis and our police department is using our funds to pay for costs to run crowd control for this memorial service. Stupidity! The City Council did not vote to spend the money on it. The family is having it at Staples, not us. People in Los Angeles are out of work. Some are starving and losing not only their jobs but their homes. And our city officials feel it's ok to pay for a memorial service...

July 06, 2009 7:08 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Jacko's estate may be worth a half a billion bucks.

Now that he is not spending faster than it comes in, it is amassing cash.

It is now run by a couple of smart lawyers, one of whom is John Branca.

The top nine tunes downloaded this week, according to Billboard were all Jackson's hits.

July 06, 2009 7:09 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

The Jackson memorial the city is paying for LAPD services while the city is in a budget mess shows us how much this idiot councilmembers really care about the residents in Los Angeles. Vote the losers out! No money should be used to pay for this service. He is not a role model. He was a drug abuser who killed himself.

July 06, 2009 7:17 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Just Wait. Some lame councilperson will propose that Los Angeles renames a street after that.....

July 06, 2009 8:13 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

No one is mentioning the rumors that Jan Perry the biggest supporter of the Nation of Islam even named a square after one of them in her district doesn't like LAPD and does everything Bitter Bernie tells her. Rumors are saying the Nation of Islam is pulling her strings and told her throw the cost to LAPD. They are violent criminals pretending to be religious. If you read the posts on LA Now on the LA Times, Jan Perry is getting blasted badly and rightly so. Its about time people starting putting these stupid council members in check.

July 06, 2009 8:22 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Oh look, our acting Mayor Perry is flashing gang signs!!! Thata way!!! She speaks the truth. Our that fake mayor Villar never tried that on camera!!!

July 07, 2009 8:28 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Please Villar, just stay in Africa. There's an elephant reserve that you can oversee. They'll listen to your speaches intently. Please rise to your level of incompetence and live and work in Africa, as far from Los Angeles as possible.

July 07, 2009 8:37 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

CD-14 is all screwed up! The new chief of staff Ana Cubas is still working for her former employer. Youth Policy Institute. It says so on her Linkedin.com profile page. HMMMM still on payroll with a non profit that has city contracts. Does this spell another CD-14 chief of staff scandal. Conflict of interest. Not to mention the Executive Director who is always spotted around City Hall.

July 07, 2009 2:32 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

OK, guys, let's get this right, pleitez is cute, tall, and Stanford graduate --

he was antonio's driver during the campaing, not district director as he claims.

He was on Obama transition team, as an unpaid intern, in fact, his stupid fiancee is supporting him.

His mom supports him, he's just an immature guy who doesn't want to hold down a job and grow up

July 07, 2009 9:14 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Youth Policy Institute, who the hell cares!!!!

Leave Cubas alone! She pulled herself up out of poverty,went to Berkeley and Princeton. No money, no trust fund.... She cares about the community.

What have you guys done with your lives?

All red spot and you losers do is crap on other people??? Sit at home, eat, and harsh on others, wow, that will get you brownie points to heaven. God knows since you are fat you will go soon.

July 07, 2009 9:18 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

WOW somebody is pissed...Ana you are not the only one who "No money, no trust fund...." but grew up in Santa Monica... Anyways there are tons of people in your shoes, relax and take the blows as they come, part of being the COS for CD-14.

Besides if your plan is to run for office like you say you are, then this is just the beginning.

July 07, 2009 10:51 PM  

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