When the campaigning started, I felt Hillary would be impossible to beat.
But as we roll into Iowa and beyond, I think she'll be lucky to hold on to a #2 position.
I just think her phoniness and true agenda will be revealed -- and even the women voters who support her will be way too scared to even think of voting for her.
Especially when Oprah pulled support of her long time friend and in a surprising move, not only decided to back a candidate (she always stayed out of it), but chose Barack! (If that's not an insider "wink-wink" to women from Oprah, I don't know what is?)
For Oprah to so publicly come out against Hillary Clinton...well that's quite a warning if you ask me.
(And yes, if you take a position for the first time, and it isn't Hillary, that's going "against her", because Oprah could have just stayed on the sidelines.)
The more I see, the more I just don't think Hillary Clinton is electable.
She just doesn't have the political savvy her husband had/has. She comes off too canned. Too tense. She seems to get flustered instead of seizing the moment.
As opposed to people like Huckabee, who although religion may get in the way, he really knows how to give an answer under pressure for the most part.
There's a reason all the Republicans are praying Clinton gets the nomination.
That would HAND the election to the Republican party. It's still early, but Edwards would probably do best with Republicans, but what do I know?
CAN ANYONE READING THIS GIVE ME A GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULD STILL CONSIDER CLINTON, ESPECIALLY SINCE SHE IS SURROUNDING HERSELF WITH PEOPLE LIKE ANTONIO VILLARIOSA AND HIS POLITICAL CIRCLE?
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Los Angeles Bloggers Weigh In on Clinton Campaign Co-Chair Antonio Villaraigosa and His Uphill PR Battle to Save a Sinking Ship
Comments from rom LA City Hall "Insider" Blog "Mayor Sam's" blog. Click here for more "insider" coverage of LA City Hall and Clinton Co-Chair Mayor Villaraigosa
Anonymous said...
How sweet it is!!!!
Getting rid of Rocky will be like swatting a fly. Unlike his nemesis, Tony Villar, Rocky is just a petty thief who NEVER should have been allowed to hold office.
BUT...the table is being set for the BIG feast! Taking Tony Villar down!!! Tony, we are going to cook your goose...big time!!!
These crooks were hiding in the shadows just like the illegals they are aiding and abetting; however, the minute Billary picked the two Reconquistas to co-chair her campaign, the national spotlight is shining on them. Tony does not have anywhere to hide!
Oh...this is going to be delicious! Tony...your past is coming back to haunt you...you can't hide...
We have SO MUCH video of Tony's anti-American rhetoric floating around town...we could do a marathon documentary on the evils of Tony Villar!
And then there's Fabian! Fabian...you're next! The video of you is even worse than your evil twin, Tony Villar!
The avalanche is just beginning, folks. Rocky is just the tip of the iceberg!
Delicious...simply delicious!!!!
June 21, 2007 9:18 AM
Anonymous said...
How is this Rocky thing different than what Antonio has done for him? Antonio not only used staff for peronal errands, i.e. breath mints, he also used staff to cover for him whenever he had his affairs. This job description cost on staffer, Jimmy Blackman, his marriage. Monky see, monkey do.
Everything filters from the top and city hall has become a whorehouse.
June 21, 2007 9:30 AM
Anonymous said...
LISTEN UP, GUYS!!!
TONY VILLAR IS NEXT!!!!
HE'S THE BIG FISH!!!!
THERE'S MORE SHIT ON VILLAR THAN ANYONE ON THE PLANET!!!!
ROCKY IS JUST THE OPENING ACT...THE LOUNGE ACT!!!!
BE PATIENT....VILLAR IS GOING DOWN SO FAST HE WON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM!!!!
PANDORA'S BOX IS OPEN!!!!
IT'S GOING TO BE THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!!!
June 21, 2007 10:25 AM
Anonymous said...
YYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAA!!
THE BIG BAD WOLF IS DEAD!!
June 21, 2007 11:05 AM Captain Jack Sparrow said...
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking (files flightplan from SF to Santa Monica, grabs David Clarks and directs crew to do preflight inspection of Citation):
Sots, guess where I was last evening? I was up in the Bay Area having supper with pirates from two politico camps (e.g., Newsom and Westly). Now why would pirates from here be supping with pirates from there? I'll give you a clue. The talk wasn't all about sailing, savvy?
One of the wonderful things about being a pilot is being able to fly to places that require a bit of travel (e.g., Miami, D.C., SFO), and partake in the jet set sort of life. But it's also rather handy to be able to pop up and visit folks who know you have information that you are willing to trade on too.
Buzz is indeed growing, and it has reached the ears of potential political rivals. THAT was the topic of conversation last evening as was Numero Uno's Numero Uno connections, the school district takeover, Don Jose, Gil Cedillo, and a few others worth mentioning. All of this information is being filed away for use at a later date by those who would use it. Favours cards were handed out, and I came away with more than a few.
But the big surprise came when the pirates from Govnah Moonbeam's camp came to hoist a pint and inquire about the Rocktard. Apparently they have a theory that this information is being fed NOW so that other information is quietly moved to the backside so that someone is a little more appealing when it comes time to pick and choose a Numero Dos, savvy? Of course they want their man to be Numero Dos, and not someone else's. Now why would someone from a NoCal pirate crew have a theory about THAT?
And just before the evening was over, several of the Miami pirates (who had been sent to see if there was anything worth seeing and heard a bargain's worth) arrived in time to have a nightcap with me and the crew. Bankable was the term that was thrown around (e.g., "With all this going on, just how bankable is he as a political candidate for higher office?") (Rolls eyes) With the Miami pirates, its always about money, savvy?
Click here for more "insider" coverage of LA City Hall and Clinton Co-Chair Mayor Villaraigosa
Anonymous said...
How sweet it is!!!!
Getting rid of Rocky will be like swatting a fly. Unlike his nemesis, Tony Villar, Rocky is just a petty thief who NEVER should have been allowed to hold office.
BUT...the table is being set for the BIG feast! Taking Tony Villar down!!! Tony, we are going to cook your goose...big time!!!
These crooks were hiding in the shadows just like the illegals they are aiding and abetting; however, the minute Billary picked the two Reconquistas to co-chair her campaign, the national spotlight is shining on them. Tony does not have anywhere to hide!
Oh...this is going to be delicious! Tony...your past is coming back to haunt you...you can't hide...
We have SO MUCH video of Tony's anti-American rhetoric floating around town...we could do a marathon documentary on the evils of Tony Villar!
And then there's Fabian! Fabian...you're next! The video of you is even worse than your evil twin, Tony Villar!
The avalanche is just beginning, folks. Rocky is just the tip of the iceberg!
Delicious...simply delicious!!!!
June 21, 2007 9:18 AM
Anonymous said...
How is this Rocky thing different than what Antonio has done for him? Antonio not only used staff for peronal errands, i.e. breath mints, he also used staff to cover for him whenever he had his affairs. This job description cost on staffer, Jimmy Blackman, his marriage. Monky see, monkey do.
Everything filters from the top and city hall has become a whorehouse.
June 21, 2007 9:30 AM
Anonymous said...
LISTEN UP, GUYS!!!
TONY VILLAR IS NEXT!!!!
HE'S THE BIG FISH!!!!
THERE'S MORE SHIT ON VILLAR THAN ANYONE ON THE PLANET!!!!
ROCKY IS JUST THE OPENING ACT...THE LOUNGE ACT!!!!
BE PATIENT....VILLAR IS GOING DOWN SO FAST HE WON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM!!!!
PANDORA'S BOX IS OPEN!!!!
IT'S GOING TO BE THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!!!
June 21, 2007 10:25 AM
Anonymous said...
YYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAA!!
THE BIG BAD WOLF IS DEAD!!
June 21, 2007 11:05 AM Captain Jack Sparrow said...
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking (files flightplan from SF to Santa Monica, grabs David Clarks and directs crew to do preflight inspection of Citation):
Sots, guess where I was last evening? I was up in the Bay Area having supper with pirates from two politico camps (e.g., Newsom and Westly). Now why would pirates from here be supping with pirates from there? I'll give you a clue. The talk wasn't all about sailing, savvy?
One of the wonderful things about being a pilot is being able to fly to places that require a bit of travel (e.g., Miami, D.C., SFO), and partake in the jet set sort of life. But it's also rather handy to be able to pop up and visit folks who know you have information that you are willing to trade on too.
Buzz is indeed growing, and it has reached the ears of potential political rivals. THAT was the topic of conversation last evening as was Numero Uno's Numero Uno connections, the school district takeover, Don Jose, Gil Cedillo, and a few others worth mentioning. All of this information is being filed away for use at a later date by those who would use it. Favours cards were handed out, and I came away with more than a few.
But the big surprise came when the pirates from Govnah Moonbeam's camp came to hoist a pint and inquire about the Rocktard. Apparently they have a theory that this information is being fed NOW so that other information is quietly moved to the backside so that someone is a little more appealing when it comes time to pick and choose a Numero Dos, savvy? Of course they want their man to be Numero Dos, and not someone else's. Now why would someone from a NoCal pirate crew have a theory about THAT?
And just before the evening was over, several of the Miami pirates (who had been sent to see if there was anything worth seeing and heard a bargain's worth) arrived in time to have a nightcap with me and the crew. Bankable was the term that was thrown around (e.g., "With all this going on, just how bankable is he as a political candidate for higher office?") (Rolls eyes) With the Miami pirates, its always about money, savvy?
Click here for more "insider" coverage of LA City Hall and Clinton Co-Chair Mayor Villaraigosa
HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA’S APPOINTMENT OF NEW LOS ANGELES CITY “GANG CZAR” RAISES SERIOUS CONCERN FROM BLOG COMMUNITY
Oh no:..PLEASE do not check the "Shady Searchers" (Zuma Custom Search Engines) on ZumaTimes.com. Holy Sh*t, is this Reverend Jeff Carr going to end up being the most controversial City player in a long time. MAN, I'm shocked at what I am reading about him on the net. NO AGENDA ON ZD's PART. I never heard of the guy until two minutes ago, when they announced him as new Gang Czar. All I can say, is I am shocked and stunned by what I have already read with a simple internet search. Y-to-the-mutherphughing-IKES!!! Antonio, aren't you at all concerned how this appointment is going to reflect on you? Maybe I'm over-reacting. Hit the Zuma "Shady Searchers" at ZumaTimes.com and see for yourself.
COMMENTS AS POSTED ON “Mayor Sam’s Sister City” (Insider) Political News Blog that covers LA City Hall and Mayor Antonio Villaraiogsa.
AND BE SURE TO VISIT ZumaTimes.com to find out what is REALLY going on in Los Angeles that affects the nation as a whole, beyond diversionary political gossip. And now...on with the countdown!
Anonymous said...
Villarigosa for Mayor
05/24/01 Carr, Jeff
Los Angeles , CA 90018 Individual Executive Director
Bresee Foundation $250.00
(G) $250.00 $0.00
Anonymous said...
Hillary & Villarigosa and their Marxist Agenda.
"WCVI & Hugo Chavez"
June 20, 2007 2:49 PM
Anonymous said...
Jeff Carr served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff for Sojourners. Sojourners are known to support communist regimes and trains liberal politicians to incorporate God in their mantra.
Sojourners is a "front" organization to do business with communist countries in the name of Religion. The religion's core is a Marxist Agenda.
Here is a sample of the Bresee Foundation, another organization he served for. Are Sojourners are intertwined with HIllary Clinton?
Is this her vehicle to win the White House and take away conservatives who are tired of the war?
June 20, 2007 2:58 PM
Anonymous said...
Whoa, damn, HOLD THE PRESSES.
Mayor Antonio-ACLU-Labor-Organizer-Villaraigosa is consorting with LEFTISTs and SOCIALISTS??
I'm SHOCKED, just SHOCKED.
(Has no on here been paying attention for the last three years on this blog?)
Come back when you've got a real "scoop" will ya?
Part of Corina's tell-all book (now being shopped around to publishers) will be revelations that HER most shocking discovery in their bedroom wasn't finding him with another woman - that was pro forma. It was discovering he'd tucked himself into bed with a furry Che Guevara stuffed doll.
June 20, 2007 3:08 PM
Anonymous said...
Writing in the November 1983 issue of Sojourners, ministry leaders Jim Wallis and Jim Rice drafted what would become the charter of leftist activists committed to the proliferation of Communist revolutions in Central America. Titled "Promise of Resistance," this document called on activists to carry out various acts of civil disobedience in order to obstruct any attempt by the United States to invade Nicaragua. CISPES, the propaganda arm of El Salvador's Marxist guerrilla movement, was invited by Sojourners to participate in acts of resistance in the event of American military intervention. Nearly 70,000 activists signed the document, which was sent to Congress, President Reagan, the Defense Department, and the CIA.
June 20, 2007 3:24 PM
Anonymous said...
Who is Sojourners?
• Evangelical Christian ministry that preaches radical leftwing politics
• Championed Communist revolution in Central America
Founded by Jim Wallis, Sojourners is a Washington, D.C.-based Christian evangelical ministry professing a devotion to the pursuit of "social justice." Formed in Chicago in 1971 by religious students enrolled at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, Sojourners was originally known as the People's Christian Coalition (PCC). The PCC community relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1975, at which time it adopted its new name.
An allusion to Biblical pilgrims, the name "Sojourners" signifies, to the organization's members, commitment to a radical social order. "For us," Sojourners declares, "the word 'radical' has always meant 'rooted.' The explosive mix of biblical faith and radical social renewal that ignited Sojourners in the beginning will continue to fuel our pilgrimage … in the years to come."
Sojourners' statement of faith spelled out the organization's key tenets: "Violence and war will not resolve the inevitable conflicts between people and nations"; "We refuse to accept structures and assumptions that normalize poverty and segregate the world by class"; and "We believe that gospel faith transforms our economics, gives us the power to share our bread and resources, welcomes all to the table of God's provision, and provides a vision for social revolution."
As one of its first acts, Sojourners formed a commune in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Southern Columbia Heights. Members shared their finances, participated in various activist campaigns, and organized events at both the neighborhood and national levels. The themes of these campaigns, echoed monthly in the pages of the group's in-house publication Sojourners, centered on attacking U.S. foreign policy, denouncing American "imperialism," and extolling Marxist revolutionary movements in the Third World.
Giving voice to Sojourners' intense anti-Americanism, Jim Wallis called the U.S. "… the great power, the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity and history in its totalitarian claims and designs."
In the 1980s the Sojourners community actively embraced "liberation theology," rallying to the cause of communist regimes that had seized power especially in Latin America, with the promise of bringing about the revolutionary restructuring of society. Particularly attractive for the ministry's religious activists was the Communist Sandinista regime that took power in Nicaragua in 1979. Clark Pinnock, a disaffected former member of Sojourners, revealed in 1985 that the community's members had been "100 percent in favor of the Nicaraguan revolution."
Opposing the policies of the Reagan administration that aimed to undercut the Sandinista regime, Sojourners initiated a program called " Witness For Peace," under whose auspices Americans traveled to Nicaragua and returned with reports of humanitarian disasters wrought by the Reagan-backed anti-Communist guerrilla forces. The Sojourners delegates insisted that any efforts to undermine Sandinista power violated the Nicaraguan people's "right to self-determination."
Writing in the November 1983 issue of Sojourners, ministry leaders Jim Wallis and Jim Rice drafted what would become the charter of leftist activists committed to the proliferation of Communist revolutions in Central America. Titled "Promise of Resistance," this document called on activists to carry out various acts of civil disobedience in order to obstruct any attempt by the United States to invade Nicaragua. CISPES, the propaganda arm of El Salvador's Marxist guerrilla movement, was invited by Sojourners to participate in acts of resistance in the event of American military intervention. Nearly 70,000 activists signed the document, which was sent to Congress, President Reagan, the Defense Department, and the CIA.
Steadfast advocates of the nuclear freeze movement, Sojourners members maintained that a U.S. nuclear buildup was "an intolerable evil" irreconcilably at odds with Christian teaching, and that "[t]he Reagan Administration remains the chief obstacle to the first step in stopping the arms race." While assailing the Reagan administration's defense buildup, Sojourners activists downplayed the threat posed by the Soviet Union, chastising U.S. policy-makers for their tendency "to assume the very worst about their Soviet counterparts."
With the end of the Cold War, Sojourners turned its attention to causes such as environmentalism. In one 1990 Sojourners article, for example, writer Bob Hulteen mounted the argument that environmental activism was a logical outlet for the notions of justice long championed by the ministry. "Justice-seeking work without concern for the earth is naïve and narrow minded," Hulteen explained.
June 20, 2007 3:29 PM
Red Spot in CD 14 said...
we should of just hired the "BERRIGAN BROTHERS". How long before Hugo Chavez funnels money into Los Angeles ?
June 20, 2007 3:35 PM
Anonymous said...
Interesting. Shows the deep contradictions, that their "faith" is more faith in communism than in Christianity.
They are anti-war only if America is waging the war. If communists are waging war, then everything is fine.
June 20, 2007 3:41 PM
Anonymous said...
The Sojourners community uniformly welcomed the Communists’ victory in the revolution
Oxymoron? Christians who don't see their sinful natures, believing in an idology of Marxism? Wow! This Marxist philosophy goes against everything the Bible teaches
Anonymous said...
Yeah, Marxism is going to play well in Southern Baptist Surburbia ;)
Good job, Democrats! Good job, Hillary!
June 20, 2007 3:42 PM
Anonymous said...
“For us,” Wallis wrote, “the modern state is the great power, the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity and history in its totalitarian claims and designs.”
So Wallis & co embrace various forms of Leninism as an alternative. A classic example of leftist inability to see the plain truth that Marxist-leninist forms of the modern state produced the most deadly version of the totalitarian order and the most vicious form of state organization in human history.
June 20, 2007 3:43 PM
Zuma Dogg said...
huh...huh...huh...I walk away from the blog for one hour, come back...and now look...oh no, the scary thing is: The Mayor would have to be crazy to hire this guy based on everything that just popped up, if they are credible posts. (And it looks like pretty basic info/credible.)
So the point is...i think the mayor and his nucklehead nunez crew are in so deep with these guys, they have to "go with the flow" and make these appointments. I'm sure Antonio rationalizes it in his mind, and reluctantly goes along and hopes the spin sticks.
But, I read the Daily News story and felt, "cool...a spiritual based, community approach...all that warm and fuzzy stuff...
But as usual...the naive ZD is schooled on Mayor Sam, and by cell phone -- and it's nothing but another big, f-ing disappointment, and far worse.
And something else that just hit me...if the mayor feels safe to make these appointments, I think that's because antonio isn't the ONLY puppet to these people in washington.
so antonio is the golden boy sent out to the mean streets of la to do the international dirty work, to advance the whole agenda.
let it roll, baby roll...
at least this way, it can all be managed and controlled, to some extent, if the new gang czar can keep everyone in check. (Jeff "Vic Mackey" Carr, y'all!!!)
Why don't we just legalize it, and let those in charge run it like a corporation. that would keep the streets safe, at least...
June 20, 2007 4:05 PM
Anonymous said...
These serpents are the worst threat to believers anywhere. Corruption rarely comes from without... but from within.
"carr/wcvi/villar/a. gonzalez/nunez/deleon"
June 20, 2007 4:16 PM
Anonymous said...
“Founded by Jim Wallis, Sojourners is a Washington, D.C.-based Christian evangelical ministry professing a devotion to the pursuit of “social justice.” Formed in Chicago in 1971 by religious students enrolled at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, Sojourners was originally known as the People’s Christian Coalition (PCC). The PCC community relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1975, at which time it adopted its new name.”
Sounds suspiciously like that commie Jim Jones and his Peoples Church.
June 20, 2007 4:17 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey Bloggathoners
Is MAV baptizing his new breed?
June 20, 2007 4:18 PM
Anonymous said...
What the lazy reporters should be investigating is WHY would Antonio HIRE AN OUTSIDER? He only does things that serve his purpose. Now we have to look at the big picture. Does he expect to get lots of money for this appointment? Maybe a slot if Hillary wins (no way after AV screwed up, women will drop her like a hot potatoe). Does anyone know if this Gang Czar has to be cleared in council and how much is he going to get paid $$$$????? Thank you Big Zuma Dogg once again informing the people.
June 20, 2007 4:31 PM
cartales said...
Dear Congress,
Please get the nafta highway built with the new kansas check point.
We'll distribute it up to there. but if you look the other way, we'll continue our deliveries all the way up to canada.
What's that? does your neck hurt, or are you looking the other way? what? you're looking the other way. o.k., we better stop for gasolina.
June 20, 2007 4:37 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey, we all thought it was pretty stupid of Antonio to appoint a Muslim to head of Homeland Security and so does the FBI. A counter-terrorism expert told a community group when asked what he thought of Villaraigosa hiring a Muslim for that position and the FBI expert said "really dumb move." Thank you Antonio for bringing in all the outsiders to screw up our city. You would think with all the clergy right here in LA he would have appointed one of them, but I guess they don't have the Washington ties he needs.
June 20, 2007 4:44 PM
Anonymous said...
That doesn’t compare to Jeff Carr funding guerillas in South America.
June 20, 2007 4:53 PM
Anonymous said...
SOJOURNERS PENTECOST 2007
At a candidates forum, part of the Sojourners Pentecost 2007 conference in Washington, D.C., Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and ...
blog.aflcio.org/?tag=Hillary%20Clinton
June 20, 2007 5:19 PM
Anonymous said...
Oh Hell No! My tax dollars will not go to Hugo Chavez.
June 20, 2007 5:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Bresee Foundaton (Jeff Carr)
www.springerlink.com/index/1BD37E946BB2X4FN.pdf
June 20, 2007 5:58 PM
Anonymous said...
www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2164&Itemid=80&lang=en
June 20, 2007 6:00 PM
Anonymous said...
KCCD Partners with Freddie Mac for a Korean Homeownership Initiative
speaker, Jim Wallis of Sojourners Magazine and the ..... Jose Huizar, President of the Los. Angeles Unified School District and Councilwoman Jan Perry
www.kccd3300.org/PDF/newsletter/kccd_news.pdf
June 20, 2007 6:01 PM
Anonymous said...
The WCVI-the policy arm of the Southwestern Voter Registration Project, ..... Sojourners/Call to Renewal is joining with clergy and lay leaders from PICO
ensie.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html
June 20, 2007 6:06 PM
Anonymous said...
"We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it."
June 20, 2007 7:33 PM
Thomas Jefferson said...
yes, the fear is that the movement is in violation of the law using drug cartel money to fuel the effort.
June 20, 2007 7:36 PM
where's laura chick said...
2004-2005 (30th Year) Action Plan HUMAN SERVICES DELIVERY SYSTEM
Agency offers literacy, academic enrichment, health services and. recreational activities for youth and their families. Rev. Jeff Carr, Executive. Director ...
www.lacity.org/Cdd/pdfs/conplan0405/2020_Address_Attachments.pdf
June 20, 2007 8:10 PM
zuma's bat computer said...
Breese Foundation:
Expense: $38,739 (Dinner Auction)
Hope all the kids got to eat.
June 20, 2007 8:49 PM
Anonymous said...
June 20, 2007 10:02 PM
Anonymous said...
Where are they going to open the training camp for MS13, Zetas, 18th St, etc???
When is Hugo Chavez coming to inspect the troops?
900,000 gangbangers in the US...what a great army the Villaristas and Clintonistas will have!!!
Did anyone notice the smug, shitty look on Villar's face during the press conference? That was BEFORE Zuma Dogg googled the commie Carr czar.
Who do We The People contact to report this atrocity? Hmmm...can't call the governor or the mayor; can't call the Pres; can't call Homeland Security; can't call the Attorney General; can't call Rocky....
I know....we can call Osama! Maybe he will help us take out a few politicians!
Get these fu*ckers out of the country!
June 20, 2007 11:31 PM
Anonymous said...
Hillary's Give and Take
Latest Clinton Comment Reveals Liberal Vision For America
Last Night, Hillary Announced "Something Has To Be Taken Away From Some People":
Asked During The Sojourners Presidential Forum What She Would Do To Achieve "Common Good," Clinton Responded "Something Has To Be Taken Away From Some People." Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, Catholic Charities USA: "Senator Clinton, just a very simple question. You have spoken a lot about our need to work for the common good. In an age in which there is, oftentimes, narrow and excessive individualism, how will you speak to our country about the need for sacrifice, restraint, when it comes to the critical issues of taxes, gun control, health care, and energy consumption?" (Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks At Sojourners Presidential Forum, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 6/4/07)
Clinton: "We have to build a political consensus. And that requires people giving up a little bit of their own turf, in order to create this common ground. ... And that means something has to be taken away from some people." (Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks At Sojourners Presidential Forum, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 6/4/07)
Hillary's Liberal Economic Vision Supported By Recent Votes And Comments On Tax Cuts And Company Profits:
Clinton: "I don't think there's any Democrat that is not going to let the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans expire. We're all going to do that." (Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, CNN/WMUR/Union Leader Democrat Presidential Candidates Debate, Manchester, NH, 6/3/07)
Just Last Month Clinton Voted In Favor A Budget That Included The Largest Tax Increase In U.S. History. (S.Con.Res.21, CQ Vote #172: Adopted 52-40: R 2-40; D 48-0; I 2-0, 5/17/07, Clinton Voted Yea)
At The 2007 DNC Winter Meeting Hillary Told Democrats "I Want To Take" Oil Company Profits. "The other day the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative, smart energy." (Sen. Hillary Clinton, Remarks At Democrat National Committee Winter Meeting, Washington, DC, 2/2/07)
CNBC's Larry Kudlow: "Wow! May I just say, with all due respect, that is the most anti-capitalist confiscation of private property." (CNBC's "Kudlow & Company," 2/2/07)
Fox News' Carl Cameron: "Clinton laid out a host of specifics on various issues, including a pledge to take oil company profits and put them into an energy fund, an idea not likely to go over well with capitalists." (Fox News' "Special Report," 2/2/07)
June 20, 2007 5:24 PM
Zuma Dogg said...
Oh no...guess it's no coincidence Hillary is teaming up with Villaraigosa and Nunez' posse...she's hoppin’ on the bandwagon. the focus groups have shown she only polls well with the latinos, not the whites who go elsewhere. so mainstream bill clinton's wife is only a niche player in the presidential arena. but that niche may be able to out organize and out shady the other side. Because you also have to consider, besides the latino vote, these people mentioned recently also control the political steamroll machine gates, as well. So unless you jump on the bandwagon, you can't come along for the ride, anyway. I just hope these gangsters do things better than the other gangsters. I think with Clinton/Villar/WCVI/Nunez/Cedillo/and company, you get a more compassionate bang for your buck.
COMMENTS AS POSTED ON “Mayor Sam’s Sister City” (Insider) Political News Blog that covers LA City Hall and Mayor Antonio Villaraiogsa.
AND BE SURE TO VISIT ZumaTimes.com to find out what is REALLY going on in Los Angeles that affects the nation as a whole, beyond diversionary political gossip. And now...on with the countdown!
Anonymous said...
Villarigosa for Mayor
05/24/01 Carr, Jeff
Los Angeles , CA 90018 Individual Executive Director
Bresee Foundation $250.00
(G) $250.00 $0.00
Anonymous said...
Hillary & Villarigosa and their Marxist Agenda.
"WCVI & Hugo Chavez"
June 20, 2007 2:49 PM
Anonymous said...
Jeff Carr served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff for Sojourners. Sojourners are known to support communist regimes and trains liberal politicians to incorporate God in their mantra.
Sojourners is a "front" organization to do business with communist countries in the name of Religion. The religion's core is a Marxist Agenda.
Here is a sample of the Bresee Foundation, another organization he served for. Are Sojourners are intertwined with HIllary Clinton?
Is this her vehicle to win the White House and take away conservatives who are tired of the war?
June 20, 2007 2:58 PM
Anonymous said...
Whoa, damn, HOLD THE PRESSES.
Mayor Antonio-ACLU-Labor-Organizer-Villaraigosa is consorting with LEFTISTs and SOCIALISTS??
I'm SHOCKED, just SHOCKED.
(Has no on here been paying attention for the last three years on this blog?)
Come back when you've got a real "scoop" will ya?
Part of Corina's tell-all book (now being shopped around to publishers) will be revelations that HER most shocking discovery in their bedroom wasn't finding him with another woman - that was pro forma. It was discovering he'd tucked himself into bed with a furry Che Guevara stuffed doll.
June 20, 2007 3:08 PM
Anonymous said...
Writing in the November 1983 issue of Sojourners, ministry leaders Jim Wallis and Jim Rice drafted what would become the charter of leftist activists committed to the proliferation of Communist revolutions in Central America. Titled "Promise of Resistance," this document called on activists to carry out various acts of civil disobedience in order to obstruct any attempt by the United States to invade Nicaragua. CISPES, the propaganda arm of El Salvador's Marxist guerrilla movement, was invited by Sojourners to participate in acts of resistance in the event of American military intervention. Nearly 70,000 activists signed the document, which was sent to Congress, President Reagan, the Defense Department, and the CIA.
June 20, 2007 3:24 PM
Anonymous said...
Who is Sojourners?
• Evangelical Christian ministry that preaches radical leftwing politics
• Championed Communist revolution in Central America
Founded by Jim Wallis, Sojourners is a Washington, D.C.-based Christian evangelical ministry professing a devotion to the pursuit of "social justice." Formed in Chicago in 1971 by religious students enrolled at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, Sojourners was originally known as the People's Christian Coalition (PCC). The PCC community relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1975, at which time it adopted its new name.
An allusion to Biblical pilgrims, the name "Sojourners" signifies, to the organization's members, commitment to a radical social order. "For us," Sojourners declares, "the word 'radical' has always meant 'rooted.' The explosive mix of biblical faith and radical social renewal that ignited Sojourners in the beginning will continue to fuel our pilgrimage … in the years to come."
Sojourners' statement of faith spelled out the organization's key tenets: "Violence and war will not resolve the inevitable conflicts between people and nations"; "We refuse to accept structures and assumptions that normalize poverty and segregate the world by class"; and "We believe that gospel faith transforms our economics, gives us the power to share our bread and resources, welcomes all to the table of God's provision, and provides a vision for social revolution."
As one of its first acts, Sojourners formed a commune in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Southern Columbia Heights. Members shared their finances, participated in various activist campaigns, and organized events at both the neighborhood and national levels. The themes of these campaigns, echoed monthly in the pages of the group's in-house publication Sojourners, centered on attacking U.S. foreign policy, denouncing American "imperialism," and extolling Marxist revolutionary movements in the Third World.
Giving voice to Sojourners' intense anti-Americanism, Jim Wallis called the U.S. "… the great power, the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity and history in its totalitarian claims and designs."
In the 1980s the Sojourners community actively embraced "liberation theology," rallying to the cause of communist regimes that had seized power especially in Latin America, with the promise of bringing about the revolutionary restructuring of society. Particularly attractive for the ministry's religious activists was the Communist Sandinista regime that took power in Nicaragua in 1979. Clark Pinnock, a disaffected former member of Sojourners, revealed in 1985 that the community's members had been "100 percent in favor of the Nicaraguan revolution."
Opposing the policies of the Reagan administration that aimed to undercut the Sandinista regime, Sojourners initiated a program called " Witness For Peace," under whose auspices Americans traveled to Nicaragua and returned with reports of humanitarian disasters wrought by the Reagan-backed anti-Communist guerrilla forces. The Sojourners delegates insisted that any efforts to undermine Sandinista power violated the Nicaraguan people's "right to self-determination."
Writing in the November 1983 issue of Sojourners, ministry leaders Jim Wallis and Jim Rice drafted what would become the charter of leftist activists committed to the proliferation of Communist revolutions in Central America. Titled "Promise of Resistance," this document called on activists to carry out various acts of civil disobedience in order to obstruct any attempt by the United States to invade Nicaragua. CISPES, the propaganda arm of El Salvador's Marxist guerrilla movement, was invited by Sojourners to participate in acts of resistance in the event of American military intervention. Nearly 70,000 activists signed the document, which was sent to Congress, President Reagan, the Defense Department, and the CIA.
Steadfast advocates of the nuclear freeze movement, Sojourners members maintained that a U.S. nuclear buildup was "an intolerable evil" irreconcilably at odds with Christian teaching, and that "[t]he Reagan Administration remains the chief obstacle to the first step in stopping the arms race." While assailing the Reagan administration's defense buildup, Sojourners activists downplayed the threat posed by the Soviet Union, chastising U.S. policy-makers for their tendency "to assume the very worst about their Soviet counterparts."
With the end of the Cold War, Sojourners turned its attention to causes such as environmentalism. In one 1990 Sojourners article, for example, writer Bob Hulteen mounted the argument that environmental activism was a logical outlet for the notions of justice long championed by the ministry. "Justice-seeking work without concern for the earth is naïve and narrow minded," Hulteen explained.
June 20, 2007 3:29 PM
Red Spot in CD 14 said...
we should of just hired the "BERRIGAN BROTHERS". How long before Hugo Chavez funnels money into Los Angeles ?
June 20, 2007 3:35 PM
Anonymous said...
Interesting. Shows the deep contradictions, that their "faith" is more faith in communism than in Christianity.
They are anti-war only if America is waging the war. If communists are waging war, then everything is fine.
June 20, 2007 3:41 PM
Anonymous said...
The Sojourners community uniformly welcomed the Communists’ victory in the revolution
Oxymoron? Christians who don't see their sinful natures, believing in an idology of Marxism? Wow! This Marxist philosophy goes against everything the Bible teaches
Anonymous said...
Yeah, Marxism is going to play well in Southern Baptist Surburbia ;)
Good job, Democrats! Good job, Hillary!
June 20, 2007 3:42 PM
Anonymous said...
“For us,” Wallis wrote, “the modern state is the great power, the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity and history in its totalitarian claims and designs.”
So Wallis & co embrace various forms of Leninism as an alternative. A classic example of leftist inability to see the plain truth that Marxist-leninist forms of the modern state produced the most deadly version of the totalitarian order and the most vicious form of state organization in human history.
June 20, 2007 3:43 PM
Zuma Dogg said...
huh...huh...huh...I walk away from the blog for one hour, come back...and now look...oh no, the scary thing is: The Mayor would have to be crazy to hire this guy based on everything that just popped up, if they are credible posts. (And it looks like pretty basic info/credible.)
So the point is...i think the mayor and his nucklehead nunez crew are in so deep with these guys, they have to "go with the flow" and make these appointments. I'm sure Antonio rationalizes it in his mind, and reluctantly goes along and hopes the spin sticks.
But, I read the Daily News story and felt, "cool...a spiritual based, community approach...all that warm and fuzzy stuff...
But as usual...the naive ZD is schooled on Mayor Sam, and by cell phone -- and it's nothing but another big, f-ing disappointment, and far worse.
And something else that just hit me...if the mayor feels safe to make these appointments, I think that's because antonio isn't the ONLY puppet to these people in washington.
so antonio is the golden boy sent out to the mean streets of la to do the international dirty work, to advance the whole agenda.
let it roll, baby roll...
at least this way, it can all be managed and controlled, to some extent, if the new gang czar can keep everyone in check. (Jeff "Vic Mackey" Carr, y'all!!!)
Why don't we just legalize it, and let those in charge run it like a corporation. that would keep the streets safe, at least...
June 20, 2007 4:05 PM
Anonymous said...
These serpents are the worst threat to believers anywhere. Corruption rarely comes from without... but from within.
"carr/wcvi/villar/a. gonzalez/nunez/deleon"
June 20, 2007 4:16 PM
Anonymous said...
“Founded by Jim Wallis, Sojourners is a Washington, D.C.-based Christian evangelical ministry professing a devotion to the pursuit of “social justice.” Formed in Chicago in 1971 by religious students enrolled at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, Sojourners was originally known as the People’s Christian Coalition (PCC). The PCC community relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1975, at which time it adopted its new name.”
Sounds suspiciously like that commie Jim Jones and his Peoples Church.
June 20, 2007 4:17 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey Bloggathoners
Is MAV baptizing his new breed?
June 20, 2007 4:18 PM
Anonymous said...
What the lazy reporters should be investigating is WHY would Antonio HIRE AN OUTSIDER? He only does things that serve his purpose. Now we have to look at the big picture. Does he expect to get lots of money for this appointment? Maybe a slot if Hillary wins (no way after AV screwed up, women will drop her like a hot potatoe). Does anyone know if this Gang Czar has to be cleared in council and how much is he going to get paid $$$$????? Thank you Big Zuma Dogg once again informing the people.
June 20, 2007 4:31 PM
cartales said...
Dear Congress,
Please get the nafta highway built with the new kansas check point.
We'll distribute it up to there. but if you look the other way, we'll continue our deliveries all the way up to canada.
What's that? does your neck hurt, or are you looking the other way? what? you're looking the other way. o.k., we better stop for gasolina.
June 20, 2007 4:37 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey, we all thought it was pretty stupid of Antonio to appoint a Muslim to head of Homeland Security and so does the FBI. A counter-terrorism expert told a community group when asked what he thought of Villaraigosa hiring a Muslim for that position and the FBI expert said "really dumb move." Thank you Antonio for bringing in all the outsiders to screw up our city. You would think with all the clergy right here in LA he would have appointed one of them, but I guess they don't have the Washington ties he needs.
June 20, 2007 4:44 PM
Anonymous said...
That doesn’t compare to Jeff Carr funding guerillas in South America.
June 20, 2007 4:53 PM
Anonymous said...
SOJOURNERS PENTECOST 2007
At a candidates forum, part of the Sojourners Pentecost 2007 conference in Washington, D.C., Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and ...
blog.aflcio.org/?tag=Hillary%20Clinton
June 20, 2007 5:19 PM
Anonymous said...
Oh Hell No! My tax dollars will not go to Hugo Chavez.
June 20, 2007 5:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Bresee Foundaton (Jeff Carr)
www.springerlink.com/index/1BD37E946BB2X4FN.pdf
June 20, 2007 5:58 PM
Anonymous said...
www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2164&Itemid=80&lang=en
June 20, 2007 6:00 PM
Anonymous said...
KCCD Partners with Freddie Mac for a Korean Homeownership Initiative
speaker, Jim Wallis of Sojourners Magazine and the ..... Jose Huizar, President of the Los. Angeles Unified School District and Councilwoman Jan Perry
www.kccd3300.org/PDF/newsletter/kccd_news.pdf
June 20, 2007 6:01 PM
Anonymous said...
The WCVI-the policy arm of the Southwestern Voter Registration Project, ..... Sojourners/Call to Renewal is joining with clergy and lay leaders from PICO
ensie.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html
June 20, 2007 6:06 PM
Anonymous said...
"We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it."
June 20, 2007 7:33 PM
Thomas Jefferson said...
yes, the fear is that the movement is in violation of the law using drug cartel money to fuel the effort.
June 20, 2007 7:36 PM
where's laura chick said...
2004-2005 (30th Year) Action Plan HUMAN SERVICES DELIVERY SYSTEM
Agency offers literacy, academic enrichment, health services and. recreational activities for youth and their families. Rev. Jeff Carr, Executive. Director ...
www.lacity.org/Cdd/pdfs/conplan0405/2020_Address_Attachments.pdf
June 20, 2007 8:10 PM
zuma's bat computer said...
Breese Foundation:
Expense: $38,739 (Dinner Auction)
Hope all the kids got to eat.
June 20, 2007 8:49 PM
Anonymous said...
June 20, 2007 10:02 PM
Anonymous said...
Where are they going to open the training camp for MS13, Zetas, 18th St, etc???
When is Hugo Chavez coming to inspect the troops?
900,000 gangbangers in the US...what a great army the Villaristas and Clintonistas will have!!!
Did anyone notice the smug, shitty look on Villar's face during the press conference? That was BEFORE Zuma Dogg googled the commie Carr czar.
Who do We The People contact to report this atrocity? Hmmm...can't call the governor or the mayor; can't call the Pres; can't call Homeland Security; can't call the Attorney General; can't call Rocky....
I know....we can call Osama! Maybe he will help us take out a few politicians!
Get these fu*ckers out of the country!
June 20, 2007 11:31 PM
Anonymous said...
Hillary's Give and Take
Latest Clinton Comment Reveals Liberal Vision For America
Last Night, Hillary Announced "Something Has To Be Taken Away From Some People":
Asked During The Sojourners Presidential Forum What She Would Do To Achieve "Common Good," Clinton Responded "Something Has To Be Taken Away From Some People." Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, Catholic Charities USA: "Senator Clinton, just a very simple question. You have spoken a lot about our need to work for the common good. In an age in which there is, oftentimes, narrow and excessive individualism, how will you speak to our country about the need for sacrifice, restraint, when it comes to the critical issues of taxes, gun control, health care, and energy consumption?" (Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks At Sojourners Presidential Forum, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 6/4/07)
Clinton: "We have to build a political consensus. And that requires people giving up a little bit of their own turf, in order to create this common ground. ... And that means something has to be taken away from some people." (Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks At Sojourners Presidential Forum, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 6/4/07)
Hillary's Liberal Economic Vision Supported By Recent Votes And Comments On Tax Cuts And Company Profits:
Clinton: "I don't think there's any Democrat that is not going to let the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans expire. We're all going to do that." (Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, CNN/WMUR/Union Leader Democrat Presidential Candidates Debate, Manchester, NH, 6/3/07)
Just Last Month Clinton Voted In Favor A Budget That Included The Largest Tax Increase In U.S. History. (S.Con.Res.21, CQ Vote #172: Adopted 52-40: R 2-40; D 48-0; I 2-0, 5/17/07, Clinton Voted Yea)
At The 2007 DNC Winter Meeting Hillary Told Democrats "I Want To Take" Oil Company Profits. "The other day the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative, smart energy." (Sen. Hillary Clinton, Remarks At Democrat National Committee Winter Meeting, Washington, DC, 2/2/07)
CNBC's Larry Kudlow: "Wow! May I just say, with all due respect, that is the most anti-capitalist confiscation of private property." (CNBC's "Kudlow & Company," 2/2/07)
Fox News' Carl Cameron: "Clinton laid out a host of specifics on various issues, including a pledge to take oil company profits and put them into an energy fund, an idea not likely to go over well with capitalists." (Fox News' "Special Report," 2/2/07)
June 20, 2007 5:24 PM
Zuma Dogg said...
Oh no...guess it's no coincidence Hillary is teaming up with Villaraigosa and Nunez' posse...she's hoppin’ on the bandwagon. the focus groups have shown she only polls well with the latinos, not the whites who go elsewhere. so mainstream bill clinton's wife is only a niche player in the presidential arena. but that niche may be able to out organize and out shady the other side. Because you also have to consider, besides the latino vote, these people mentioned recently also control the political steamroll machine gates, as well. So unless you jump on the bandwagon, you can't come along for the ride, anyway. I just hope these gangsters do things better than the other gangsters. I think with Clinton/Villar/WCVI/Nunez/Cedillo/and company, you get a more compassionate bang for your buck.
DEMOCRACY LOSES TO GLOBAL FREE MARKETISM
DEMOCRACY LOSES TO GLOBAL FREE MARKETISM
The appointment of Jeff Carr as new "Gang Czar" of Los Angeles, as appointed by Hillary Clinton Campaign Co-Chair Antonio Villaraiogsa made me realize something:
It's a real shame. The U.S. tried to be good boys and girls, and play by the rules all these years. However, other countries didn't. And in a free market society, it doesn't matter how you make the money. As long as you have it. And this money is used to buy access and influence in the U.S. political system. And these people, now with the most money, are the gatekeepers who flick the switches by backing candidates. And they have both sides covered. So whether you are democrat or republican, one way or the other, if you wanna move to the next level...you gotta make a deal with the devil, sell your soul, and hop on the bandwagon. You're not gonna get in trouble though. Cause no matter how high up the ladder you climb to complain, you are going to fall of deaf ears. Cause it goes all the way to the top, on either party, and you need a visa to follow the money trail leading to the controlling party. So all you can hope for out of this new gang czar is a more controlled and efficient approach to the distribution system. Cause we are living in a free market, global economy. And while we were playing by the rules, no one else was. And now, one way or the other, no matter who you take the matter to, you're gonna be complaining to a willing (or unwilling) cahootan riding the bandwagon. And believe it, or not...the effect of the steamroll has trickled all the way down to the incense and t shirt vendors on the street at Venice Beach. Cause greed has no mercy, and doesn't leave a square inch. Why not just hand them your wallet and leave the region now and save a lot of time and effort. (At least you'll be improving efficiency.)
The appointment of Jeff Carr as new "Gang Czar" of Los Angeles, as appointed by Hillary Clinton Campaign Co-Chair Antonio Villaraiogsa made me realize something:
It's a real shame. The U.S. tried to be good boys and girls, and play by the rules all these years. However, other countries didn't. And in a free market society, it doesn't matter how you make the money. As long as you have it. And this money is used to buy access and influence in the U.S. political system. And these people, now with the most money, are the gatekeepers who flick the switches by backing candidates. And they have both sides covered. So whether you are democrat or republican, one way or the other, if you wanna move to the next level...you gotta make a deal with the devil, sell your soul, and hop on the bandwagon. You're not gonna get in trouble though. Cause no matter how high up the ladder you climb to complain, you are going to fall of deaf ears. Cause it goes all the way to the top, on either party, and you need a visa to follow the money trail leading to the controlling party. So all you can hope for out of this new gang czar is a more controlled and efficient approach to the distribution system. Cause we are living in a free market, global economy. And while we were playing by the rules, no one else was. And now, one way or the other, no matter who you take the matter to, you're gonna be complaining to a willing (or unwilling) cahootan riding the bandwagon. And believe it, or not...the effect of the steamroll has trickled all the way down to the incense and t shirt vendors on the street at Venice Beach. Cause greed has no mercy, and doesn't leave a square inch. Why not just hand them your wallet and leave the region now and save a lot of time and effort. (At least you'll be improving efficiency.)
Monday, June 11, 2007
Hillary Clinton Co-Chair Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa & City Hall Update (Aka: "The Shady Report")
Zuma' CLINTON Campaign Articles on Google, ZD DEMING Articles on Google
Click here for EVERY ZD Public Comment at City Hall this past year. [type "zuma" in keyword box, or just type in "shady".]
Since everyone is so busy talking about Paris Hilton -- and since the LAzy Times is hell bent on being the INTERNATIONAL TIMES, instead of LA TIMES (Hey Dummies...isn't anything newsworthy of front page, above the fold coverage in this city? All you do is talk about the problems and things happening everywhere else in the world. What about the same shiznit happening right under your own upturned noses. The LA TIMES is nothing more than a diversionary tactic, sent out to the masses, by the political steamroll machine, to sidetrack y'all from the realest, dough.
I'm afraid I have to step in and declare an emergency ordinance:
Whereas, first of all, F*CK your coverage of Paris Hilton;
Whereas, WE GOT A COMPLETE LOCAL MEDIA BLACKOUT JUST AS THE CITY HAS PUT THE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR ON THE SHADIEST OF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT POLICY. (See: Jan Perry. See also: Despicable. Superfluously arrogant. Grandeur in the "Emperors New Clothes" sense; and she has none);
Whereas, there are so many other issues almost as important as Paris Hilton (yes, she is a celebrity, and society treats people differently, so therefore, occasionally so do the police -- if she wasn't famous, they probably could've put her under house arrest in the first place. And at some point, the Sheriff has to cut his losses (all the extra effort because she IS a HUGE celebrity (not even just a regular celebrity), cause they got a few other criminals to deal with. Al Sharpton, stay the f*ck where you are and don't turn yourself into a complete clown over this. THIS will be the challenge that turns you into a parody of yourself. But I simply don't want Paris Hilton to give "fraud, waste and abuse" a free pass for the next month. So Al, stay home, my man! Ed Reyes can speak on your behalf.
Whereas, these are the biggest issues I have come across from my ZAP headquarters (secret internet location), here are all the links to all the stories from the past couple weeks that I have posted on my new "archive" blog Zuma Dogg Blog (Story Archives)
AND UNTIL ALL OF Y'ALL STOP TALKING ABOUT PARIS HILTON AND THE MAYOR'S FAMILY LIFE (Two of the city's least problems, I'm going to expand the length of my posts and not use the read more. Maybe after this, I'll post my 5500 word article on CRA/AEG's Master Boondoggle Plan for "LA LIVE" (See link below). Or maybe now would be a good time to post "Interpreting Deming's 14 Points" in case anyone missed it. (See link below)
Join ZAP, Downtown "Convention Center" Game Plan is "Do or Die" Roll of the Dice
LA LIVE $2 billion (plus) CRA/AEG Pet Project: Ritz Carlton Condos and Hollywood Convention Center, USA, Intl., Villaraigosa's ALHAMBRA Smog Parade
More Convention Center, USA, Intl: Eli Broad's Risky Grand Ave Project Puts City "On The Hook" for 99 years., More on Broad/Related/CRA/County/City Council's Grand Ave Project: Not TOO Complicated!
ZD Street Video: On The Future of LA/Density/Infrastructure, Someone Posts Ultimate Tribute to Zuma Dogg
Big Picture Behind "Manhattanization" of LA: It's FEDERAL!, CM Rosendahl Threatened to hold this picture with ZD against him, come re-elections
ZD Radio Call & Original Music PODCAST PLAYER (Streaming), LA City's "Dumb" Smart Growth (Based on LA WEEKLY article
Only thing standing in way of Smart Growth is the law and the people, Neighborhood Council concerns
Building and Saftey Bamboozle over Methane Policy: IT'S DANGEROUS, Living Wage back as hilarious motion "To END Poverty"
ZD "State of the City" Speech, ZD & Courts Agree Mayor's LAUSD Plan is a LOSER
WANTED: Leadership Inside City Hall Council Chambers, Mayor, YOU BIG DUMMY, We Told You AB 1381 Was Just Wrong!
LAUSD CONFLICT: SEMILLA Charter School Business Structure, LAUSD School Board Addresses ZD's concern of Charter School Conflicts of Interest
SCAG DELCARES SMOG FEDERAL EMERGENCY, Mayor Comes Out of Denial on LA's "Two Class System"
Antonio Goes "Gangsta" on Zev's Azz During PUBLIC MTA Meeting (LOL!), Clinton Co-Chair Puppets
Good Villaraigosa YouTube Video (Good if you like him to look bad!), Water Supply Threatens Ed Reyes' LA River Density Housing Project
CRA "Eminent Domain" Ordinance Being Drafted. (No Worries, Mate!), Why we need to "force" affordable housing in free market society
YouTube Comedy Classic: Mayor Villagrosa, Potential Metro Water Shutdown shows potential problem with LA's Skyscraper City Plans
ZD Update Thread, BIG PICTURE Story on LA City Hall
ZD's "Shady Report" (06/10/07) But their corrupt actions will live on...., DWP 6.2% Increase cause of YOUR High Density
Glassell Pk NC -- CITIZEN'S ALERT, Y'ALL!!!, PUBLIC INPUT from Zuma's ZAP inbox
DONE has to send representative to straighten out GPNC Board of Losers, Glassell Update
ZD messing with people at American Idol Auditions at Rose Bowl (season 3),
DESERT BLOG THREADS [If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat? Don't kick your feet. You can't watch these, till you read EVERYTHING ELSE ABOVE! (Until you clean your plate.)
ZD sings like Steve Perry on "Don't Stop Believing", ZD on "Viral Video" Chart: #7 ZD/Gene Simmons Mask
ZD LIVE Call In TV show (Comedy/Music)
AND HERE'S A VIDEO TO THE MAYOR FROM FORMER SUPPORTERS
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
Click here for EVERY ZD Public Comment at City Hall this past year. [type "zuma" in keyword box, or just type in "shady".]
Since everyone is so busy talking about Paris Hilton -- and since the LAzy Times is hell bent on being the INTERNATIONAL TIMES, instead of LA TIMES (Hey Dummies...isn't anything newsworthy of front page, above the fold coverage in this city? All you do is talk about the problems and things happening everywhere else in the world. What about the same shiznit happening right under your own upturned noses. The LA TIMES is nothing more than a diversionary tactic, sent out to the masses, by the political steamroll machine, to sidetrack y'all from the realest, dough.
I'm afraid I have to step in and declare an emergency ordinance:
Whereas, first of all, F*CK your coverage of Paris Hilton;
Whereas, WE GOT A COMPLETE LOCAL MEDIA BLACKOUT JUST AS THE CITY HAS PUT THE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR ON THE SHADIEST OF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT POLICY. (See: Jan Perry. See also: Despicable. Superfluously arrogant. Grandeur in the "Emperors New Clothes" sense; and she has none);
Whereas, there are so many other issues almost as important as Paris Hilton (yes, she is a celebrity, and society treats people differently, so therefore, occasionally so do the police -- if she wasn't famous, they probably could've put her under house arrest in the first place. And at some point, the Sheriff has to cut his losses (all the extra effort because she IS a HUGE celebrity (not even just a regular celebrity), cause they got a few other criminals to deal with. Al Sharpton, stay the f*ck where you are and don't turn yourself into a complete clown over this. THIS will be the challenge that turns you into a parody of yourself. But I simply don't want Paris Hilton to give "fraud, waste and abuse" a free pass for the next month. So Al, stay home, my man! Ed Reyes can speak on your behalf.
Whereas, these are the biggest issues I have come across from my ZAP headquarters (secret internet location), here are all the links to all the stories from the past couple weeks that I have posted on my new "archive" blog Zuma Dogg Blog (Story Archives)
AND UNTIL ALL OF Y'ALL STOP TALKING ABOUT PARIS HILTON AND THE MAYOR'S FAMILY LIFE (Two of the city's least problems, I'm going to expand the length of my posts and not use the read more. Maybe after this, I'll post my 5500 word article on CRA/AEG's Master Boondoggle Plan for "LA LIVE" (See link below). Or maybe now would be a good time to post "Interpreting Deming's 14 Points" in case anyone missed it. (See link below)
Join ZAP, Downtown "Convention Center" Game Plan is "Do or Die" Roll of the Dice
LA LIVE $2 billion (plus) CRA/AEG Pet Project: Ritz Carlton Condos and Hollywood Convention Center, USA, Intl., Villaraigosa's ALHAMBRA Smog Parade
More Convention Center, USA, Intl: Eli Broad's Risky Grand Ave Project Puts City "On The Hook" for 99 years., More on Broad/Related/CRA/County/City Council's Grand Ave Project: Not TOO Complicated!
ZD Street Video: On The Future of LA/Density/Infrastructure, Someone Posts Ultimate Tribute to Zuma Dogg
Big Picture Behind "Manhattanization" of LA: It's FEDERAL!, CM Rosendahl Threatened to hold this picture with ZD against him, come re-elections
ZD Radio Call & Original Music PODCAST PLAYER (Streaming), LA City's "Dumb" Smart Growth (Based on LA WEEKLY article
Only thing standing in way of Smart Growth is the law and the people, Neighborhood Council concerns
Building and Saftey Bamboozle over Methane Policy: IT'S DANGEROUS, Living Wage back as hilarious motion "To END Poverty"
ZD "State of the City" Speech, ZD & Courts Agree Mayor's LAUSD Plan is a LOSER
WANTED: Leadership Inside City Hall Council Chambers, Mayor, YOU BIG DUMMY, We Told You AB 1381 Was Just Wrong!
LAUSD CONFLICT: SEMILLA Charter School Business Structure, LAUSD School Board Addresses ZD's concern of Charter School Conflicts of Interest
SCAG DELCARES SMOG FEDERAL EMERGENCY, Mayor Comes Out of Denial on LA's "Two Class System"
Antonio Goes "Gangsta" on Zev's Azz During PUBLIC MTA Meeting (LOL!), Clinton Co-Chair Puppets
Good Villaraigosa YouTube Video (Good if you like him to look bad!), Water Supply Threatens Ed Reyes' LA River Density Housing Project
CRA "Eminent Domain" Ordinance Being Drafted. (No Worries, Mate!), Why we need to "force" affordable housing in free market society
YouTube Comedy Classic: Mayor Villagrosa, Potential Metro Water Shutdown shows potential problem with LA's Skyscraper City Plans
ZD Update Thread, BIG PICTURE Story on LA City Hall
ZD's "Shady Report" (06/10/07) But their corrupt actions will live on...., DWP 6.2% Increase cause of YOUR High Density
Glassell Pk NC -- CITIZEN'S ALERT, Y'ALL!!!, PUBLIC INPUT from Zuma's ZAP inbox
DONE has to send representative to straighten out GPNC Board of Losers, Glassell Update
ZD messing with people at American Idol Auditions at Rose Bowl (season 3),
DESERT BLOG THREADS [If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat? Don't kick your feet. You can't watch these, till you read EVERYTHING ELSE ABOVE! (Until you clean your plate.)
ZD sings like Steve Perry on "Don't Stop Believing", ZD on "Viral Video" Chart: #7 ZD/Gene Simmons Mask
ZD LIVE Call In TV show (Comedy/Music)
AND HERE'S A VIDEO TO THE MAYOR FROM FORMER SUPPORTERS
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Monday, June 4, 2007
ELECTION WATCH: STATE OF CALIFORNIA & BIG PLANS IN CITY OF LOS ANGELES FOR "SMART GROWTH" SKYSCRAPER CITY
CITY PLANNING CONFLICT: City Charter vs "Elegant Smart Growth"
The Only Thing Standing In The Way of City Hall's Skyscraper Gentrification Fantasy Is Charter Law Regarding Vacancy, Zoning, EIR, Public Input and Vote of The People To Pay For It
by Zuma Dogg
Click here and type "zuma" in keyword search box for ALL ZD Public Comments from City Hall as seen on TV 35. Or "zuma density" for comments on this topic.
Hillary Clinton Campaign Co-Chair, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and The City of Los Angeles calls it "Elegant Density" or "Smart Growth". Zuma Dogg calls it wall to wall 40 story skyscrapers with not nearly enough infrastructure (by you own admission).
Now that you have seen the LA WEEKLY article which reveals the City's decision that a single family home has no place in future plans.
As a matter of fact, the only plan is to pass a new CRA "Eminent Domain" Ordinance (currently being drafted) that will make it easier for them to claim your blighted shack and replace it with a 40 story skyscraper. (See Housing and Economic Committee)
And in response to Zuma Dogg's claims that all this high density construction (along the new LA River, Elephant Hill, Dirt Burnell, Century City, Venice Beach Boardwalk and any other nook and cranny they can cram one of these things into -- without the proper infrastructure is "Planning For Disaster" See ZD LA Weekly Article -- Here's the general take from Villar, Garshady and Planning Dept.:
It's going to have to get worse before it gets better. The problem (gridlock traffic shutting down the city) is the soulution (yes, that IS a quote), because the plan is to let traffic get so bad, it will cause everyone to jump out of their Mercedes, Lexuses and SUVs and start taking the bus with Zuma Dogg and much worse.
But that's going to be o.k., because the State and City are going to build fantastic new transportation systems, like a magic bullet train from San Francisco to San Diego (and San Diego Assn of Governments want to run it all the way to Tijuana!)
Plus, can't forget about the "Subway to the Sea", Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's big pet project; in addition to the Alhambra Corridor (service road) to help ease Alhambra's traffic congestion at LA City's expense, even though Alhambra doesn't want it because it will run a toxic traffic parade through the neighborhood and several nearby schools.)
AND, all the additional light rail and added bus service they will be adding, even though they are cutting service.
So a little give and take here: You give them your house/apartment. They take it. Then purposefully cause traffic gridlock so you will hop on the transportation they haven't built yet. And they admit there will be quite a gap between the solution (traffic gridlock) and the cure (magic bullet trains).
So first on the agenda: The magic bullet train from San Francisco and San Diego. (Cause a lot of people causing traffic gridlock are driving to San Fran or San Diego!?!?) But that will cost who knows how many billions? And if they have to add new taxes like trash collection "fees" for cops they should be hiring anyway; or an additional new tax to remove bulky items that they should be removing anyway; or another attempt to make the middle class pay for affordable housing ("Son of Loser Prop H/Prep H) even though they should be building it with developers anyway --
THEY SURE AS HELL AIN'T PAYING FOR NO STATEWIDE MAGIC BULLET TRAINS OUT OF THE "GENERAL FUND". AND WITH THE GEORGE BUSH WAR IN IRAQ, WE SURE AS HELL AIN'T PAYING FOR IT OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE "GENERAL FUND" -- SO THAT MEANS IT WILL BE COMING OUT OF YOUR CHECKING ACCOUNT'S "GENERAL FUND".
So like "Grand Funk Railroad", look for Sacramento's "Grand Fund Railroad" (Billions in bond) to be coming to your town, to help you vote it down. In other words, the bond initiative to pay for the SF-SD express is coming to the '09 ballot.
Only problem, is it's only the first pitch. And as you know, most batters don't swing at the first pitch. See, the condos are just going up now...so people still think the traffic problems are gonna magically solve themselves. Or at least go as far to say, it STILL isn't bad enough gridlock, yet. So we are going to have to wait for all the dumb "Smart Growth" to fester and spread throughout the city, until you are begging The White House to approve the NAFTA superhighway, so you can drive it up to Canada. Cause that's gonna be the only place for you.
THEN, even the rich upper class and low income toilet cleaners will be begging to help pay for it, along with the eternally screwed endangered species, the middle-class.
So we are heading to a two-class system, like China and Mexico. And Dr. Phil has a question: "How's that working for 'ya?"
So don't count your chickens (skyscrapers) before they are hatched (money approved by voters).
AND HERE'S THE OTHER CONFLICT THE CITY WILL HAVE TO OVERCOME IN ORDER TO TRULY GET THE JOB DONE...(The job of giving the City of Los Angeles a "China/Las Vegas" skyline make-over:
There are a few pesky obstacles in the way: The City Charter (city laws) and public interest (voice of the people). Things like vacancy rates, zoning and Environmental Impact Reports (EIR) can shut down, slow down, or compromise the plan.
Perfect example of how the City gets tripped up in the law: Venice Beach. They wanted to gentrify the Zuma Doggs off the beach and make way for the luxury condos, and you don't want no Venice Beach "artists" all over the place when you are trying to make the place like Marina Del Rey. Only thing, the plan to get all the bums off the beach didn't work. Cause the law was in the way; so all the City did was throw a wrench in the system; it diminished the culture and community, but didn't achieve the goal. Cause the first amendment will ALWAYS prevent them from making the clean sweep they need. (Another LA City Hall "lose-lose" situation.)
So they will be pretending like they are moving ahead with this plan to push out the middle class to build luxury accommodations for the rich, or affordable accommodations for the poor -- but nothing for the middle; however, the vote of the people and Charter law may present some interference.
SUMMARY: It ain't a done deal yet. I say the City will HAVE to repeal the vacancy law, change zoning laws Citywide overturn the requirement for an EIR. Plus, overturn the Brown Act and cancel public comment. Otherwise, Villaraigosa, Garcetti, City Council, Planning, Scwarzenegger and The White House will have a big, half-ass mess on they hands. And the part that WON'T happen is the George Jetson transportation part.
And besides the traffic, you can't hire enough police and teachers, now. We have trash removal and waste dump problems, now. We don't have social services for the amount of homeless people we have, now. There are already stories about problems with the water SUPPLY, now. (How are you gonna supply all the water to Skyscraper City? They don't make dehydrated water!??!)
IMAGINE WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE WHEN YOU MULTIPLY IT TIMES 40. (The stories of their proposed skyline.)
And to top it all off: The City plans "analytically" instead of "holistically" which means no one is looking out for the big picture. You can look at vacancy, zoning and EIR on a project to project basis; but you forget to see if there is another similar project about to break ground, nearby. Or trying to get multiple bullet trains "off the ground" at the same time. (Even if they do vote for one, are they gonna vote for two? Plus, "Subway to the Sea"...AND the affordable housing bonds, and the other transportation taxes. I'm starting to think you are trying to drive the middle class out of the city, leaving only the super-rich who can afford it -- and the super-poor, who don't get taxed.
Bottom line, y'all so stupid. I think your "Smart Growth" looks pretty dumb.
See you on the imaginary "Train In Vain".
Zuma Dogg
ZAP (Zuma's Activist Program)
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
The Only Thing Standing In The Way of City Hall's Skyscraper Gentrification Fantasy Is Charter Law Regarding Vacancy, Zoning, EIR, Public Input and Vote of The People To Pay For It
by Zuma Dogg
Click here and type "zuma" in keyword search box for ALL ZD Public Comments from City Hall as seen on TV 35. Or "zuma density" for comments on this topic.
Hillary Clinton Campaign Co-Chair, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and The City of Los Angeles calls it "Elegant Density" or "Smart Growth". Zuma Dogg calls it wall to wall 40 story skyscrapers with not nearly enough infrastructure (by you own admission).
Now that you have seen the LA WEEKLY article which reveals the City's decision that a single family home has no place in future plans.
As a matter of fact, the only plan is to pass a new CRA "Eminent Domain" Ordinance (currently being drafted) that will make it easier for them to claim your blighted shack and replace it with a 40 story skyscraper. (See Housing and Economic Committee)
And in response to Zuma Dogg's claims that all this high density construction (along the new LA River, Elephant Hill, Dirt Burnell, Century City, Venice Beach Boardwalk and any other nook and cranny they can cram one of these things into -- without the proper infrastructure is "Planning For Disaster" See ZD LA Weekly Article -- Here's the general take from Villar, Garshady and Planning Dept.:
It's going to have to get worse before it gets better. The problem (gridlock traffic shutting down the city) is the soulution (yes, that IS a quote), because the plan is to let traffic get so bad, it will cause everyone to jump out of their Mercedes, Lexuses and SUVs and start taking the bus with Zuma Dogg and much worse.
But that's going to be o.k., because the State and City are going to build fantastic new transportation systems, like a magic bullet train from San Francisco to San Diego (and San Diego Assn of Governments want to run it all the way to Tijuana!)
Plus, can't forget about the "Subway to the Sea", Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's big pet project; in addition to the Alhambra Corridor (service road) to help ease Alhambra's traffic congestion at LA City's expense, even though Alhambra doesn't want it because it will run a toxic traffic parade through the neighborhood and several nearby schools.)
AND, all the additional light rail and added bus service they will be adding, even though they are cutting service.
So a little give and take here: You give them your house/apartment. They take it. Then purposefully cause traffic gridlock so you will hop on the transportation they haven't built yet. And they admit there will be quite a gap between the solution (traffic gridlock) and the cure (magic bullet trains).
So first on the agenda: The magic bullet train from San Francisco and San Diego. (Cause a lot of people causing traffic gridlock are driving to San Fran or San Diego!?!?) But that will cost who knows how many billions? And if they have to add new taxes like trash collection "fees" for cops they should be hiring anyway; or an additional new tax to remove bulky items that they should be removing anyway; or another attempt to make the middle class pay for affordable housing ("Son of Loser Prop H/Prep H) even though they should be building it with developers anyway --
THEY SURE AS HELL AIN'T PAYING FOR NO STATEWIDE MAGIC BULLET TRAINS OUT OF THE "GENERAL FUND". AND WITH THE GEORGE BUSH WAR IN IRAQ, WE SURE AS HELL AIN'T PAYING FOR IT OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE "GENERAL FUND" -- SO THAT MEANS IT WILL BE COMING OUT OF YOUR CHECKING ACCOUNT'S "GENERAL FUND".
So like "Grand Funk Railroad", look for Sacramento's "Grand Fund Railroad" (Billions in bond) to be coming to your town, to help you vote it down. In other words, the bond initiative to pay for the SF-SD express is coming to the '09 ballot.
Only problem, is it's only the first pitch. And as you know, most batters don't swing at the first pitch. See, the condos are just going up now...so people still think the traffic problems are gonna magically solve themselves. Or at least go as far to say, it STILL isn't bad enough gridlock, yet. So we are going to have to wait for all the dumb "Smart Growth" to fester and spread throughout the city, until you are begging The White House to approve the NAFTA superhighway, so you can drive it up to Canada. Cause that's gonna be the only place for you.
THEN, even the rich upper class and low income toilet cleaners will be begging to help pay for it, along with the eternally screwed endangered species, the middle-class.
So we are heading to a two-class system, like China and Mexico. And Dr. Phil has a question: "How's that working for 'ya?"
So don't count your chickens (skyscrapers) before they are hatched (money approved by voters).
AND HERE'S THE OTHER CONFLICT THE CITY WILL HAVE TO OVERCOME IN ORDER TO TRULY GET THE JOB DONE...(The job of giving the City of Los Angeles a "China/Las Vegas" skyline make-over:
There are a few pesky obstacles in the way: The City Charter (city laws) and public interest (voice of the people). Things like vacancy rates, zoning and Environmental Impact Reports (EIR) can shut down, slow down, or compromise the plan.
Perfect example of how the City gets tripped up in the law: Venice Beach. They wanted to gentrify the Zuma Doggs off the beach and make way for the luxury condos, and you don't want no Venice Beach "artists" all over the place when you are trying to make the place like Marina Del Rey. Only thing, the plan to get all the bums off the beach didn't work. Cause the law was in the way; so all the City did was throw a wrench in the system; it diminished the culture and community, but didn't achieve the goal. Cause the first amendment will ALWAYS prevent them from making the clean sweep they need. (Another LA City Hall "lose-lose" situation.)
So they will be pretending like they are moving ahead with this plan to push out the middle class to build luxury accommodations for the rich, or affordable accommodations for the poor -- but nothing for the middle; however, the vote of the people and Charter law may present some interference.
SUMMARY: It ain't a done deal yet. I say the City will HAVE to repeal the vacancy law, change zoning laws Citywide overturn the requirement for an EIR. Plus, overturn the Brown Act and cancel public comment. Otherwise, Villaraigosa, Garcetti, City Council, Planning, Scwarzenegger and The White House will have a big, half-ass mess on they hands. And the part that WON'T happen is the George Jetson transportation part.
And besides the traffic, you can't hire enough police and teachers, now. We have trash removal and waste dump problems, now. We don't have social services for the amount of homeless people we have, now. There are already stories about problems with the water SUPPLY, now. (How are you gonna supply all the water to Skyscraper City? They don't make dehydrated water!??!)
IMAGINE WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE WHEN YOU MULTIPLY IT TIMES 40. (The stories of their proposed skyline.)
And to top it all off: The City plans "analytically" instead of "holistically" which means no one is looking out for the big picture. You can look at vacancy, zoning and EIR on a project to project basis; but you forget to see if there is another similar project about to break ground, nearby. Or trying to get multiple bullet trains "off the ground" at the same time. (Even if they do vote for one, are they gonna vote for two? Plus, "Subway to the Sea"...AND the affordable housing bonds, and the other transportation taxes. I'm starting to think you are trying to drive the middle class out of the city, leaving only the super-rich who can afford it -- and the super-poor, who don't get taxed.
Bottom line, y'all so stupid. I think your "Smart Growth" looks pretty dumb.
See you on the imaginary "Train In Vain".
Zuma Dogg
ZAP (Zuma's Activist Program)
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
Sunday, June 3, 2007
PLANS FOR U.S. INCLUDE MORE MEXICAN IMMIGRATION, MORE HIGH DENSITY, AND MORE TRAFFIC GRIDLOCK (THE PROBLEM WILL CAUSE THE SOLUTION)
WHY THE CITY LOS ANGELES WANTS TO TAKE YOUR HOME AND BUILD A SKYSCRAPER
It's Not Their Fault -- Washington, DC Is Making Them Gentrify To Compete In The Global Economy And The Plan Includes Mexico
[MEDIA ALERT: Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, Talk Programmers, CNN, FOX, MSNBC]
THE BIG PICTURE BEHIND L.A.'S SKYSCRAPER SKYLINE DREAMS.
Click here and type "zuma" in keyword search box for ALL ZD Public Comments from City Hall as seen on TV 35. Or "zuma density" for comments on this topic.
I was speaking with a friend who's opinion I respect, as he was talking about what needs to happen in regards to the development future of Los Angeles, it basically sounded exactly what Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Planners were preaching in the LA Weekly this week regarding density and gridlock traffic.
So here's what I realized: We are in a period of transition. We are at the end of the old, as they are just starting the new. But they haven't even started yet…government officials are still conceiving.
The Manhattanization of Los Angeles has a lot to do with what has happened in China.
They have taken the manufacturing industry away from the U.S. and have used the profits to steamroll the place into the skyscraper filled, George Jetson city, the City of Los Angeles hopes it can be.
They are actually ahead of us in this area, to the point that they have over-developed and polluted themselves, nearly to death.
They are going green now, the way the mayor wants to, not because they want to, but because they have to. (The effect of an "all you can eat buffet" among greedy powers that be. "Just do it now, make the money, suffer consequences later. We'll worry about the problem when it gets here.")
[CLICK READ MORE...A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO USED TO LIKE ME WILL HATE ME AND VICA VERSA. SIMPLY, ON THE REALSEST, DOUGH!]
So the mayor knows he has to make this speculative environmental technology -- present environmental technology to prepare for wall to wall skyscrapers in this city that will create such bad traffic, the smog will be unbearable, and we will have to find energy alternatives.
[AND, Villaraigosa feels that LA could use a little "high quality" industry to export abroad. LA can be the "green machine" technology providers to the world. And we need that! BUT I STILL SAY DON'T INVEST PENSION MONEY TO DO IT!]
So the bullet train needs to be built from San Diego to San Fran – Subway to the Sea needs to get rolling; and all the light rail needs to be built and buses added to prepare for the masses.
Cause here's the problem. LA is liberal and doesn't want to do this. (Gentrify/Steamroll the current "single home and a car" in favor of wall to wall skyscrapers. But the politicians HAVE to!)
China has already become the skyscraper capital, surpassing us.
So U.S. has to team up with Mexico to create one region so as to be able to compete in this global economy.
I've said it before a million times before. But after the LA Weekly article and a conversation last nigh, it kinda all clicked and I see the BIG picture.
China has shifted the manufacturing to their region, and used the money to create the ultimate density city.
And if we don't make something to compete, they will become more dominant.
But we are at a disadvantage. The City wasn't planned for this type of development, as a matter of fact it put measures in place to protect against this "Elegant Density/Smart Growth."
But the superpowers have figured it all out, and we have to do this, or we will lose in the global "survival of the fittest" challenge.
UNFORTUNATELY...WE are stuck in the transition period for the rest of OUR lives.
The period where the party is over, we have to build the density first, and try to keep up with the infrastructure later.
And we have all these homes and buildings in the way, and everything is so spread out.
But in thirty years, it MAY begin to improve.
CAUSE HERE'S THE PROBLEM Y'ALL...
You are building all of this based on magic bullet trains and a lot of things that requires bond money and a vote of the people.
You have planned all of this based on building subway to sea, magic bullet train, more buses, more police, schools...all these things that require a vote of the people.
What if they say "no" to the FLY LA SF to SD bullet train in '09?
What if subway to the sea doesn't get funded?
THEN WHAT? I know, I know...eventually it will get bad enough that even the toilet cleaners will vote "yes" on the bonds to pay for the bullet trains. (And in the LA Weekly article they admit, that it is gonna have the traffic gridlock is going to have to get so bad, that people will be begging to vote to spend billions for Jetsonville.
We need the region to allow the uber-elite to hop on the train in Vegas in the morning, do business in LA, then bullet train it back to Vegas.
Bottom line: It's gonna get done, one way, or the other. China has done it, and now we either, "do or die". This isn't about Antonio's decision.
The gentrification of LA, and the impending privatization of the education system, and the merging with Mexico, through immigration and policy == is paving the way for us to have a shot in the survival of the fittest global challenge.
So yeah, all the culture, heritage and ecology is going to be wiped away. I guess you can say we saw were part of the good old days.
Only problem is, we are stuck in the transitional moment of time where it is darkest before the light.
Get ready for the Darth Vader helmet operation on the entire SCAG region of Los Vegas, North Mexico. It's our only hope.
See. ZD knows what time it is. Why didn't you just tell me, instead of trying to hide it.
It's the deception I don't like. If you just said, "Sorry kiddies, have you seen China? Have you seen Asia? At one time an AMC Pacer was the coolest thing in the world. I would understand.
It’s over. U.S. and Mexican powers that be have decided the continent must unite and merge in order to survive in this global economy. Canada will be next to complete the North American trifecta . Then let the buffalo roam, as they will from Mexico, through Kansas, to Canada! And the trucks will roll from the ports down this corridor, delivering imported items to Best Buys and Wal-marts like a newspaper truck, driving through the neighborhood, making deliveries.)
Funny, while we are discussing building borders against the enemy on our own continent...the guys overseas blew past us, and took the lead.
So, the U.S. and Mexico governments have it figured out. LA, will be built and designed to be the international region for two purposes:
a) Provide the George Jetson, luxury, sky-scraper mega-metropolis city that people overseas, with all the money, seem to enjoy. (Vegas has steamrolled and made over the city with a skyscraper skyline, with way more to come. So we have to even compete with that, from a national level. But NV and CA want to build a bullet train, to help unite the region, and compete/accommodate globally, too.)
It will cost billions and billions and billions of tax-payers dollars to build all the infrastructure (bullet trains, light rail more busses) to do this. And there is a long period of time when the trapeze artist will be "mid-air" between trapeze bars.
(The time between when all the density causes COMPLETE traffic
gridlock, and the point where we finally have the infrastructure completed.) AND, the plan IS to let it get so bad, first. So the demand (and willingness of taxpayers to fund it) will be there.
b) Get Southern California in shape to overhaul the infrastructure, so we can more efficiently execute our role in the US economy. THE PORT INDUSTRY. 40% of all US goods come through the ports and roll down the 710. So that is a FEDERAL and STATE priority. (To make the movement of goods process more efficient and more environmentally safe, cause pollution is a huge problem that will be getting worse.)
And since we need to build all these skyscrapers and bullet trains and subways, we are going to have to ease up the immigration policies to allow the cheap labor we get from Mexico to build all this stuff and service all of it.
So, in Southern California, look for the trend to be having the U.S. loosen up the borders, through policy like drivers licenses for illegals, and amnesty because the decision has been made. We need their labor to build the infrastructure, then service it, cause we need all the help we can get -- cause we have a lot of catching up to do to be on par with our international compadres. Asia/China want us to improve our infrastructure so we can accommodate them, cause they have a lot of money and like to have accommodations in their U.S. Annex. And we need to catch up, so they don't crush us, economically.
Although guys like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity and all their callers (and a big hunk of US society, in general) would never, ever, ever, ever, go along with the idea of OPENING up the borders...THAT'S WHAT THE PLAN CALLS FOR. IT'S NORTH AMERICA vs. ASIA/CHIA/INDIA...NOT U.S. vs. Mexico vs. Canada. So it looks like we will be reluctantly teaming up with our low wage, non English speaking neighbors.
Cause yes, the "Leave it to Beaver" days are over. And our enemy's enemy is
our friend. And in the global economic arena, the enemy/competition is overseas.
So all the Archie Bunkers are gonna have to live with all those Univision watching, La Opinion reading, La Raza 97.9 listening, Spanish-only speaking Mexicans, who aren't here because they love the John and Ken show, and wanna have dinner with people from the local homeowners association. They are here because Mexico sucks, from an economic standpoint. And they come here, because of the economic opportunity.
It kinda used to irritate me when I am standing in a 7-11 in Los Angeles, and everyone in the store is speaking Spanish, and it's on the Westside. But, obviously there is a demand for what they are doing. I know people say, if they weren't here, it would mean more jobs for legal residents. And of course they are taking a percentage away.
BUT HERE'S THE DEAL: For the game plan the Federal government has in mind, it includes taking advantage of the cheap labor, which is willing to live here, under
low-income, sucky circumstances. They aren't buying property in Beverly Hills. They aren't scamming anyone in big real estate deals.
When Cedillo has Schwarzenegger approve driver licenses for illegals, it isn't to drive to a Paris Hilton party on the red carpet. It's to simply be able to drive to their low-paying, hard labor, or boring as hell, manual labor job. (And to those who are able to rise above that, and jump into something better. Fine, they obviously created the demand to go from dishwasher to waiter. Or phone operator, to salesperson.)
See, right now, the powers that be are scared to tell opponents the master plan, because people don't like change, they like to maintain not only the status quo, but like to maintain heritage, and that's the way it's always been around here.
Except things change. And not changing, is change itself anyway. So the transition is gonna suck. We are stuck at the worst part. The mess left over from neglect. And the clean up and rebuilding process, which includes the plan of getting worse, before better, because the demand will be here, before the supply of Jestons infrastructure. AND THE DAY, SOMETIME SOON, WHEN ALL THE ILLEGALS ARE ISSUED DRIVERS LICENSES...YOU WILL HAVE INSTANT TRAFFIC GRIDLOCK SHUT DOWN THE NEXT DAY. And that is part of the plan, cause then -- you will be BEGGING to be taxed to death to pay for it.
Will eggs have to be broken...yes? Will there be time for all the "Zuma Dogg's" out there (public activists) to provide all the public input to consider all of this? (No!) Will your house be crushed by a skyscraper being dumped on top of your land? (Yes.) Are we about to wipe away the entire cultural and historic heritage and smooth it all over with cement? (Yes!)
That's just the way it is. It's a much bigger picture than what goes on at the NC meeting, City Council meeting, SCAG meeting or Governor meeting. Poor Antonio and Council. I just sat here for the past year trying to get them to enforce vacancy rates and laws that were put in place to prevent this exact scenario. But at the end of the day, it is futile to resist. You can't stop a wave, only ride it. Otherwise it crashes on your head.
So embrace this cultural era: And next time you are on the bus, or standing at the crosswalk, look at that illegal worker who you used to resent for being here illegally and say, "Welcome to the Estados of Unidos, mi amigo! Man, doesn't it suck that you had to come here, only to work so hard, for so little, only to have to send it all back to Mexico (since they have no welfare system), and you have to live in crowded garages. But you, and I, my friend are screwed, cause we let the global economy race pass us by, while we were resting on out laurels. So let's unite to prevent from being overtaken and held economic hostage from China, Asia and India.
Meanwhile, in thirty or forty years, when it's all done...Cal-Vegas, New Mexico will be a great city if you are super-rich, or super-poor. Everyone in between (the middle) will be gone. We are heading to a two-class, divided system, just like in Mexico. But every system has to have a top, middle and bottom. If you cut our the middle, it breaks. Ask any two class system. So let's make sure the City sticks to the concept of these mixed use "elegant villages" without the corruption and make sure you maintain the balance of top, middle and bottom. You won't. Cause greed always wins out. Cause things are evaluated at the balance sheet level, so that's the ball people are keeping their eye on.
NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, Y'ALL!!! ON THE REALEST, DOUGH!
Steamrollers...Start Your Engines!
LA Weekly "Density" article on the City's Plan for LA
MORE TO COME...
Zuma Dogg
ZAP (Zuma's Activist Program)
contact: ZumaDogg@gmail.com
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Mayor Sam's Blog: LA City Political Insider Blog
Springsteen's 1978 Take
It's Not Their Fault -- Washington, DC Is Making Them Gentrify To Compete In The Global Economy And The Plan Includes Mexico
[MEDIA ALERT: Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, Talk Programmers, CNN, FOX, MSNBC]
THE BIG PICTURE BEHIND L.A.'S SKYSCRAPER SKYLINE DREAMS.
Click here and type "zuma" in keyword search box for ALL ZD Public Comments from City Hall as seen on TV 35. Or "zuma density" for comments on this topic.
I was speaking with a friend who's opinion I respect, as he was talking about what needs to happen in regards to the development future of Los Angeles, it basically sounded exactly what Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Planners were preaching in the LA Weekly this week regarding density and gridlock traffic.
So here's what I realized: We are in a period of transition. We are at the end of the old, as they are just starting the new. But they haven't even started yet…government officials are still conceiving.
The Manhattanization of Los Angeles has a lot to do with what has happened in China.
They have taken the manufacturing industry away from the U.S. and have used the profits to steamroll the place into the skyscraper filled, George Jetson city, the City of Los Angeles hopes it can be.
They are actually ahead of us in this area, to the point that they have over-developed and polluted themselves, nearly to death.
They are going green now, the way the mayor wants to, not because they want to, but because they have to. (The effect of an "all you can eat buffet" among greedy powers that be. "Just do it now, make the money, suffer consequences later. We'll worry about the problem when it gets here.")
[CLICK READ MORE...A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO USED TO LIKE ME WILL HATE ME AND VICA VERSA. SIMPLY, ON THE REALSEST, DOUGH!]
So the mayor knows he has to make this speculative environmental technology -- present environmental technology to prepare for wall to wall skyscrapers in this city that will create such bad traffic, the smog will be unbearable, and we will have to find energy alternatives.
[AND, Villaraigosa feels that LA could use a little "high quality" industry to export abroad. LA can be the "green machine" technology providers to the world. And we need that! BUT I STILL SAY DON'T INVEST PENSION MONEY TO DO IT!]
So the bullet train needs to be built from San Diego to San Fran – Subway to the Sea needs to get rolling; and all the light rail needs to be built and buses added to prepare for the masses.
Cause here's the problem. LA is liberal and doesn't want to do this. (Gentrify/Steamroll the current "single home and a car" in favor of wall to wall skyscrapers. But the politicians HAVE to!)
China has already become the skyscraper capital, surpassing us.
So U.S. has to team up with Mexico to create one region so as to be able to compete in this global economy.
I've said it before a million times before. But after the LA Weekly article and a conversation last nigh, it kinda all clicked and I see the BIG picture.
China has shifted the manufacturing to their region, and used the money to create the ultimate density city.
And if we don't make something to compete, they will become more dominant.
But we are at a disadvantage. The City wasn't planned for this type of development, as a matter of fact it put measures in place to protect against this "Elegant Density/Smart Growth."
But the superpowers have figured it all out, and we have to do this, or we will lose in the global "survival of the fittest" challenge.
UNFORTUNATELY...WE are stuck in the transition period for the rest of OUR lives.
The period where the party is over, we have to build the density first, and try to keep up with the infrastructure later.
And we have all these homes and buildings in the way, and everything is so spread out.
But in thirty years, it MAY begin to improve.
CAUSE HERE'S THE PROBLEM Y'ALL...
You are building all of this based on magic bullet trains and a lot of things that requires bond money and a vote of the people.
You have planned all of this based on building subway to sea, magic bullet train, more buses, more police, schools...all these things that require a vote of the people.
What if they say "no" to the FLY LA SF to SD bullet train in '09?
What if subway to the sea doesn't get funded?
THEN WHAT? I know, I know...eventually it will get bad enough that even the toilet cleaners will vote "yes" on the bonds to pay for the bullet trains. (And in the LA Weekly article they admit, that it is gonna have the traffic gridlock is going to have to get so bad, that people will be begging to vote to spend billions for Jetsonville.
We need the region to allow the uber-elite to hop on the train in Vegas in the morning, do business in LA, then bullet train it back to Vegas.
Bottom line: It's gonna get done, one way, or the other. China has done it, and now we either, "do or die". This isn't about Antonio's decision.
The gentrification of LA, and the impending privatization of the education system, and the merging with Mexico, through immigration and policy == is paving the way for us to have a shot in the survival of the fittest global challenge.
So yeah, all the culture, heritage and ecology is going to be wiped away. I guess you can say we saw were part of the good old days.
Only problem is, we are stuck in the transitional moment of time where it is darkest before the light.
Get ready for the Darth Vader helmet operation on the entire SCAG region of Los Vegas, North Mexico. It's our only hope.
See. ZD knows what time it is. Why didn't you just tell me, instead of trying to hide it.
It's the deception I don't like. If you just said, "Sorry kiddies, have you seen China? Have you seen Asia? At one time an AMC Pacer was the coolest thing in the world. I would understand.
It’s over. U.S. and Mexican powers that be have decided the continent must unite and merge in order to survive in this global economy. Canada will be next to complete the North American trifecta . Then let the buffalo roam, as they will from Mexico, through Kansas, to Canada! And the trucks will roll from the ports down this corridor, delivering imported items to Best Buys and Wal-marts like a newspaper truck, driving through the neighborhood, making deliveries.)
Funny, while we are discussing building borders against the enemy on our own continent...the guys overseas blew past us, and took the lead.
So, the U.S. and Mexico governments have it figured out. LA, will be built and designed to be the international region for two purposes:
a) Provide the George Jetson, luxury, sky-scraper mega-metropolis city that people overseas, with all the money, seem to enjoy. (Vegas has steamrolled and made over the city with a skyscraper skyline, with way more to come. So we have to even compete with that, from a national level. But NV and CA want to build a bullet train, to help unite the region, and compete/accommodate globally, too.)
It will cost billions and billions and billions of tax-payers dollars to build all the infrastructure (bullet trains, light rail more busses) to do this. And there is a long period of time when the trapeze artist will be "mid-air" between trapeze bars.
(The time between when all the density causes COMPLETE traffic
gridlock, and the point where we finally have the infrastructure completed.) AND, the plan IS to let it get so bad, first. So the demand (and willingness of taxpayers to fund it) will be there.
b) Get Southern California in shape to overhaul the infrastructure, so we can more efficiently execute our role in the US economy. THE PORT INDUSTRY. 40% of all US goods come through the ports and roll down the 710. So that is a FEDERAL and STATE priority. (To make the movement of goods process more efficient and more environmentally safe, cause pollution is a huge problem that will be getting worse.)
And since we need to build all these skyscrapers and bullet trains and subways, we are going to have to ease up the immigration policies to allow the cheap labor we get from Mexico to build all this stuff and service all of it.
So, in Southern California, look for the trend to be having the U.S. loosen up the borders, through policy like drivers licenses for illegals, and amnesty because the decision has been made. We need their labor to build the infrastructure, then service it, cause we need all the help we can get -- cause we have a lot of catching up to do to be on par with our international compadres. Asia/China want us to improve our infrastructure so we can accommodate them, cause they have a lot of money and like to have accommodations in their U.S. Annex. And we need to catch up, so they don't crush us, economically.
Although guys like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity and all their callers (and a big hunk of US society, in general) would never, ever, ever, ever, go along with the idea of OPENING up the borders...THAT'S WHAT THE PLAN CALLS FOR. IT'S NORTH AMERICA vs. ASIA/CHIA/INDIA...NOT U.S. vs. Mexico vs. Canada. So it looks like we will be reluctantly teaming up with our low wage, non English speaking neighbors.
Cause yes, the "Leave it to Beaver" days are over. And our enemy's enemy is
our friend. And in the global economic arena, the enemy/competition is overseas.
So all the Archie Bunkers are gonna have to live with all those Univision watching, La Opinion reading, La Raza 97.9 listening, Spanish-only speaking Mexicans, who aren't here because they love the John and Ken show, and wanna have dinner with people from the local homeowners association. They are here because Mexico sucks, from an economic standpoint. And they come here, because of the economic opportunity.
It kinda used to irritate me when I am standing in a 7-11 in Los Angeles, and everyone in the store is speaking Spanish, and it's on the Westside. But, obviously there is a demand for what they are doing. I know people say, if they weren't here, it would mean more jobs for legal residents. And of course they are taking a percentage away.
BUT HERE'S THE DEAL: For the game plan the Federal government has in mind, it includes taking advantage of the cheap labor, which is willing to live here, under
low-income, sucky circumstances. They aren't buying property in Beverly Hills. They aren't scamming anyone in big real estate deals.
When Cedillo has Schwarzenegger approve driver licenses for illegals, it isn't to drive to a Paris Hilton party on the red carpet. It's to simply be able to drive to their low-paying, hard labor, or boring as hell, manual labor job. (And to those who are able to rise above that, and jump into something better. Fine, they obviously created the demand to go from dishwasher to waiter. Or phone operator, to salesperson.)
See, right now, the powers that be are scared to tell opponents the master plan, because people don't like change, they like to maintain not only the status quo, but like to maintain heritage, and that's the way it's always been around here.
Except things change. And not changing, is change itself anyway. So the transition is gonna suck. We are stuck at the worst part. The mess left over from neglect. And the clean up and rebuilding process, which includes the plan of getting worse, before better, because the demand will be here, before the supply of Jestons infrastructure. AND THE DAY, SOMETIME SOON, WHEN ALL THE ILLEGALS ARE ISSUED DRIVERS LICENSES...YOU WILL HAVE INSTANT TRAFFIC GRIDLOCK SHUT DOWN THE NEXT DAY. And that is part of the plan, cause then -- you will be BEGGING to be taxed to death to pay for it.
Will eggs have to be broken...yes? Will there be time for all the "Zuma Dogg's" out there (public activists) to provide all the public input to consider all of this? (No!) Will your house be crushed by a skyscraper being dumped on top of your land? (Yes.) Are we about to wipe away the entire cultural and historic heritage and smooth it all over with cement? (Yes!)
That's just the way it is. It's a much bigger picture than what goes on at the NC meeting, City Council meeting, SCAG meeting or Governor meeting. Poor Antonio and Council. I just sat here for the past year trying to get them to enforce vacancy rates and laws that were put in place to prevent this exact scenario. But at the end of the day, it is futile to resist. You can't stop a wave, only ride it. Otherwise it crashes on your head.
So embrace this cultural era: And next time you are on the bus, or standing at the crosswalk, look at that illegal worker who you used to resent for being here illegally and say, "Welcome to the Estados of Unidos, mi amigo! Man, doesn't it suck that you had to come here, only to work so hard, for so little, only to have to send it all back to Mexico (since they have no welfare system), and you have to live in crowded garages. But you, and I, my friend are screwed, cause we let the global economy race pass us by, while we were resting on out laurels. So let's unite to prevent from being overtaken and held economic hostage from China, Asia and India.
Meanwhile, in thirty or forty years, when it's all done...Cal-Vegas, New Mexico will be a great city if you are super-rich, or super-poor. Everyone in between (the middle) will be gone. We are heading to a two-class, divided system, just like in Mexico. But every system has to have a top, middle and bottom. If you cut our the middle, it breaks. Ask any two class system. So let's make sure the City sticks to the concept of these mixed use "elegant villages" without the corruption and make sure you maintain the balance of top, middle and bottom. You won't. Cause greed always wins out. Cause things are evaluated at the balance sheet level, so that's the ball people are keeping their eye on.
NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, Y'ALL!!! ON THE REALEST, DOUGH!
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LA Weekly "Density" article on the City's Plan for LA
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Friday, June 1, 2007
LA TIMES EVALUATES VILLARAIGOSA'S JOB AS LA MAYOR, SO FAR
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FROM LA TIMES:
L.A. mayor's smooth ride has gotten bumpier
A park melee, a schools snub and other setbacks slow Villaraigosa's midterm momentum.
Cast your own vote on his office record so far. Full LA Times Story and cast your vote
By Duke Helfand, Times Staff Writer
June 1, 2007
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa soared through his first year in office on a wave of public support that made him a daunting political force almost destined for higher office.
But a recent rough patch has raised questions about whether he has lost some of that early luster.
The courts snubbed Villaraigosa's plan to gain significant control over Los Angeles public schools. Chicago inched out L.A. for a chance to bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
A police riot squad beat immigrant-rights marchers and journalists in MacArthur Park last month, prompting the mayor to cut short a highly promoted trip to Central America.
And last week, Villaraigosa lost an ugly public battle over bus fare increases, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials later spoke of delaying several projects because of budget woes, including the mayor's vaunted subway to the sea beneath Wilshire Boulevard.
Now, as Villaraigosa approaches the midpoint of his four-year term, political observers agree that he is scrambling to maintain his initial momentum and deliver tangible results on numerous promises, even as recent events have opened the door to rare public criticism from at least one prominent elected leader: county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky.
Villaraigosa and his senior aides acknowledge the recent disappointments but prefer to see them as minor bumps overshadowed by the mayor's accomplishments on education, public safety, mass transit, the environment and city budgeting. [I'm sure they would prefer to see it that way. So would we. We would prefer to see ONE of these accomplishments. And saying you accomplished it, isn't the accomplishment.]
They say, for example, that he deserves credit for balancing the city's books and dramatically reducing a $295-million structural deficit — by more than $200 million — amid declining revenues. [Yeah, he cut every department except his travel and staff budget.]
They also speak of his successful effort to win an increase in trash collection fees to hire 1,000 additional police officers [You call having to raise fees, for what the city should be providing is successful? Plus, you haven't hired the cops yet, dummy] -- saying the city is well on its way to meeting the goal as the rate of violent crime — including gang homicides — drops. [GOOD! Why don't you take a walk down those streets with the reduced violent crime?]
They single out his efforts this year to tackle gang crime by devoting more money to suppression and prevention programs. [Insert commentary here.]
And they point to Villaraigosa's securing billions of dollars in state bond money for mass transit projects [I thought the voters voted that in, and now it's gonna be bilked by the politicans]— including carpool lanes on the 405 Freeway — and an aggressive expansion of the Department of Water and Power's use of alternative energy sources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [Yeah, he wants to invest people's pension funds -- he calls them "our" pension funds -- into speculative, alternative, niche technology. I am all for the development of these "green" technologies, but City pensions should be invested into something less risky. Leave the gambling to Vegas.]
"The real story here is that we're on track," Villaraigosa said Thursday as he signed his second city budget, which, like his first, won unanimous support from the City Council. [Yeah, he's on track...on the rails of Ozzy's "Crazy Train", if he believes that.]
Villaraigosa and his senior deputies even claim victory on the education front. They argue that, despite successive legal setbacks to his plan to take control of the schools, the mayor has effectively won by elevating the discussion about reforming the Los Angeles Unified School District. ["EVALUATING DISCUSSION" DOES NOT A WINNER MAKE. IT IS ONLY A WIN ONCE THE KIDS BENEFIT.]
With his board majority in hand, Villaraigosa is working behind the scenes to secure many of the reforms he was denied by the courts. [And this means the kids won't win.]
His office is in preliminary talks with Green Dot Public Schools, a prominent charter school operator and a frequent foe of the district, to possibly oversee a high school and the middle and elementary schools that feed it, and to shape a broader reform agenda. [Yeah, let Antonio be involved in Charter reform. SEE SEMILLA STORY ON THIS BLOG to see what can go wrong. That's his district.]
Higher expectations
Villaraigosa's closest allies and associates say he has raised expectations at City Hall and infused local government with a culture that encourages risk taking over fear of failure. He has won praise from many outside of government for his selection of talented general managers and senior staff. [O.K., now the Times can tell Antonio they did the best they could to soften the hit. "Infused" (manage by chaos and fear), risk taking (that's what I said about the pension money), fear of failure (he has no shame, he'll try and get away with anything, then all these judges have to beat him down.]
"This mayor moves the needle by taking on big issues," said City Councilman Jack Weiss, one of his closest allies on the City Council. "Sometimes he succeeds outright…. And other times, he gets results just by taking on the issue itself."
[Oh no...now we all KNOW the mayor is in trouble. They could only get a good quote from Weissass. Yeah, the mayor took on a big issue: You're City Attorney Campaign amidst your re-call campaign, you political kryptonite-anvil.
Other times, however, he alienates fellow leaders in his push to be at the front of the line. {You mean, once he didn't.]
That was the case last week when Villaraigosa and Yaroslavsky, a fellow MTA board member, clashed publicly over a plan to raise bus fares.
During the heated exchange, Yaroslavsky said that Villaraigosa had indicated his support for a fare increase in a closed session last summer after the board agreed to a new contract with bus drivers and mechanics.
An angry Villaraigosa criticized Yaroslavsky for mischaracterizing closed-door discussions and for failing to offer his own compromise, calling the supervisor a "sheep who walks in wolf's clothing."
Yaroslavsky declined Thursday to talk about the dust-up.
The exchange was a rare moment for Villaraigosa. Few public figures have been willing to openly criticize him, even as they grouse privately about his penchant for grandstanding. As one City Hall veteran put it: If Yaroslavsky opened the door slightly for others to disparage Villaraigosa, few are willing to walk through it just yet.
And that means Villaraigosa will probably retain his unofficial title as the region's chief political heavyweight heading into the final two years of his first term.
The question, then, is whether he can continue to deliver on his ambitious agenda, given voters' hunger for concrete results.
"It's like the end of halftime at a basketball game. He's had some setbacks at the end of the first half," said Raphael Sonenshein, a professor of political science at Cal State Fullerton who has written extensively about Los Angeles politics.
"He's probably going to be facing harsher evaluations" in the next two years, Sonenshein added. "He'll get less leeway. That's normal when you have a popular start." [Great, so you got the student with all "D"s having added scrutiny placed on him. Ha! The guys a sinking ship. Titanio Villagrosa!
Steve Hymon contributed to this story. [Yeah, the Jack Weiss quote, I bet.]
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LOS ANGELES SCHOOL CHARTER REFORM: Concerns of Confilct of Interest in Villaraigosa And Nunez's District
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Since Los Angeles is now on the national platform with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa endorsing New York Senator Hillary Clinton for President in the '08 election -- and has in turn been appointed Clinton Co-Chair (California Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez is already Clinton Campaign Co-Chair), we will be presenting some of the stories as covered by local LA political blogs.
Recently, Charter School reform has become a hot topic, because Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has taken control of the Los Angeles Unified District School Board, after having two of his privately backed candidates win last months school board elections. This gives his a majority of four, out of seven members.
Additionally, close Villaraigosa ally and backer, billionaire developer Eli Broad has begun donating millions and millions (along with Bill and Melinda Gates) to local California Charter schools.
So look for the Villaraigosa controlled school board to start approving more Charter schools (to help "privatize" education and take it out of the hands of the eternally-failing LAUSD system. An education system, so plauged, it is actually creating a socio-economic problem for the City due to the high drop out rate and drying up the pool of young adults who can enter the "high quality" job market and serve the City as teachers, police and various other City staff positions.
However, although the principal of Charter schools is a good one (take the same demographic population, do a better job educating them, and raise student achievement and test scores) -- however, this local story of a Charter school in Nunez's district, and Villaraigosa's old Assembly and Council district (before he was elected mayor) demonstrates how State and local state grant money can be funneled outside the spirit in which this system has been created.
Many of you have heard about the LAUSD Charter school "Academia Semilla Del Pueblo".
ACADEMIA SEMILLAS DEL PUEBLO: In Care of MARCOS AGUILAR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90032-1942: IRS Subsection 501(c)(3) - A religious, educational, charitable, scientific or literary organization. Exempt Since 12-2001 Form 990 Amount $2,104,241
Previously, the school has been surrounded in controversy over it's separatist cultural agenda, and it's low AMI test scores. The math scores are the lowest in the State. So until now, the story about Semilla has been whether the school should have it's Charter re-newed by LAUSD, or not.
Well as of March '07, it was first denied -- then after a promise that the school promised (with sugar on top) that they would raise test scores, they were given approval for not only another five years of LAUSD "gravy train" money; but will be allowed to accept 600 students (up from an initial approval of 200, for which they got $2,000,000).
So with 600 students, not only can they rake in a lot more LAUSD AND State Education money (cause they are paid per head), now the school has to look for a bigger building; which also means they will probably need more rent money from LAUSD and the State.
I heard the school is already looking for a new location, to build a big, new school -- somewhere on the Eastside. Exact location is still trying to be negotiated. Rumor had it that they had $13 million to work with, but they are having a tough time striking a deal. Word is, they tried to get some Park space in Rose Hill, El Sereno (and possibly elsewhere), but nothing has panned out as of yet.
[GREAT...so let's give them more money, for more kids, when they can't even get 200 right?!?! What if in five years the scores are still the same? Do they give the money back? Do the kids have to repeat the grades?]
Semilla does not own the school, itself: They rent it from a separate company called TZICATL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: In Care of Name MARCOS AGUILAR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90032-1942. They are listed as an IRS Subsection 501(c)(3) - A religious, educational, charitable, scientific or literary organization.
Classification Community, Neighborhood Development, Improvement (General).
In June 2002, TZICATL CDC acquired a blighted commercial structure to be rehabilitiated and utilized as the site for a non-profit charter school.
The real estate tax was $193 and zero cents. The land cost $503,152; the building cost $300,000; and the loan fee was $5,000; for a total of 811,152.
And oh yeah...RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND, INC. provided $808,000 (7% interest rate) on 06/06/02 (maturity date: 06/05/07), with repayment terms of $25,000/yr for '02-'03; $30,000/yr for '04-'07. It was secured by a first deed of trust on a home on Huntington Drive to purchase and renovate the building.
The list of officers, directors and trustees included; Marcos Aguilar, Chairman; Antonia Viteri, Secretary; Minnie Ferguson, Treasurer and Norm Apostal, Abel Aguilar, Erica Friedman, and Irene Vasquez, Directors.
To facilitate the purchase of TZICATL's first development, Boardmember Erica Friedman advanced $25,000 toward an open escrow in June 2002, that was repaid in October 2002.
When the IRS asked RAZA, INC., "Is the organization related through common membership, governing bodies, trustees, officers, etc to any other non-exempt organization; the answer is "Yes, National Council of La Raza (exempt)".
RAZA claims exemption BECAUSE they support NC of La Raza -- and RAZA put up $808,000 for the building, that was renovated and used for the school.
LA RAZA Development Corp. borrowed $185,000 on the property on Aguilar's Huntington Dr. South last year.
The property was purchased in 2001 for $800,000. It was an ALL CASH purchase from a William Vasquez. Mr. Vasquez only owned this property for 6 MONTHS, AND HE ONLY PAID $250,000 for it!!!
Vasquez made a tidy profit of $550,000 IN A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS.
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COST PER STUDENT: There sure seems like a whole lot of money being spent for 200 kids.
In 2004, you had teachers making $58,355 (plus $4,814 in benefits);
In 2003, Marcos was making $90,295 (plus $9,409 contributions) AS SECRETARY! Minnie Ferguson $91,427/$7,543. Isidro Nunez (business manager) was paid $68,000/$7000. Total Education Solutions (Special Ed services) was paid $54,874, too.
HEY LAUSD: Was Marcos taking a salary as Board Member AND Principal? I don't see the salary as principal? It doesn't show up on my batcomputer if he took under $50,000 as principal. (Which would be shady, cause the teachers make more.)
Here are some issues:
Bet no one on the board complains about the principal...you have a board member, who is also the principal, who also owns the building (that was basically donated to him by La Raza). The building sure did skyrocket in value in one-year's time. (They must have an AWESOME real estate appraiser!)
LAUSD provides money to pay the rent for the school, and the school pays itself, since it owns the building, and Marcos gets to set the amount of annual rent he pays himself. (Nice!)
The list of Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School donors and supporters, besides taxpayers include:
National Council of La Raza Charter School Development Initiative
Raza Development Fund, Inc.
Glendale Nissan/Infinity, Inc.
California State University, Los Angeles
Pasadena City College - MeCHA
The Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture
So you have Marcos Aguilar who is principal, board member (along with his wife) AND owns the separate company that builds and owns the school, so Marcos gets to decide how much rent money he's gonna charge himself, then pay himself with LAUSD and State money. (Niiiiiiiice!) And when you run a Charter school, if your test scores are not high enough you can lose the right to use the land your school sits on. Well, luckily, Semilla doesn't own the school or the land, so they can't lose lose it. (Even though the principal/board member actually owns it.)
But let's just say for arguments sake, you want to yank your kid out of LAUSD and pop him/her into a Charter school, that is supposed to produce higher levels of student achievement: But you hear Semilla has rock bottom test scores. So you figure, "Gee, I'll complain to the school board and have him replaced." Except he and his wife and cronies ARE the school board. So forget that!
You gotta go one level higher now, and talk to the landlord, and tell them to kick this under-performing school out of the building, and replace it with a more responsible Charter operator.
SLIGHT PROBLEM: Remember, Aguilar and his wife/compainion (not sure if they are legally married) ARE the landlord/building/land owners. (So you're not gonna have much luck there, either.)
It's called a conflict of interest, and could very well be in violation of LAUSD/State Charter rules.
And now, they have been approved for another five years. But this is bascially the "preface" of the story, because it is a deep one and a wide one. I am told there are a lot of familiar names associated with the Semilla/Tzicatl posse.
Some have warned ZD that there is a lot of shady impropriaties involved with the back and forth selling of the building; the escrow appraisals (big jumps in value), there was a whole lot of improvement money spent on the school -- what are the improvements; they are looking for land to build a big, new school, but no one has reported that they are looking for a new school.
Of course not, they want to get all the state and city construction budget and build it themselves. [Can't argue with that? Who WOULDN'T want to? I want to!]
You may have heard that Doug McIntyre of 790-KABC sent reporter Sandy Wells to the school to investigate the school. Well there must have been something they didn't want him to find out -- or maybe he DID find out...because, FIRST someone tried to run him over with a car (which means he was willing to risk killing him, cause Wells had to jump out of the way); then his audio was stolen.
And that's when some folks figured this story was about more than counting on a system of twenty, learning languages like Mandarin, and a whole lot of Azteck singing and dancing. (More than a mere culture clash.) So that's when Semilla was looked into a little bit further, and all this stuff about the building, who supports/donates to them, associations with local/state politicians, and the whole enchilada fell into ZD's lap.
So this is a good stopping point, for the starting point. Just a little appetizer to familiarize everyone with the school besides the cultural aspect. And I would like to add, whether I agree with the culture or philosophy of the school isn't an issue I was covering until now. This is important because Villaraigosa has control of LAUSD school board, at the same time Eli Broad is funding a Charter School movement in Los Angeles. So that's a lot of City and State Education money that will be given out over the next several years. And although I support the concept of Charter schools to help raise student achievement...there are some serious concerns over fraud, waste and abuse of the funds.
MORE TO COME...
Since Los Angeles is now on the national platform with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa endorsing New York Senator Hillary Clinton for President in the '08 election -- and has in turn been appointed Clinton Co-Chair (California Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez is already Clinton Campaign Co-Chair), we will be presenting some of the stories as covered by local LA political blogs.
Recently, Charter School reform has become a hot topic, because Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has taken control of the Los Angeles Unified District School Board, after having two of his privately backed candidates win last months school board elections. This gives his a majority of four, out of seven members.
Additionally, close Villaraigosa ally and backer, billionaire developer Eli Broad has begun donating millions and millions (along with Bill and Melinda Gates) to local California Charter schools.
So look for the Villaraigosa controlled school board to start approving more Charter schools (to help "privatize" education and take it out of the hands of the eternally-failing LAUSD system. An education system, so plauged, it is actually creating a socio-economic problem for the City due to the high drop out rate and drying up the pool of young adults who can enter the "high quality" job market and serve the City as teachers, police and various other City staff positions.
However, although the principal of Charter schools is a good one (take the same demographic population, do a better job educating them, and raise student achievement and test scores) -- however, this local story of a Charter school in Nunez's district, and Villaraigosa's old Assembly and Council district (before he was elected mayor) demonstrates how State and local state grant money can be funneled outside the spirit in which this system has been created.
Many of you have heard about the LAUSD Charter school "Academia Semilla Del Pueblo".
ACADEMIA SEMILLAS DEL PUEBLO: In Care of MARCOS AGUILAR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90032-1942: IRS Subsection 501(c)(3) - A religious, educational, charitable, scientific or literary organization. Exempt Since 12-2001 Form 990 Amount $2,104,241
Previously, the school has been surrounded in controversy over it's separatist cultural agenda, and it's low AMI test scores. The math scores are the lowest in the State. So until now, the story about Semilla has been whether the school should have it's Charter re-newed by LAUSD, or not.
Well as of March '07, it was first denied -- then after a promise that the school promised (with sugar on top) that they would raise test scores, they were given approval for not only another five years of LAUSD "gravy train" money; but will be allowed to accept 600 students (up from an initial approval of 200, for which they got $2,000,000).
So with 600 students, not only can they rake in a lot more LAUSD AND State Education money (cause they are paid per head), now the school has to look for a bigger building; which also means they will probably need more rent money from LAUSD and the State.
I heard the school is already looking for a new location, to build a big, new school -- somewhere on the Eastside. Exact location is still trying to be negotiated. Rumor had it that they had $13 million to work with, but they are having a tough time striking a deal. Word is, they tried to get some Park space in Rose Hill, El Sereno (and possibly elsewhere), but nothing has panned out as of yet.
[GREAT...so let's give them more money, for more kids, when they can't even get 200 right?!?! What if in five years the scores are still the same? Do they give the money back? Do the kids have to repeat the grades?]
Semilla does not own the school, itself: They rent it from a separate company called TZICATL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: In Care of Name MARCOS AGUILAR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90032-1942. They are listed as an IRS Subsection 501(c)(3) - A religious, educational, charitable, scientific or literary organization.
Classification Community, Neighborhood Development, Improvement (General).
In June 2002, TZICATL CDC acquired a blighted commercial structure to be rehabilitiated and utilized as the site for a non-profit charter school.
The real estate tax was $193 and zero cents. The land cost $503,152; the building cost $300,000; and the loan fee was $5,000; for a total of 811,152.
And oh yeah...RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND, INC. provided $808,000 (7% interest rate) on 06/06/02 (maturity date: 06/05/07), with repayment terms of $25,000/yr for '02-'03; $30,000/yr for '04-'07. It was secured by a first deed of trust on a home on Huntington Drive to purchase and renovate the building.
The list of officers, directors and trustees included; Marcos Aguilar, Chairman; Antonia Viteri, Secretary; Minnie Ferguson, Treasurer and Norm Apostal, Abel Aguilar, Erica Friedman, and Irene Vasquez, Directors.
To facilitate the purchase of TZICATL's first development, Boardmember Erica Friedman advanced $25,000 toward an open escrow in June 2002, that was repaid in October 2002.
When the IRS asked RAZA, INC., "Is the organization related through common membership, governing bodies, trustees, officers, etc to any other non-exempt organization; the answer is "Yes, National Council of La Raza (exempt)".
RAZA claims exemption BECAUSE they support NC of La Raza -- and RAZA put up $808,000 for the building, that was renovated and used for the school.
LA RAZA Development Corp. borrowed $185,000 on the property on Aguilar's Huntington Dr. South last year.
The property was purchased in 2001 for $800,000. It was an ALL CASH purchase from a William Vasquez. Mr. Vasquez only owned this property for 6 MONTHS, AND HE ONLY PAID $250,000 for it!!!
Vasquez made a tidy profit of $550,000 IN A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS.
CLICK READ MORE FOR A WHOLE LOT MORE...
COST PER STUDENT: There sure seems like a whole lot of money being spent for 200 kids.
In 2004, you had teachers making $58,355 (plus $4,814 in benefits);
In 2003, Marcos was making $90,295 (plus $9,409 contributions) AS SECRETARY! Minnie Ferguson $91,427/$7,543. Isidro Nunez (business manager) was paid $68,000/$7000. Total Education Solutions (Special Ed services) was paid $54,874, too.
HEY LAUSD: Was Marcos taking a salary as Board Member AND Principal? I don't see the salary as principal? It doesn't show up on my batcomputer if he took under $50,000 as principal. (Which would be shady, cause the teachers make more.)
Here are some issues:
Bet no one on the board complains about the principal...you have a board member, who is also the principal, who also owns the building (that was basically donated to him by La Raza). The building sure did skyrocket in value in one-year's time. (They must have an AWESOME real estate appraiser!)
LAUSD provides money to pay the rent for the school, and the school pays itself, since it owns the building, and Marcos gets to set the amount of annual rent he pays himself. (Nice!)
The list of Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School donors and supporters, besides taxpayers include:
National Council of La Raza Charter School Development Initiative
Raza Development Fund, Inc.
Glendale Nissan/Infinity, Inc.
California State University, Los Angeles
Pasadena City College - MeCHA
The Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture
So you have Marcos Aguilar who is principal, board member (along with his wife) AND owns the separate company that builds and owns the school, so Marcos gets to decide how much rent money he's gonna charge himself, then pay himself with LAUSD and State money. (Niiiiiiiice!) And when you run a Charter school, if your test scores are not high enough you can lose the right to use the land your school sits on. Well, luckily, Semilla doesn't own the school or the land, so they can't lose lose it. (Even though the principal/board member actually owns it.)
But let's just say for arguments sake, you want to yank your kid out of LAUSD and pop him/her into a Charter school, that is supposed to produce higher levels of student achievement: But you hear Semilla has rock bottom test scores. So you figure, "Gee, I'll complain to the school board and have him replaced." Except he and his wife and cronies ARE the school board. So forget that!
You gotta go one level higher now, and talk to the landlord, and tell them to kick this under-performing school out of the building, and replace it with a more responsible Charter operator.
SLIGHT PROBLEM: Remember, Aguilar and his wife/compainion (not sure if they are legally married) ARE the landlord/building/land owners. (So you're not gonna have much luck there, either.)
It's called a conflict of interest, and could very well be in violation of LAUSD/State Charter rules.
And now, they have been approved for another five years. But this is bascially the "preface" of the story, because it is a deep one and a wide one. I am told there are a lot of familiar names associated with the Semilla/Tzicatl posse.
Some have warned ZD that there is a lot of shady impropriaties involved with the back and forth selling of the building; the escrow appraisals (big jumps in value), there was a whole lot of improvement money spent on the school -- what are the improvements; they are looking for land to build a big, new school, but no one has reported that they are looking for a new school.
Of course not, they want to get all the state and city construction budget and build it themselves. [Can't argue with that? Who WOULDN'T want to? I want to!]
You may have heard that Doug McIntyre of 790-KABC sent reporter Sandy Wells to the school to investigate the school. Well there must have been something they didn't want him to find out -- or maybe he DID find out...because, FIRST someone tried to run him over with a car (which means he was willing to risk killing him, cause Wells had to jump out of the way); then his audio was stolen.
And that's when some folks figured this story was about more than counting on a system of twenty, learning languages like Mandarin, and a whole lot of Azteck singing and dancing. (More than a mere culture clash.) So that's when Semilla was looked into a little bit further, and all this stuff about the building, who supports/donates to them, associations with local/state politicians, and the whole enchilada fell into ZD's lap.
So this is a good stopping point, for the starting point. Just a little appetizer to familiarize everyone with the school besides the cultural aspect. And I would like to add, whether I agree with the culture or philosophy of the school isn't an issue I was covering until now. This is important because Villaraigosa has control of LAUSD school board, at the same time Eli Broad is funding a Charter School movement in Los Angeles. So that's a lot of City and State Education money that will be given out over the next several years. And although I support the concept of Charter schools to help raise student achievement...there are some serious concerns over fraud, waste and abuse of the funds.
MORE TO COME...
Thursday, May 31, 2007
YouTube Press Conference: HILLLARY CLINTON CO-CHAIRS VILLARAGOSA & NUNEZ VIDEO (California Connection)
HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIR FABIAN "NUCKLEHEAD" NUNEZ DECLARES YOU NEED THE HISPANIC VOTE TO WIN: "ASK ANGELIDES...AND IF YOU WANNA ADVANCE AN AGENDA FOR AMERICA YOU GOTTA INCLUDE THESE (LATINO) THINGS IN IT." - Nunez
COMPLETE CLIP TRANSCRIPT: "This is the most important gathering of Latinos across the country since the civil rights movement of the late 1960's. And what comes out of this conference, the positions that people take on issues with respect to housing; with respect to jobs; with respect to health care...all these things are going to be very, very critical...the environment...to the political agendas of those who want to "rub shoulders" with the Latinos in this country. And in California, in particular, I can tell you, ask Phil Angeledis and he'll tell you; if he has the Latino vote, he'll win. Ask Governor Schwarzenegger and he'll tell you; if he gets 30% of the Latino vote, he thinks he can win the election. So the political power of "our" community has grown exponentially. [I didn't know he was elected to the Assembly to represent a "certain" community!?!] It's time for use to not only look at the politics, but look at vehicles within...we can say, these are cohesive platform points that are important to Latinos...and if you want to advance an agenda for America, you gotta include these things in it. And the beautiful thing about it is; there's no difference between the Latino agenda and the working class agenda for people in this country. So I think this is gonna set a very important precedent for the future, for not only the political movement of this country, but the particular platforms of the particular parties. So I'm excited for it." - California State Assembly President/Clinton Co-Chair, Fabian Nunez
VILLARIAGOSA HAS TO DO INTERVIEW WITH NAACP (Doesn't look too comfortable. Watch HIM end and interview and walk away from a camera for the first time ever.)
MAYOR, ERIC GARCETTI, KEVIN DELEON AND NUCKLEHEAD NUNEZ AT MCARTHUR PARK:
("Without justice there will be no peace" - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa)
AFTER MEETING WITH BILL CLINTON IN NYC, VILLARAIGOSA SLAMS CURRENT WASHINGTON LEADERSHIP (PERHAPS BUSH) -- OVER THE NEW "GREEN UP IT'S ACT" INITIATIVE.]
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: (Besides slamming Bush) "We have an LA River Master Plan, 52 miles of river creating an "emerald necklace" around that river. We have made a $100 million investment and when we are done and when we're over investing [that's over, investing...not over-investing] in this initiative, we'll have spent some $7 BILLION dollars." - MAV [Ooops, I DO think you meant "over-investing".]
"First of all, as you know, Los Angeles is the "gridlock" capital of the United States of America. It's also the capital City of dirty air and smog. It's the quinnisential "City of Sprawl" -- which means most of our housing is in the outer-core and the jobs are in the inner-core. A City that has relied...over-relied on the single passenger automobile to the detriment of a built out public transportation system." - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (Nice PR for the City, pal!)
MANNHATANIZATION OF LOS ANGELES: "Instead of building out, we're gonna build up . Transit villages along transportation corridors to grow ridership for our public transportation." -MAV
[Yeah, then we'll switch to the metric system, everyone will recycle all their beer and soda cans, quit smoking, end poverty, donate 10% of all income to charity, spend time doing more community outreach...HELL NAW...Damn it City of Los Angeles...It's a HUGE mistake to make actual plans when the formula factors having to transform society as a whole. (Get them out of their cars.) IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. TOO LARGE, GEOGRAPHICALLY. Besides, every home comes with two parking spaces.
PENSION FUNDS INTO RISKY SPECULATIVE FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES: "We are going to be giving away 50,000 energy efficient refrigerators to low income families. [Who's paying for them?] We even have an initiative, the only one in the world, to transform bio-solids into energy. The need to "green" California, invest in the environment. And to the critics who say, "When you go green, you inherently undermine the economy and lose jobs...There is a whole new industry that comes with going green. The technology we use for alternative fuels; for energy efficient appliances; for all of the very important initiatives that we are doing here in Los Angeles and the State of California...those are the technologies that we can export around the world. Because every City around the world is grappling with the issue of "global climate change"." - MAV
[Oh really...can I see those statistics -- on every City who is "grappling" and the fact that we are, indeed, factually going through "global climate change"? Cause you are talking about investing people's pensions into your speculation.]
"We are looking at our pension funds and identifying ways to invest our pension funds into green economy; citing green businesses in parts of the City that has been left behind; where manufacturing has left and there's a great opportunity to provide good jobs. Jobs that pay a decent "living wage"; jobs that are part of the green economy." - MAV
[ZD: I'm all for that, EXCEPT the part about taking "our" pension funds and investing them in your speculative, alternative, energy business. Cause from a "marketing strategy" analysis...again, you are not going to get society as a whole to switch to alternative energy sources enough to make a meaningful impact. For example, hybrid cars are gonna stay a novelty for quite some time. Develop these technologies and try to implement them, yes! But do it with private money...not pension funds...WAAAAAAAAAAAY to speculative and risky. Meanwhile, I think educating the general public to things they can do, personally, everyday (empower them with the knowledge) to do more to "pitch in" everyday on a practical level, cause not everyone is gonna by a hybrid or install solar panels and stop driving.]
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
More Insider Blog Coverage of California Politics www.MayorSam.Blogspot.com
COMPLETE CLIP TRANSCRIPT: "This is the most important gathering of Latinos across the country since the civil rights movement of the late 1960's. And what comes out of this conference, the positions that people take on issues with respect to housing; with respect to jobs; with respect to health care...all these things are going to be very, very critical...the environment...to the political agendas of those who want to "rub shoulders" with the Latinos in this country. And in California, in particular, I can tell you, ask Phil Angeledis and he'll tell you; if he has the Latino vote, he'll win. Ask Governor Schwarzenegger and he'll tell you; if he gets 30% of the Latino vote, he thinks he can win the election. So the political power of "our" community has grown exponentially. [I didn't know he was elected to the Assembly to represent a "certain" community!?!] It's time for use to not only look at the politics, but look at vehicles within...we can say, these are cohesive platform points that are important to Latinos...and if you want to advance an agenda for America, you gotta include these things in it. And the beautiful thing about it is; there's no difference between the Latino agenda and the working class agenda for people in this country. So I think this is gonna set a very important precedent for the future, for not only the political movement of this country, but the particular platforms of the particular parties. So I'm excited for it." - California State Assembly President/Clinton Co-Chair, Fabian Nunez
VILLARIAGOSA HAS TO DO INTERVIEW WITH NAACP (Doesn't look too comfortable. Watch HIM end and interview and walk away from a camera for the first time ever.)
MAYOR, ERIC GARCETTI, KEVIN DELEON AND NUCKLEHEAD NUNEZ AT MCARTHUR PARK:
("Without justice there will be no peace" - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa)
AFTER MEETING WITH BILL CLINTON IN NYC, VILLARAIGOSA SLAMS CURRENT WASHINGTON LEADERSHIP (PERHAPS BUSH) -- OVER THE NEW "GREEN UP IT'S ACT" INITIATIVE.]
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: (Besides slamming Bush) "We have an LA River Master Plan, 52 miles of river creating an "emerald necklace" around that river. We have made a $100 million investment and when we are done and when we're over investing [that's over, investing...not over-investing] in this initiative, we'll have spent some $7 BILLION dollars." - MAV [Ooops, I DO think you meant "over-investing".]
"First of all, as you know, Los Angeles is the "gridlock" capital of the United States of America. It's also the capital City of dirty air and smog. It's the quinnisential "City of Sprawl" -- which means most of our housing is in the outer-core and the jobs are in the inner-core. A City that has relied...over-relied on the single passenger automobile to the detriment of a built out public transportation system." - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (Nice PR for the City, pal!)
MANNHATANIZATION OF LOS ANGELES: "Instead of building out, we're gonna build up . Transit villages along transportation corridors to grow ridership for our public transportation." -MAV
[Yeah, then we'll switch to the metric system, everyone will recycle all their beer and soda cans, quit smoking, end poverty, donate 10% of all income to charity, spend time doing more community outreach...HELL NAW...Damn it City of Los Angeles...It's a HUGE mistake to make actual plans when the formula factors having to transform society as a whole. (Get them out of their cars.) IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. TOO LARGE, GEOGRAPHICALLY. Besides, every home comes with two parking spaces.
PENSION FUNDS INTO RISKY SPECULATIVE FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES: "We are going to be giving away 50,000 energy efficient refrigerators to low income families. [Who's paying for them?] We even have an initiative, the only one in the world, to transform bio-solids into energy. The need to "green" California, invest in the environment. And to the critics who say, "When you go green, you inherently undermine the economy and lose jobs...There is a whole new industry that comes with going green. The technology we use for alternative fuels; for energy efficient appliances; for all of the very important initiatives that we are doing here in Los Angeles and the State of California...those are the technologies that we can export around the world. Because every City around the world is grappling with the issue of "global climate change"." - MAV
[Oh really...can I see those statistics -- on every City who is "grappling" and the fact that we are, indeed, factually going through "global climate change"? Cause you are talking about investing people's pensions into your speculation.]
"We are looking at our pension funds and identifying ways to invest our pension funds into green economy; citing green businesses in parts of the City that has been left behind; where manufacturing has left and there's a great opportunity to provide good jobs. Jobs that pay a decent "living wage"; jobs that are part of the green economy." - MAV
[ZD: I'm all for that, EXCEPT the part about taking "our" pension funds and investing them in your speculative, alternative, energy business. Cause from a "marketing strategy" analysis...again, you are not going to get society as a whole to switch to alternative energy sources enough to make a meaningful impact. For example, hybrid cars are gonna stay a novelty for quite some time. Develop these technologies and try to implement them, yes! But do it with private money...not pension funds...WAAAAAAAAAAAY to speculative and risky. Meanwhile, I think educating the general public to things they can do, personally, everyday (empower them with the knowledge) to do more to "pitch in" everyday on a practical level, cause not everyone is gonna by a hybrid or install solar panels and stop driving.]
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
More Insider Blog Coverage of California Politics www.MayorSam.Blogspot.com
YouTube Video: Clinton Co-Chair, LA Mayor ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA "Getting a little heated" At City's MTA Meeting Last Week (COMEDY CLASSIC)
You may have heard that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President and was appointed Clinton Co-Chair.
HILARIOUS VIDEO OF LA MAYOR/CLINTON CO-CHAIR VILLARAIGOSA "LOSING IT" AT MTA MEETING
TO EVERYONE READING AROUND THE NATION WHO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT LOS ANGELES MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA HERE IS A POPULAR LA CITY HALL "INSIDERS" BLOG Mayor Sam's Sister City Blog
AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's political courtship of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa landed her an early, influential endorsement this week that highlights the intense competition among presidential candidates for support within the growing Hispanic population.
Candidates in both major parties are reaching out to Hispanic voters with an intensity that speaks to the importance of the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority group in the 2008 campaign.
Immigration reform is a touchstone issue for many Hispanics, particularly in cities like Los Angeles, which has strong cultural and economic ties to Mexico. California has as many as 3 million illegal immigrants, the most of any state.
Villaraigosa's support for Clinton rested in part on their agreement on the need for a federal law that would include a pathway to citizenship for many of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country, among other provisions.
The senator earlier hired Villaraigosa political adviser (and blog spin doctor to combat anti-Villaraigosa political activist Zuma Dogg) Michael Trujillo to run her California campaign and named state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a close friend of the mayor and another prominent Hispanic politician, a national co-chair of her campaign.
***** She also appointed Villaraigosa a national co-chair. *****
Villaraigosa's endorsement "is proof that the Clinton campaign's focus and strategy to win the Latino vote continues to grow stronger," the statement said.
HILARIOUS VIDEO OF LA MAYOR/CLINTON CO-CHAIR VILLARAIGOSA "LOSING IT" AT MTA MEETING
TO EVERYONE READING AROUND THE NATION WHO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT LOS ANGELES MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA HERE IS A POPULAR LA CITY HALL "INSIDERS" BLOG Mayor Sam's Sister City Blog
AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's political courtship of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa landed her an early, influential endorsement this week that highlights the intense competition among presidential candidates for support within the growing Hispanic population.
Candidates in both major parties are reaching out to Hispanic voters with an intensity that speaks to the importance of the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority group in the 2008 campaign.
Immigration reform is a touchstone issue for many Hispanics, particularly in cities like Los Angeles, which has strong cultural and economic ties to Mexico. California has as many as 3 million illegal immigrants, the most of any state.
Villaraigosa's support for Clinton rested in part on their agreement on the need for a federal law that would include a pathway to citizenship for many of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country, among other provisions.
The senator earlier hired Villaraigosa political adviser (and blog spin doctor to combat anti-Villaraigosa political activist Zuma Dogg) Michael Trujillo to run her California campaign and named state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a close friend of the mayor and another prominent Hispanic politician, a national co-chair of her campaign.
***** She also appointed Villaraigosa a national co-chair. *****
Villaraigosa's endorsement "is proof that the Clinton campaign's focus and strategy to win the Latino vote continues to grow stronger," the statement said.
Monday, May 28, 2007
HILLARY CLINTON'S CO-CHAIR FABIAN NUNEZ ON THE POWER OF THE LATINO VOTE
HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIR FABIAN "NUCKLEHEAD" NUNEZ DECLARES YOU NEED THE HISPANIC VOTE TO WIN: "ASK ANGELIDES...AND IF YOU WANNA ADVANCE AN AGENDA FOR AMERICA YOU GOTTA INCLUDE THESE (LATINO) THINGS IN IT." - Nunez
COMPLETE CLIP TRANSCRIPT: "This is the most important gathering of Latinos across the country, in my own opinion, since the civil rights movement of the late 1960's. And what comes out of this conference, the positions that people take on issues with respect to housing; with respect to jobs; with respect to health care...all these things are going to be very, very critical...the environment...to the political agendas of those who want to "rub shoulders" with the Latinos in this country.
And in California, in particular, I can tell you, ask Phil Angeledis and he'll tell you; if he has the Latino vote, he'll win. Ask Governor Schwarzenegger and he'll tell you; if he gets 30% of the Latino vote, he thinks he can win the election. So the political power of "our" community has grown exponentially. [I didn't know he was elected to the Assembly to represent a "certain" community!?!]
It's time for use to not only look at the politics, but look at vehicles within...we can say, these are cohesive platform points that are important to Latinos...and if you want to advance an agenda for America, you gotta include these things in it.
And the beautiful thing about it is; there's no difference between the Latino agenda and the working class agenda for people in this country. So I think this is gonna set a very important precedent for the future, for not only the political movement of this country, but the particular platforms of the particular parties. So I'm excited for it." - California State Assembly President/Clinton Co-Chair, Fabian Nunez
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
COMPLETE CLIP TRANSCRIPT: "This is the most important gathering of Latinos across the country, in my own opinion, since the civil rights movement of the late 1960's. And what comes out of this conference, the positions that people take on issues with respect to housing; with respect to jobs; with respect to health care...all these things are going to be very, very critical...the environment...to the political agendas of those who want to "rub shoulders" with the Latinos in this country.
And in California, in particular, I can tell you, ask Phil Angeledis and he'll tell you; if he has the Latino vote, he'll win. Ask Governor Schwarzenegger and he'll tell you; if he gets 30% of the Latino vote, he thinks he can win the election. So the political power of "our" community has grown exponentially. [I didn't know he was elected to the Assembly to represent a "certain" community!?!]
It's time for use to not only look at the politics, but look at vehicles within...we can say, these are cohesive platform points that are important to Latinos...and if you want to advance an agenda for America, you gotta include these things in it.
And the beautiful thing about it is; there's no difference between the Latino agenda and the working class agenda for people in this country. So I think this is gonna set a very important precedent for the future, for not only the political movement of this country, but the particular platforms of the particular parties. So I'm excited for it." - California State Assembly President/Clinton Co-Chair, Fabian Nunez
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
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