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1. anonymous says:

   December 24, 2008 at 5:17 pm

   Ron,
   Here’s wishing you and your loved ones the best of Holidays!
   May all your dreams and aspirations come true in the New Year!
   Cheers!

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2. david r2b says:

   December 25, 2008 at 2:06 pm

   There comes a time in everyone’s life that awaking occurs: I was born in
   Downey, California, raised in Woodland Hills, Eagle Scout at 15, graduated
   from Taft High School in 1964 (I’m dating myself), 1st Lieutenant with the
   101st Airborne, had an Infantry Platoon during the Tet Offensive in and
   around the City of Hue, then a decade and a half of finding myself, then
   joining the City of LA as a Plumbers Apprentice and finally finding myself
   working at an incredible location called LAX, then realizing a Woman I’d met
   in 1970 was the person I love, then cruising along living/working until
   retirement would show me the door.
   Whooooooa, THEN in 2006 I read an article in the LA Weekly that talked about
   a situation called Proposition R. A City ballot voting item to improve
   “ethics, ethics, ethics” in the City and OH by the way, the City Council
   would like an increase in how many 4 year terms they can serve, from two to
   three. I’m sitting at the kitchen table not believing what I’m reading.
   You can’t put two separate/unrelated items on the same voting
   instrument….can you? I rushed to my Library and looked at my copy of the
   State of California’s Constitution….sure enough, you can’t. Section 8
   item (d) states, and I quote: “an initiative measure embracing more than
   one subject may not be submitted to the electors or have any effect”. Only
   nineteen words, but it seemed pretty clear to me. YOU CAN’T do that. But
   soon after that a Judge DY said it was OK. From then on I was alerted, what
   are my elected officials trying to do. So I started paying attention,
   started watching Cable Station 35 Sunday mornings and reading articles
   pertaining to the Council and the actions they were taking.
   Soon after that there was Proposition S, great, I was going to get a 10%
   discount on my phone tax, even though the tax had never been Citizen
   approved. But if I vote for the discount, I’ve now approved a prior illegal
   tax. In the mean time trash fees have been increased several times for the
   purpose of hiring more Police Officers, the Council Safety Committee shelved
   an opportunity to discuss and deal with violent gang members, particularly
   those that are here illegally, while spending tens of millions of $ to help
   the only elephant at the Zoo, while the Autry is trying to assist the
   Southwest Museum by exhibiting all of their estimated $1 Billion worth of
   stuff for them, then maybe the Billboard Companies while making a $100K plus
   per year on the each super digital will generously agree to pay more than
   their $100.00 per year City fee, which will maybe help keep our LAUSD
   students in books although by waving for twenty years a hotel bed tax for
   special friends would result in the loss of a couple of hundred million $ to
   assist the funding of the budget.
   And now the DWP Solar Power energy deal, without Public or even the DWP
   Commission debate. Couldn’t the Council have encouraged a broad City wide
   debate, using some Neighborhood Councils impute, etc. so everyone would
   understand what was happening? Moving Prop B from the March to the June
   ballot would only be a three month delay. That’s not too long to wait. Did
   our City Council feel that the Public wouldn’t be interested, or wouldn’t
   care? Or maybe they really didn’t want us to know the real ramifications of
   the Project? Everyone wants to be green but shouldn’t we purchase the solar
   panels from California Companies and not China? I’m also sure that Licensed
   Electricians, other than DWP’s IBEW could help do the work. Why not spread
   the work around for everyone?
   Eventually, a lot of folks when they wake up will feel slapped in the face
   when they realize what’s been happening to them. Mine was Prop R, will
   theirs be Prop B? Or will the awakening come too late?
   During this Holiday Season most of us are very thankful for what we have,
   but remember there seems to be an element that would enjoy taking a lot of
   that away for their own personal embetterment, to perpetuate their power and
   control, to benefit a few. My fellow Citizens of Los Angeles, PLEASE start
   paying attention and question things when they don’t seem correct. Make one
   of your New Year Resolutions to start, yes I know we’re all busy, yes we all
   have jobs, careers and family responsibilities, BUT….. we all have another
   responsibility, to protect our City from anything that wants or could
   jeopardize it.
   Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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3. Dave 4LA says:

   December 26, 2008 at 12:32 pm

   Thank You for your leadership and dedication. We will need every ounce of it in 2009. See you in court on January 8th. What a way to start out a new year; in the trenches.
   David Hernandez
   Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles

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4. Anonymous says:

   December 28, 2008 at 6:43 pm

   Thank you for doing what you do so very well,
   use your resources to get at the truth of what is happening to our city, Ron. I appreciate you.

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5. 2010 tax forms says:

   April 26, 2010 at 3:03 am

   I would purchase a software if you were to do it yourself. Turbotax is a good one

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