There goes my trip downtown.
As my pal Ron (I’ve rejected both “owner” and “master”) reported this morning, the City Council is set to ban speakers for up 10 weeks – it’s longer in “dog weeks” — without a warning if the Council President decides they have been disruptive or their actions cause others to be disruptive.
Clearly, our new City Attorney, a dog named “Nuch”, falls into that category. 
He threw a verbal hand grenade earlier this week by claiming — without any explanation! — somebody could go to jail for the way Michael Jackson’s funeral was handled. That was so disruptive that the whole council woke up and ran out of the room to talk to him in private about the charge.
It also irritated radio yacker Doug McIntyre, who this morning in the Daily News (too small to be a Dog Trainer) likened Nuch’s behavior to a long ago scoundrel who most people have never heard of.
Without any question the new rule is aimed at dogs.
One of the more wacky folks who rant at our council members during meetings, interrupting their naps, cell phone calls, twittering, Facebook posts, coffee breaks and conversations with lobbyists, is my favorite dog, Zuma Dogg, who is either named after a beach or my species. You can often see him in Ron’s video posts sitting behind the speaker. He’s the guy in sunglasses and funny hat.
Mr. Dogg (the guy never learned to spell) purports to be a homeless beggar interested in civic affairs.
As a formerly homeless beast who ate out of garbage cans until Ron’s wonderful wife found me hiding in some bushes outside their house, I’m sympathetic. As you know, I’m also interested in civic affairs. But I don’t wear sunglasses or a funny hat. I’m usually naked, which I guess is even more disruptive.
So there goes my trip downtown.
I had planned to start covering the City Council soon for OurLA.org, Ron’s answer to the demise of newspapers and civilized society, but I doubt now I’ll even get in the door.
Don’t worry, though. I can watch it on Channel 35, if it doesn’t conflict with The Dog Whisperer, and learn about anything I miss from reading Phil Jennerjahn’s frequent posts on Mayor Sam, although I worry about the guy. He got fewer votes than Zuma Dogg in the last mayoral election.
Woof!
Too funny but all too true. Yes Nuch should ban himself along with Zuma Dogg and Mike Hunt if he wants to ban disruptive influences.
But I think you found Bruno is some BUSHES outside your house not “some buses outside the house,” amusing as that image is. I just had to envision a fleet of abandoned buses outside your suburban tract house with a dog hiding out in one of them, waiting to be found and brought inside somewhere.
Looking back on Rick Orlov’s article for the Daily News of May 26th, about Trutanich setting “an aggressive agenda for his first 100 days,” there’s a lot more resonance to it now.
As there is to his comment that while he’s letting Wendy in to audit the City Attorney’s books, “I want to follow her with my own auditors to confirm with another set of eyes what needs to be done.”
Or to make sure she sees only what he wants her to, and this was before the ruling came down in Rocky’s favor, so he was planning to shadow her. Which would be a waste of money — why duplicate the Controller’s audit? Funny how no one caught or commented on something like that then, from a guy who claimed to be so fiscally cautious, and now uses a hundred grand as his latest “smokescreen” as Chick puts it.
Plus the day before this (May 25th), he already raised eyebrows by barging into the Council and going right inside the horseshoe to issue his demand that a billboard ordinance being discussed by tabled until her shows up 5 weeks later — from next to his friend Zine’s chair. Meanwhile Koretz followed convention and decorum and waited OUTSIDE the horseshoe and chamber to give his view, in respect to the people still in office for another 5 weeks. This was a foreshadow of his outright threat of litigation to the CRA soon after he took office when they didn’t delay as he demanded.
There was a flap about this but his defenders just said it showed his enthusiasm and refusal to be hampered by the niceties of convention, which they equated with “business as usual.” What a difference a couple of months can make.
5:39, since you are going to write the same nonsense everywhere, be corrected once and for all. It was not CRA Commissioners but the City Planning Commission. And now disclose to us how much you are paid and by whom. Even a neophyte can see through your disguise of attacking Trutanich as a concerned citizen. Please do not insult the intelligence of people on this blog.
7:44, you people are everywhere with “bobby” or “phred” or any number of “concerned citizens” with the same lies and attacks on opponents and lately, bizarre slanders and slams even on Laura Chick. Give me a break.
That post at 5:39 is nothing more than an observation of fact — you’re just upset because the fog of delusion is lifting from people’s eyes and your spins aren’t working any more. What’s a shame is that so few pay attention to local politics, other than maybe a few soundbites, until it’s too late.
If you don’t think that exposing a charlatan is a legitimate task of a genuine “concerned citizen,” especially as this scary egomaniac is already running for mayor, where he could be TRULY dangerous, that’s because you’ve got something at stake here.
Ron, you are all over the map, as is the mutt.
Focus, like you did on measure B.
UTLA should be the target. If Public Employee unions are such a problem, then surely, UTLA is the worst culprit, though the LAUSD board and bureacracy is a close second.
You want to influence the goings on in Los Angeles and have a major impact? Look after the kids and take down the special interests that plague them.
Enough hot air from this blog. Get serious and make school reform a priority.
Ron, you are all over the map, as is the mutt.
Focus, like you did on measure B.
UTLA should be the target. If Public Employee unions are such a problem, then surely, UTLA is the worst culprit, though the LAUSD board and bureacracy is a close second.
You want to influence the goings on in Los Angeles and have a major impact? Look after the kids and take down the special interests that plague them.
Enough hot air from this blog. Get serious and make school reform a priority.
8:08, can you please include the link where Trutanich declared he is running for Mayor.
What I notice over and over about the guttersnipe that is 7:44 (who, of course, refuses to identify itself) is that it has absolutely nothing to say and tortures English and logic in the process.
8:21 PM,
You have an agenda, it is shooting LAUSD in the foot and handing all the money over to your charter pals for the construction money and nice attempt at deflection. Anything to change the focus of this story. It MUST become the LAUSD blog.
Ron,
It is true that I received the fewest votes in the Mayoral election, but it doesn’t really upset me that much. I still got 2,432 votes, which is more than a lot of other tail-end candidates in previous years. Someday, when I win elected office, I plan to re-tell the tale as a humorous story about sticking to your goals.
I entered the Mayoral race with only 100 days left, and was unknown and had not been involved in City politics before. Many of the others had run for office before and Zuma Dogg– well — he had been rapping on Venice Beach and appearing on talk radio for several years. I don’t begrudge him his 9,000 votes.
I just wrote a great post on Mayor Sam about Christine Essel and Frank Sheftel and the CD 2 race.