This dog has a confession to make: I just love Antonio! 
I’ll leave the policy to old boring Ron. Who wants to read about pensions? Give me a guy who goes fishing in Iceland with the entrepreneurial Keith Brackpool – right after returning from Africa with the beautiful former Miss USA Lu Parker – any day of the week. I see some reporter at KTLA used the California Public Records Act (I didn’t think TV reporters had ever heard of it) to find out who paid for the Africa trip. The mayor’s office then used the California Public Records Act to refuse the request. I just want to know how many fish my mayor caught in Iceland.
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Bruno’s post last week about Controller Wendy’s office bouncing $6 million in checks attracted some interesting comments, with only one or two alleging that City Attorney Nuch is more dangerous than swine flu. Bruno did forget to ask the question: Why didn’t the bank just pay the checks? Didn’t they think the city was good for the dough? I’m sure DZ will get to the story as soon as finishes putting the Dog Trainers readers to sleep with yet another pension story.
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Big news in the kennel over the weekend: Zuma Dogg, whose antics in the City Council have led to an effort to ban him there, was banned from the Mayor Sam blog over the weekend. You’re not even allowed to mention his name there! Zuma Dogg says the divorce was mutual and he wants nothing to do with the MS crowd anymore. Somebody should just give the guy a job, maybe the mayor can find something in Iceland and get him out of his hair.
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Rooooooooooon,
I said I was glad that I didn’t have to spend all day round the clock responding to the “anything and everything” that they let fly in the comment section. In other words, if you wanna say, “Damn, now that blog won’t help you.” I’m just glad there won’t be an endless river of vile and untrue stuff (never about anything related to the words that I speak on actual issues) that I won’t have to monitor the every thread for every comment section to clarify all that stuff for any actual community members who may be checking in…not realizing the stuff I am tired of is from a sad and nutty wacko who is on a mission.
the stuff I am tired of is from a sad and nutty wacko who is on a mission.
Autophobia in the house of mirrors…
12:05, glad you liked that. I guess I set myself up for that one. lol! am i walkin’ around like O.J. with bloody gloves on calling everyone else, “guilty?” OH NO…I think I’m starting to see it!
What I don’t understand about the ZD stuff on MS is this: ZD’s posts seem generally benign, just his opinions and stances on various issues and politicians (and their friends). The comments about ZD are vile. So, why ban ZD? Isn’t that akin to blaming the victim?
Bruno wrote: “The mayor’s office then used the California Public Records Act to refuse the request. ”
What part of the CPRA allows for such a refusal?
6:31 PM, to answer your question, yes. But it was a decision based on heated emotion, not reason.
Hey there, 6:33 pm, why it take you so long to get to me today? Anyway, I thought my editor was going to add the following, but he got busy with many of his public appearances. It contains the answer to your excellent question. Unfortunately, there are lots of ways around the law, or to at least stall forever.
http://blogs.ktla.com/news_custom_eric/2009/07/mayors-travels-are-his-vacations-costing-taxpayers.html
The Public Records Act is written to allow the public to request public DOCUMENTS from our government. If the requested document is very specific then the request should be honor promptly. By law, the request must have a government written response within 10 days, with either the answer or else information as to when the answer will be provided. If the request is not specific as to the public document that is requested then the response time can be lengthy since it may not be obvious which public document would satisfy the request.
If Eric wishes to know who is it that paid for the Mayor’s Africa trip then perhaps Eric should specifically ask, in his PRA request, for a copy of all receipts for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Africa trip as well as any available info regarding associated bank checks.
Hi Bruno-Sorry for the delay. My cats are on to me. It’s one thing to talk to the neighbor’s cat; it’s another to talk to a canis lupus.The usual catnip diversion tactic didn’t pan out. The dispensary was out.
Well, this is rather comical. This request doesn’t seem unusual. I doubt the docs are lost in some remote city archive that requires massive amounts of staff time to locate. Is it legal to cite a code section that doesn’t really apply? Well, I guess that means Mr Spillman has to wait 14 days, even though their reason is a bogus as the grass clippings I tried to fool my cats with. Mr Spillman should stay on top of this. I don’t know what’s worse-who’s footing the bill versus obstructing a CPRA request.
I don’t have a problem with Zuma Dogg, I actually like the guy and have lent moral and financial support to his efforts. I don’t even really like the idea of a “ban” but the issue was that Zuma’s requests for removal of comments about him made our administrators feel overwhelmed. Though Zuma is a friend, we don’t offer custom moderation services. We have a series of standards as to types of comments we reject and many of those rejected comments are about Zuma that offer no value (such as comments about Zuma’s hygeine). However there were other criticisms of Zuma Dogg that he took exception to, perhaps rightly, but the only way we could efficiently block criticism of him was to just remove him from the comments section. Otherwise we’d have long email committee sessions parsing every single comment about him.
Friend Bruno,
I still want to know who’s going to pay all those check bouncing charges for the poor schumcks who deposited those City checks on good faith thinking they’d be good as cash and money in the bank?
G.
I know for a fact that I’m not the only logical, intelligent person who thinks Zuma Dogg has changed Los Angeles City Council forever.
As much as I would love to see him get a job, he is brighter than most people who work at city hall and so I would really love to see someone pay him to continue to do what he is doing. That would be awesome.
Sorry Zuma isn’t allowed to post at Mayor Sam but who needs it with all the blogs in town? I love unmoderated posting like Ron has here but I am sick to death of hearing the same comments over and over about Zuma over there at MS. It has to be only one or two people. I don’t know if they think they’re funny or what but go look over there today.
Do you think that lack of comments is a coincidence?
I would love to moderate that blog. But I already said I was logical and intelligent so I guess I can’t. I might get overwhelmed? Oh geez.