Do not deny your city, do not refuse your duty. This is a time of crisis, of great need, and where are you?
In Africa one week, partying with your girlfriend. In Iceland another week partying with your pals. At Mozza wining and dining on too many nights. 
Well, I got news for you: The party is over. You’ve lost your cover story with the departure of Chief Bratton. Your people are hurting, struggling to pay their bills, hoping to keep their jobs or somehow find a new one if they have already lost their last.
You have turned school reform into an empty promise and the “green revolution” into a blank check for untold billions that will surely bounce for insufficient funds. You have bankrupted the city treasury and your solutions only make matters worse.
Your friends say you’re bored and depressed or maybe just hung over, irritable and distracted or maybe just paralyzed and without answers to the city’s crisis.
Well, the party’s over. The crisis is real. You asked for the job not once but twice and if it’s too much for you, or you’ve lost interest, then you need to get out of the way and get on with your life. We cannot afford the luxury of your narcissism any longer. Our troubles are too real, the threats to our individual and collective futures too great.
You have squandered your credibility and the love of the people, become a political showman instead of a political leader, given away the public wealth to opportunists while ignoring the broad public interest.
At a time of crisis, you are invisible.
You knew the deal to balance the city budget was a disaster, yet you went along with it and now that it’s blowing up as a fiscal fraud, you are nowhere to be found.
You have run out of excuses. Betrayal of vows of fidelity or the unspoken vows of friendship are serious matters but nothing compared to the betrayal of the sacred trust to uphold the Constitution, the laws of the State of California and the Charter of the City of Los Angeles.
You took that oath as Mayor again just five weeks ago and then you disappeared and abdicated your sworn duty at a time the city faces great challenges and grave dangers.
There are no easy answers for this crisis. No cheap slogans like “shared sacrifice” will make the problems go away.
Humble yourself and admit you don’t know what to do. Reach out beyond the narrow inner circle of those who do not see beyond their own self-interest, bring the people into your confidence and face the realities of the situation before it is too late.
We do not have to be two warring families — the insiders and the outsiders. We can come together and work together. But time is running short, time is being wasted and the city’s financial crisis grows more severe by the day.
It’s your choice to make now before events make the choice for you.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Villaraigosa sucks.
The teachers and labor unions shoehorned an untalented man into a job for which is he unqualified.
There is not a single 7 Billion dollar industry in this country that would allow him to be CEO of their operations.
But to put him in charge of the 7 Billion dollar City budget?
Only took 150,000 votes in a city of millions.
LA will soon pay dearly for its own lack of interest in local politics.
Antonio really hurt his small cred by making fun of the firefighters yesterday on the news. Asshole!! They are fuming with him now and the people in Sylmar who they helped saved homes can’t stand this mayor and most of Los Angeles. He’s a failure and his spokehole Matt Szabo needs to stop making the stories about HIM. I smell a recall in the works. Easy now to get those signatures.
Previous thread you’re gloating that Trutanich has made him top target in his witchhunts, you’ve gone out of your way to saddle him with this antagonism instead of having the support of an experienced, professional team to implement his goals. Hello, anyone home? Bruno, can you see what happened to Ron?
Ron,
That was some serious “tough love” you just laid down on the mayor. Too bad he won’t take your advice.
If Antonio wants to be governor some day, now is his opportunity to face up the City’s fiscal problems and fix them. Unfortunately, with so much of the budget going to payroll, that means he has to take away a lot of money from the City’s employees. Hard to see him ever willing to do that. Maybe Obama could appoint to him to another job.
How much do public safety officers have politicans over the barrel…Public safety number one priority for citizens…they are many times genuinie heros…but talk about an elitest group of people with pay to boot.
Lets get clear on what the fire fighter “thingy”is: covering vacant spots due to vacations, sick days, etc–with fire personnel on OVERTIME. It will save MIILIONS annually by covering these vacnacies with people already ON duty.
This isn’t about people dying; it is about contract negotiations.
From a political POV, Antonio can’t win. He needs to stand up to the union here for fire and police officers for fiscal reasons; yet, the threat is that he will be portrayed as anti safety for doing sao, ironically by the same group most concerned about taxes.
I get how difficult this is. Wouldn’t it be great if Antonio would do what is right for the city and not his political future?
I thought you all believed that he needed to NOT run for governor because he needed to do “what was right for the city and not his political future”?
Is there anything that man can do right for you?
I am starting to like the man a lot. When you read and hear Villaraigosa-bashing over and over, it starts to get very old.
You hated Hahn and wanted Villaraigosa. So you got him. Now you all hate Villaraigosa and what? What is it you want? I hope it’s not credibility because you’ve all lost that with the voters and the politicians. That leaves you to all just blog to each other. Sad.
KK is right that the fire and police unions are playing up the “people will die” theme for their own negotiations. And are trying to make Antonio look bad either way.
The Police Protective league especially has been throwing its weight and money around since Weber, Zine’s friend and fellow thinker, took over in December. They spent over $800,000 to elect a guy to city attorney who hasn’t worked on the side of law enforcement for 25 years, in fact worked on the opposite side, and is someone who has attacked the Chief and LAPD from day one, is another reason Bratton is leaving. (Rutten in the LAT today blames Greig Smith, who replaced Weiss, and that’s probably right as far as it goes, but Rutten’s missing the whole picture.) Trutanich is bought and paid for by PPL, and he owes a debt to Zine. Zine is openly trying to get rid of the Mayor – openly to his friends and via comments on a certain talk radio show. (Even if he publicly sucks upto the mayor and mugs for the cameras with him every chance he gets.) Connect the dots.
It is fascinating to me that the same public employee unions behavior that is celebrated (SEIU) is then bashed when it is the wrong union that does the same thing (PPL).
The problem is the same for both: we can’t afford to do the same things we have been doing. It is time for change.
No comparison at all between SEIU which represents the lowest-paid and level workers, and operates under the radar as far as the vast majority of the public is concerned, and the PPL and what it’s been doing. It is fascinating to me how some people choose to condone any behavior as long as they feel it’s directed at a common enemy. Who they on the other hand castigate for not pulling off miracles while going out of their way to surround him with openly antagonistic people.
12:27 is right:
You live by the sword…you die by the sword….
It’s poetic justice that the mayor first threatened the public with losing police officers off the street to raise the trash collection “fees” and to get his phony phone tax Prop S passed, and will ultimately go down because the very same group he used as a threat turns on him when he threatens them.
You got that right about PPL goons. Read this from another site. Mrs. Doubtfire thinks he’s hot stuff but he doesn’t have the balls Bratton did. Paul Weber will eat crow real soon. Vet cops hate their union cause they spent all their money to buy politicans. They gave money to smith, Zine, Huizar, Antonio, Wesson, Weiss, Hahn and tons of others. These jerk offs collect over $6 million and just spent another $240,000 on themselves at a retreat. What do they do for their cops??? not a damn thing. WE all know your game PPL. Stop sending your propaganda
…..Greig Smith, who, since his ascension to the chairmanship of the council’s Public Safety Committee, has demonstrated a pointlessly intrusive, almost absurd propensity to assert micromanagerial authority over the LAPD, involving himself in deployment and other issues that clearly exceed the lawmakers’ competence.
David/ 1:32: It’s Greig Smith, Parks and Rosendahl of the Budget Committee who are saying that the trash fee hikes promised for more cops were never going to go for cops, LAPD or even public safety in general (including the fire dept.). Smith insists the money was always going to offset full cost of trash pickup which is a lie, but Rosendahl and Parks are siding with him because the general fund is in such a hole. At least Smith shouldn’t lie about it, and admit they messed up too badly to keep their word.
It was the mayor and Bratton who have been the public face of the phone tax S for cops too, so when Smith and the others pull this stuff and make him look bad, people like you blame the Mayor because to most people, everything is the fault of “city hall,” as though they were all one entity instead of working at opposite ends a lot of times. So if you have an issue about why the trash fees and S money aren’t going for more cops and fire safety, bombard Smith with it.
However, that doesn’t mean the mayor should cave in to the unions, who are trying to use scare tactics to achieve growth without cuts in pay or pensions. Weber sent out an email blast to 500,000 citizens on his list claiming that if the cops had to be furloughed even one HOUR/ month it would mean hundreds off cops off our streets and crime would soar, a blatant scare tactic that analysts said just doesn’t add up. So while public safety should be a top priority, the mayor is right to call the LAFD and PPL unions out on their tactics when they’re feeding false info to the public.
The spectacle of our mayor having been elected not once but twice is sick. No self respecting city should have ever elect such a self-serving lightweight. But that’s what comes whena city has no forum to unmask candidates as frauds.
LA lacks of a trusted outsider who would criticize waste, support competence and back honest competent politicians.
That used to be done by a newspaper. But ours went PC decades ago, turning a blind eye with the best of intentions I am sure, to the depradations of city unions, the incompetence of LAUSD and insider politics.
Result: we have competing voices at election time, but no advisor to trust.
Until the feds refused to license MLK, the Times hailed it as a bold experiment. As pensions grew, the Times gave us stories on corrupt judges–in Nevada. Now its discoevred penisons, but still sticks the threat to city solvency on page4. Our mayor’s schedule was revealed by a rag called the LA Weekly.
A whole generation grew up deprived of city news and insights. As voter ignorance grew, the Times gave us stories of Arnold allegedly fondling someone. Terrific.
there is no way the mayor will be in office in 4 years , if you look at him when he does his so call news conferences he looks mad , sad or dont give a dam about his job .
we have city hall ben run by unions special interest and no leaders
city hall have spend the money from taxpayers not to benefit us but all special interest
city hall is gering hot for this crook politicians ,look whats goin on jose hizar one of the mayors best crook friends there is a chance he will end up in jail
the lapd chief of police makes a brutal decition he resigns no warning , no respect for city hall politicians good for him .
get redy to pay more water and electicity if they get there way ,[ city hall have say we will keep on rasing the rates till los angeles recidents demand us to stop and them we will]
SO WHAT ARE WE GOIN TO DO TAKE IT AGAIN OR STOP THEM IS ALL UP TO US
The DWP rate hikes avalanche is coming soon!
Try to hold on to your houses. Some of us will loose them as we will not be able to pay the bills which keep D`Arcy in control of City Hall.
The DWP rate hike avalanche is going to blow up L.A.Some of us will loose our houses as we will not be able to pay the the utility bills which enable B D`Arcy to control City Hall
The DWP rate hike avalanche is going to blow up L.A.Some of us will loose our houses as we will not be able to pay the the utility bills which enable B D`Arcy to control City Hall
The handwriting is on the wall. Within one year Villaraigosa will leave for health reasons, or within two years he’ll be in the middle of a recall campaign.
DWP’s rate increases, caused by “green” energy, unfunded pension liabilities, and steadily increasing salaries and workforce will, on top of everything else, bring a revolt.
And during that time, the $200 million budget hole will become apparent. Maybe they bridged the gap with an outrageous short-term loan for this year, but the pidgeons and their droppings are coming home to roost.
I watch Ch 35 – we’ve all heard that before. The Mayor will serve is full 4 years and will turn this city around. This recall stuff is just right wing wishful thinking, the republicans drunk with power because they managed to get one of there own elected. Even the right wing talk show radio is beginning to turn against Nooch. Common sense will return to Los Angeles soon, and it’s already happening. McIntyre called Nooch out over his denial of Laura Chick’s case, and the Jack Weiss was interviewed about Chief Bratton’s retirement, not Nooch. The Times published a photo of Nooch doing high-fives when the mother of a dead baby lost her case, and today Nooch derailed a civil rights case against the city brought by an african american helicopter pilot. Can it get any worse than this?
10:26: are you a complete idiot? Trutanich is the City Attorney. His job is to defend the City when it gets sued. He did his job and the helicopter pilot that sued the City lost. Or are you saying that Trutanich should have thrown the case on purpose?
As far as Jack Weiss rather that Trutanich being interviewed for the puff piece on Bratton, can’t you see the reporter calling Trutanich first, and Trutanich saying “I hardly knew Bratton, call Jack Weiss who worked with him for years”?
Or are you gearing up to blame Trutanich the next time it rains too?
10:47: You are utterly deranged –
“can’t you see the reporter calling Trutanich first, and Trutanich saying ‘I hardly knew Bratton, call Jack Weiss who worked with him for years’?”
NO I can’t possibly see that, LOL. Trutanich ever passing up a PR op not to mention to Jack Weiss, who he and Berger loathe because he’s a lot more popular inside the CA’s office and out? Everyone’s realizing that nooch is like Chick says.
You’re right though that Trutanich hardly knew Bratton, or anyone except for a few Republican cronies of Cooley’s he was introduced to. First “connection” to Bratton was to attack him showing his true stripes (grandstanding clown with no moral barometer or common sense, who puts soundbites and ego over reason or the good of the city). Instead of praising LAPD for its excellent handling of the Jackson memorial events, like everyone else did (except Zine of course), he bombastically proclaimed to the Council that “it cost $10,000 per person to police the people outside Staples, and I’m going to get to the bottom of it!” Yes, blame the LAPD for being too efficient and having the foresight to warn non-ticketholders to stay away, averting the mobs that would be expected at an event like that, and hence the potential problems and lawsuits.
But hey, Trutanich had to attack Bratton’s leadership over SOMETHING, and just maybe the fact that the PPL whose head has wanted to replace Bratton with someone his group control, bought Trutanich’s election? (Though PPL is now belatedly kissing upto the Mayor, realizing it was a stupid move to follow Zine’s advice,)
Bratton’s been too much of a gentleman to publicly talk about Trutanich, but do you think he’d ever WANT to be talked about BY Trutanich, even IF your deluded scenario were remotely true?
9:58 AM: You are deluded. Don’t for a minute think that Jack Weiss is or ever was more popular than anyone in City Hall. Jack was well-known as an arrogant, power-hungry S.O.B. that nobody could work with. Even his own staff – just look at the constant rotation of people in his office. Every meeting of our Neighborhood Council had a different represenative from his office. And why do you think Wendy Greuel got the farewell speeches and Jack got zilch on their last day at City Council? Are you going to blame the vast conspiracy headed by Zine, Cooley, Berger and the PPL? Or are you going to accept that nobody actually liked Jack? Except perhaps you, Anonymous, and all the other aliases you use to post your venom everywhere.
Give it up. Jack lost the election, whether you like it or not. He’s nobody now.
Jack was not about “popularity contests,” but about doing the right thing. He says as much in this interview too — he mentions that candidates for CD5 catered to the popular sentiment to oppose Bratton’s moving cops out of the westside as needed elsewhere, until the force could be grown to avoid that, but he supported Bratton’s making the right decision for the city as a whole. And they’re right. Most of the city attorneys and the police officers union, as well as most of the rank & file, supported him (were surprised to learn “they” were supporting nooch via PPL) and many are upset with the PPL now – even Weber’s been trying to make up to the mayor. Jack didn’t vote to curry favor with this or that councilcolleague either, but to do the right thing. Quite a few are wishing they’d come out more strongly for him, and realize what Trutanich/Cooley and Zine were really about, behind their phony populism. He wouldn’t want one of those Rocky send-offs, and you have no idea of what you’re talking about on that or anything else.
Jack has always been guided by his integrity, while Nooch and his minions are as Chick and many others, including formerly staunchest supporters, have learned, with grave buyer’s remorse. Instead of Bratton and Weiss supporting Antonio, we have this sad spectacle. Jack was invited to do this interview, because his opinion matters and he is a “brand.” While Nooch’s “fame” flamed out before the first month. And you know it, which is why Berger, his campaign manager John Thomas and some nooch thug-type supporters are so angry and hostile, even now espousing twisted threats and personal vendettas. That is so telling about lack of character, perhaps even more than the deceit and demagoguery of that campaign.
And BTW 10:53 you also show your ignorance in that crack about Jack’s staff. In fact, he had one of the best if not the best staffs of anyone, and they were loyal and had mutual respect for each other. Jack often said that his ability to attract and retain such a fine staff was a special point of pride for him. Joan Pellico for example was so popular many urged her to run for council. Only the jr. field deputies tend to come and go with more frequency, as in all council offices. They’re not paid much and are often there just to learn the ropes and test out the waters. One recent departure was a highly regarded young man who’s attended our NC meetings faithfully and had a good relationship with the community left for law school, very happy with his experience, and planning to return to the political arena with a law degree. — Your snarky comments are all off base.
12;26 PM: I’ll grant you that Jack Weiss had the skill to recruit excellent staff. I’ll also grant you that he was smart enough to supplement their City paycheck from his Officeholder’s account, to try to retain the good staff he hired. I don’t know Joan Pellico personally, but everyone in CD5 I have talked to has had good words to say about her.
But don’t extrapolate from that to assume that Jack was liked or easy to work with or work for. He wasn’t – not by a long shot.
With Ron Kaye blowing the bugle, we need to gather business people, active and retired without regard to any party affiliation, to attend an open fourm and discuss the city’s problems as well as prioritize needs that must be addressed. Then qualified people might be inspired to volunteer for a private citizen’s taskforce whose purpose will be to seek solutions and ultimately have an audience with our elected officials — who don’t seem to understand that the ship is sinking. I, for one, am ready to participate in any effort designed to help save LA.
“Jack was not about “popularity contests,” but about doing the right thing.”
Yeah, the right thing – like not returning illegal campaign contributions from Alan Casden’s executives and contractors?
Like the illegal fundraiser hosted by a sitting city commissioner at the Ziman’s mansion in Beverly Hills?
Like not returning the campaign contributions from the Ziman’s fundraiser?
That’s the right thing? It’s always the same with Weiss and Tamar – anything goes as long as they get what they want.
Weiss has the ethics and morals of a win at all costs demagogue, and Tamar was his biggest fan at the city attorney’s office during the election, trying to get others to support Weiss for city attorney in return for promises of promotion – payoffs in other words.
So CD2 should talk to CD5 residents to find out what it’s like to have an elitist “I know better than you” representing contractors and developers.
Vote Essel!
3:34: you need a new script. No one’s reading that one anymore, it’s all been debunked. And your guy’s the infamous “demagogue” as Chick aptly put it — you don’t even know what it means if you’re using it against Weiss and Tamar now too.
Look it up first, Shallman.
Clearly you’re trying to use the Nuch Slime & Spin plan here, but everyone’s onto you. Chris doesn’t seem as inherently amoral, unethical and willing to “say anything to anyone to get their votes and endorsements,” like Nuch, she may otherwise even by OK
3:42 PM claims that “it’s all been debunked.” Let’s see:
Jack never returned the illegal campaign contributions from Casden.
There was an illegal fundraiser for jack, attended by Jack and hosted by City commissioner Kelly Candaele at the Ziman mansion after which Candaele had to resign and Jack said the money raised would be returned. Was that money returned?
There was another fundraiser for Jack at the home of a convicted felon, which Jack first denied and then had to acknowledge and promise to return the money. Was that money ever returned?
Which of the above has been debunked?
4:54, Shallman/ Berger Noochies: Don’t you EVER get tired of that pathetic script?
As for allededly offering Tamar a promotion if she helped Jack as “pay to play,” let’s see, you mean like Trutanich hiring Mad Dogg Englishman Berger and, who admits he ran just because he hates Jack, and continued his rabid dogg role after the primary with the understanding he’d get hired by Nuch — and is now his righthand man in charge of “ethics?” Like continuing to malign and harass Jack even now, openly saying he’ll ‘do everything in my power” to prevent him from getting another political job? And since Nooch knows he’d lose to him next time around, he wants and needs nothing MORE than to use his “ethics” man/ Jack Attack to do his dirty work.
Now, that’s not just the most blatant violation of ethics but downright seems illegal misuse of office to intimidate and persecute for personal and political reasons. And if you get Cooley to participate, it’s a felony.
And for pay-to-play, here’s another one: Nuch announced at a fundraiser March 27th in Holmby Hills that he would name Jane Usher his Executive Assistant/ right hand gal, but they both denied it in public so he could use her to attack Jack as an alleged “grassroots” supporter. (A common tactic of his) So Usher wrote a hit piece on the mayor’s Planning Dir. for Jill Stewart, “Jane Usher Atacks Gail Goldberg,” leaving no doubt about the intent, without EVER revealing her real relationship to Trutanich. In fact, she lied about it to SOHA right upto the bitter end. So she openly lied as well. (She did a number of other jobs for Nuch regarding the media meanwhile.)
Some find the worst pay to play what he did to Zuma Dogg, promising him a job in so many words after thanking him profusely for being the best thing to ever happen to him — then dumping him and criticizing the very foul behavior that made him so “grateful” when he needed him. Not that I think Zuma is qualified for any job at taxpayer expense, but Trutanich should keep his promise out of his own pocket — Zuma would be willing to work as errand boy, anything. Using a desperate homeless man this way is the lowest.
5:25, whether you are Jack Weiss/his mother/concubine/butler/or his favorite pooch, you are so tiresome and repetitive, that the only suggestion to you is to get a life, unless of course you are paid to do this. If so, carry on. Continue to make yourself ridiculous, and everyone else sick of you.
Very revealing about where Shallman is going with Chris Essel. The Candidate forum in S-T was really revealing, too, about how the candidates stood upto the public and each other. I wonder what comments we’ll get about it from moderators Ron and Jill Stewart.
I agree with 5:25. I think that Zuma Dogg did more for that stupid God Damn Trutanich nutcase than anybody else in the city and I am mortified that he did not give Zuma Dogg a job of some kind. I find that behavior despicable. I was shocked beyond belief when Jane Usher went to “work” with him and I knew that she had a reason that would never mesh with my beliefs.
I was even more shocked and mortified when Laura Chick crossed over. I think she was just mad and didn’t really think it would happen. Then when it did, she had to backtrack.
Give Zuma a job! Come Trutanich, you’re going out in 4 years. You’ll never get elected again. At least do something humanitarian while you’re there. Give the guy who did more for you than even Jane, a job.
I can’t tell who won the debate, but of the 3 who are considered in the running because of money, I think Essel was the loser. She was really bad.
Can we talk about sex?
Ron, Great job moderating the debate tonight (Jill too). Can’t wait to read your take on the day!
Tamar Galatzan came across as smug, arrogant and full of political double speak. I found her the least likable of all the candidates. Paul K had a lot of class and seemed to connect with the community right out of the box. Zuma Dogg is Zuma Dogg, he’ll be good entertainment in the debates. So far Essel and Paul K are the front runners in my book.
I agree with 5:25. I think that Zuma Dogg did more for that stupid God Damn Trutanich nutcase than anybody else in the city and I am mortified that he did not give Zuma Dogg a job of some kind. I find that behavior despicable.
I think the anonymous writer of the above is that vile Jack Weiss himself. The guy is very bitter as a result of the lost campaign and it shows his posts.
BTW, I don’t see anyone who’s likely to “step up” and give Zuma Dogg a job.
Who knows? That Trutanich basher may be that vile Zuma Dogg, trying anything to get that ever elusive job.
The Times article by Reston today gives a hint of what people are really thinking and saying about “that nutcase Trutanich.” Keep deluding yourselves that it’s only “one person” and Laura Chick.
L A CityWatch wrote a piece about “Carmen, the Soap Opera,” and not flatteringly — but that’s from a blog that’s been supportive of him and generally critical of anything to do with City Hall. They try to laugh off his ludicrous behavior. As the Times article suggests, there are of course those who think his buffoonish behavior is just terrific as long as it upsets the status quo, and that includes most readers of this blog and MS etc.
While most others are horrified by the wildly inappropriate embarrassment he is, incapable of self-moderation. (Were he and Zuma Dogg separated at birth?)
Article mentions just one specific case where his know-it-all attitude leads to bombastic behavior that is just stupid and waste of time and money: he shows up at the LAPD HQ one night at roll call and tells the 100 cops about to go out on their nightly bar patrol that they need search warrants and sends them all home. Except they don’t, and after educating the him the next day about why not, they go back to doing their jobs. But meanwhile 100 cops have been sent home without being allowed to do their jobs, and had to be paid, and a night’s work was lost. At a time we don’t have money for this idiotic waste so some under-educated clown can throw his weight around. That previous sentence applies in general. AND none of this even touches on his utter lack of moral compass and ethics, the stuff Chick touched on with Doug and elsewhere, and touched on by 5:25. So keep deluding yourselves and attacking the messenger.
Ahhhhh, I get it. The Trutanich hater is an unemployed, LAUSD educated with limited reading comprehension, former Jack Weiss staffer trolling the Internet for opportunities to spit. Read the LATimes article and note that it’s generally favorable, with the exception of a few whiney politicians who should be thrown out of office or commission anyway. Some politicians don’t like it that Trutanich may stop “abetting unlawful conduct”.
The LATimes article says,
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-trutanich9-2009aug09,0,7311344.story
One example of his attempts to halt ongoing legal agreements was a letter to the Planning Commission asking it to delay a decision about Convention Center billboards while he studied the matter. The commission rejected his request.
In a follow-up missive that Councilman Bernard C. Parks described as a letter one might write on a computer and delete when “you felt better,” Trutanich warned there were “limits to the discretion and governmental immunities” commissioners enjoyed as public officials. Trutanich added he would not hesitate to act if they appeared to be “aiding and abetting unlawful conduct despite my contrary advice.”
Planning Commission President William Roschen immediately requested a meeting to stress the panel’s reliance on the city attorney’s advice and assure Trutanich that commissioners meant no discourtesy. Roschen told Trutanich that commissioners want a relationship “that we have comfort and trust in” but added that he needed “to get past the tone of the letter to see if we can do that with you.”
Another city commissioner, who would only speak on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, called the letter “outrageous” and questioned who would volunteer for commission posts when the lawyer who is “supposed to defend you publicly chastised you.”
Some of these Planning Commissioners have a vested interest and should be removed.
Zuma Dogg is not the one posting the anti-Nuch garbage, and has an airtight alibi: – Saturday afternoon, ZD was at the CD2 candidates forum that went from 2PM to about 4:30PM. The Nuch-hater was posting his garbage here on Saturday afternoon (e.g. at 3:42PM).
You are absolutely right. I am the Nuch-hater and I’m not Zuma Dogg. I didn’t go to the debate and I’m glad you were able to point that out. I’m not Jack Weiss, nor did I vote for him.
Every time I post something, I am accused of being someone else. I find it pretty humorous.
Then laugh, vile Zuma Dogg. You posted Anonymous on August 8, 2009 8:06 PM. As for the other, attribute the coherent grammar, and vicious attacks, to Jack Weiss.
No. I don’t think it’s Jack Weiss. This is a political consultant (hence the excellent writing and spinning skills) that badly needs to discredit Trutanich. Most likely because Trutanich is investigating a client of his, and said client has some skeletons in his closet. The constant boosting of Weiss is, I think, just a smoke screen. The real meat of the attack is the pre-emptive attempt to discredit Trutanich’s abilities and credentials before something comes out.
I also think the client is being investigated for ethics violations – that is Berger’s department within the C.A. and explains the sideswipes at “Mad Dogg Englishman Berger”.
This guy has pretty good records. Who would remember that Trutanich had a fundraiser on March 27 in Holmby Hills where he announced that he would “name Jane Usher his Executive Assistant/ right hand gal”? (Actually, the fundraiser was March 29, and Usher was described with a different title, but I’m quibbling here).
Oh, and our consultant does not live in L.A. – which is why he didn’t vote for Jack (I believe him on that). Ace Smith of course lives up North, but I don’t think it’s Ace. San Marino maybe?
You are right. I did post anonymously on August 8 at 8:06 PM and then again on August 9 at 3:22 PM.
I am not Zuma Dogg. I’m not Jack Weiss. I am a Trutanich hater.
I just happen to disagree with you on a lot of things.
No, you’re wrong. It’s not a Trutanich defamer at all. It’s a slimy promoter, for Dogg and Weiss. It’s probably that crazy lady that Mayor Sam’s contributors rail about.
Forgotten, it seems is the main story of a Mayor “You have squandered your credibility and the love of the people, become a political showman instead of a political leader, given away the public wealth to opportunists while ignoring the broad public interest.
At a time of crisis, you are invisible”.
The Mayor now is in Las Vegas. The glamour of the position is all he understands, the glamour of self-made millionares, which he is not. The millionares, in fact, have to work hard to keep and make their wealth. What this Mayor has never understood is that the perks are a result of doing a competent job, of making a city great. Not only does he not do any work, he makes it worse by hiring equally incompetent staff and Managers who run the city. In an upbeat economy, no one notices failures like him, but the current situation facing LA exposes not only him but the bulk of the City Council, equally incompetent.
This City is crying for leadership, and it will never come from this Mayor. The best we can do is to relieve him from the misery of managing the city and hand the keys to someone who will. He can continue to enjoy his life, but not at our expense.
Thank you 3:55, and getting back to the top of the things…
Governor? Obamanent Post?
Hah!
Villar is done…his next gig will either involve being dropped into a jungle with Lou Diamond Phillips and Steve Baldwin or cozying up to whichever celebrity octo-mom looks hottest.
Now, anonajack, you need to realize that if there were anything which Nuch could plaster Bratton with; it wouldn’t be the crowd control. It’s not just the police which are providing an escort to certain billboard loving redevelopers…not to get super graphic or anything.
RECALL NOW
RECALL NOW
RECALL NOW
I’LL SIGN A PETITION.
RECALL NOW
RECALL NOW
RECALL NOW
we’ve been talking about a recall for a long time, let’s put up or shut up.