How They Saved LA: The Movie

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1. Charlie says:

   September 19, 2009 at 4:48 pm

   Mayor Garcetti. Get used to it Valley Voters.

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2. Anonymous says:

   September 19, 2009 at 5:08 pm

   The EAA is the only group getting layoffs, after they’ve had 1 in 10 days furloughed already. Many of the Coalition of Unions’ workers are being shifted onto the payrolls of LAWA, DWP (MORE taxes and fees for us), the Harbor, other depts. As a way for these morons to save their relationship with the unions, pat themselves on the back, and kick the can down the road til they scramble out of there to their next elected offices like rats on a sinking ship.
   Mayor Garcetti indeed: a low- rent project on every corner, so we can provide the housing for the workers and illegals who commute through our streets to tend the homes or job magnets in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills.

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3. Patty says:

   September 19, 2009 at 5:49 pm

   Eric Garcetti will make a great Mayor. I am so proud of him. The current Mayor can learn from him. It took Garcetti’s leadership, not the current Mayor to get this deal done and save the City budget without laying off workers.
   Those of you who don’t live in CD13 may not be able to appreciate him. But you are lucky to have as your leader since he is the Councilpresident. He has protected all of you. Eric Garcetti loves all of Los Angeles, especially the Valley since he grew up there. Remember he is ours in CD13 and is only on loan to you. My only regret is that he is married.

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4. Yolanda Petersen says:

   September 19, 2009 at 6:01 pm

   When Garcetti says “confidentiality” isn’t this public information? Or do the Union rank and file have to vote on it first?
   You should consult experts on the California Public Records Act and as a journalist put in requests for “any and all” information regarding this issue.
   I would also put in a request on emails and subpoena Council staff members to find out if they are using non-city email in the conduct of these negotiations. You need to get to the bottom of this–Maybe I’m getting a little carried away.

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5. Anonymous says:

   September 19, 2009 at 6:26 pm

   SEIU spins the deal here:
   http://www.seiu721.org/2009/09/questions-answers-on-the-agreement-won-t.php
   So, for a year of “protection”, I get to pay 1% more per year for FIFTEEN years and at that, people who were going to retire anyway get the money, NOT the City, and at that, in the end, the pension plan will be even weaker to fund the retirees.
   How about a mail in secret ballot vote from ALL the affected employees, not the rigged vote of JUST the union members. Some of us won’t join because we know how crooked this all is.

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6. Anonymous says:

   September 19, 2009 at 6:58 pm

   Oh no, Garcetti’s running for Mayor and planting all kinds of transparently weak spinners like “Patty at 5:59,” who is URGED to KEEP your high- density, high-taxing, socialist Garcetti in CD-13. “Take my councilman. Please.” To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield.
   He’s worse than the Mayor and Ed Reyes in finding every trick in the book or rewriting the book to put low-rent, high-density housing, without requiring parking, in every neighborhood in the city. Preferably areas like Holmby, Brentwood, the hills and the West Valley, where “they can use all the energy” of the mobs of illegals who breed kids they can’t afford and don’t bother to plan for, because “it’s God’s will” and that’s what the gringos are for. To provide for them.
   He’s more dangerous than Villaraigosa because he’s a smooth talker, well-educated, true Oxbridge-style leftist, who plays on his Mexican heritage from his father Gil Garcetti’s side, on the fact that it SOUNDS Italian and can appeal to those who think he’s of European stock, and equally important to him in searching for a financial base, he claims to be Jewish from his mother, even though he celebrates Christmas and the Mexican holidays with the Mexican. He allies with anyone of any stripe who can raise money or elevate his profile. A dangerous man.

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7. Anonymous says:

   September 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm

   Charlie,Patty. Either you are Butcher`s soldiers or for sure MORONS!!!!!!!!!!

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8. Patty says:

   September 19, 2009 at 7:17 pm

   Anonymous @ 7:00PM: You’re comments are inflammatory and misogynistic–how dare you call me a moron. I am an independent thinker who appreciates her Council President and what he did for his constituents.
   Because of Eric’s leadership, we won’t have even higher unemployment and services burdens with layoffs. Now those City employees can continue to contribute to the economy and the recovery for our City and most importantly to the very City Services that you depend on.
   So just say “Thank You” to Eric Garcetti for bailing you out of this mess and providing a win/win solution that even Councilmembers Smith and Parks can support. Eric is bringing together both sides of the political spectrum to have peace and prosperity in the City of Los Angeles. That my friend is leadership and what has been lacking in this city for a long time.

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9. Anonymous says:

   September 19, 2009 at 7:20 pm

   Let’s not forget to 6:58 that Garcetti is the true architect of Measure B – the point man on the Council for the Mayor and IBEW/ D’Arcy.
   But when SLAP and Homeowner groups and Neighborhood Councils around the city mobilized to fight and mounted a successful legal challenge that targeted Jack Weiss as the symbol of B and City Hall shenanigans, Garcetti disassociated himself from it and pretended he agreed with the critics all along. Not one word of support for his colleague who he like the rest of them let take the heat and were frankly glad to have one less person competing for a higher office. If you swim with sharks you better watch your back so it goes but Weiss at least wasn’t raising our taxes and fees every minute with long, self-serving speeches about the poor, who they don’t give a damn about except as excuses to build profitable projects with their buddies and create jobs so the unions will keep supporting them. Those people except maybe Smith and Parks would eat the person sitting next to them to step on their body, Garcetti is no different.
   These clowns all ran this time with no opposition except a penniless nobody here and there, and all their opponents including Garcetti’s still got 1/4 the vote.
   This time there must be strong grassroots candidates like is going on in CD2. And a better field of candidates for Mayor, not some pothead minister and homeless gadfly foulmouth arresting each other to turn it all into a joke easy to ignore. Don’t tell me this clown with his own Cirque du Soleil Circus costing thirty million and Did you play football in high school? I love Griffith Park and want to turn it into Disneyland! LeBonge are the best we can get for Hollywood.

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10. anonymous says:

    September 19, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    Question: Did he really bail the city out of the mess?

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11. recollecting in Eagle Rock says:

    September 19, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    Just briefly, for a change, WHO established that GARCETTI was the single person who came up with the “plan that saved the city (workers’ jobs)?”
    Nice to appreciate him so boldly, but he’s just another schmucky guy who has his own agenda, thinking he’s so much smarter than his critics and siding with the all the downtrodden and offended souls EXCEPT for the city’s residents and business that the Council, “LED by” (as it was termed) him, continues to bleed of their money and quality of life with a thousand cuts.
    The “green” side of his agenda looks to do that at a disproportionately high cost that the people are supposed to bear. Why does L.A., especially now, have to be the financial guinea pigs for such things?
    Eric is amart- and likes to show that he is too often- but with all his language crafting, it still the same deceitful spiel used as a means to the end, very result oriented. Meas. B?- what back pedalling you saw there. He’s a very condescending fellow and maybe that’s what annoys me even when he manages to make a true statement now and then.
    But he’s not the only one, as they are all complicit in this. Like he said, “one big family”, with no apologies to engineers and architects, though.
    Ed Reyes was mentioned and his attraction to densification, in tune with Eric, attempting to legitimize it by citing “transit corridors”, i.e., bus routes, subway and rail proximity, as the feature to justify reduced or no parking spaces that would otherwise be required of such construction.
    Is EVERYBODY supposed to work ON THE ROUTES? A story last year on bus travel to a Dodger game showed it was possible if you had hours to travel and did not miss connections, and there they ultimately got a cab due to the late hour and “every hour” frequency. What about weekends and NON-transit corridor-confined trips? Assuming no need for a car and parking is another ivory tower product, and obvious social engineering when real problems like DWP neglect of infrastructure are ignored.
    That’s just to mundane and not interesting for CMs to waste time handling when there’s more lofty applications to be met by these great minds. “What? Water mains are bursting you say? Damn that DWP- how did that let that happen?”
    “Gangs killing people?” “We are just too busy now here at City Hall with the next celebration of another country that’s missing a big chunk of their population that’s wound up in L.A.- tell us after the (“x country’s” )Day, Parade, Week, or other celebration we have to push is concluded, please.”
    I would not be so quick to lavish all this undeserved praise on them as some constituents might do- the CMs do that to each other every Friday.

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12. Anonymous says:

    September 19, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    Speaking of the story showing how hard it is to get to Dodger games by bus right now – and buses in L A are overcrowded, despite having a pretty extensive route system – the Times did a story to find out how many people buying condos in Eric’s prized project at Hollywood/Highland next to the subway stop actually use it to get to work. Kind of an odd way to deploy reporters instead of real stories, but they had people watching the place for months and found only a tiny percentage did.
    The rest all used their cars.
    Now, that was a more upscale development than he and Reyes want to put in OUR neighborhoods for the people who clean houses in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. (They can keep dreaming that cops will move their families in from Simi.) And I’m all FOR the idea of combining denser housing in certain areas, along transit corridors, WHEN the subway and Expo line etc. are extensive enough for professionals, students, seniors and so on to want to use also, because they’re faster and quicker and less hassle than a car. And I think he has cleaned up some bad areas, there are areas where development IS an improvement in Hollywood. In areas where there used to be blight, even though some critics complain that “gentrification” is always bad. Nonsense.
    But for NOW Eric is the worst right up there with Reyes in putting the cart before the horse and claiming it’s working NOW. And taxing us to death in the process to shore up his support among Latinos and low-income workers, the SEIU, etc. At the expense of the EAA and struggling middle-class homeowners who he thinks are dumb for hanging onto the idea that L A can continue to have less dense, single-family housing without swarms of illegals’ kids in one of his projects next-door. He’s more dangerous than Reyes, Alarcon and Perry only because he’s so smooth and isn’t so obvious about it.

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13. Kate Barner says:

    September 19, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    Let me tell you about Eric Garcetti–he has two sides to him. One is the outward public image of “caring” about the less fortunate. Then there is reality and the behind the scenes actions of Garcetti and his office who act more like a George Bush than a Barrack Obama with his bailout of CIM through a $30 million dollar loan to the Kodak Theater owner allowing them to bring in a tenant–a pure financial benefit to CIM. And his sneaky approach to this settlement and the covert railroading through of Measure B to the ballot.
    Then there is the “looking the other way” when rent-controlled low income tenants are tossed out illegally by a Developer who is a friend and contributor to Garcetti.
    Garcetti’s high density pro-billboard positions on new development has only served wealthy developers and their complex of financial firms and bond lawyers.
    Now we are reaping the after affect of mega-development on the DWP’s infrastructure.
    All that Garcetti has done with this settlement is to provide cover, a smoke screen deferring the problems just like what is being done with the stimulus and government bailouts of private companies at the National level. A real leader would bite the bullet, upset his supporters and offer real financial responsibility through true and deep budget cuts.

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14. Anonymous says:

    September 19, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    Can someone tell me why is the Police Political Protective League or cop union honoring Eric Garcetti next Saturday? What has he done for the cops? Come Monday word is coming from insiders saying they are going to cut LAPD big time. They are not only going to stop hiring they are going to cut the force down to 8,000 with furloughs. The first time in the history of LAPD and it took these clowns to do it. People get ready for the gang bangers to start hitting your neighborhood. It took these morons to scrape 8 years of hard work the LAPD has done because of their stupidity and not knowing how to run the city. The nation will be watching and none of these fools will ever get to higher office

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15. Jack Humphreville says:

    September 20, 2009 at 3:28 am

    Quite the love fest. But only one reference to next year’s looming deficit of over $800 million. The mayor’s budget day on October 10 should be very interesting.

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16. Anonymous says:

    September 20, 2009 at 7:55 am

    I guess someone forgot to tell Butcher and Parsini that you are not supposed to go “full-retard”. For years they have been doing “half-retard”, but now they’ve gone full-on. Their members and now all city employees will pay for their lack of judgement for years to come.

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17. Walter Moore says:

    September 20, 2009 at 8:01 am

    The City of Los Angeles: the only place in America besides federal courts where employees don’t get jobs, they get lifetime appointments.
    Will someone PLEASE buy my house so I can get OUT of here?!

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18. Anonymous says:

    September 20, 2009 at 9:15 am

    7:17PM. Now, I`m certain you are a moron. Did not know Charlie is a female name…….And your recent comments confirm my impression. However, I want to add, you are also a socialist, destroying our City

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19. crooks and liars says:

    September 20, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    there was a love fest in city hall , there was a cambaya of love , they hold hands in love,
    they toll the unions city hall and the unions where a family NOT US THE TAXPAYERS.
    the mayor love the give always that we TAXPAYERS have no idea what it is .
    and how is goin to be pay[RATE INCRESES IN LADWP}COMING UP.
    evry thing was done close doors why?
    come tusday city hall will will keep on spending money that the city of los angeles dont have .
    he does not matter what this crooks in city hall keep on doing there is one thing for sure city of los angeles will file for chapter 11 los angeles have a 14% underployment and goin up why this crooks dont talk about it .
    where are they goin to get more money if only taking more money from the ones that still have a job for now.
    and thats using {LADWP}

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20. Anonymous says:

    September 20, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    7:17 PM, You admit the city was “in a mess” and pretty Eric bailed us out. Who created the mess? If I`m correct, pretty Eric has been in the Council for 8yrs ,6 as President.Stop talking, because you are confirming every time you are a moron.

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21. Kate Barner says:

    September 20, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    3:05 PM: Just don’t forget to keep those thoughts about Eric Garcetti as he seeks higher office. Otherwise he’ll be bringing what he has done both as Council Pres and in his district to the next area of service: Giveaways of your taxpayers dollars to everyone except you, the taxpayer who is footing the bill.

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22. Anonymous says:

    September 20, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Kate, I won`t forget. But, we can`t wait for the next election to let the sold outs, we are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore, we have to fend off the Pattys in our city, who are brainwashed by the corrupt politicians and their Dons.

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23. Kate Barner says:

    September 20, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    4:12 PM: I accept your friendly amendment without exceptions.

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24. Anonymous says:

    September 21, 2009 at 9:50 am

    Oh, Patty… “My only regret is that he his married.”
    If you only knew.

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25. Tschad says:

    August 29, 2010 at 1:36 am

    Wonderful to read!

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