Don’t miss this chance to be part of an historic moment tonight when constituents and challengers pop the question to Assemblyman Bob “2JobBob” Blumenfield:
Which job, Bob, State Assembly or City Council?
Be on hand for the festivities at Canoga Park’s ArtRageous Art Walk where Blumenfield — Assembly Budget chairman and architect of the last four disastrous California budgets — is holding what he calls “Sidewalk Office” hours to turn a community cultural event into a political theater for himself.
2JobBob plans to meet and greet constituents from 6 to 8 p.m. at 7248 Owensmouth Ave., the mid-point of the event on Sherman Way between Topanga and Canoga.
Does Blumenfield not know it’s wrong to run for two offices at the same time?
Does he not understand that if he wins both and resigns from the Assembly, it will leave the Southwest San Fernando Valley without representation for many months?
Does the knowledge that a special election will cost taxpayers more than $1 million — money that because of his financial mismanagement of the budget is desperately needed for schools, the needy, the parks?
Or has 2JobBob, who has been in politics in whole life and never had a real job in the private sector, lost his ability to tell the difference between right and wrong?
Go get ‘im, Ron!
Ron, you bringing Bruno?
I’m bringing my pup, who was getting face time with Zev at the LA River Headwaters groundbreaking a few blocks away, and getting some love from the LA County DPW Director.
Tomorrow, we’ll be pressing Zine and others at the LA River Bikeway and Tampa/Winnetka Bridge widening photo op…barking out questions as to why an “Arterial Green Street” would omit bikelanes (and curb parking for adjacent homeowners).
He’s not as tough a watch dog as Bruno, but they should meet!
Do you have the same POV regarding Paul Ryan running for VP and Congress at the same time? If not, what do you see as the difference?
Ask Senator Obama…and Rod Blagojevich…
Ask Biden. He was running for vp and still his senatorial job in 08.
Even better example…like BB for City Council, Biden for VP is a demotion….
One small slight problem. Obama was not running for the senate at the same time he was running for president. Same with joe Biden. The problem that Ron isPointing out is running for 2 offices at the same time. Which is what both Ryan And bob are doing. You can’t in my view, criticize one and not the other for the same action.
You are misinformed about Biden.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Delaware,_2008
Also if I recall Lieberman did the same in 2000.
Incontinent truth so to speak.
Assembly election is November 2012.
Assuming he will still be an incumbant, he will running for a different position in March primaries, with (potentially) a run off to follow.
If he wins that, he will be looking to drop that seat, resulting in a special election.
Ryan, should he successful in the previously unanticipated race for VP, would presumably decline the Representative term, which would then be subject to appointment or special election, subsequent to the practices defined by his state.
Is that better?
You are misinformed about Biden.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Delaware,_2008
Also if I recall Lieberman did the same in 2000.
Inconvient truth so to speak.
Okay guys, geeezz! Enough already! I’m running for reelection to the Sacramento House of Corrupt Legislators. Then I DECLARED myself a candidate for CD3. Therefore, Mr. Kaye, I’m not “running” for 2 jobs. In fact, what I am doing is perfectly legal. See Cal. Election Code Section 1.1(a)(A)(I)(d)(3) which I quote:
“Each member of the State Legislature is a scumbag, meaning each member is for SALE.” (emphasis mine.) I go on to quote: “…Each Member therefore is free to commit as many felonies, crimes, acts of treason, bribery, and corruption as possible and hopefully get away with it.” Then it concludes “…examples of acceptable acts as a Legislature include RUNNING FOR MULTIPLE OFFICES AT THE SAME TIME…”
(emphasis mine again.)
Now, Ron, you should actually thank me for “declaring” myself for CD3. After all, have you seen Reseda and Canoga Park. SWEET BE-JEZUS! What a steamy smelly slimy pit filled with what my idol Mitt Romney calls the “47%.” My fellow rich Jews seceded to CD12 to be represented by Mr. Englander and rid ourselves of the lowly lower classes of CD3! A fine upstanding upper statesman like myself is trying to grace his presence in CD3 and hopefully give hope to the hopeless welfare mooches and drug addicts. I drove through a part of CD3 called “Reseda Ranch” and though I was back in 1880′s Alabama! The only thing in that area that relates to Ranching is a bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing! I will rename it, if elected “Reseda White-trash Flats.”
So, I will win my Nov. race and I will win CD3. Then I will be a V.P. with Hillary in 2016 and then have her placed under house arrest and be President by 2018! (At least that’s what my shrink and my Rabbi keep telling me.)
Look around — we live in a sea of corruption.
The City Council is required by law to make all decisions by Public Deliberation, yet The Garcettoid (parasitoid is a parasite that kills is host) bragged that while he was Council Prez, there was unanimous agreement over 99% of the time.
Yes, The Garcettiod actually bragged in public in front of TV cameras that under his reign, the LA City Council was criminal enterprise. The only way for there to be unanimous agreement over 99% of the time is if each councilmember has sold his/her sold to each other councilmember. It is a criminal offense to sell one’s vote. The Quid Pro Quo by which the vote is purchased does not have to be money. It can be anything of value, like “your vote.”
This criminal vote selling in the LA City Council is not like the usual mechanism which we call horse trading, where legislators get together and haggle over whether they will support a piece of legislature. ‘If you add this amendment, then I can vote for it.” “If you take out these words from another piece of legislation, I can vote for your bill.”
At L.A. City Hall we have a criminal enterprise where votes are sold with no regard to what is being considered. It can be to give an extra $5 Million to CIM Group or to hire a corrupt fool to be on the City Planning Commission or it can be a needed park — none of that matters. In Los Angeles, the deal is: “I will never vote against another councilmember and in return another councilmember will never vote against me.”
That is not public deliberation as the law requires — that is criminal buying and selling of votes and in December 2011 Garcetti proudly announced that he was behind the criminal enterprise.
Did the DA do anything about Garcetti’s announcement of the long standing criminal vote selling? Of course not. Did the state Attorney general say, “Hey, the Brown Act requires public deliberation and when you have bought the votes, that is not public deliberation.” Don’t be so naive. Did the US Attorney for Los Angeles take action? Let’s be real, The Obama Administration take action against such fine Democrats as Villababosa and Garcetti? Ha! And we thought Alberto Gonzales was bad!
The sad truth is that in face of all this criminality, most Americans are clamoring to end any and all regulation of white collar crime. The motto of American business has become: “Why compete, when you can cheat?”
“It can be to give an extra $5 Million to CIM Group or to hire a corrupt fool to be on the City Planning Commission —” Surely you mean the Planning Department, since Planning Commissioners are not hired.