Tag Archives: City Council

My Sunday Column: Wishing PACs would pack it in — Mike Gatto and the Role of Outside Money in Burbank Elections

Posted on March 2, 2013 by

Just days before Burbank voters went to the polls, Mike Gatto was the star attraction for a Napa Valley retreat at a five-star hotel where, for $5,000 each, guests could schmooze with the assemblyman and four of his legislative pals. … Continue reading →

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2JobBob Will Stick the Poor, Sick and Kids with $3 Million Special Election Bill if He Wins Assembly and Council Races

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

For 2JobBob Blumenfield, two jobs won’t be enough. Surely even someone as politically powerful as the two-term Chairman of the California Budget Committee — where his “budgets usually turn into red ink the moment they’re signed,” according to LA Times … Continue reading →

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AEG MOVIE ACT 4: “LA — Open for Business Or Up for Sale”

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

And the Oscar for political theater goes to … Tim Leiweke, president and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group for a brilliant performance running circles around LA’s politicians and bureaucrats and bamboozling the public with a fantasy of football, jobs and … Continue reading →

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AEG Movie Act One: “LA — Open for Business or Up for Sale”

Posted on September 30, 2012 by

The first thing you need to understand about government in America today is that the public story has nothing to do with what is really going on behind the scenes in the political back rooms. That’s why all these politicians … Continue reading →

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of the AEG Movie: “Los Angeles — Open for Business or Up for Sale?”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by

Councilwoman Jan Perry’s committee to sell the public on the Farmers Field/Convention Center deal met for the last time Monday to provide the stage for a dress rehearsal before the climax to the show that would come on Friday in … Continue reading →

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Krekorian’s “Cold Day in Hell” Has Arrived – His Blustering Stand over Lawsuit Settlement Costs Taxpayers a Fortune

Posted on September 26, 2012 by

In the rubber-stamp LA City Council, there are posers and phonies, blusterers and know-nothings and then there is Paul Krekorian — the ambitious, articulate chief apologist given to creative use of his lawyer’s mind to defend the indefensible. Back in … Continue reading →

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Why Is Everybody Always Picking on TwoJobBob — You Know 2JB Who’s Simultaneously Running for Two Offices

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

BobBlumenfieldsBrain @ronkayela Please stop telling the truth about me. Tweets 15h BobBlumenfieldsBrain ‏@Blumenfieldisms @breakinglanews @latweetz @losangelescp I promise to focus on my job and not the next gig if elected. Pinky swear. #GetAJobBob   BobBlumenfieldsBrain ‏@Blumenfieldisms @kyamamura CA should not worry … Continue reading →

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The Blumenfield Challenge: Get a Job, Bob — Valley Assemblyman Runs for Two Public Offices Simultanously

Posted on September 10, 2012 by

People I know and respect tell me Bob Blumenfield is a nice man who has helped them solve problems for some of the charities they support, some of the causes they believe in and  some of the business and union … Continue reading →

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What If They Gave a City Election and Everyone Voted: Would It End the Corruption and Restore Democracy to LA?

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

Pounding  away day after day at the foibles and failures of Los Angeles City Hall is known in the vernacular of newsrooms as beating a dead horse. If you don’t know City Hall is a corrupt political machine that is … Continue reading →

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Sign of the Times: City Set to Authorize $40 Million in Tax-Free Bonds for Exclusive Buckley School in Sherman Oaks

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

Leave it to Tom LaBonge and Paul Koretz to step up to the plate on behalf of the exclusive Buckley School in Sherman Oaks to provide the city’s authority so it can borrow $40 million in tax exempt bonds to … Continue reading →

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