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Money Matters: Campaign Finance Reforms Will Help End the Corruption and Incompetence at City Hall

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

Search through the campaign contribution lists at the LA City Ethics Commission and it won’t take you long to see why City Hall is so corrupt. Your elected officials are bought and paid for — put into the highest paid and … Continue reading →

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Reformers Speak Out: The LA Ethics Commission Must Keep Its Finger in the Dike

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article  was written by three of the most respected political reformers in Los Angeles and California:  Robert Stern, formerly the head of the Center for Government Studies; Kathay Feng,  Executive Director of California Common Cause, and Trent Lange, President … Continue reading →

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Sellout Herb Wesson and the Special Interest Feeding Frenzy at City Hall

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

Renovated at a cost to taxpayers of more than $300 million just a few years ago, City Hall is an LA landmark that would bring a handsome price on the open market with all its gold leaf adornments and self-cleaning … Continue reading →

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EXPOSED: The Ethical Sewer We Call City Hall

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

If you don’t understand yet just how corrupt to the core City Hall is, you are beyond the reach of reason. If you do glimmer that something is rotten at City Hall, then what they did today in terms of … Continue reading →

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It Takes an Uprising — Not Loophole-laden Ethics Reforms To End City Hall Corruption

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

Unlike City Ethics Commissioner Nedra Jenkins, I believe every elected official in LA is corrupt to one degree or another because the system itself is so corrupt and corrupting. “It’s as if we believe everybody’s corrupt, and I just don’t … Continue reading →

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The Business of LA is Business — So Where’s the Vision, Leadership for a Great City?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by

“We are not allowing for more corruption.” — LA Ethics Commission President Helen Zukin arguing that the limit on gifts to politicians be raised from $100 to $400 in the light of the mayor’s flagrant disregard of the laws on … Continue reading →

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Will the Ticket-Wine-Dinner-Gate Scandal Leave Antonio as Bankrupt as the City?

Posted on June 22, 2010 by

The City Ethics Commission is investigating, the DA is inquiring, the wagons are circling Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Ticket-Wine-Dinner-Gate Scandal. If he were the mayor of Southgate or Pico-Rivera, they’d be cleaning out a cell for him but he’s the mayor … Continue reading →

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A city without shame: Lobbyists aren’t the problem — corrupt city officials are

Posted on September 1, 2008 by

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a continuing series on how City Hall is robbing the Mt. Washington-Highland Park neighborhood of its greatest treasure, the Southwest Museum. This theft will only be stopped if community groups across the … Continue reading →

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