Tag Archives: jan perry

Benchmarking the Mayor’s Race: Can Any Candidate Light the Fire of Voters’ Passion? Can Any Actually Govern the City?

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

This is not a horse race as much as the media treats elections that way; it is a political campaign that promises to be as rough as any for mayor of Los Angeles since the ugliness of Yorty-Bradley contests. There’s … Continue reading →

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The Deafening Silence of the Mayor and LA’s Civic and Business Elite in the Face of Black and Korean Protests

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

The Constitution guarantees our right to vote but it doesn’t protect us from ourselves when we year after year elect incompetent, irresponsible and corrupt officials — even when they rig elections as totally as they are in Los Angeles. Faced … Continue reading →

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Why Your DWP Bills Keeping Going Up and Up — IBEW Salaries Keep Going Up and Up and Away

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Carpenters: DWP $102,732; General Services 65,201; Airport  $82,999; National Average $43,890. Auto Painters: DWP $109,192; Fire Dept. $59,901. Cabinet Makers: DWP $101,840; LAPD $66,449. Garage Attendants: DWP $74,408; Airport $44,309; National Average $21,250. Land-surveying Assistants; DWP $123,433; Public Works $73,009′ … Continue reading →

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Dumb and Dumber and Dumbest – Who Better to Put in Charge of the Charade of the City Council

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

In retrospect, I’m sorry I mocked Eric Garcetti for his pious “Temple of Democracy…stay as long as you need to” phony crap and crucified Dennis Zine – his top fill-in running Council meetings — for being a two-faced, duplicitous, deceitful liar and dissed … Continue reading →

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The Shame of Sham Redistricting and the Perpetuation of City Hall’s Failure

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Not one to pull her punches or knees to the groin, LA Weekly’s Simone Wilson calls LA’s Redistricting Commission “an embarrassing who’s-who of career City Hall puppets … To say the 2012 redistricting commissioners are cloaked in this culture of … Continue reading →

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HACLA Under Fire: A Hero, A Fall Guy, A Savior and the Cover-up by Wannabes & Know-Nothings

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

Sometimes you have to do some work, like watching videos showing what the people you put into office do and say when confronted by their failure. Somtimes you have to read between the lines, see through the posturing of their … Continue reading →

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What’s Missing from AEG’s Maxi-Pad Stadium Deal: Study of Alternatives That Might Actually Succeed

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

With City Council members set Thursday to rubber stamp yet another version of AEG’s ever-changing designs (this one mocked as the Maxi-pad version) for its downtown NFL stadium, City Controller candidate Cary Brazeman has proposed a road map for exploring … Continue reading →

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LA’s Missing Man Formation: Business Leaders Ban Citizen Candidate from Mayoral Forum

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

You can see it right there on the masthead of the LA Times: Jim Newton, Editor-at-large, so you know when he speaks, he speaks with the authority of the city’s most prestigious newspaper.  Newton was on stage at UCLA, the city’s … Continue reading →

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Want City Hall to Hear You? Forget Public Comment. Stop Writing Letters. Get a Lawyer.

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Just like that with a snap of the fingers, good old boy Tom LaBonge got approval for the residents of Solar Drive high in the Hollywood Hills to install gates on their public street to keep out the riffraff, effectively … Continue reading →

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Sweatshops — Not Farms: City Hall Makes Its Call

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: With mayoral wannabe Jan Perry leading the charge and the ever-obedient Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa giving the order, the city swooped in with helicopters, squadrons of cops and bulldozers (much as they will soon be doing to the Occupy … Continue reading →

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