Tag Archives: public comment

Pulling the Plug on Public Access to Save $20,967 — What Are You Going to Do About It?

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

Back in 2003 when Mitch Englander was his chief of staff, Councilman Greig Smith, with support from Janice Hahn, proposed creating a network of video conferencing stations with fax machines and computers available for ordinary citizens to communicate with City … Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to County Supervisors: Don’t Squelch the Public’s Right to Speak

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

UPDATED EDITOR’S NOTE: Faced with widespread protests from “reasonable” and “thoughtful” people like the League of Women Voters, Chairman Zev Yaroslavsky backed down at least temporarily on limiting the public to just three minutes total to comment of the dozens … Continue reading →

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Squelching the Voices of the People

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

BY POPULAR DEMAND Dennis Zine and Paul Koretz teamed up Friday to squelch Zuma Dogg and Matt Dowd from raising questions about allowing indicted felon Richard ALarcon to allocate discretionary funds from his Council account. Then Tom LaBonge proposed cutting … Continue reading →

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Revenge of the Gadflies: City Hall’s Bungling Costs Taxpayers Dearly

Posted on September 24, 2009 by

Three times a week, Matt Dowd, Michael Hunt and Zuma Dogg annoy, offend and sometimes make perfect sense as co-stars in the theater of the absurd TV drama that passes for LA City Council meetings. It says a lot about … Continue reading →

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Why Council Debates Attract Gadflies Like Dog Poop Attracts Flies

Posted on July 28, 2009 by

What does it say about the nature of City Council debates that 95 percent of the public comments come from Zuma, Matt, Mike, Donna, Arnold, John and the rest of the cast of gadflies who somehow manage to show up … Continue reading →

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Bruno, LA’s Watchdog: Barking at Smith & Wesson

Posted on July 24, 2009 by

There goes my trip downtown. As my pal Ron (I’ve rejected both “owner” and “master”) reported this morning, the City Council is set to ban speakers for up 10 weeks – it’s longer in “dog weeks” — without a warning … Continue reading →

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Council’s Smith & Wesson Rule: Is There Any Point to Public Comment if Nobody Listens?

Posted on July 24, 2009 by

So long Zuma and Mike and Matt and the rest of you homeless, crazy druggies who come to every City Council meeting and waste your time shouting, singing and preaching to deaf ears. Next week the council will unanimously to … Continue reading →

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Lip Service to Democracy — The Irrelevance of Public Comment Before the City Council

Posted on June 12, 2009 by

Every time the LA City Council meets, my pal Zuma Dogg and others who qualify as gadflies by the regularity of the attendance to rant and rave for their two minutes of public comment and a minute or two each … Continue reading →

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