Tag Archives: public employee unions

The Heart of the Matter: Next Year Will Be Worse

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Here are a couple of axioms about City Hall corruption learned from a largely futile effort to expose what’s wrong over the last 30 years: 1. Little people don’t steal unless the big people are stealing.  2. You have to … Continue reading →

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Punishing the Poor, Soaking the Middle Class, Enriching the Rich — The Poverty of Our Politics

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

The Wall Street Journal asks the question today, “Public Unions: Is California Next? Serious Californians, on the right and the left, know how much fiscal trouble they’re in.” Calling Wisconsin‘s public union fight “the battle of the century in American … Continue reading →

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How Do You Spell Hypocrisy? LA City Council

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

BREAKING NEWS: Alarcon says grand jury indictment coming down today over his residence problem, LA Times reports.Dr. Keith Richman, a man I admired who was elected mayor of the City of the San Fernando Valley in the secession election, died … Continue reading →

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The Sweetheart Deal: City Hall Will Beg, Borrow and Steal to Protect Unions

Posted on July 3, 2009 by

Here’s the deal (Union-mou-Letter_of_Agreement_2009-06-26_TA[1].pdf) your elected city officials have cut to protect union jobs no matter what the cost to the public, and to the future of the city. It’s eight pages of giveaways and promises to protect union jobs … Continue reading →

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The Case for David Vahedi in CD5: The Start of a Citizen Takeover of City Hall

Posted on May 4, 2009 by

It’s easy to make the case for Carmen “Nuch” Trutanich: He’s an experienced and capable outsider running against the lazy and ineffective Jack Weiss who will stooge for the mayor’s political machine that has ill-served the city and its people. … Continue reading →

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