FUCK IT! I'm getting crankier by the minute.
- WISH MY LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT was as much money as Wendy Greuel paid Niko Consulting for her Controller bid. And ZD is just gettin' warmed up. 3 minutes ago
- "RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSULTANTS & A REAL ESTATE COMPANY": Sage Advisors Inc & The Santa Maria Group. (Niko Consulting. Kevin De Leon, Lara.) 6 minutes ago
- THIS ADDRESS sure pops up a lot as an address for consultants: 221 S Figueroa St # 240 Los Angeles, CA 90012-3869 (NIKO CONSULTING, etc.) 16 minutes ago
- I REALLY, REALLY HATE that THIS is the energy you have dragged out of me city hall, just when I thought I could FORGET all this dumb stuff. about an hour ago
- DAMN IT, Garcetti, Huizar, Rosendahl, et al...I should have been OUT OF HERE 2 WEEKS AGO! NOW LOOK at what you unleashed in me/on to blog.! about 2 hours ago
- Ya know...I get all caught up in my Wetherly Capital blog rut, cause they were backing Jack Weiss, BUT I JUST REMEMBERED, NIKO CONSULTING! about 2 hours ago
- @JoseHuizar: Unfortunately, in case you hadn't noticed over past 5 yrs, ZD is a steamroller, now with downhill momentum & YOU ARE IN MY WAY! about 2 hours ago
- If you work @ LA City Hall...get ready to hear a lot of screaming and moaning in about ten or twenty minutes. But might take a half hour! about 2 hours ago
- I can see it now. Christine Essel's pals NIKO CONSULTING back Janice Hahn for Congress (also a NIKO pal) and Congresswoman keeps it pumpin'! about 2 hours ago
- Guess the CRA/LA, Villaraigosa and City Hall has to get their gal Janice Hahn in Congress to keep it all covered up. Niko, rhymes with RICO. about 2 hours ago
- DOESN'T NIKO CONSULTING BACK CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR OFFICE? Isn't Janice Hahn running for office? Doesn't she have "relationship" with NIKO? about 2 hours ago
- BLOG POST ABOUT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE JANICE HAHN and NIKO CONSULTING and SHADY Ponte Vista PROJECTS!: http://ow.ly/3Ufp1 about 2 hours ago
Comment on Mayor Sam's Blog: Mayor, John Perez, and Huizar working together again..
Since the following article was written, John Perez has started the process to dissolve the City of Vernon. As the acting president of the LA Planning and Land Use Committee, Huizar sent the possible annexing of Vernon by the City of LA to full Council. No one else on the committee showed up that day....
Wind Power, Meet Power Struggle (Even Vernon is Involved)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009, by Dakota
Many, many years ago, Mayor Villaraigosa promised that 20% of the city's power would come from renewable sources by the year 2010. And the mayor's goal of cleaner and greener is part of the reason why the LA Times covers the struggle over Onyx Ranch, a 68,000-acre ranch in Kern County (near Bakersfield), and the site of a planned wind farm. The characters here: Ari Swiller, local entrepreneur and a former campaign manager for the Mayor; the DWP; a cattle-rancher family descended from Russian Jewish immigrants (now battling among themselves over the land); developer CIM; and the city of Vernon. We just are partial to stories that mention Vernon, but Hollywood, you may have your newest post-"Chinatown" screenplay. Here's the crux of the story:
"In the case of Onyx Ranch, the venture headed by [the mayor's pal Ari] Swiller beat the DWP to the land, bought it for $48 million and, before the transaction was completed, offered to sell less than half of it to the utility for $65 million.
H. David Nahai, the DWP's general manager, rejected the offer. Swiller's venture, a partnership between his and another firm, then sold the portion sought by Los Angeles for $42 million to the city of Vernon, a neighboring industrial community with its own electric utility. Since then, Los Angeles officials have been weighing whether to wage a potentially costly and lengthy legal battle against Vernon to gain ownership of the land, considered prime territory for towering turbines that would generate electricity from the winds that blow across the Tehachapi Mountains.
Scandal-Plagued City Of Vernon May Lose Cityhood
http://losangeles.cbslocal.MORE NAMES ON THE OVERTIME RADAR:
In 1996, Los Angeles lawyer Bob Hertzberg was elected to the Assembly and Dan Weitzman went to work for him. Hertzberg later became Assembly speaker, and Weitzman was near the center of the Capitol’s political fundraising world. The two, close friends, continue to talk almost daily, as he does with former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. Weitzman’s contacts expanded exponentially, and that’s a fundamental rule of fund-raising: The more contacts the better, the greater the pool of potential donors, the better. Everybody knows everybody else, and Weitzman knows them all. The lists of names are everything.
He’s not the only fund-raiser in town, although he may be one of the smallest in terms of client load. He has a half-dozen clients, including Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg, and Assembly members Kevin de Leon, Ted Lieu and John Perez. He has personal connections to all of them, some of which go back years. Capitol insiders say others would like to be on the client list, and that jealousy blooms in the Capitol, although he denies it.



This is no time to elect Antonio Villaraiogsa's cousin (John Perez) to the State Assembly. Manny Aldana running against Villar's cousin, this November 4th. It's amazing that this grassroots candidate forced a run-off with Villar's cousin (John Perez), showing how weak Antonio's whole machine has become. BUT DON'T BE BAMBOOZLED...THIS AIN'T GONNA BE EASY.
The only name missing here is "Ari Swiller." That's Antonio's pal, who purchased wind farm real estate that DWP was negotiating to buy, and then sold it to the City of Vernon for a huge profit. I bet Ari is also moving behind the scenes on the Vernon deal. Something stinks here. February 15, 2011 10:56 PM