Today, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti announced halfway through the meeting, after a long wait, that people's public comment time had to be cut in half to only one minute because "a Councilmember was sick from food poisoning" and Eric already knew that the CM would be sick at exactly 1PM announcing that they would lose a quorum then.
Eric was kind enough to announce, "we will lose a quorum any minute" and ended the meeting by giving Zuma Dogg ONE MINUTE to speak on FIVE agenda items. (BROWN ACT VIOLATION, Y'ALL!!!) BULL-SHIZNIT, Y'ALL!!! I didn't get my allotted time for the day, and you are not allowed to combine items like that into one minute for all items!
HERE'S THE REAL DEAL ON THE FOOD POISONING:
After the meeting, Zuma Dogg aksed one of the Councilmembers, "Which Councilmember is sick?" Because I was hoping maybe the sickness would end in a council seat vacancy in which Zuma Dogg could run for Council BEFORE the Mayor '09 election to start taking developer money, sooner than later.
But the councilmember waived their hand in disgust and said, "It's bullsh*t! No one is sick. We need to start looking into who is the most absent Councilmember and (start publicizing) it."
I know Ed Reyes is somewhat of a rare treat in Council chambers. But when I said, "Ed?", the CM quickly snapped back, "Jack Weiss!" And went on to mention how his absence really ends up hurting City business because they lose quorums, and it seems like it's always the same Jackass who isn't there.
I actually felt bad for the CM for the first time ever, because the CM was clearly frustrated, for real and told me that they had some people there for an important item and needed Jack there for some information. The CM let me know that there are a lot of things that they would like to say but can't. (It's not what it is they wanted to say that is the point...the point CMs now are finding out how it feels to be treated like the rest of the public --
AND MORE THAN ONE COUNCILMEMBER FEELS THAT JACK WEISS IS THE PROBLEM AND THE SOLUTION!!!
President Garcetti even closed the meeting by announcing that requests for absences have always been honored, but the CMs need to do a better job of making sure the co-ordinate the absences with the agenda items to help match the items that only need 10 members -- compared to the ones that need 12 members. AND, that they have been cutting the quorums close with the exact amount of members...
THEN, when one of the CMs gets "sick" (has to leave for a 1pm appointment), they lose a quorum.
BOTTOM LINE:
HEY JACKASS WEISS...GET YOUR MISERABLE ASS INTO YOUR F*CKING COUNCIL SEAT ASSHOLE! Your douchebag campaign manager is out of power and no one likes you, you pompous, arrogant, schmuck. And you pissed off at least three CMs today, plus Zuma Dogg. (Yes, Jackass's office got a personal visit from Zuma Dogg for the first time. AND HAD TO FOLLOW UP WITH PHONES CALLS TO HIS OFFICE AND MAYOR ANTONIO'S CAUSE JACKASS' STAFF IS JUST AS POMPOUS AND ARROGANT AS THEIR MISERABLE BOSS.
AND SINCE I WAS THINKING OF JACK WEISS, IT REMINDED ME: I would like to place an initiate on the November ballot to request that Councilmembers do not use cash from their district office to pay for expensive "call girls" for developer clients.