Voter Approved Money For "Emergency Housing And Shelter For Battered Women, Kids, Elderly & Disabled GOING TO COMMERCIAL GRAND AVENUE PARK PROJECT!!!

They may be about a year behind Zuma Dogg and his "LA Daily Blog.com" on many stories, but at least in the past three weeks, the LA Weekly has included at least one news story that Zuma Dogg already covered over the past year. (I know, Zuma Dogg is DAILY and unlimited -- and LA Weekly operates at the disadvantage of being a "weekly" limited in the number of stories each week. But lately, I am glad to say, when I read stories in LA Weekly, lately, they are reminding me of stories I did last year, and it brings new life to my blog posts. And adds credibility with ZD readers as they continue to say, "Daaaaaaaaaaamn, ZD DID break that one last year." So I guess LA Weekly's NEW challenge should be to try and cut the time from Zuma's initial posting and LA Weekly (and other newspaper's) picking up of the stories.

Pictured: Arab Emirate/Eli Broad/LA City & County Prop 1C "emergency-funded" CRA Cement Park

PROP 1C MONEY: Zuma Dogg has been saying over and over on City TV 35 and on this blog that the City and State continues to take money approved by voters for ONE thing, then using it for SOMETHING ELSE! And I have been using the example of Prop 1c, recently in my public comments as the UN-PERFECT example.

AND NOW LA WEEKLY CONFIRMS WHAT ZUMA DOGG HAS BEEN SAYING! (And I can't believe I forgot to mention what the money being diverted is being used for?!?!? I've been extra burnt-out and remembered that the Prop 1C money was being used for a park...BUT I FORGOT TO KEEP SAYING FOR WHICH PARK!!!: THE GRAND AVENUE PROJECT PARK!!!

That's right people...first the City Council, Board of Loservisors and CRA bend over backwards and subsidize the hell out of this park (to raise the property value of the area around the Grand Avenue Project) --

THEN...they raid the Prop 1c money for "emergency housing and shelter for battered women and their children; elderly housing; and disabled housing -- AND ARE USING IT FOR THEIR DIAMOND ENCRUSTED, LUXURY, FIVE STAR CEMENT PARK.

LA WEEKLY EXCERPT:

But nobody mentioned that the extra money to add those bells and whistles [Grand Avenue Project Park) — including areas for commercialization and man-made shade — would be raided from “affordable housing” bonds that California voters believed were to be spent on housing for the poor.

The Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act, approved by voters in 2006, promised to provide, among other things, “shelters for battered women and their children; clean and safe housing for low-income senior citizens; and homeownership assistance for the disabled,” but the fine print left big loopholes. The wealthy Related Companies applied for the money — $30 million from the cash-strapped state of California — and promptly got hammered in the Los Angeles Daily News. But the affordable-housing money was awarded anyway.

Full LA Weekly article on the "Luxury Cement Park Paid For With "Emergency Shelter/Voter Approved" Money."

ZD says, "'Why Cement, instead of grass?' Homeless people and bums like to lay down on grass, not cement. And cement is better for commercial projects.

I hope the first thing they do at this public park is have a symbolic "public stoning" of the people who brought you this park. That way, they will have the symbolic need to live in some emergency shelter for battered and disabled people...and we can tell them they can sit on the cement in the park they just used the money for!"

ZumaDogg@Mayor09.com

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As mayor of Los Angeles, I will pull as much of the plug as possible on the boondoggle, taxpayer and planning disaster called, "Grand Avenue Project." This is turning into be the "Ishtar" of commercial mixed-used density projects. Starring Mayor Villaraigosa and Eli Broad. Too bad Eli's legacy will be so besmirched by this project, the way a boxer's reputation is besmirched when he steps into the ring a few too many times, past his prime and at the wrong time (un-prepared) and ends up being remembered for the final boondoggle. AND YES, THIS GRAND AVENUE PROJECT WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE LAUGHING STOCK FODDER PROJECT -- AND PROJECT OF WHICH ALL OTHERS WILL CRITICIZED FOR -- FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. So looks like Jan Perry and loser project will continue to be a helpless punching bag for comedy grist for the mill and criticism of all future Jan Perry, Mike Hernandez, Villaraigosa projects in the future.

AND REMEMBER: YOU ARE HAMMERING CITY RESIDENTS WITH FEE UPDATES, NEW BONDS, SALES TAXES, PROPERTY TAXES AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU CAN THINK OF TO SQUEEZE EVERY LAST DOLLAR OUT OF LOS ANGELES CITIZENS...

HOW ABOUT: You start letting the citizens of Los Angeles that you are feeing and taxing to death work on some of the DOWNTOWN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN COUNCILMEMBER BERNARD PARKS' DISTRICT!!! That's right, you tax and fee people to death, but they cannot get work on construction sites in the City of Los Angeles because NON-DOCUMENTED WORKERS ARE NOT ONLY BEING USED ON THESE PROJECTS...but actual residents (citizen's you are feeing and taxing to death) ARE BEING KEPT OFF THE JOBS!!!

I'm not talking about picking strawberries or busing tables...I am talking about SKYSCRAPER CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AND DENSITY HOUSING AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU ARE THROWING UP!

Jan Perry and Bernard Parks (through Mike Hernandez)...if you expect the city to take in money with all of these fees and property taxes...you better start letting the people you are shaking down this money from be allowed to work on the construction jobs you are building. Especially since you are subsidizing the Royal Family of DuBai (Arab Oil Sheiks) --- YOU DUMMY CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CRIMINALLY STUPID MAYOR!

TAKE BACK THE CITY!

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