Mayor:
(In order of appearance on ballot)
CARLOS ALVAREZ
GORDON TURNER
WALTER MOORE
PHIL JENNERJAHN
DAVID HERNANDEZ
JAMES HARRIS
BRUCE DARIAN
ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOA
DAVID "ZUMA DOGG" SALTSBURG
CRAIG X RUBIN
(Only the list of mayoral candidates is in actual order of appearance on the ballot.)
City Attorney:
CARMEN "NUCH" TRUTANICH
JACK WEISS
MICHAEL RICHARD AMERIAN
NOEL WEISS
DAVID BERGER
[Final list of City Attorney candidates. NOT in order as will appear on ballot.]
Controller:
KATHLEEN "SUZY" EVANS
NICK PATSAOURAS
WENDY GREUEL
City Council District 1:
Ed Reyes
Jesse Rosa
City Council District 3:
Dennis P. Zine
Jeff Bornstein
City Council 5:
ROBERT SCHWARTZ
DAVID T. VAHEDI
PAUL KORETZ
ADEENA N. BLEICH
ROBYN RITTER SIMON
RON GALPERIN
City Council 7:
Dick alarCON
City Council 9:
Jan Perry
City Council 11:
Bill Rosendahl
Harry "Craig" Wilson
City Council 13:
Eric Garshady
Eric Slossberg
City Council 15:
Jance Hahn
Chirs Salabaj
LAUSD 2:
Monica "The Mouth" Garcia
LAUSD 4:
Mike Stryer
Steve Zimmer
LAUSD 6:
Louis Puglise
Nury Martinez
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Zuma Dogg Gathers Another 70 Signatures Today
CITY COUNCIL RETURNS: After a week off, LA City Council returned, and there were a lot of important items on the agenda. Try and catch a replay on TV 35, or go to the LACity.org website and do a search for "Our Next Speaker Is Zuma-Dogg" under the Council meetings on demand.
CRA MONEY (FOR BLIGHT) GOING TO LEGAL FUND FOR SHADY PROJECT: On today's agenda was another one of those shady CRA (Community Robbing A-holes) "mixed-use" projects. First, let me remind you the CRA money is supposed to be used to "Redevelop" (hence the "R") the "Community" (hence the "C"). But you should call it the LDA: "L" for "Legal" and "D" for "Defense." Cause that's what (who knows how much of) the $3.6 million dollars on today's agenda will be used for. You see, the shady project (in Garcetti's district, of course) is a giant skyscraper in one of those "un-skyscraper" residential areas. A MASSIVE VIOLATION! And of course the CRA is being sued, due to the massive zoning violation. So let's funnel $3.6 to help pay for the legal defense. (THAT'S NOT BLIGHT Y'ALL!!!)
ZUMA DOGG GATHERS ANOTHER 70 SIGNATURES TODAY: Thanks so much to everyone who signed my petition Downtown today, around the City Hall area...especially in the food court area. BUT SUPER-SPECIAL THANKS to everyone in SILVERLAKE on Sunset Blvd in the Sunset Junction area. Almost everyone ZD approached on the sidewalk in front of the coffee shops and cafes were not only all registered in the City of L.A., but almost ALL were willing to sign a petition for someone wanting to run for mayor. (The sheer democratic process.) And what ZD found MOST interesting, is although these people were all willing to sign.
ZUMA DOGG FOR MAYOR SIGNATURE TOTAL: About 350...but they say you need about 1000 to get 500 good qualifying signatures. But the good news is, I see I can get these signatures myself, even though it's the "hard way."
WHAT'S WRONG WITH WALTER MOORE?: I understand that Walter Moore has sent out an email to his supporters informing them that he is not willing to take time off from his work to gather signatures; and OF COURSE doesn't want to cancel his out of state Thanksgiving vacation to get the signatures. So he is trying to put pressure on his supporters to do it for him. Guess he's too good to get out there with the real people of the City. He HAS heard about these people, and has read about them in his Ivy League textbooks. Walter says he's in a different league than Zuma Dogg. He is right. I'm in the league of someone who woke up, put my last three dollars in the gas tank to drive down to the council meeting and sat through the meeting to get my daily allotment of public comment time (including agenda items)...THEN walked all over the City trying to get MY OWN signatures, because I'm absolutely panic-stricken that I may not get them. But after getting 70 today, I feel a lot better that I'll be able to 'em. Walter just doesn't get that saying he refuses to take time off work or cancel his vacation plans to get signatures for HIS OWN CAMPAIGN will rub his own supporters the wrong way. WILL SOMEONE TELL WALTER MOORE HE IS RUNNING FOR MAYOR, NOT KING.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Zuma Dogg After Hours Malibu Party/Neighborhood Empowerment Meeting (To the tune of "You Shook Me All Night Long")
A public advocate's work is never done. Here's a rare peek into the world of Zuma Dogg outside Council Chambers from last Saturday night (Sunday morning, actually) to get you fired up for today's Saturday Night. Eat your heart out, haters!
More to come from the after hours Zuma-fest!
More to come from the after hours Zuma-fest!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Why Should LA City Hall Fix The Budget Crisis When They Are Making So Much Money Off The Problem?
Originally posted: Monday, August 27, 2007
With Los Angeles City politicians (Mayor, City Council) trying to figure out some ways to "belt tighten" their way out of a $600-$700 budget deficit over the next year, I thought now would be a good time to post this article originally posted 8/27/07 on this new blog. We Need To Put Pressure On Politicians To Stop Wasting The Money Earmarked To FIX THE PROBLEMS!
Why Solve City Problems When City Officials Are Making Money Off The Problem?
by Zuma Dogg
If you are able to think like this, you may have a future as Mayor, Councilmember, elected official or Gravy Train Riding Crony (How to think like a successful elected politician):
First of all, if there is no apparent problem, create one. There is no money to be spent or to be made unless you are raising and spending money. So find a problem, because where there is a problem, there is a solution. And the solution will have to involve new money. (Yea!)
But, a lot of times, there are creative solutions that don’t cost a lot of money, or no money at all. Now THAT’S a real problem for a politician. Make sure you don’t let any of THOSE solutions get out there. So remember, if you want to model a powerful elected official in the City of Los Angeles, like a mayor or councilmember, if you are able to find a problem that needs fixing, but it won’t take a lot of new money to throw at the problem; don’t waste your time. You won’t be able to generate any interest. And you won’t be able to generate any money for you and your cronies.
So once you filter out the non-profitable problems that do not require the infusion of new money, and you have selected a warm and fuzzy City problem (like kids, homeless, affordable housing, seniors, crime reduction, etc.) that you can put a good spin on – you are ready to start hiring consultants, lobbyists, cronies, friends, relatives, whoever else you can use to drive up total cost. And oh yeah, you will need plenty of contractors. (The more the better!)
And at the same time you are ready to start asking for the new money needed to fix this important new problem that needs the full attention and resources of the City. Perhaps there is some bond money available, you can raise taxes, subsidize, create new taxes, invent new fees, and solicit money from the private sector. (But it almost always comes from the public revenue sources.)
Now you have a ballgame! A win-win situation. Except for the pueblos who end up losing by paying for it. Because now that you have money being thrown at the problem, you wanna make sure they don’t stop throwing it. And one way to make sure the problem never gets solved is to siphon enough money off the top so there isn’t enough to get the job done.
Then, they come back and ask for (and get) more money to keep the gravy train rollin’ down the shady non-profit highway!
IF ZUMA DOGG WAS MAYOR, he would put together a City, County and State task force and start solving these problems immediately. One of the problems is that there is too much finger pointing, and blame-deflection instead of simply stamping out the fire and fixing the problem. ZD is of the belief all the right answers are out there in the community and inside the City, County and State departments. There is just too much bureaucracy, and too many people surfing the wave of public funds for their own financial enhancement.
IT WILL TAKE PUBLIC PRESSURE TO CUT BACK ON THIS. AND THE PEOPLE WOULD LIKE JANICE HAHN OR SOMEONE TO CALL FOR A TASK FORCE.
First of all, we need to question the inventory of some of these affordable housing construction projects. ZD hears it’s an open secret with at least one (certain) citywide construction company that the city gave a bunch of money to for redevelopment, not only about the lazy-ass, shabby work; but looting the materials purchased by the housing authority for these public work projects and they end up on other people’s private jobs.
MAY THE PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES SUGGEST AN INVENTORY CHECK OF THESE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS THE CITY IS GIVING MONEY TO?
The issue needs a Federal investigation because the local jurisdiction may be compromised at the City and State level.
We want to start seeing some accountability with all of this public money. Because you can’t seem to fix the traffic, schools, homeless problem, crime or anything else. That’s because inappropriately excessive amount of the money makes it into people’s pockets and the rest is wasted through bureaucracy, fraud, waste and abuse.
I KNOW THE POLITICIANS AREN’T GOING TO JUMP OFF THE GRAVY TRAIN, JUST YET. SO LET’S START ATTACKING THE FRAUD, WASTE AND ABUSE WITH THE MONEY THAT IS LEFT OVER! (That’s a good middle-ground starting point. And who knows, if you are able to improve the efficiency with the rest of the money that you don’t pilfer, maybe THAT will be enough to start seeing a noticeable improvement.)
These public-private shell game schemes are getting more and more complicated. (See Grand Ave Project where even the CRA spokesperson says, “The most complicated deal in every aspect. Bureaucratic? Yes.”) And as the depth of shadiness gets deeper and deeper; accountability and transparency gets shadier and shadier. It’s getting harder to what is happening in the darkness on the edge of town where it all goes down.
And if the mainstream media would shine a little light on this darkness, I think they would recognize a lot of familiar faces. Again, it will probably take a FEDERAL INVESTIGATION to fix this local problem, that is quickly becoming a NATIONAL problem.
zumadogg@gmail.com
With Los Angeles City politicians (Mayor, City Council) trying to figure out some ways to "belt tighten" their way out of a $600-$700 budget deficit over the next year, I thought now would be a good time to post this article originally posted 8/27/07 on this new blog. We Need To Put Pressure On Politicians To Stop Wasting The Money Earmarked To FIX THE PROBLEMS!
Why Solve City Problems When City Officials Are Making Money Off The Problem?
by Zuma Dogg
If you are able to think like this, you may have a future as Mayor, Councilmember, elected official or Gravy Train Riding Crony (How to think like a successful elected politician):
First of all, if there is no apparent problem, create one. There is no money to be spent or to be made unless you are raising and spending money. So find a problem, because where there is a problem, there is a solution. And the solution will have to involve new money. (Yea!)
But, a lot of times, there are creative solutions that don’t cost a lot of money, or no money at all. Now THAT’S a real problem for a politician. Make sure you don’t let any of THOSE solutions get out there. So remember, if you want to model a powerful elected official in the City of Los Angeles, like a mayor or councilmember, if you are able to find a problem that needs fixing, but it won’t take a lot of new money to throw at the problem; don’t waste your time. You won’t be able to generate any interest. And you won’t be able to generate any money for you and your cronies.
So once you filter out the non-profitable problems that do not require the infusion of new money, and you have selected a warm and fuzzy City problem (like kids, homeless, affordable housing, seniors, crime reduction, etc.) that you can put a good spin on – you are ready to start hiring consultants, lobbyists, cronies, friends, relatives, whoever else you can use to drive up total cost. And oh yeah, you will need plenty of contractors. (The more the better!)
And at the same time you are ready to start asking for the new money needed to fix this important new problem that needs the full attention and resources of the City. Perhaps there is some bond money available, you can raise taxes, subsidize, create new taxes, invent new fees, and solicit money from the private sector. (But it almost always comes from the public revenue sources.)
Now you have a ballgame! A win-win situation. Except for the pueblos who end up losing by paying for it. Because now that you have money being thrown at the problem, you wanna make sure they don’t stop throwing it. And one way to make sure the problem never gets solved is to siphon enough money off the top so there isn’t enough to get the job done.
Then, they come back and ask for (and get) more money to keep the gravy train rollin’ down the shady non-profit highway!
IF ZUMA DOGG WAS MAYOR, he would put together a City, County and State task force and start solving these problems immediately. One of the problems is that there is too much finger pointing, and blame-deflection instead of simply stamping out the fire and fixing the problem. ZD is of the belief all the right answers are out there in the community and inside the City, County and State departments. There is just too much bureaucracy, and too many people surfing the wave of public funds for their own financial enhancement.
IT WILL TAKE PUBLIC PRESSURE TO CUT BACK ON THIS. AND THE PEOPLE WOULD LIKE JANICE HAHN OR SOMEONE TO CALL FOR A TASK FORCE.
First of all, we need to question the inventory of some of these affordable housing construction projects. ZD hears it’s an open secret with at least one (certain) citywide construction company that the city gave a bunch of money to for redevelopment, not only about the lazy-ass, shabby work; but looting the materials purchased by the housing authority for these public work projects and they end up on other people’s private jobs.
MAY THE PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES SUGGEST AN INVENTORY CHECK OF THESE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS THE CITY IS GIVING MONEY TO?
The issue needs a Federal investigation because the local jurisdiction may be compromised at the City and State level.
We want to start seeing some accountability with all of this public money. Because you can’t seem to fix the traffic, schools, homeless problem, crime or anything else. That’s because inappropriately excessive amount of the money makes it into people’s pockets and the rest is wasted through bureaucracy, fraud, waste and abuse.
I KNOW THE POLITICIANS AREN’T GOING TO JUMP OFF THE GRAVY TRAIN, JUST YET. SO LET’S START ATTACKING THE FRAUD, WASTE AND ABUSE WITH THE MONEY THAT IS LEFT OVER! (That’s a good middle-ground starting point. And who knows, if you are able to improve the efficiency with the rest of the money that you don’t pilfer, maybe THAT will be enough to start seeing a noticeable improvement.)
These public-private shell game schemes are getting more and more complicated. (See Grand Ave Project where even the CRA spokesperson says, “The most complicated deal in every aspect. Bureaucratic? Yes.”) And as the depth of shadiness gets deeper and deeper; accountability and transparency gets shadier and shadier. It’s getting harder to what is happening in the darkness on the edge of town where it all goes down.
And if the mainstream media would shine a little light on this darkness, I think they would recognize a lot of familiar faces. Again, it will probably take a FEDERAL INVESTIGATION to fix this local problem, that is quickly becoming a NATIONAL problem.
zumadogg@gmail.com
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
DWP Rate Hike On LA City Council Agenda for 2/20/08...Sorry VillarNahai...It's Going Back to Committee
TUESDAY NIGHT DWP RATE HIKE UPDATE:
The DWP rate increases are on the LA City Council agenda for Wednesday 2/20/08. Tune in for the Councilmember debate, with enough opposition to force "no decision" and Nahai and Villaragosa will be bitch slapped back to committee. (Oh no...think of all the services they will threaten to interrupt while it sits in committee? Won't be able to buy any cases of glass Windex bottles from the 70's at double the price.)
But DWP has a little "rate increase campaign" targeting councilmembers. And ZD says this shiznit is always inevitable. Get ready for a lot of back and forth debate, with a couple CMs taking a stand, only for all to "reluctantly vote yes, this one last time, only because it means the little old ladies won't have their air conditioners brown out.) Read this and see video, and tell me if you think DWP needs a rate hike? Alert the community. Copy and paste this link and send it to others via email.
zumadogg@gmail.com
lacityupdate.com
The DWP rate increases are on the LA City Council agenda for Wednesday 2/20/08. Tune in for the Councilmember debate, with enough opposition to force "no decision" and Nahai and Villaragosa will be bitch slapped back to committee. (Oh no...think of all the services they will threaten to interrupt while it sits in committee? Won't be able to buy any cases of glass Windex bottles from the 70's at double the price.)
But DWP has a little "rate increase campaign" targeting councilmembers. And ZD says this shiznit is always inevitable. Get ready for a lot of back and forth debate, with a couple CMs taking a stand, only for all to "reluctantly vote yes, this one last time, only because it means the little old ladies won't have their air conditioners brown out.) Read this and see video, and tell me if you think DWP needs a rate hike? Alert the community. Copy and paste this link and send it to others via email.
zumadogg@gmail.com
lacityupdate.com
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa URGENTLY REQUESTS Your Opinions And Feedback (Better Write It Down On Toilet Paper If You Want Him To Use It!)
I N F O R M A T I O N B U L L E T I N
To: Neighborhood Council Leaders & Stakeholders
From: BongHwan Kim, Interim General Manager of Department of
Neighborhood Empowerment
Subject: City Budget Survey
Friends/Community Partners:
Mayor Antonio R. Viagraiosa urgently requests that you take a few minutes to give us your opinions and feedback about our City's budget. These are tough times, and we want to hear from EVERYONE in the City of LA. (Help us by sending this to others).
[Can you FEEL the sincerity! Make sure you don't put your home address on the opinion/feedback form or your may end up being intimidate, followed, harassed, retaliated against and fired. (See DWP story about what happens when you give "feedback". Mayor Antonio wants feeback! This coming from the guy who has "invitation only" town hall meetings guarded by "private security", shall we call it.]
In these difficult times, the Mayor's Budget Survey asks about funding levels for services such as Park Maintenance (you'll cut it), Gang Reduction Programs (you'll raise it), and the City's contribution to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. (Big Super-Shady Issue!)
It also includes questions about safeguarding and/or attaining new revenue. (Change the mayor is the best move. Then you can clean up the illegal vending which would help safeguard and attain. It asks for feedback on how the City should handle Special Event Fee-Waivers, [UM EXCUSE ME...DO MATT, MIRIAM, SHARON AND ZD HAVE TO KEEP SHOWING UP TO TELL YOU ALL OVER AGAIN??? Just watch our last 10,000 comments], the sale of City Surplus Property (you'll sell it to your cronies), and
whether the City should change the amount it collects from the public for various services. (OH YEAH...they'll change the amount they collect from the public...they're gonna reduce it...LOL! Looks like Vigarosa is paving the way to collect more money from the public so he can give it to the gang programs and his affordable housing trusts and crony non-profits and Charters. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, BABY!!! YOU'RE NEVER GOIN' DOWN AND YOU'RE GONNA LIVE FOREVER!
Click on this link for the survey, it only takes a few minutes! [HACKER ALERT: I WOULDN'T CLICK ON ANYTHING THE MAYOR ASKS YOU TO UNLESS YOU ARE USING A PUBLIC COMPUTER AT THE LIBRARY, OR KINKOS, OR SOMETHING!]
If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at 213-485-1360 or via our toll-free access line, 3-1-1.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
TO CONTACT US:
http://www.LACityNeighborhoods.com
done@lacity.org Toll-free: 3-1-1 Direct:
(213) 485-1360
[Post your comments on these important issues then send them over to Antonio on toilet paper sheets, cause that's what he's gonna do with your public input. Hillary's gonna start winning, and Antonio's gonna start honoring public input. And The Doors are getting back together with Morrison!
SEE ALSO: DWP BIG BAMBOOZLE STORY: YOU WILL NEVER APPROVE ANOTHER RATE HIKE AFTER YOU READ
lacityupdate.com
To: Neighborhood Council Leaders & Stakeholders
From: BongHwan Kim, Interim General Manager of Department of
Neighborhood Empowerment
Subject: City Budget Survey
Friends/Community Partners:
Mayor Antonio R. Viagraiosa urgently requests that you take a few minutes to give us your opinions and feedback about our City's budget. These are tough times, and we want to hear from EVERYONE in the City of LA. (Help us by sending this to others).
[Can you FEEL the sincerity! Make sure you don't put your home address on the opinion/feedback form or your may end up being intimidate, followed, harassed, retaliated against and fired. (See DWP story about what happens when you give "feedback". Mayor Antonio wants feeback! This coming from the guy who has "invitation only" town hall meetings guarded by "private security", shall we call it.]
In these difficult times, the Mayor's Budget Survey asks about funding levels for services such as Park Maintenance (you'll cut it), Gang Reduction Programs (you'll raise it), and the City's contribution to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. (Big Super-Shady Issue!)
It also includes questions about safeguarding and/or attaining new revenue. (Change the mayor is the best move. Then you can clean up the illegal vending which would help safeguard and attain. It asks for feedback on how the City should handle Special Event Fee-Waivers, [UM EXCUSE ME...DO MATT, MIRIAM, SHARON AND ZD HAVE TO KEEP SHOWING UP TO TELL YOU ALL OVER AGAIN??? Just watch our last 10,000 comments], the sale of City Surplus Property (you'll sell it to your cronies), and
whether the City should change the amount it collects from the public for various services. (OH YEAH...they'll change the amount they collect from the public...they're gonna reduce it...LOL! Looks like Vigarosa is paving the way to collect more money from the public so he can give it to the gang programs and his affordable housing trusts and crony non-profits and Charters. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, BABY!!! YOU'RE NEVER GOIN' DOWN AND YOU'RE GONNA LIVE FOREVER!
Click on this link for the survey, it only takes a few minutes! [HACKER ALERT: I WOULDN'T CLICK ON ANYTHING THE MAYOR ASKS YOU TO UNLESS YOU ARE USING A PUBLIC COMPUTER AT THE LIBRARY, OR KINKOS, OR SOMETHING!]
If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at 213-485-1360 or via our toll-free access line, 3-1-1.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
TO CONTACT US:
http://www.LACityNeighborhoods.com
done@lacity.org Toll-free: 3-1-1 Direct:
(213) 485-1360
[Post your comments on these important issues then send them over to Antonio on toilet paper sheets, cause that's what he's gonna do with your public input. Hillary's gonna start winning, and Antonio's gonna start honoring public input. And The Doors are getting back together with Morrison!
SEE ALSO: DWP BIG BAMBOOZLE STORY: YOU WILL NEVER APPROVE ANOTHER RATE HIKE AFTER YOU READ
lacityupdate.com
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