BREAKING: Did L.A. Mayor Garcetti Instruct LAPD Chief Beck To Release Fake Crime Stats That Beck Is Now Being Sued Over?:

STAGED EVENT: Same day a lawsuit is filed against LAPD Chief
Beck for FAKE crime stats -- he announces his (FORCED) retirement.
Mayor Garcetti can't have anything distracting from his presidential hopes.
But, this is sure to end them. More to come. Just getting started.

Based on what I've heard, the question needs to be asked, "Did L.A. Mayor (and U.S. Presidential hopeful) Eric Garcetti instruct LAPD Chief Charlie Beck to release Garcetti's fudged (fake) crime
statistics (that Beck is now being sued over) -- based on Garcetti's shady (fake) math -- to make Garcetti look as though he reduced crime; post Villaraigosa-era spike?"

Will Charlie Beck roll over and make this information public during the lawsuit over the fake crime stats? I believe it won't be done publicly, in court, but look for word to leak that Garcetti provided Beck with the fake accounting on crime -- then instructed him to release those stats.

Beck reports to Garcetti. Do you think Beck would do this behind his boss' back? Or, do you believe it is more likely that the boss instructed his staffer what to do. Beck serves at Garcetti's pleasure and may be fired at any time. But, Eric wants this clean and not be a meanie, so he had Beck retire. You think Charlie wants to cut years off his pension/benefits cause of some dumb lawsuit?

FINAL LIST OF QUALIFIED CANDIDATES IN LOS ANGELES MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL & SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS

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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NEW: LA Weekly article about "public access TV" featuring Zuma Dogg. (Really featuring!) Also on newstands everywhere in Los Angeles.

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. 

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Full Text of Zuma Dogg's Article In "The Voice" (November Issue)

DAILY NEWS INTERVIEWS "ZUMA DOGG FOR MAYOR": Thanks to the Daily News for interviewing Zuma Dogg as Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles. They are doing a story on some of the other candidates, besides Villaraigosa. Hopefully, some substantive stuff will make it in. (Look for article to hit this week.)

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ZUMA DOGG'S FINAL PUBLIC ACCESS SHOW: Yesterday, I shot my final public access show at the Time Warner studio in Santa Monica. I've been a producer there for over eight years. The final shows (I recorded two, half-hour shows) will start airing THIS SUNDAY at 10:30pm and will make the rounds across the City.

ZD at his FINAL Time-Warner TV shoot yesterday, 11/11/08

Santa Monica Time Warner (Covering most of the L.A. Basin and all along the 101 from Woodland Hills to Eagle Rock.):
SUN 11/16 @ 10:30 pm
THURS 11/20 @ 10:00 pm

Hollywood Time Warner (Formerly Comcast):
MON 11/24 11:30 pm
FRI 11/28 11:00 pm

ZUMA DOGG ARTICLE IN "THE VOICE":

Thank you so much to Carlos Morales and the staff at "The Voice" for allowing me this opportunity to address the community in his newspaper.

Hopefully, many of you reading this recognize the name "Zuma Dogg" from frequent appearances at the L.A. City Council meetings (as broadcast on City TV 35), AM Talk Radio calls and blogging at LA Daily Blog.com.

For those wondering what brought me into City Hall and turned me into a "community advocate"; two and a half years ago my career took an unexpected turn, when I was forced to become an activist over LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s new Venice Beach ordinance that banned the sale of (constitutionally protected) items such as incense, jewelry and T-shirts -- like the ones that my friends and I were selling.

Once people saw me speaking on how shady the City was regarding Venice, people started asking me to speak a little about their own issues. And I quickly found out how frequently the community gets the short end of the stick under Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's City Hall.

During my time as a local public advocate, no area of the City has been a more vocal "squeaky wheel" than CD14 , much to the dismay of Councilmember Jose Huizar. (Followed closely by CD 1…much to the dismay of Councilmember Ed Reyes.)

Based on my email inbox, there is no question these districts are the most aware, active and tight-knit community in the City; with some of the best information being sent my way regarding the "tug-o-war" issues between the community and the City. (And yes, sometimes the "tug-o-war" between community members.)

And I would like to let all the readers of "The Voice" know that Carlos, his staff and network of community members have mentored and tutored Zuma Dogg on the inner workings of City Hall more than any one else in the City. Who knows, maybe I would still be a one-issue (Venice Beach) guy if it wasn't for the people in "The Voice" reading area.

So it's turned out to be an interesting relationship between the unwitting advocate from the west side (who had never even been to the area) and the people of CD 14 who were taking up more of my time as an activist than all the other areas of the city, combined.

Although the day-to-day grind of "fighting city hall" as a broke-ass activist is nothing glamorous...the feedback from people on the streets who let me know they appreciate the effort and are paying attention is the fuel that keeps me waking up and heading down to City Hall for "one more day of public comment" to blast City Council and the Mayor on all their wastefulness and community back-stabbing. (I've been going to City Hall for public comment for more than two and a half years...and EVERY day is my last day.)

But then I wake up, turn on the radio...look at the blogs...look at the news...I get cranky at what I am hearing...and I head down for "one more round of public comments."

And now, it is the first mayoral election since I have been an activist/advocate, or whatever you want to call it.

And the same force that compels me to wake up every day and do as much as I can to "fight city hall" and help "take back the city" has compelled me to head on over to the City Clerks Election Division and Ethics Commission to file the paperwork and qualified for nominating petitions.

As the deadline to file to run for mayor approached, the thought of missing out on the chance to place my name on the ballot made me nauseaus and cranky. I was getting sick at the thought of having to sit on the sidelines. And if I want to help "fix" the City and make City Council start representing the communities they live in, instead of their own "special interests and cronies," being Mayor would allow me to do much more to start doing things the peoples' way. (Voice of the Pueblos!)

So now, the only thing in the way of having "Zuma Dogg" on the March 3rd, 2009 ballot for "Mayor" in the LA City elections are 500, or so, signatures on the nominating petitions. The deadline is December 3rd, so I should be able to get them.

My "campaign headquarters" are not too far out of "The Voice" area...It's the new Casa Princesa Cafe in Eagle Rock, right on the border of Highland Park. The address is 4527 York Blvd., about 500 feet East of Eagle Rock Blvd.)

I'll be hosting Open Mic/Karaoke every FRIDAY NIGHT at 7 PM, and having a parking lot fair every SATURDAY MORNING at 10 AM. Stop by either day to sign the nominating petition. And Zuma Dogg's "99 Cent Toy Zone" (great low-prices toys that the kids love) will be set up both days, too, for the Holiday Season.

Thanks again to everyone from "The Voice" and everyone in CD 14 who I have met, or spoken with on the phone, or corresponded with via email (ZumaDogg@Mayor09.com).

So now, hopefully we can take it to the next level and help "Take Back The City" in March 2009.


WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE NAME "ZUMA DOGG" ON THE BALLOT?: If you would like to see the name "Zuma Dogg" on the ballot in the Los Angeles Mayoral Election, please hit me up with a PayPal donation, today, so I can carry on.

If I don't get some donations, it ain't gonna happen! (Don't have enough gas money to get signatures. I'm just sitting here, today, wasting time.)

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Zuma Dogg's 14 Point Plan For LA City Hall as Mayor of Los Angeles

(Pictured: Dr. W. Edwards Deming. ZD doesn't speak a word without running it through his 14 point filter.)

A lot of people say a lot of things when they run for Mayor. But as just about everyone who supported Antonio Villaraigosa the first time can tell you, it's nothing but a crap-shoot and you have NO IDEA what to expect when they walk into office on Day One.

ZUMA DOGG WANTS TO MAKE IT SIMPLE:

Here is the "14 Point Plan" that I will immediately start to implement on Day One as Mayor of Los Angeles should the voters chose to allow me this opportunity.

So in case you are wondering what would happen on Day One if Zuma Dogg were Mayor of Los Angeles...here is EXACTLY WHAT TO EXPECT! This is to complete enchilada when it comes to my "Operation Manual" to improve the City of Los Angeles.

These 14 points are based on Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Deming was American who taught the Japanese about "quality" on the job and in the factory. Deming was a "statistician."

This article below was published internationally in "Quality Digest" and was praised by Dr. Deming, himself (which caused quite a few waves).

Dear (Mr. Dogg)

I thank you for your FAX letter dated 2 May 1992. I agree with your statement that (ZD’s stated example) is an example of attempt to produce quality by inspection. Grading of pupils in school is another example of attempts to produce quality by inspection. As a way of life, it does not work. I appreciate much the attachment that you sent. It is well done. I thank you and remain

Sincerely yours,

W. Edwards Deming

[People could not believe he sent this to me because he never did this type of thing, I was told. And some Deming fans made me fax the letter to them for proof. THAT'S HOW RARE THIS TYPE OF STATEMENT FROM DEMING WAS...Thank you! Thank you!]

These 14 points are all about constant and never ending improvement; empowerment; fixing the system for the workers (not blaming them); breaking down barriers between departments; AND MOSTLY...INNOVATION! Maybe ZD can be appointed as "Empowerment and Innovation" Commissioner by Villaraigrosa.

Mayor Zuma Dogg's "14 Point Plan" for the City of Los Angeles ("Interpreting Deming's 14 Points")

Why we need to implement these 14 points.

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