Zuma Dogg, Candidate for Los Angeles Mayor, passes the 500 signature mark today on the nominating petitions. Of course, everyone knows, you need about 800-1000 signatures to get 500 "good" qualifying signatures.
SILVERLAKE FARMERS MARKET: I think Silverlake is the best place to gather signatures in the City, because I am finding a really high percentage of the people are registered to vote; and support the idea of someone running for office (from a "democratic" standpoint). Very diverse community. A real jewel of a community in Los Angeles. Today they had a Farmer's Market, and I got a bunch of signatures. You should check out the Farmer's Market of Saturday mornings, right on Sunset Blvd.
WOODLEY PARK FAIR: There was a HUGE "Children's Day" (kind of) fair at Woodley Park in Van Nuys. It was thrown by the City of Los Angeles and a lot of non-profits had booths set up, but the real attractions were the food and rides, just like with any fair. Rides were only a dollar, but food was "stadium" prices (everything double what it should have been). Fritz Coleman hosted with Los Lobos, George Lopez, Nancy "Bart Simpson" Cartwright and a bunch of TOP cartoon voices, among others ZD didn't see. But overall, there were about 5000 people (according to LAPD), and a mostly Hispanic crowd. The "Special Event Fee Waiver" on this will be H-U-G-E, but I think it is a money maker for the City. Hopefully, not a "shady" money maker. It was the first annual. If there is a second annual, CHECK IT OUT. It was the nicest "open to the public" event of it's kind that I have ever seen. (Eagle Rock Music Fest was great, too...but this was a great day-time event.)
JAMIEL'S LAW AT WOODLEY PARK: The Jamiel's Law petition gatherers got several hundred signatures, at Woodley Park, too!!! (ONE gatherer got 400 signatures ALONE!) AND THANKS TO KEVIN JAMES for letting Zuma Dogg make a last minute announcement about Jamiel's Law petition event at Woodley Park on Friday Night. One of the people who showed up to help gather signatures, heard ZD's announcement on Kevin's show, and alerted he to show up to help. (And Kevin will be especially happy to hear she was a Walter Moore supporter with Walter Moore buttons. And she was campaigning for Walter. SEE!!! ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY! (Sarcastic tone): ZD COULDN'T be happier he helped alert a Moore supporter, who showed up and campaigned for him. Maybe I can hold a charity fundraiser for Villaraiogsa, next!
TOTAL SIGNAUTRES=about 500: I got about 100 signatures on Saturday. (You can only get so many before you can't even go through the pitch one more time. Since I am the candidate, myself, people take a lot of time asking what you stand for, and you end up talking to people WAY to long, just for a petition signature. BUT that's what it takes, and there's no easy way for a guy like me, other than to continue to plow ahead. So I got the first 500...now it's off for the next 500!
PayPal Alert: Donations HAVE been coming in this week in small amounts. THANKS SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO HAS KICKED IN!!! I've been going through gas money faster than the CRA goes through tax increment money, and I'm down to my last few dollars this morning. If you haven't donated to ZD before, and would like to see "Zuma Dogg" on the ballot, please PayPal a little gas money. (Don't worry if you think the amount is small...ZD does A LOT on A LITTLE!) And if everyone PayPal'd the small amount they think is TOO small, it's A LOT to ZD!)
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Zuma Dogg on "Zuma Dogg For Mayor of Los Angeles"
i know a lot of people support walter because of J's Law, and I would vote for Walter over Antonio if I wasn't running. If i put my name on the ballot (you can't even get petitions until November) it is only because as someone who is frustrated with the direction of City Hall; an being someone who thinks I can "fix the system", I'll probably be compelled to put my name on the ballot in the same way I reluctantly head down to City Hall for public comment -- even though every one is supposed to be my last trip. But I keep going...and if I KEEP keep going, putting my name on the ballot would be the next step.
And I may not even change a thing. (May not even get around to all the fundraising and big ad campaigns.) I DON'T HAVE TO...because I just woke up and headed down to city hall for the better part of two years (plus all the radio calls and public access TV shows that people still remember). But besides the recognition (cause they can know you , but hate you); people have seen that I show up to the podium informed and seem to represent the "people's" side of things in a fair way.
NOW IF SOME BIG FOLKS DECIDED TO HELP PUT MONEY INTO MY CAMPAIGN, THAT WOULD HELP, TOO...
BUT HERE IS WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW, since you were nice enough to say you would (confidential part)...
The Deming thing is CRUCIAL. I would be a joke of a candidate if it weren't for the fact that I DO happen to be internationally published on the topic of "Methods for management of quality and productivity."
Tony Robbins sent me a letter after reading my article on Deming. Bob Pittman (then President of Time Warner Enterprises) invited me into his office for a meeting, in which he took my resume and sent it out to a few of his friends, which was BIG!
I ended up going from "out of work" in radio (because my station changed format to Country) -- to my dream radio job of Z-100/New York and ended up moving up in the world to Billboard magazine.
LOTS OF BACKGROUND IN RESEARCH. I was the known as the "research guru".
SO THE TOP THING TO DO, BESIDES KICKING EVERYONE OUT OF THE COUNTRY THAT WALTER MOORE WANTS TO KICK OUT...
If nothing else, I would get in there an improve the efficiency of all departments, Citywide -- reducing waste and expense. And it is done through empowerment and innovation.
THEN, factor in the fact that I am not a desperate, money hungry, corrupt politician -- so the money would end up going where it is supposed to as I make sure the non-profit racket is legitimized.
And all the other stuff...
ALL THE ANSWERS ARE ALREADY OUT THERE. The mayor, whoever it is, has all the top experts and resources available to them. It's a matter of what spirit and intent you have.
ZD is a "consensus machine". For some reason I'm able to talk to two people and figure out who is shady and who represents the people.
So as mayor, I would make sure the process is not rigged anymore either and simply represent the will of the people. That doesn't mean you are able to fill every pothole and fix every sidewalk, every time someone calls 3-1-1...but I DO NOT THINK the will of the people are being executed in these community plans.
And all these top minds throughout the city know who Deming is. You cannot make it through the university system and upper-level management classes without knowing Deming. But most people know WHO he is, and a little about his 14 points...but it is the Presidents of Sony/Time Warner/Fortune 500 CEOS that get excited about Deming.
When these top level people and organizers find out ZD is going to implement Deming's 14 points...they'll see ZD is no joke and they'll throw everyone else under the bus.
DEMING IS AN INTERNATIONAL STANDARD. I was at Tourism and Economic Committee meeting with Rosendahl and Hahn to tell them, "When a big money investor flies to Los Angeles from China, India, Dubai or wherever -- they know as soon as they step off the plane and into a taxi that Los Angeles does not embrace Deming. It's an insult.
The world is used to a certain standard, and when they visit Los Angeles, it is a real shock, sad commentary, frustrating and considered an insult to some international investors. ("Why haven't these lazy Americans implemented Deming's 14 points?")
The guy has his own coin in Japan, and he is from Washington, D.C. (LOL!)
SO AS MAYOR, ZD WOULD START BY:
* Empowering City employees to start putting common sense back into the job, because ZD knows you already know what to do and where the problems lie. You have just been working in a fear based, vindictive environment. Please let your supervisor know how they can "fix the system" for you to allow yourselves to do better jobs.
As mayor, that's job #1...fixing the system so that city employees can best do their jobs. Most of the problems a customer encounters isn't the employee's fault. It's the bosses fault for not "fixing the system" for the individual.
* Listening to ZD's favorite top experts and tell them to do a 180 degree turnaround on the shadiness. For example, take CLA Gerry Miller who writes up all of these shady agenda items. Well, that's just because the mayor and CMs are telling him to come up with this shady stuff. (Prop S, new fees and hikes and all the stuff ZD alerts people to on TV 35.)
Well, I would say to Gerry, "Here's the direction we need to take and the outcome we need to achieve...and he would be just as clever and brilliant at coming up with UN-SHADY legalese for ZD and the City.
* NON-PROFITS: #1 PROBLEM. It's money that is supposed to help the communities that need it the most, but they never get the services that are promised -- so the community falls into further disrepair. Not all problems are due to city corruption. But I want to make sure it isn't ANY of the problem. Because if the money was being spent in the spirit in which it is intended, the communities would be better off and there would be less of all the problems people are complaining about.)
* SPECIAL ORDER 40/Jamiel's Law/etc.: ZD says you don't have to go through all the revisions and changes and new laws and all of that.
Bratton knows what to do. He isn't doing it because of Villar politics. The police WANT to do their jobs, but are not allowed. All it would take to start achieving the goals that Kevin James and Walter want to achieve is a phone call to Bratton from the mayor telling him to start doing the job he was hired for. In other words, revisions to SO 40/Jamiel's Law and things like that may take a while...while you are waiting for that...there's A LOT, A LOT, A LOT that can be done with a simple call from the mayor to the chief telling him to start enforcing the will of the community.
MORE TO COME...
And I may not even change a thing. (May not even get around to all the fundraising and big ad campaigns.) I DON'T HAVE TO...because I just woke up and headed down to city hall for the better part of two years (plus all the radio calls and public access TV shows that people still remember). But besides the recognition (cause they can know you , but hate you); people have seen that I show up to the podium informed and seem to represent the "people's" side of things in a fair way.
NOW IF SOME BIG FOLKS DECIDED TO HELP PUT MONEY INTO MY CAMPAIGN, THAT WOULD HELP, TOO...
BUT HERE IS WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW, since you were nice enough to say you would (confidential part)...
The Deming thing is CRUCIAL. I would be a joke of a candidate if it weren't for the fact that I DO happen to be internationally published on the topic of "Methods for management of quality and productivity."
Tony Robbins sent me a letter after reading my article on Deming. Bob Pittman (then President of Time Warner Enterprises) invited me into his office for a meeting, in which he took my resume and sent it out to a few of his friends, which was BIG!
I ended up going from "out of work" in radio (because my station changed format to Country) -- to my dream radio job of Z-100/New York and ended up moving up in the world to Billboard magazine.
LOTS OF BACKGROUND IN RESEARCH. I was the known as the "research guru".
SO THE TOP THING TO DO, BESIDES KICKING EVERYONE OUT OF THE COUNTRY THAT WALTER MOORE WANTS TO KICK OUT...
If nothing else, I would get in there an improve the efficiency of all departments, Citywide -- reducing waste and expense. And it is done through empowerment and innovation.
THEN, factor in the fact that I am not a desperate, money hungry, corrupt politician -- so the money would end up going where it is supposed to as I make sure the non-profit racket is legitimized.
And all the other stuff...
ALL THE ANSWERS ARE ALREADY OUT THERE. The mayor, whoever it is, has all the top experts and resources available to them. It's a matter of what spirit and intent you have.
ZD is a "consensus machine". For some reason I'm able to talk to two people and figure out who is shady and who represents the people.
So as mayor, I would make sure the process is not rigged anymore either and simply represent the will of the people. That doesn't mean you are able to fill every pothole and fix every sidewalk, every time someone calls 3-1-1...but I DO NOT THINK the will of the people are being executed in these community plans.
And all these top minds throughout the city know who Deming is. You cannot make it through the university system and upper-level management classes without knowing Deming. But most people know WHO he is, and a little about his 14 points...but it is the Presidents of Sony/Time Warner/Fortune 500 CEOS that get excited about Deming.
When these top level people and organizers find out ZD is going to implement Deming's 14 points...they'll see ZD is no joke and they'll throw everyone else under the bus.
DEMING IS AN INTERNATIONAL STANDARD. I was at Tourism and Economic Committee meeting with Rosendahl and Hahn to tell them, "When a big money investor flies to Los Angeles from China, India, Dubai or wherever -- they know as soon as they step off the plane and into a taxi that Los Angeles does not embrace Deming. It's an insult.
The world is used to a certain standard, and when they visit Los Angeles, it is a real shock, sad commentary, frustrating and considered an insult to some international investors. ("Why haven't these lazy Americans implemented Deming's 14 points?")
The guy has his own coin in Japan, and he is from Washington, D.C. (LOL!)
SO AS MAYOR, ZD WOULD START BY:
* Empowering City employees to start putting common sense back into the job, because ZD knows you already know what to do and where the problems lie. You have just been working in a fear based, vindictive environment. Please let your supervisor know how they can "fix the system" for you to allow yourselves to do better jobs.
As mayor, that's job #1...fixing the system so that city employees can best do their jobs. Most of the problems a customer encounters isn't the employee's fault. It's the bosses fault for not "fixing the system" for the individual.
* Listening to ZD's favorite top experts and tell them to do a 180 degree turnaround on the shadiness. For example, take CLA Gerry Miller who writes up all of these shady agenda items. Well, that's just because the mayor and CMs are telling him to come up with this shady stuff. (Prop S, new fees and hikes and all the stuff ZD alerts people to on TV 35.)
Well, I would say to Gerry, "Here's the direction we need to take and the outcome we need to achieve...and he would be just as clever and brilliant at coming up with UN-SHADY legalese for ZD and the City.
* NON-PROFITS: #1 PROBLEM. It's money that is supposed to help the communities that need it the most, but they never get the services that are promised -- so the community falls into further disrepair. Not all problems are due to city corruption. But I want to make sure it isn't ANY of the problem. Because if the money was being spent in the spirit in which it is intended, the communities would be better off and there would be less of all the problems people are complaining about.)
* SPECIAL ORDER 40/Jamiel's Law/etc.: ZD says you don't have to go through all the revisions and changes and new laws and all of that.
Bratton knows what to do. He isn't doing it because of Villar politics. The police WANT to do their jobs, but are not allowed. All it would take to start achieving the goals that Kevin James and Walter want to achieve is a phone call to Bratton from the mayor telling him to start doing the job he was hired for. In other words, revisions to SO 40/Jamiel's Law and things like that may take a while...while you are waiting for that...there's A LOT, A LOT, A LOT that can be done with a simple call from the mayor to the chief telling him to start enforcing the will of the community.
MORE TO COME...
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