NEW YEAR'S EVE:
Zuma Dogg's Vegas-style Karaoke/DJ event in Agoura Hills.
Zuma Dogg will be co-hosting New Year's Eve at The Alamo in Agoura Hills. 101, exit Kanan exit.
It is hosted by Gold Dust Entertainment. Voted #1 DJ (Weddings) by FOX 11 poll for the second straight year. And this is ZD's favorite place to chill, and get away from it all. So if you are somewhere along the 101...stop by. IT'S FREE/NO COVER. And it's ZD's version of a "Cheers" bar. GREAT FOOD, TOO.
Alamo The - 5617 Kanan Rd, Agoura Hills - (818) 889-5092 or ZD's cell phone 213-785-7272.
(Easy to find, in Vons/CVS shopping plaza. ENDLESS FREE Parking.)
NEW YEAR'S DAY
Rose Bowl Party
Thursday Jan, 1st, 2009 - 12Noon
ZUMA DOGG
For Mayor
DJs * LIVE Music * Food * Voter Info
USC vs. Penn State
Corner of:
BROADWAY & DALY
2437 N. Broadway
Lincoln Heights, CA 90031
Meet and Greet:
Zuma Dogg, Candidate for Mayor
Jesse Rosas, Candidate for L.A. City Council District 1
ZumaDoggForMayor.com – Rosas2009.org
"Let's Clean Up City Hall"
ZumaDoggForMayor.com
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
Community ROSE BOWL PARTY - New Year's Day in Lincoln Heights, CA
LA Voters For Change
ZUMA DOGG
For Mayor
Thursday January 1st, 2009
NEW YEAR'S DAY
Rose Bowl Party
12Noon - End of Game
DJs * LIVE Music * Food * Voter Info
USC vs. Penn State
Corner of
BROADWAY & DALY
2437 N. Broadway
Lincoln Heights, CA 90031
Meet and Greet
Zuma Dogg, Candidate for Mayor
Jesse Rosas, Candidate for L.A. City Council District 1
"Let's Clean Up City Hall"
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Los Angeles City Controller LAURA CHICK on Chicago-Style Closed Door Ballot Measure "B"..."THE PROCESS STINKS HERE."
Controller Laura Chick on KPCC's Larry Mantle "Air Talk", Dec. 23, 2008
It just feels wrong, it feels like were going backwards, like were starting to use Chicago as our role model city you know the way Chicago gets things done where deals are being struck behind closed doors all the time and the public isn't in the mix very much.
What's wrong to me is the process, something moved very quickly within three weeks with the most minimal public discussion, very little committee review. Typically, the council lmembers all want an issue that remotely relates to their committee to go to their committee. It is not at all unusual for issues especially things going on the ballot to go to two or three committees. Certainly, the Budget and Finance Committee, Councilman Parks' committee, to look at issues of fiscal impact, and potential cost. None of thiat happened here.
Three weeks, this thing I think maybe went to one committee very little debate, or discussion or reports presented or analysis requested..and boom its going on the ballot. We hear that taxpayer dollars were spent for outside consultant expert advice ....and that advice it seems was suppressed, suppressed even within the council.and certainly to the public including really some disingenuous efforts made to deny the existence of the report and to keep this information hidden and secret.
On top of that, a last-minute, stealth, at the 12th hour, almost as the clock was striking midnight, a heavy-hitting political lawyer serves a lawsuit against the citizens who have written the against argument on this solar ballot measure and yanks them into court and i think suing for legal fees as well...They're going to teach them a lesson.what is going on in City Hall...
This is an anti-transparency City Hall right now
The process stinks here. Green power, solar power, we know are good things. Creating union wage jos is a good thing, that's how our middle class is hanging on by their fingernails. But the public deserves to have thoughtful open public airing of different points of view of potential risks of the different analyses...
The way a council member should be making a decision is listening to those different tpoints of view. There was no rush here but there seems to a rush here. What is that about...My suspicion is the decision was made behind closed doors with visits from proponents of this to individual elected officials and discussions, not illegal, not violating the Brown Act, were had and everybody got on board and sold this is a good thing. This is certainly a step to helping the mayor deliver on a promise that is really been pie in the sky and that's 20 percent renewable energy by 2010 for L.A.
The decision was made at that front end without needing to have the questions really analyzed asked and answered. It was a deal that was cut. It's my basic philosphy as an elected official when you do things that way when you're cutting deals and you don't want to discuss in detail in public, that's not in the best interest of the public
It just feels wrong, it feels like were going backwards, like were starting to use Chicago as our role model city you know the way Chicago gets things done where deals are being struck behind closed doors all the time and the public isn't in the mix very much.
What's wrong to me is the process, something moved very quickly within three weeks with the most minimal public discussion, very little committee review. Typically, the council lmembers all want an issue that remotely relates to their committee to go to their committee. It is not at all unusual for issues especially things going on the ballot to go to two or three committees. Certainly, the Budget and Finance Committee, Councilman Parks' committee, to look at issues of fiscal impact, and potential cost. None of thiat happened here.
Three weeks, this thing I think maybe went to one committee very little debate, or discussion or reports presented or analysis requested..and boom its going on the ballot. We hear that taxpayer dollars were spent for outside consultant expert advice ....and that advice it seems was suppressed, suppressed even within the council.and certainly to the public including really some disingenuous efforts made to deny the existence of the report and to keep this information hidden and secret.
On top of that, a last-minute, stealth, at the 12th hour, almost as the clock was striking midnight, a heavy-hitting political lawyer serves a lawsuit against the citizens who have written the against argument on this solar ballot measure and yanks them into court and i think suing for legal fees as well...They're going to teach them a lesson.what is going on in City Hall...
This is an anti-transparency City Hall right now
The process stinks here. Green power, solar power, we know are good things. Creating union wage jos is a good thing, that's how our middle class is hanging on by their fingernails. But the public deserves to have thoughtful open public airing of different points of view of potential risks of the different analyses...
The way a council member should be making a decision is listening to those different tpoints of view. There was no rush here but there seems to a rush here. What is that about...My suspicion is the decision was made behind closed doors with visits from proponents of this to individual elected officials and discussions, not illegal, not violating the Brown Act, were had and everybody got on board and sold this is a good thing. This is certainly a step to helping the mayor deliver on a promise that is really been pie in the sky and that's 20 percent renewable energy by 2010 for L.A.
The decision was made at that front end without needing to have the questions really analyzed asked and answered. It was a deal that was cut. It's my basic philosphy as an elected official when you do things that way when you're cutting deals and you don't want to discuss in detail in public, that's not in the best interest of the public
Recent Press on Measure B (DWP Solar Energy Bond/March 3 Election) VOTE NO!
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraiogsa Tries To Silence The Public Over "Risky" Ballot Measure "B" (Solar Energy BONDoggle)
...S BLOG: City Hall Seeks to Silence Critics It's amazing to me that this story has yet to show up in any of the local media when one considers the civil liberties implications of the Mayor of a major city taking opponents of a controversial measure to court to silence their dissent. In searching the net, the activist...
LA City Update - 5:17 PM (5 minutes ago)
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraiogsa Tries To Silence The Public Over "Risky" Ballot Measure "B" (Solar Energy BONDoggle)
...S BLOG: City Hall Seeks to Silence Critics It's amazing to me that this story has yet to show up in any of the local media when one considers the civil liberties implications of the Mayor of a major city taking opponents of a controversial measure to court to silence their dissent. In searching the net, the activis...
LA City News - 5:13 PM (9 minutes ago)
City Hall Political Machine Tries to Intimidate Activist Community
...blic Debate on Solar Energy Fraud Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his team of lobbyists, strategists and pay-to-play cronies have sued the eight people who signed the No. on Prop. B ballot argument -- an attempt at intimidation under the guise of law.This measure isn't about solar energy and has nothing to do with the largest solar energy in...
LA City News - 10:47 AM (6 hours ago)
[Zuma Press] Recent "Zuma-Dogg" Blog Mentions
...blic Access TVvia Google Alerts - zuma-dogg by LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA on 12/26/08By Rick Anderson By Patrick Range McDonald The day before Thanksgiving, Zuma Dogg, an outspoken community activist who has a comedian's sense of the absurd, ...Meet Your New Mayoral Candidate...via Google Alerts - zuma-dogg by Valley Doll(Valley Doll) on 12/...
Zuma Times Blog - Dec 26, 2008 (2 days ago)
[Zuma Press] Recent "Zuma-Dogg" Blog Mentions
...blic Access TVvia Google Alerts - zuma-dogg by LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA on 12/26/08By Rick Anderson By Patrick Range McDonald The day before Thanksgiving, Zuma Dogg, an outspoken community activist who has a comedian's sense of the absurd, ...Meet Your New Mayoral Candidate...via Google Alerts - zuma-dogg by Valley Doll(Valley Doll) on 12/...
LA City News - Dec 26, 2008 (2 days ago)
Sunshine on Solar Fraud: The City Council Debate
...bout things and make up their own minds but if I have to go back to the fateful City Council meeting on Nov. 7 and listen to these people prattle dishonestly about a half-baked solar energy plan, you should to.The debate started with President Eric Garcetti asking -- or more precisely answering -- what he claimed were the 13 questions distilled ...
Ron Kaye L.A. - Dec 25, 2008 (3 days ago)
Scenario for Dictatorship: Los Angeles of, by and for the Special Interests
...the people behind Antonio Villaraigosa -- men like Ari Swiller and Keith Brackpool who have huge investments in water and power development companies -- have been raising millions in campaign funds for the mayor and the political machine he heads.They are part of the inner circle of strategists and operatives who see themselves on the brink of c...
Ron Kaye L.A. - Dec 22, 2008 (6 days ago)
Lincoln High 90031- Quick Notes: The City "asks" for your advice ...
...Blog- City of L.A.'s fraud, waste, & abuse · MORE Bad Publicity For Villaraigosa/Garcetti's MEASURE B (Solar Energy BONDoggle) by LA TIMES (And They Are Supposed to SUPPORT VIAGRAOSA!) - ... Lincoln High 90031- Quick Notes - http://lincolnquicknotes.blogspot.com/
Google Alerts - zuma-dogg - Dec 22, 2008 (6 days ago)
LA Daily Blog.com - Dec 20, 2008 4:29 PM
L.A.'s Solar Energy Fraud: Is this what President-elect Obama stands for?
...bility for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's fraudulent solar energy proposal leads straight to President-elect Obama, raising questions about whether all that talk of change and citizen participation and democracy was just so much lip service.The mayor himself was named to Obama's transition team of economic advisers. Deputy Mayor Nancy Sutley -- ar...
Ron Kaye L.A. - Dec 22, 2008 (6 days ago)
NEW: Welcome to LOS ANGELES VOTERS FOR CHANGE (March 3, 2009 Election Slate)
...candidates and ballot positions in the March 3, 2009 City of Los Angeles general election.The Power of LA Voters For ChangeWe The People of Los Angeles, have a chance to create some real change at City Hall during the March 3, 2009 general election where Antonio Villaraigosa is up for re-election, several Los Angeles city council and LAUSD board...
L.A. Voters For Change - Dec 23, 2008 (5 days ago)
L.A. Voters For Change: Los Angeles Times Exposes Measure B (Solar ...
...burg (Aka: Zuma Dogg); City Attorney: Noel Weiss, Carmen Trutanich; City Controller: Nick Patsouras; Council District 1: Jesse Rosas; Council District 3: Dennis P. Zine (Incumbent); Council District 5: David T. Vahedi ... LA Voters For Change - http://lavotersforchange.blogspot.com/
Google Alerts - zuma-dogg - Dec 19, 2008 1:04 PM
Los Angeles Times Exposes Measure B (Solar Energy Bond) As "Extremely Risky" While Council President Eric Garcetti Witholds Information From Public
...bitious L.A. solar plan 'extremely risky' An outside consultant says Measure B, which easily made the March 3 ballot, is more costly than portrayed by the city's Department of Water and Power.By David ZahniserDecember 19, 2008When members of the Los Angeles City Council agreed last month to put an ambitious solar energy plan on the March 3 ballo...
L.A. Voters For Change - Dec 19, 2008 1:02 PM
City Hall's Solar Energy Fraud Revealed
...oppose Proposition B -- the solar energy fraud measure -- into court this morning to challenge most of their argument on the March 3 ballot.Kaufman -- who has long represented the mayor and boasts his clients include the City Attorney, a majority of the City Council, powerful city unions, numerous Democratic Party politicians, several insider in...
Ron Kaye L.A. - Dec 22, 2008 (6 days ago)
Analysis calls ambitious L.A. solar plan 'extremely risky'
...consultant says Measure B, which easily made the March 3 ballot, is more costly than portrayed by the city's Department of Water and Power. When members of the Los Angeles City Council agreed last month to put an ambitious solar energy plan on the March 3 ...
Los Angeles Times - Top News - Dec 18, 2008 10:54 PM
Analysis calls ambitious L.A. solar plan 'extremely risky'
...consultant says Measure B, which easily made the March 3 ballot, is more costly than portrayed by the city's Department of Water and Power. When members of the Los Angeles City Council agreed last month to put an ambitious solar energy plan on the March 3 ...
L.A. Times - California | Local News - Dec 18, 2008 10:28 PM
Vote "No" on Prop. B -- The Solar Energy Fraud
...March 3 ballot measure Proposition B is a fraud and must be defeated.A lot of discussion focused on the lack of strong candidates taking on the mayor or any of the six incumbents seeking a third term they are eligible for thanks to the ruse they used to undo term limits restrictions under the guise of meaningless ethics reform in Proposition R.M...
Ron Kaye L.A. - Dec 7, 2008 5:09 PM
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraiogsa Tries To Silence The Public Over "Risky" Ballot Measure "B" (Solar Energy BONDoggle)
FROM MAYOR SAM'S BLOG: City Hall Seeks to Silence Critics
First some background to get you up to speed. Last month the Council rushed to place a measure on the March City Primary ballot which would effectively raise DWP rates 12% (on top of an already approved 24%) to fund an initiative for solar energy. The plan calls for the DWP to use taxpayer funds to place solar panels on the roofs of public and private buildings using only DWP employees who are members of the politically connected International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union whose various arms and committees have donated thousands of dollars to LA's elected officials in recent years, including chief plan proponents Council President Eric Garcetti, Council Member and City Controller candidate Wendy Greuel and Mayor Villaraigosa. The speed with which the Council moved to place the measure on the ballot led the LA Times to remark that it had the "scent of a swindle."
"This rush to the ballot has the scent of swindle about it."
LA Times
The next turn in the story of a swindle was excellent reporting by the only reporter apparently awake at the LA Times, David Zahniser discovered a "secret" analysis by a City hired consulting firm found the plan "extremely risky' and considerably more expensive than was being portrayed by the Department of Water and Power.'" The key findings of the analysis inlclude that the DWP, in the consultants analysis, does not have the infrastructure in place to carry out the program and that it would cost at least $2 billion more than DWP General Manager H. David Nahai claims it will.
Amazingly, according to Zahniser's report, when Garcetti received the consultant's findings he allegedly not only kept them from the public but his fellow members of the Council. After the sunlight shone by the Times' story, Garcetti released the report to Council members (of course well after they voted to place the measure on the ballot).
But here's where it gets worse. Former Daily News editor turned blogger and activist Ron Kaye joined with several other community activists in composing the ballot argument against the plan. However the straightforward argument, mild in tone, was apparently too much for the Mayor and the Council. Earlier last week Villaraigosa hired an attorney and drug Kaye and his co-writers - including City Controller candidate and former DWP Commissioner Nick Patsaouras - into court to challenge their argument, calling it full of lies and mistruths (read the argument and do your own research - Kaye's argument is backed up by the facts). Amazingly, in addition to asking the court to throw out the opponents' ballot argument, the Mayor and his toadies are asking Kaye et al to come up with the court costs.
"They have made our Christmas week tough, trying to find a lawyer, raise money, understand the law and the risks we face."
Ron Kaye
Kaye and his associates are faced with going up against high powered and high paid attorneys including a well funded plaintiff in the case - high powered lobbyist Mitchell Schwartz - particulary during the holidays when attorneys and resources are in limited supply. Kaye reports that attorney and longtime activist Noel Weiss - himself a candidate for City Attorney - has joined The Solar Eight -- Jack Humphreville, Soledad Garcia, Humberto Camacho, Kristine Lee, Nick Patsaouras, Joe Pulido, James O'Sullivan and Kaye - as their legal advisor in the fight.
The case's next hearing is January 8 where the group will answer the Mayor's toadies' charges. That is a significant date for civil liberties, transparency and good government in Los Angeles. We will be watching.
Labels: David Zahniser, dwp, eric garcetti, H. David Nahai, kevin roderick, mayor antonio villaraigosa, nick patsouras, noel weiss, Ron Kaye, solar energy, wendy greuel
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