The news is out and Mayor Villaraigosa's plans are staying open for him to run in 2010 for Governor of California. A few things to consider- First, Tony has to WIN the election to a second term as mayor first. Otherwise, who would consider him for Governor if he did not win? See the Associated Press reference in the "Street Hassle" blog, http://street-hassle.blogspot.com/2009/02/mayor-skips-local-scribes-gives.html Tony had come out and say this since he already failed to honor his promis to serve out the full term as our council member in CD-14. Instead, he left as soon as the Mayor's race came up, not doing much for CD-14 for the people. It would really look bad for him to get caught in another lie on the very same question, so he has to admit this, and he takes your vote for granted anyway.
Next, if you think Tony was missing a lot from the City of L.A. BEFORE while he traveled freely on his fundraising for his campaign for mayor (and how much travel done at the City's expense?), JUST IMAGINE him running for Governor. Add up the past years' traveling to help Hillary Clinton's nomination for the Democratic candidate for President, and then, all the time after he shifted over to the Obama side after Hillary ended her bid, and you see lots of time lost to the City of L.A. as Mayor. It's clear that being the mayor rates second to rubbing elbows with bigger politicians to move Tony's own career.
Do you know that the L.A. WEEKLY article that was mentioned here in the past calculated that it was an amount of 11% of Tony's time spent actually on CITY business? The fundraising, personal travel and photo ops do a lot for being a High-Visibility character, but little for first-hand dealing with actual needs of the city
TONY refuses debate invitations and will not give the VOTERS the courtesy of TELLING WHY he should be re-elected. Treating the voters as small children to do as daddy says is not the quality that a mayor or any elected official should have.
There are no debates for TONY because there is NOTHING GOOD TO SAY on TONY's side- he will only be embarrassed and unable to explain too many things from a wide open range of topices. It's not a good idea to expose himself to that risk, so he won't debate so that he can't be caught on his poor showing as Mayor. The outcome for him can only be bad. His voter-insulting choice to have no debate appearances shows HOW bad things are for him to do that to voters. If he has no respect for your choice and evaluation, WHY vote for him anyway?
That quality is, however, no surprise since that is the way he treats others supporting him. If there is any objection, you discover that the appointee quickly finds that they are "unwelcome" and are soon replaced. If you "follow his direction" you see that the commissions and committees are staffed with his choices as their rewards for cooperating.
All politics, all the time.
DON'T vote for Tony on March 3rd. But that doesn't mean to stay home. You need to cast your vote for ANY of the challengers to keep TONY from getting over 50% of the vote and force a runoff election.
There are nearly a dozen challengers, and my pick is Zuma Dogg as the most informed and relevant candidate, but there are others who are running that would no doubt be an improvement over the current Mayor.
Don't vote for Villaraigosa UNLESS you want a mayor who puts his own goals ahead of the benefit of the city and the people.
REMEMBER, because of the Mayor's directions, Your trash fees tripled, the parking meters went from 25 cents an hour to $1.00 per hour, and extended to 8 pm or later in many areas, and some Sunday free parking was eliminated. All this to raise more money to make TONY look good for the next step in the political ladder. And that's just the simple examples- there's plenty more.
Also note, that the Obama cabinet could have chosen Tony to fill some spot in the administration, but Tony had to much personal baggage to bring onboard. He was a political undesirable. Tony said that he was not taking a position with the Obama administration- sure, he wasn't offered any.
The Democratic Convention was a signal of the arrogance of Tony coming to full bloom. Tony took his full security entourage with him onto the floor of the convention, perhaps the safest place in the world at that time, with multiple levels of security already in place and a plentiful supply of Secret Service agents present. Even the object of many news reports, Mayor Gavin Newsome from San Francisco, left his security crew behind and was able to move about easily, but TONY was very conspicuous by having the large group in tow.
That is why his style is called "It's all about me" mayor from the L.A. Weekly story in September. Well, there's a follow up to the story in the L.A. Weekly,
"Villaraigosa, the All About Me Mayor, Is Still 11 Percent There," by Patrick Range MacDonald, Dec. 30, 2008- http://www.laweekly.com/2009-01-01/news/villaraigosa-the-all-about-me-mayor-is-still-11-percent-there/
If you want to be Tony's stooge for dollars and wind up paying more and more taxes to advance Tony's career, like his expensive "Measure R" created for the Subway to the Sea project, you might think it over to see how expensive it is, and it won't be finished, if ever, until 2032. The estimate for the Subway to the sea alone is over $6 billion - that is over a million dollars times 6,000.
See the article in L.A. TIMES, "Subway to the Sea timetable too long for L.A. Mayor, "
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/07/local/me-subway7
My pick for mayor is Zuma Dogg. You are free to select from assorted challengers, but knowing ZD, we would have an involved person and a positive thinking one to replace an ego-driving political machine moving from office to office.
Vote March 3. Bring out all your registered voters and stand up for yourself in this city. The March turnout is predicted to be as low as 11% of the voters in the city ("11%- that's the same percentage of time that TONY worked on city business). The lines will be SHORT, it there are any lines at all, and your vote will be that much more valuable in this election.
Spending a little time to make a BIG difference on March 3rd.
Sweep OUT the old Mayor VILLARAIGOSA and his friends.
Next, if you think Tony was missing a lot from the City of L.A. BEFORE while he traveled freely on his fundraising for his campaign for mayor (and how much travel done at the City's expense?), JUST IMAGINE him running for Governor. Add up the past years' traveling to help Hillary Clinton's nomination for the Democratic candidate for President, and then, all the time after he shifted over to the Obama side after Hillary ended her bid, and you see lots of time lost to the City of L.A. as Mayor. It's clear that being the mayor rates second to rubbing elbows with bigger politicians to move Tony's own career.
Do you know that the L.A. WEEKLY article that was mentioned here in the past calculated that it was an amount of 11% of Tony's time spent actually on CITY business? The fundraising, personal travel and photo ops do a lot for being a High-Visibility character, but little for first-hand dealing with actual needs of the city
TONY refuses debate invitations and will not give the VOTERS the courtesy of TELLING WHY he should be re-elected. Treating the voters as small children to do as daddy says is not the quality that a mayor or any elected official should have.
There are no debates for TONY because there is NOTHING GOOD TO SAY on TONY's side- he will only be embarrassed and unable to explain too many things from a wide open range of topices. It's not a good idea to expose himself to that risk, so he won't debate so that he can't be caught on his poor showing as Mayor. The outcome for him can only be bad. His voter-insulting choice to have no debate appearances shows HOW bad things are for him to do that to voters. If he has no respect for your choice and evaluation, WHY vote for him anyway?
That quality is, however, no surprise since that is the way he treats others supporting him. If there is any objection, you discover that the appointee quickly finds that they are "unwelcome" and are soon replaced. If you "follow his direction" you see that the commissions and committees are staffed with his choices as their rewards for cooperating.
All politics, all the time.
DON'T vote for Tony on March 3rd. But that doesn't mean to stay home. You need to cast your vote for ANY of the challengers to keep TONY from getting over 50% of the vote and force a runoff election.
There are nearly a dozen challengers, and my pick is Zuma Dogg as the most informed and relevant candidate, but there are others who are running that would no doubt be an improvement over the current Mayor.
Don't vote for Villaraigosa UNLESS you want a mayor who puts his own goals ahead of the benefit of the city and the people.
REMEMBER, because of the Mayor's directions, Your trash fees tripled, the parking meters went from 25 cents an hour to $1.00 per hour, and extended to 8 pm or later in many areas, and some Sunday free parking was eliminated. All this to raise more money to make TONY look good for the next step in the political ladder. And that's just the simple examples- there's plenty more.
Also note, that the Obama cabinet could have chosen Tony to fill some spot in the administration, but Tony had to much personal baggage to bring onboard. He was a political undesirable. Tony said that he was not taking a position with the Obama administration- sure, he wasn't offered any.
The Democratic Convention was a signal of the arrogance of Tony coming to full bloom. Tony took his full security entourage with him onto the floor of the convention, perhaps the safest place in the world at that time, with multiple levels of security already in place and a plentiful supply of Secret Service agents present. Even the object of many news reports, Mayor Gavin Newsome from San Francisco, left his security crew behind and was able to move about easily, but TONY was very conspicuous by having the large group in tow.
That is why his style is called "It's all about me" mayor from the L.A. Weekly story in September. Well, there's a follow up to the story in the L.A. Weekly,
"Villaraigosa, the All About Me Mayor, Is Still 11 Percent There," by Patrick Range MacDonald, Dec. 30, 2008- http://www.laweekly.com/2009-01-01/news/villaraigosa-the-all-about-me-mayor-is-still-11-percent-there/
If you want to be Tony's stooge for dollars and wind up paying more and more taxes to advance Tony's career, like his expensive "Measure R" created for the Subway to the Sea project, you might think it over to see how expensive it is, and it won't be finished, if ever, until 2032. The estimate for the Subway to the sea alone is over $6 billion - that is over a million dollars times 6,000.
See the article in L.A. TIMES, "Subway to the Sea timetable too long for L.A. Mayor, "
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/07/local/me-subway7
My pick for mayor is Zuma Dogg. You are free to select from assorted challengers, but knowing ZD, we would have an involved person and a positive thinking one to replace an ego-driving political machine moving from office to office.
Vote March 3. Bring out all your registered voters and stand up for yourself in this city. The March turnout is predicted to be as low as 11% of the voters in the city ("11%- that's the same percentage of time that TONY worked on city business). The lines will be SHORT, it there are any lines at all, and your vote will be that much more valuable in this election.
Spending a little time to make a BIG difference on March 3rd.
Sweep OUT the old Mayor VILLARAIGOSA and his friends.
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