http://griffithparkwayist.blogspot.com/2010/03/first-pinkslip-gets-hanhs-goat.html
The city council responded to the mayor's order of immediate layoffs of 1,000 city employees by making it's own order for 3,000 more layoffs, coming to a total of 4,000. Council member Janice Hahn represents the San Pedro area. The curator of the lighthouse museum located in her district is one of those people receiving pink slips. That person also happens to be a cousin of CM Hahn and Hahn is more that upset that the ax is to fall here. Read this entry to see more of the political activity that CM Hahn is creating about this "unintended consequence" of a decision that she clearly joined in making.
Janice Hahn is currently a candidate for Lt. Governor, and you might wonder about that. There are two things that I want to add here. First, the Lt. Governor job is a do-nothing position by most accounts, so whoever gets elected to this office does not have much real authority until the Governor is unavailable to act. Second, CM Hahn's wavering between having a few good ideas and the more frequent showings of pure nuttiness on the Council got Zuma Dogg's endorsement, "Let's elect her to the Lt. Governor's job and get rid of her in L.A. , then she can be the State's problem."
Remember a few weeks back in a council meeting when Janice just had to share her idea during budget discussions, saying that the City could get some revenue by selling "keychains" in the gift shop to the visitors to City Hall. Going back to the reaction of my friend, Zuma Dogg, as he used that statement to give his interpretation of her view:
"Janice Hahn's idea to help solve the city's deficit is to sell keychains that don't exist in a City Hall gift shop that doesn't exist to cover a $200 million budget deficit because she thinks people want to buy them. The people who go to City Hall go there because they want to complain about how the City Council is acting and they don't want to buy any keychains."And he was entirely right.
Janice Hahn also talks too much and does that more so lately since she's announced that she's running for the Lt. Governor's office. She runs over her allowed time and then ignores whoever is presiding, usually Council President Eric Garcetti, as the attempt is made remind her to stop so another can speak. For Hahn, the more she talks, the more she hurts her campaign. It just gives us more opportunities to see why we are probably going to be stuck with her for the rest of her term.
Check the story to see how Hahn wants to tend to this outcome.
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