That action that the DWP took in reponse to the City Council's rate hike determination left the DWP holding an empty bag. They tried to run the ball across the goal line for a "win" instead of a field goal to "tie," but were turned back by a firmly insistent City Council. There will be no DWP rate hikes for at least three months when July 1st is the earliest any increase could happen.
And aside from the "next time" that's coming, this action showed that there's some real backroom dealing going on here. There was a time yesterday when, through all the public comment of people saying how much of a burden the proposed hikes would be, especially on the business, that the contacted the Mayor's office for some refreshing of what the game plan would be. Apparently, the instructions were to go for the whole enchiliada and not settle for the side order that the Council presented to them.
The decision of the DWP Board just hit members of the Council wrong last night after the DWP decision came back to have the Council act on the change. CM Herb Wesson said, "We are pissed" and that about sums it up. Council heard public comment and really, they know this is all Antonio's sloppy management that's got no "plan" no matter how many times he refers to it.
The Mayor had gone through a lot of position changes, and I mean they only showed that somebody's not telling the accurate story, maybe even lying. The real thing that Tony wants is to make a name for himself and he already has done that, but it's on the extremely negative side of the scale. All this need to go green for requirments of the law in converting to cleaner power generations is HIS plan as far as timetables go. There is not any set progression of steps they have to follow at this time.
And by the way, the DWP has a BILLION dollars in reserve. Sounds like "a million" doesn't it? but a "billion dollars" is one THOUSAND million dollar bills (if there were such bills) a very big number. Imagine 1,000 persons going into Dodger Stadium or maybe Staples Center and each one has a million dollars on their person. That would be the ONE BILLION dollars dimension we speak of. Quite a lot of change, and the only chump around is the one who wants to have us believe the DWP is teetering on poverty. Hey, take a look at the "rate-payers" if you want to see people who feel wrongly relieved of their cash.
Well I have to say Ron Kaye (blog: http://ronkayela.com/ ) comes out again to put a lot of what I have thought all along. He's added lots more to fill us in on DWP numbers, labels, interpretations and real motives here. The fact that the Mayor is losing his grip on things should be nothing new.
He had a chance to do right, even as he was sworn in to his second term as July began. What happened? A suprise trip (to us) to South Africa with Lu Parker of KTLA news, and then Michael Jackson dies. There began the steady decline in the story of the Mayor's leadership. Add in another trip to Iceland and then a needless trip to Copenhagen where nothing was accomplished, nor even required to be attemped.
And every day the budget is going into the red at roughly $350,000 each day that nothing happens to stop it. So is it any surprise he has little credibility and is only what you might call the spotter to identify money for chums to collect as he lines up his "green energy" plan. And that benefit to be bestowed on his selections would be all that represents any plan, I would say.
Again, this situaton we have now is summed up well in today's posting from Ron Kaye:
"This April Fool's Joke Is No Laughing Matter," By Ron Kaye on April 1, 2010 5:04 AM. http://ronkayela.com/2010/04/this-april-fools-joke-is-no-la.html
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