Mayor's Anti-Gang Official in Fight with Cops, Arrested

Yes, as the L.A. Weekly story put it, Blanca Martinez-Navarro went gangsta on the cops at the Conga Room downtown. It all seems very bizarre and does nothing to promote any credibility for that program when you can chalk this up another case of employee bad conduct here.

The story about tells it all:
City News- "Blanca Martinez-Navarro, Gang Reduction Staffer For Mayor Villaragosa, Arrested At Conga Room For Allegedly Attacking LAPD Cop," By Dennis Romero, Mon., Jan. 24 2011 @ 7:00AM
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/01/villaragosa_staff_arrest.php

Another interesting part of this is the comments added to the story. While I can't go for the "spic" reference, there's something to the idea of reverting to apply some parts of early life experience, if she did actually come from an environment of gang activity. Worse, it may be a current method of dispute resolution that slipped out in a moment of stress.

Either way, it's completely unacceptable but Mayor Villaraigosa has 2 very obvious choices to make: Upon verification of the facts (if the reports are correct) he will discharge her for her bad conduct and that will be that, which I would choose.

The other choice is to keep her, provide some counseling and blame her stressful life issues, with a need to protect her husband from the perceived harm from the police. Of course the husband and the wife were in or approaching a "domestic violence" condition but these things turnaround on responding cops all the time. Her perception of the situation that she might think supports defending her husband appears to be affected by a large quantity of alcoholic beverages. My opinion as created by reports but it's hard to spin this in a good way.

Antonio would try to keep her employed to downplay the embarrassment it's brought to the unit and to the mayor for choosing such persons.

Agan, to mention the comments, some are too supportive of so many things "wrong with this picture." Read them and compare. He's just too forgiving and I do not see why. I wonder what WOULD have to happen to make him change his view. I think she like many needs to actually claim RESPONSIBILITY for her own conduct. That's a big part of what's missing in the lives of so many people these days.

What's coming up? LHS Alumni January meeting

"WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK"

Maybe not. Well, if you don't post one day and then don't do it again each day until now, you get a big break in the blog like here. But a lot happened in that big month of a break- some of it noted below.

So the constant rains have subsided for a while, the Rose Parade has come and gone and Lincoln High's pilot program participation for an early beginning the school year in August is now adopted by the LAUSD district-wide, beginning next August. A few days later, we get some very cold weather- and "cold" to L.A. natives comes in at a higher mark on the thermometer than for people coming to L.A. from other parts of the county. But it was very cold for a while compared to other cold spells.

There was a Christmas Parade in Lincoln Heights down North Broadway on what may have been the hottest day in December, with a few participants needing some help at the end from the paramedics and police on duty. Roosevelt High made its appearance for the first time in this parade.

When I was last following the season, the LHS Tigers varsity football team was going into the city playoffs with a pretty impressive record but then encountered an early loss on the road, ending the 2010 season much better than we've seen in recent memory. The team, coaches and supporting personnel all deserve a big hand for the work put into a very successful season.


ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETING

After taking the month off in December, the Alumni Association is having the first meeting for the year at 9:30am on Saturday. I don't have the location down as a certainty, as the meetings were last held at the "Cafe in the Heights" after a long run at the LHS camus across the street in either the student cafeteria or the teachers' cafeteria. So more on that coming up.

There's another dance coming up in Spring that should be as good as the last one. It has a good chance of that happening probably because it will be held at the same location, Maggie's Pub in Santa Fe Springs. More details coming, or check http://www.classmates.com/ for the event.

So, there's the quick recap and now to put my writen here for a while instead of on other people's blogs.