CD-1, Reyes takes re-election for granted. Voters: send a message

Ed Reyes, running in CD-1, covering Lincoln Heights, is on the Villaraigosa team very securely, and he takes his re-election for granted. I suggest voting for Jesus Rosas- and though he has little support, I would vote for him AS A STATEMENT to REYES that he should NOT TAKE his voters for granted.

The blog, DOWNTOWN NEWS, supports REYES since he's getting money spent there for projects. I disagree with many of their conclusions, noting that much of the support mentions REYES increasing parklands as a valuable city resource- but then WHAT about so many open spaces being taken away by CONTINUED CONSTRUCTION, slowed only by the present downturn in the economy? Otherwise, MORE buildings would sprout up like weeds, and YOUR open spaces vanish. THAT'S the irony- he gets credit for parks and he's one of the ones helping wipe out open spaces, making more CROWDED city life, and STILL CRIME cannot be handled properly.

From the DOWNTOWN NEWS endorsement:

Reyes' only foe on the March 3 ballot is community activist Jesse Rosas, but Rosas has done little outreach and has failed to adequately inform the district about his platform. We would prefer, for the sake of democracy, that there was stronger opposition.

http://ladowntownnews.com/articles/2009/02/16/news/opinion/02-16-09-edit01.txt

To me, all it says is Reyes gets the vote because there's no one equally strong. They could say, "Not really much, but he's all we have." But that's not there since Ed's winning, and they have to live with him- and don't want him angry. This is what I mean when I say "THEY are supposed to serve the PUBLIC, and not have the PUBLIC SERVE THEM."

Money in campaign war chests can make lots of difference- Tony has almost $3 million in his- and Rosas' candidacy is all but ignored by REYES- still you should expect REYES to earn his votes by meeting voters and with ROSAS and both tell why Ed is or is not doing his job.

Reyes is into development and not all is as it first appears. The park recreation area built on the old train yard (next to the LAUSD'S high school number-whatever's construction site on San Fernando Road) was widely praised, but a feature included was a "burm", a built up piece of land, to block possible drive-by shooting from the street. A nice safety measure, but REYES still is not DEALING with WHY such measures are needed for safety instead of solving that problem.

It's really a signal that REYES ACCEPTS the conditions of the city life as they are. REYES and his political life will continue without ever seriously taking steps to make the CITY safer, short of giving out body armor to the residents.

For that and many more reasons- as matter of protest- a vote against Ed will tell him that people DO pay attention to him, and HE should pay attention to THEM and improve THEIR living conditions, not HIS OWN and his special interest supporters' financial gain that increased and densified development brings. The L.A. River is an area for his pet projects, but it would be nice if as much atttention was paid to SAFETY.

AND ForYourInformation: ED is on the "Public Safety Committee" and the "Planning and Land Use Committee" so he SHOULD be doing more for the constituents, instead of for the developers and their plans.

My "Summing it up" views on City Election Day

I was thinking about what to put into my next blog entry, with nearly all things being about the election locally in Los Angeles and not too much else. Well, I decided what might be useful to share with you reading this on Election Day for Los Angeles, maybe repeating some things presented in the past, today, worth another look for some decision to be made.

I sent an email late yesterday to a friend of many years who worked with me for a time back 30 years ago- how time flies- and we have teneded to let months, sometimes years, pass between calls. We both knew just about the same group of people from that time and the origins of so many Latinos in political and legal circles. Even before then, she's not lived in the City of L.A. so is spared from a lot of the impact our "leaders" have inflicted upon the residents and businesses in the name of "public service." We surely are not.

She, like many or most people, is a busy person and spends time on other things, so the comings and goings of city hall don't get much notice at all except for the Villaraigosa-style photo-op press conferences and publicity stunts that- much to TONY'S delight- get spread across the television broadcasts that pass for "News" these days. So I wanted to let her know another view of things just as a matter of completeness of the picture, and maybe to vent a little.

He's just about all the message, minus the personal asides that messages have, with some highlights and with clarification and spelling in brackets, added here by me:

"Dear [my friend],

I suppose you aren't registered in L.A.and don't have much interest in the elections- lucky you.

Antonio is still plundering his way forward to hit that election nomination for Governor in the 2010 election. That means a year ahead of time to work on his campaign and getting bribes- oh, I mean "campaign contributions"- for the campaign. AND why no debate? Because anything revealed will send him stuttering and lying and his millions will be the smokescreen for his mal-performance.

THERE'S LOTS on Tony and his council who spend hours on Billy the elephant's story, turning it into a circus, so the elephant's already built-in. But they rush Solar Energy Measure B to a vote with very little discussion and really no available facts to fool the voters- Eric Garcettii, the culprit, doing what Antonio needs him to do. AND IT ALWAYS LIKE THAT.

ABOUT THE MAYOR PERSONALLY
That means more travel and more B.S like the 11% mayor story in the LA WEEKLY http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-11/news/the-all-about-me-mayor/

A FOLLOW-UP ON THE STORY and he's pissed:
or see "The 11 Percent Mayor Villaraigosa Lashes Back. Blasting LA Weekly, he says we relied on bad facts. Aides say he misspoke. By Patrick Range McDonald. .1-7-09.." http://www.laweekly.com/2009-01-08/news/the-11-percent-mayor-villaraigosa-lashes-back

and MORE DOLLARS BURNED BY COUNCIL
Los Angeles on $300,000 a year http://www.laweekly.com/2009-02-26/news/los-angeles-on-300-000-a-year/
"Why next week's City Council 'coronation' will cost you far more than money."

Well I will vote for Zuma Dogg and not for Tony or wendy greuel for Controller or JACK WEISS.
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[UCLA alumni news] sent me an alumni newsletter and fluff page on JACK WEISS as the right guy to run for city attorney.

I sent back my own composition listing all the sh** he's done and thanked them for not including their own opinions on others who already know better about the candidate- especially irritating how he held up JAMIELS LAW, the Dennis Zine motiion, in Public Safety Committee from April to October, and WEISS could have sent it to the council floor and should have within a month.-

So HE's the easiest one to decide "REJECT HIM." ANYONE BUT Weiss will do. See Council member Dennis Zine tell it like it is,
http://lincolnquicknotes.blogspot.com/2009/02/zuma-dogg-finds-cm-dennis-zine-rejects.html on my page with a YouTube window for the clip, 2m27s.

and MONICA GARCIA is part of the Villaraigosa machine, totally the wrong person in the office; she [is] into all the old Mechista ideas and not into what will get the students properly educated. Too much personal baggage and hang-up[s] brought with her from Chicano Studies at Berkeley. I think that is where she met Council Member JOSE HUIZAR, my slug for a cm. She was his aide and then moved to the BOARD with TONY'S help. TONY helped Huizar to take TONY'S vacated spot in cd-14 when TONY bailed out to run for Mayor the second time, winning this time.

So, [my friend], sometimes it's better to not know all the things going on- and I could rattle off another page of ills and bad dollar deals that LAUSD made recently and in the past; all bad moves and very expensive to the taxpayer.

QUESTION- if LAUSD student avg. performance sucks (and the Asians keep scores from gong totally in the toilet) [for Lincoln], why do neighboring cities, especially Alhambra NOT have a poor record. I passed by Alh. H.S while entering the new library last week and a big banner is on the front of the building, and it says they have exceeded State testing requirements for the last 3 years. I don't think it's the Asian element- could be, but there has to be more.

Ok. need to go- tell your friends who are LA registered voters to vote- UNLESS they are Villaraigosa people, then skip it. Tony's already mobilized the uninformed to get their votes tomorrow. "


And that, by E-mail, is my "summing-it-up" opinion to let you see that WE can change things and NEED TO do that.