REGARDING: Dockweiler's post & Others: "One bitter guy sent ZD an email and I am your tool...everyone send ZD emails, he'll print anything."
My reply is: I walked into City Hall not knowing a thing about any councilmember, beyond Bill Rosendahl, who I was going to see to speak to him about the ban on selling insense and shirts on Venice Boardwalk.
But, unfortunatley, City Council didn't overturn the ordinance just because the three of us made a compelling argument. So, we had to return to provide some new information, and ask again.
And, while I was sitting there waiting for my public comment, I heard everyone else's public comment (and all the other problems from people in different areas of the City) and they all kinda had one thing in common: They felt City Council was shady.
Then, some of those people starting seeing more of me on TV 35...then KABC...then L.A. Times...then more TV 35...then VH1...PBS...Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge, Doug McIntyre/KABC...LA Daily News...
So people from across the City from all different ages and ethnicities started approaching me in person at City Hall, by phone and email, to tell me their stories, in hopes I would talk about it to raise public awareness.
And now, everytime I speak or post on an issue, people contact me with additional information, and things snowball.
Like in this Labor Day, El Segundo thing in Jose's 14th district.
I saw some posts on my Mayor Sam story, "What Will Will Be Fighting For..." regarding this "Special Waiver Fee" concern that tied in with a Labor Day festival that happened to be in Huizar's district.
And one poster is claiming, "Yeah, one guy is mad at someone involved with the event, and is using ZD as a "tool" for his axe to grind.
So many of you are just getting to know me for the first time, lately, on Mayor Sam. And here's a very important point, because it gets to the true root of the problem with The Mayor and City Council:
First of all, like I said, I knew nothing about City politics when I walked into chambers for the first time in April of this year.
No ONE person sends me one email and triggers a call for a City wide investigation. There is TRUE outrage in many districts. Someone mentioned this "special waiver" thing, once to me, a couple months ago. Then I started seeing it on the agenda. Then I commented on it. More people followed up, pointing me to other places to look. (Many of the times, I'm bringing things up that have already had newspaper coverage, sometimes years ago, and it still goes on.
So, when something finally cathces my attention from one, or two people, luckily I know other people who I can follow up with questions. And like I say, the outrageous things I've spoken about on TV 35, National radio shows and Mayor Sam is nothing new.
Politicians can THINK all you have to do is send ZD one random email, and he'll jump on the cause. This allows you to keep ignoring the public outrage.
For some reason, when I start mentioning it, it gets more attention. Maybe because I am so compelled to scream it on all these media outlets.
Some are wondering at Huizar's office: Man, what's Zuma Dogg have against Jose. NOTHING. My first few times at City Hall, I admired Jose, so much, cause here was a pretty youthful looking guy to already be a Councilmember. And he went to MIT. And he used to give me shout-outs on my camera. So Jose...if you are concerned about this. My man...for a white guy from Venice Beach...I sure have been contacted a lot by people in your district who are really outraged that you don't seem to be standing up for your constituents. And all it looks like is that you, AND A BUNCH OF OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS, NOT JUST YOU, are just muppets to the financial muppet master, Mayor Antonio Villagrossa.
Dude! I'm telling you, I have no more motivation to be spending all my cell phone minutes, and doing all this research and typing about stuff in your district that doesn't even effect me. So if YOU care (and the fact that local politicains are basically stealing elections in this city, so there is no need to care what people think/no accountablity) -- for some reason, a whole lot of people from your district (and these people always represent others) contacting Zuma Dogg about your shadiness and cahootness with the Mayor.
But just to show it's not personal with you, it's not personal with Wendy Greuel, either, who must be wondering what she did to me to endure such wrath from ZD. Now it's true, I think she has a lousy persoanlity and is way too uptight when she fills in for Eric during Council meetings. (Whereas, I get more comments about how Ed Reyes did such a great job rolling with ZD's six minute MacArthur Park Public Comment fiasco.)
However, someone's off-putting, uptight nature would never be enough to have me run against you in the next Council election, and post that "Middle Class Homeowners" story from Saturday. It's because the more time I spent at City Hall, the more people that said, "Zuma, you gotta come to one of these Planning Commission meetings in Wendy Greuel's district." (NOT just Noel Wiess, just like NOT one email about CD 14 Labor Day Fundraiser, I mean Community event.)
I'M NOT SMART ENOUGH TO ONLY HEAR SOMEONE MENTION THESE COMPLEX ISSUES JUST ONE TIME FOR ME TO GET IT. Ask Matt Dowd. It's when I start hearing things a few times, I start to put two and two together, then start asking around and when I feel there's a real reason to get pissed off, I do -- get pissed off.
So the point is: Mayor and City Council...I know I've been the biggest thorn in many of your sides since...EVER! And I'm telling you, if you and your nightmare issue makes it on the ZD radar, you should pay attention to what the people are saying. Not trying to isolate some single source leak to try and prevent it in the future. The only way to prevent it in the future is to start being aware that you cannot operate in the way you have in the past. I've never called for any legal action against anyone for these "Special Event Waiver" abuse outcries. THE POINT OF WHY I GO ON TV, RADIO AND BLOGS IS TO TRY AND GET YOU TO SIMPLY START BEHAVING MORE ETHCICALLY. (I even said just, "more" ethcially. Not even totally ethcially...because that's like asking a heroine addict to quit cold turkey. The whole City/System really would shut down.
But dudes/Councilmembers...the old days are over. Look how all this shiznit jumps off so quickly and snowballs. Meanwhile, NOTHING I posted was anything new or exclusive. The Jack Weiss comments were from 2002, there were newspaper articles addressing concerns with the waivers, all I did was look at a flyer for a Labor Day fair that was BEGGING for money from the community (see flyer)...talked to three or four people. Posted a comment, not even a story. More people piled on their stories. And that's it. You can try and find one little factual error, that doesn't change a thing about the fraud, waste and abuse issue, and try and discredit one person who you think contacted me to use me as a tool, for his own personal anger. But then you'd just be missing the whole F-ing point as to why there is Public outrage for you guys at City Hall, and Public outpouring of information and support for me.
But when you run the polls with your own staff; find people to volunteer their homes for your non-documented, paid homies to gather at, for the bus to pick them up, then vote under the names of those who didn't show up at the polls (since nobody checks IDs), I guess it doesn't really matter what your constituents think. And that's the REAL problem. By stealing elections, all accountability is removed, and it's gonna be a very uncomfortable election season between now, November, then March.
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