* Zuma Dogg Invades Assemblyman Kevin De Leon's $400 million park bond money "PRIVATE" meeting at a city park location. (There's a good reason why they tried to tell me it was a "private meeting", hoping I would walk away.) It was all the "non-profit" organization schills that front for the politicians to funnel the bond money into the non-profits, they buy the land for use as a community park. ONLY ONE PROBLEM, Y'ALL...They tag it with one of those shady "sunset clauses", and hold on to the land till the sun sets, then they build whatever the F*CK they want on it. And that ain't never a park, y'all!
Meanwhile, I was denied public comment, because the lady in red, running the meeting, who told me it was a private meeting, until I told her no meeting with a State Assembly member being held in a public building, is a private meeting -- so please have you "volunteer" stop blocking the door, and let me in. He finally moved (oh, he wasn't security, just a big-shot volunteer, who also got to decide (in his own mind) who could talk to AM De Leon and who couldn't.
Well ZD didn't need your permission, Mr. Volunteer Man and Lady in Red, cause guess what? When I was lurking around De Leon after, in hopes of sniping a question for this blog, he says, "Zuma Dogg!!! (Shakes my hand) And I say, "Oh, you know me?" (I was humble as hell, at that moment, cause I wouldn't figure he would know who I was.) And he says, "ZUMA DOGG...You're famous!" And gives me the coolest, "hip hop" handshake-pound. SO THEN, that broke the ice, and we got to break it down. I'll post his comments and plans for the $400 milliion in State Bond money earmarked for parks throughout the State.
* Zuma Dogg reported on the problems with the Delta River last month. Yesterday, the LA Times wrote about it. I'm gonna post a compilation of the two stories, now that Delta River is back in the mix. From what ZD has heard, it'll just be some band-aid mitigation, that doesn't solve the problem, but will allow the water to contiue to flow.
* Am I worked up for nothing, or can Downtown Los Angeles NOT even be able to handle a quorum's worth of average rainfall? When ZD steped onto the DOT "Dash" bus it was "misting"...when I walked OUT of the meeting, it was raining. NOTHING MORE THAN AVERAGE RAINFALL. However, in the six hour that ensued, the City's infratructure (sewers and drainage) was clogeed and HUGE puddles flooded the streets. Pedestrians were either stranded, or forced to get soaked to the ankels, or higher. However, this was just at the intersections, so pedesrians were forced to walk out halfway into the street, stopping busses and traffic. Man, it's a good thing we didn't get the Olympics, or any new businesses, except for the one's the City develops for themselves.
* Councilmember Dennis Zine claims to have been bamboozled by the lack of Neighboorhood Council participation with the Planning Committee regarding the new Warner Center area "Workforce Housing" (Affordable Housing for workers in the area), to replace a swap meet. Zine says he was under the understanding that local NC was included in the public input process. Planning Committee representive said, "No". Then some other guy said the Planning Committee guy was just covering his ass. So CM Zine pulled the three of them to the side, and let them have it, and make it quite clear, that from here on in, "ALL development planning in the Warner Center area MUST be sent through the ringer. NC MUST be included." (AND HE KNEW I WAS THERE AS A WITNESS, so I can at least verify as a witness that he said this to the three parties. Seargant at arms even moved the pow-wow from the bleachers, off to the side (so maybe it came off on camera, too.)
SO MY QUESTION IS...WHY NOT DISTRICT WIDE -- AND CITY WIDE? But congrats media fave Dennis Zine for at least getting the ball rolling on a "Workforce Project" (where infrastruture upgrades will be made to accomadate this small-sized project.
* Thanks to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for his "Marble and Cardboard" reference that ZD jacked for HIS "State of the City" speech today at City Hall. (Man, that sounds WAY worse than anything I would have come up with.)
* President Garcetti and Council: You should know that bigshot from the Dodgers (pictured in Thursday's LAzy Times) who showed up to present testimony said, "I don't even care anymore at this point" (After about a few hours of waiting.)
Then, by the time they got to the agenda item (after THREE hours of presentations, then all the other agenda items, the meeting was running so late; after he waited all that time, LaBong didn't call him anyway, as a time-saving measure.
HOWEVER, no time saving on THE BROWN ACT'S "PUBLIC COMMENT, TOMMY BOY. So, ZD took to the podium, and delivered the presentation on ways to mitigate traffic problems for Dodgers Stadium. Did it sound familiar, Tom? Ask Mr. Dodger Guy how ZD did? But you already know, y'all! HOOOOODY HOOOOOOOOO! (Catch the Sunday replay or check the Council website.) That's O.K., Tom, you don't have to thank me. Just clean up all that spilled paint off the street -- we have an anti-graffitii campaign going on in the City. And, "Say What Again!"
* LAPD says LA City Attorney's Office, "is putting them in a bad spot" over the continued request for enforcement over jewlery, incense, shea butter and Zuma Dogg shirts. Sgt of LAPD Pacific Division says he has seen the Federal Courts preliminary findings, and sees this thing being overturned then LAPD is open to massive lawsuits for wrongful/unlawful arrest. And they wish the City Attorney's office would stop grinding Linda Luck's axe for her. If she doesn't like the cultural diversity Venice Beach brings, tell her to move to the Santa Monica Mountains. And City Attorney's office..stop putting LAPD in a "bad spot" and opening up the City to additional legal challenges, just cause you don't wanna look like you listened to community input and made a minor adjustment, so as to be Federally complaint.
NOW GO TRY AND HIJACK A $400 million bond for State Parks and hand it over to a list of "non-profits" you practically create yourselves, then they buy the land for the park, but -- put in a sunset clause on the who deal, so the land ends up being used for something else once the sunsets. (AND NEXT TIME DON'T BLOCK THE DOOR AND SAY IT'S A PRIVATE MEETING.) And Kevin, nice meeting you, bro! I better be nice to you, bro. At the rate these "Antonio Machine" muppets are biting the dust (leader of the empire included)...you'll be running this City in no time. Start being nice to Richard. He's in line, next...NOT Fabian. OTR, D!
AND TONY -- GOTTA FIX THE SEWAGE SO THE CITY DOESN'T FLOOD WITH A QUORUMS WORTH OF RAIN.
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