Alright, y'all...these are the four public comments for today (see below after this rant), which maxed out my usual seven minutes a day that I get to speak during the Los Angeles City Council meetings. (You get two minutes for general public comment -- and five minutes for the rest of the agenda items.)
And this week is the 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Zuma Dogg's first trip to City Hall for public comment over the Venice Beach issue that the city has now lost in a Federal Court. Proving Zuma Dogg, Matt Dowd and Michael Hunt were correct in the first place; and three years later, how fitting to remind you that I never even should have been to city hall in the first place, because your Venice ordinance was illegal.
But that's why I have said all along, Zuma Dogg is Villaraigosa and City Councils' "instant karma" for all their "bad karma" and when you are stepping on toes and Federal law, all over the city at such rapid pace, you are eventually going to step on the wrong toes (OURS) and look at all the awareness that Zuma Dogg has raised over the past three years, since the first time you saw me.
Remember that FULL PAGE Los Angeles Times article that came out shortly after I entered council chambers? Well that was the starting point. And I was recently on ABC News NIGHTLINE, NATIONAL news program for my efforts over the past three years, and I'm obviously proud that LA Weekly, the newspaper/magazine ZD has read since he moved to L.A., and used to hope for a mere mention, that I NEVER really got, now refers to me as an "ICON," thank you very much! (And I can throw it around, because I earned it hardest of hard ways. No Hollywood agents, publicity, studio...NOT A PENNY SPENT.
And you look at how the name "Zuma Dogg" is pretty well entrenched in a good percentage (and the good percentage) of the public consciousness. AND IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED, cause you never should have been so shady, corrupt and racketeering in the first place.
They say, "any publicity is good publicity" so I hope you fifteen councilosers and douchebag-dummy of a corrupt mayor (who Zuma Dogg says will end up being "UNAVAILABLE" to serve out his full term (and I don't mean because he will be in the Governor's office) have enjoyed the publicity.
So THAT'S what THREE YEARS FEELS LIKE BITCHASSARIGOSA! How you like me now, Mr. Smart Guy? I F*CKING CRUSHED YOUR ASS IN THE MEDIA, AND CONTINUE TO DO SO AS OF THIS DAY! TAKE A LOOK AT THE PUBLIC COMMENT ON COMMISIONER APPOINTMENTS, YOU LITTLE PUNK-ASS FRAUD! Yes, I'm talking about YOU Mr. Antonio Villaragiosa. Now fix Venice Beach, take your head out the President of Mexico's ass, and start doing what it takes to save the U.S. city that you destroyed through your arrogance and ignorance. THAT'S YOUR NEW GOVERNOR CAMPAIGN SLOGAN, VILLARYOULEFTYOURWIFEARAIGOSA: "Elect Antonio Villaraigosa: The Arrogance and Ignorance to get the job done."
BEFORE YOU WATCH THE VIDEOS, HERE IS THE "3 Year Anniversary" BLOG POST THAT ACCOMPANIES THESE VIDEOS. (The videos came after.) Overall, I wish it were a much more warm and fuzzy day, as I had hoped. And even though I was clenching my teeth last night at 3am and 4am to try and keep from imploding -- I was ready and feeling good for a nice, upbeat "3 Year Anniversary" comment. BUT THEN, the first two public comment speakers BOTH gave HOME RUN speeches on "Homelessness" and they crushed council with them. And it made my heart start racing (coffee and no food may have helped); and it really brought out the cranky-bitter, 3am energy of Zuma Dogg. And since I am really as down and out and ready to really, really just cave in and turn into a pumpkin...I thought I would roll with that energy, and you can see me peel off my sunglasses and take off my ski cap so and just really let the good times roll. ONLY THING, the comment wasn't really as good as I had hoped, cause I didn't really say the things in this blog post that I wanted to. But it's REAL and YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE FACES OF SOME OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS WHEN THEY SEE IT ALL UNFOLD. (Thank you, thank you! Another Emmy worthy performance by Zuma Dogg...even though it wasn't acting cause it was real, but I allowed it to happen, when in the past I would have covered it up and been all hunky-dory and happy. But after three years, and you gotta read this post, you can tell the wheels are really falling off of Zuma Dogg's buggy, and I'm clenching my teeth to try and handle the G-force. Anway, here's today's KICK ASS public comments that are just CRUSHING those clowncilosers. AND YES, I AM YET TO SEE ANY OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS STAND UP, AND STEP IN, AND START SAYING WHAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE SAID AND TAKING ON THE ROLE OF LEADERSHIP!!! So to me, you are all merely a bunch of CLOWNCILOSERS (as the collective body that you want to be referred to as). GO TAKE A DIVE INTO THE L.A. RIVER AS A COUNCILBODY, YOU CLOWNCILOSERS. You allowed me to become a history, legendary, larger-than-life-icon that is blessed on the streets of Los Angeles on a daily basis by the PEOPLE of Los Angeles, who's hearts and lives you have broken. Have a nice day. You're spending eternity down below. (And I DON'T mean Austrailia.)
Zuma Dogg 3 Year Anniversary Public Comment (that happened to fall on a REALLY bad day)
Zuma Dogg on Villaraigosa's SHADY Commissioner Appointments (But not necessarily THIS commissioner, who I feel seems like a good person.)
Zuma Dogg on Shady CRA (Community Robbing A-holes) and Garcetti violates ZD's 1st Amendment/Brown Act Rights. (You are allowed to say, "clowns.")
Zuma Dogg on PLANNING and Business in L.A.
http://zumatube.com/ (VIDEOS)
http://zumadogg.podomatic.com/ (AUDIO:Radio calls and original songs.)
These two links, plus LA Daily Blog link, Twitter and everything else related to ZD's "Bamboozle Busting" all on one page at http://zumatimes.com/ .
Now featured on the national news service http://news.alltop.com/. (Scroll down and check the company I am keeping, y'all.)
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Meruelo Maddux Story (L.A. Downtown Developer) Is The BIG Story, People! (A Couple LA City Councilmembers probably not real comfortable, today.)
[3/12/09 4:00 PM UPDATE: See top comment in the comment section of this post for some good background information on this story.]
Alright folks. You've seen the type of blogging I have done over the past three years. And many of you may recognize, every now and then, ZD's "Rainman" Five Minutes to Wapner feeling kicks in. Peter Parker calls it his "Spidey-senses." Well, ZD has a feeling about this whole Meruelo Maddux story that hit the newswires yesterday.
Meruelo Maddux Announces 2008 Fourth Quarter and Calendar Year Results PR Newswire (press release) - 21 hours agoLOS ANGELES , March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Meruelo Maddux
Meruelo Maddux says it may file for bankruptcy San Francisco Chronicle - 9 hours agoSouthern California real estate developer Meruelo Maddux Properties Inc. says it has been unable to service much of its debt and may have to file for ...
Big L.A. landlord Meruelo Maddux may file for bankruptcy Los Angeles Times - 17 hours agoThe company reports steep losses in the fourth quarter and says it is unable to meet its debt payments. By Roger Vincent Meruelo Maddux Properties Inc., ...
Meruelo Maddux Warns About Finances Los Angeles Business Journal - 19 hours agoBy DEBORAH CROWE Meruelo Maddux Properties said Wednesday it had stopped making payments on 26 real estate loans totaling $266 million, and that independent ...
And the feeling is based on things I have heard over the past three years, as people tend to like to tell ZD all the shady things that are going down in Downtown. (They keep telling me to see "Chinatown.") So when I saw this story yesterday, a whole bunch of names came to mind and dots were connected in my mind, and here's the post based on it all.
From what I have heard on the streets of Los Angeles and inside Council chambers is that Meruelo Maddux is probably the biggest developer in Downtown Los Angeles. If you check the campaign contributions of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (now running for Governor of California), during the campaign when he first got elected mayor, you'll probably see this name near the top of the list of overall contributors. THAT'S A LOT OF CASHOLA!!!
BUT, Zuma Dogg keeps reminding people to read the story of the "Frog and the Scorpion" before they do business with Antonio Villariagosa, because YOU are the frog and HE is the scorpion. So he will always treat YOU the same as he treats everyone, whether you are a member of some small community group he makes a campaign promise to, or one of his biggest campaign contributors. As soon as he got into office, he slammed the door on EVERYONE, including these guys, too.
So Antonio probably doesn't have to be as nervous about this (outside of the fact big contributors aren't real happy when they get "NADA" for the dinero).
BUT NOT SO FAST RICHARD ALARCON AND TONY CARDENAS! If ANY two people at city hall should be nervous as f*ck that the bottom has fallen out on this "front end loaded management/money pilfering/public stock fraud case waiting to happen" it's those two.
About the FIRST thing ZD was pulled over to the side and told about by City Hall insiders frustrated by the situation, is that Alarcon, Cardenas, former L.A. City Councilmember Alex Padilla and ASSemblymember Fuentes have their own little developer power-base going with some HEAVY connections that are more powerful forces than some little councilmember, who is nothing more than a bullet-train stop through town in the long run. (Councilmembers come and go. Powerful, connected developers see 'em all come and go thanks to term limits. (Which aren't so limited anymore.)
AND the power-base that backs the above mentioned elected officials is Jim Aveedo. (Last name changed slightly to protect the innocent, like me.) Jim pushes his little puppets around and has them get sh*t done, for him. And, they get to stay in office and get moved into other offices when they are termed out.
AND, if you look around, like at the CRA, for example, you may find that Meruelo-Maddux is pretty "warm and fuzzy" with Alarcon, Cardenas, Padilla and Fuentes.
So it's like the MM crew vs Antonio's crew. Both side fighting for their piece of your pie.
BUT, as we all know, the economy can no longer sustain all this "front end loaded management contracts" and overall fund cyphoning and pilferage the way we used to be able to sustain it.
So with all that expensive downtown property sitting vacant, sinking in value...now the LA Times reports, "The company reports steep losses in the fourth quarter and says it is unable to meet its debt payments." Well, I wish the Church Lady were here to say, "Well isn't THAT special." Sorry kiddies, all the money disappeard at this PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY, and the shares are about to be worth about a penny on the dollar.
But less importantly than the Wall Street investors who got burnt...THIS WILL SINK THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES! SO MUCH FOR RETURNING DOWNTOWN TO THE ECONOMIC HUB IT SO FOOLISHLY THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO DO.
Grand Ave...A BUST! And now, the biggest Downtown developer is going belly-up like Enron and the rest of the flim-flam, scam artists.
AND YOU WILL SEE PEOPLE GOING TO JAIL OVER THIS! So that's why some folks around the city aren't real comfortable, right now.
PEOPLE...this could end up being just some typical news story that comes and goes in the news cycle like the rest of them. BUT, I think this will be the biggest story that will be UN-RAVELING like a cheap sweater bringing down a whole lot of schemes, and I think you'll see at least ONE PERSON take the fall in court. So it's a matter of who else gets caught up in the collatoral damage. AND ZD FEELS THERE WILL BE!
zumadogg@gmail.com
Alright folks. You've seen the type of blogging I have done over the past three years. And many of you may recognize, every now and then, ZD's "Rainman" Five Minutes to Wapner feeling kicks in. Peter Parker calls it his "Spidey-senses." Well, ZD has a feeling about this whole Meruelo Maddux story that hit the newswires yesterday.
Meruelo Maddux Announces 2008 Fourth Quarter and Calendar Year Results PR Newswire (press release) - 21 hours agoLOS ANGELES , March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Meruelo Maddux
Meruelo Maddux says it may file for bankruptcy San Francisco Chronicle - 9 hours agoSouthern California real estate developer Meruelo Maddux Properties Inc. says it has been unable to service much of its debt and may have to file for ...
Big L.A. landlord Meruelo Maddux may file for bankruptcy Los Angeles Times - 17 hours agoThe company reports steep losses in the fourth quarter and says it is unable to meet its debt payments. By Roger Vincent Meruelo Maddux Properties Inc., ...
Meruelo Maddux Warns About Finances Los Angeles Business Journal - 19 hours agoBy DEBORAH CROWE Meruelo Maddux Properties said Wednesday it had stopped making payments on 26 real estate loans totaling $266 million, and that independent ...
And the feeling is based on things I have heard over the past three years, as people tend to like to tell ZD all the shady things that are going down in Downtown. (They keep telling me to see "Chinatown.") So when I saw this story yesterday, a whole bunch of names came to mind and dots were connected in my mind, and here's the post based on it all.
From what I have heard on the streets of Los Angeles and inside Council chambers is that Meruelo Maddux is probably the biggest developer in Downtown Los Angeles. If you check the campaign contributions of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (now running for Governor of California), during the campaign when he first got elected mayor, you'll probably see this name near the top of the list of overall contributors. THAT'S A LOT OF CASHOLA!!!
BUT, Zuma Dogg keeps reminding people to read the story of the "Frog and the Scorpion" before they do business with Antonio Villariagosa, because YOU are the frog and HE is the scorpion. So he will always treat YOU the same as he treats everyone, whether you are a member of some small community group he makes a campaign promise to, or one of his biggest campaign contributors. As soon as he got into office, he slammed the door on EVERYONE, including these guys, too.
So Antonio probably doesn't have to be as nervous about this (outside of the fact big contributors aren't real happy when they get "NADA" for the dinero).
BUT NOT SO FAST RICHARD ALARCON AND TONY CARDENAS! If ANY two people at city hall should be nervous as f*ck that the bottom has fallen out on this "front end loaded management/money pilfering/public stock fraud case waiting to happen" it's those two.
About the FIRST thing ZD was pulled over to the side and told about by City Hall insiders frustrated by the situation, is that Alarcon, Cardenas, former L.A. City Councilmember Alex Padilla and ASSemblymember Fuentes have their own little developer power-base going with some HEAVY connections that are more powerful forces than some little councilmember, who is nothing more than a bullet-train stop through town in the long run. (Councilmembers come and go. Powerful, connected developers see 'em all come and go thanks to term limits. (Which aren't so limited anymore.)
AND the power-base that backs the above mentioned elected officials is Jim Aveedo. (Last name changed slightly to protect the innocent, like me.) Jim pushes his little puppets around and has them get sh*t done, for him. And, they get to stay in office and get moved into other offices when they are termed out.
AND, if you look around, like at the CRA, for example, you may find that Meruelo-Maddux is pretty "warm and fuzzy" with Alarcon, Cardenas, Padilla and Fuentes.
So it's like the MM crew vs Antonio's crew. Both side fighting for their piece of your pie.
BUT, as we all know, the economy can no longer sustain all this "front end loaded management contracts" and overall fund cyphoning and pilferage the way we used to be able to sustain it.
So with all that expensive downtown property sitting vacant, sinking in value...now the LA Times reports, "The company reports steep losses in the fourth quarter and says it is unable to meet its debt payments." Well, I wish the Church Lady were here to say, "Well isn't THAT special." Sorry kiddies, all the money disappeard at this PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY, and the shares are about to be worth about a penny on the dollar.
But less importantly than the Wall Street investors who got burnt...THIS WILL SINK THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES! SO MUCH FOR RETURNING DOWNTOWN TO THE ECONOMIC HUB IT SO FOOLISHLY THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO DO.
Grand Ave...A BUST! And now, the biggest Downtown developer is going belly-up like Enron and the rest of the flim-flam, scam artists.
AND YOU WILL SEE PEOPLE GOING TO JAIL OVER THIS! So that's why some folks around the city aren't real comfortable, right now.
PEOPLE...this could end up being just some typical news story that comes and goes in the news cycle like the rest of them. BUT, I think this will be the biggest story that will be UN-RAVELING like a cheap sweater bringing down a whole lot of schemes, and I think you'll see at least ONE PERSON take the fall in court. So it's a matter of who else gets caught up in the collatoral damage. AND ZD FEELS THERE WILL BE!
zumadogg@gmail.com
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