Hey, remember that nice 19-minute video yours truly prepared, suggesting a 10-step plan of action for the L.A. Republican Party to start making a difference in local elections?
You'll never guess what happens when to try to help someone who has a problem, and who's in denial. Rather than my summarizing the exchange, I'll just let you read the email between one Andrew Barnett (AndrewBarnett@Yahoo.com) and yours truly, including my horrid typos, because every second I'm banging out stuff like this is time for which I cannot bill:
What does this guy's email tell you about the way his brain works? He apparently thinks that if you urge a political party to do its job, you must have some kind of "end game" that involves running for office. Hey, how about just trying to make L.A. nice? Isn't that what political parties are supposed to do -- improve the quality of living for the public? Geez, Louise.
You would think we could end it there, but noooooo! He kept going:
You'll enjoy the grand finale, when he realizes his emails maybe didn't make him look quite as clever as he had hoped, so he tries to pretend what he was really doing all along was seeking confidential legal advice, and therefore, I should not share his nasty-grams with you, my eight loyal readers:
Legal? Oh, please. "Legal" never entered into this exchange. Name-calling? Did I call him a name? I think the closest I came to name-calling was referring to "diplomats like you." Quick, somebody wash my mouth out with soap -- I used the "d-word."
Yup, with folks like Mr. Barnett at the helm of the L.A. Republican Party, you can expect smooth sailing --for L.A.'s Democrats.
You'll never guess what happens when to try to help someone who has a problem, and who's in denial. Rather than my summarizing the exchange, I'll just let you read the email between one Andrew Barnett (AndrewBarnett@Yahoo.com) and yours truly, including my horrid typos, because every second I'm banging out stuff like this is time for which I cannot bill:
You would think we could end it there, but noooooo! He kept going:
You'll enjoy the grand finale, when he realizes his emails maybe didn't make him look quite as clever as he had hoped, so he tries to pretend what he was really doing all along was seeking confidential legal advice, and therefore, I should not share his nasty-grams with you, my eight loyal readers:
Yup, with folks like Mr. Barnett at the helm of the L.A. Republican Party, you can expect smooth sailing --for L.A.'s Democrats.
Walter Moore didn't win for mayor because idiots vote for the name they know rather than taking the time to research the name they don't.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Walter Moore -- he's remarkably reasonable and sensible in his positions. He also happens to be pretty funny, but that's just gravy.
Thanks, Amy!
ReplyDeleteIs this guy Jane Barnetts husband, just wondering. I have been trying to find a way to get involved locally but having a hard time trying to find someone to communicate with regarding RPLAC.
ReplyDeleteIncidently Walter, keep it up. You are the only one that feeds a lot of us good information
Thank you
Mike
I'm not really sure who he is. I know what his email address is, and what name he wrote in it. A Google search turned up a candidate registration document indicating someone by that name listing the same address as she did, but I don't really know. Never met the guy, and I hope I never do!
ReplyDeleteEnd game? Of course, Barnett asked what your end game is. He's a political operative and to him it's a synonym for political agenda. You can't be a politician without one, even if it's no more than to do a good job for the public and create a place to live where there's some quality of and to life.
ReplyDeleteThe only "end game" I have is cremation, and maybe organ donation.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Walter. I feel better. And all this time I thought communications from the genuinely mindless were all being sent to me.
ReplyDeleteWe voted for Walter Moore and for the reasons given by Amy Alkon. Also agree that Walter's funny. Best, Mr. & Mrs. L.
ReplyDeleteBravo Walter!
ReplyDeleteThe whole California Republican party is messed up. In a Conservative wave election they couldn't get ANYONE elected statewide (in fact the Democrats gained seats in Sac. if I'm not mistaken)
It would appear to this disinterested reader that step 10 touched a raw nerve with somebody.
ReplyDeleteStep 10: "Hire somebody qualified to implement these steps."
Did somebody take that personally?
Like Walter Moore wants somebody fired or ousted and replaced with "somebody qualified"?
Is Step 10 a call for the overthrow of the current RPLAC Chair and their replacement by the person making the suggestion (WM?). Thus the question about "your end game"?
Was Walter Moore's slide show to the Westside Republicans a call for revolution against the current RPLAC leadership? Is this to be like France? The overthrow of the second republic? (somebody did mention France...)
Of course, this is all just conjecture by this disinterested reader...
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
Hey, I didn't call for anyone to be fired. I just think they need to HIRE someone, like, say, a reputable advertising agency with a good track record. At LEAST put your own party's candidates' names and websites on your party's website. Criminy!
ReplyDeleteWalter Moore didn't win the election because it is very difficult to unseat a sitting Mayor who has full backing of unions and the Democratic Party. Even if Walter Moore had spent 2 or 3 million he might still have lost. (At least there would have been a runoff!)
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to donate organs Walter, consider the gonads. There are quite a few people in LA proper that could benefit from a pair that actually work
ReplyDeleteLOL. That's actually very funny.
ReplyDeleteNow see, if you were going to be mean, you could have said, "Walter, it was nice of you to donate your brain before even dying."
P.S. Further research indicates this guy is probably the Chairman's husband, not her son. So much for chalking up his demeanor to youth as opposed to immaturity.
ReplyDeleteI fired the Republican Party in 2009 after those Dickheads (since we're using L.A. Republican language here) in Sacramento raised the vehicle/license/personal taxes for 2 years AND then tried to get 3-4 more years with prop 1A!!
ReplyDeleteBeing a "decline to state" is Walter's designation, and HE'S ALWAYS STATED THAT AND CONSISTENTLY SO!! Realize, that in Sacramento if these fucking Republicrats (hope they read this, because they blog like this apparantly) had simply stood guard and NOT gave in on those taxes, I gladly would of stayed registered with them.
I supported Republican Scott Brown (MA.) to stop ObamaCare (which didn't matter, with the crap the U.S. Senate pulled); Supported Trutanich (who has abdicated his role as City Attorney for anyone other than Garcetti), Supported Zine (who sold us out formally last year); supported and voted for Meg and Carly last Nov (only to get beat on both.)
This is for the Republican SCHMUCK who asked:
WHAT'S THE END GAME?"
Walter is too idealistic to give that an answer, so let me:
THE END GAME: TO RENT A U-HAUL, PACK UP ALL YOUR SHIT AND LEAVE L.A. CITY, IF NOT L.A. COUNTY, OR CALIFORNIA ALL TOGETHER, AND RENT OUT THE HOME YOU BUSTED YOUR ASS TO GET THAT'S WORTH 1/2 OF WHAT IT SHOULD GET ON THE MARKET AND GET A HOME FAR FAR FAR FAR AWAY FROM LAUSD, GARCETTI, AND THE OTHER LIBERAL JOB KILLERS! That's the fucking end game you fucking stupid Republican Chieftan schumuck.
THAT'S THE BEST ANSWER FOR THAT QUESTION, AND IT'S FREE!
As for the vulgarity, I apologize, but you have to speak L.A. Republican to deal with this.
Thank you.
Just my wild guess here, but it could be that the Republican heirarchy has pulled out of LA simply because there are some of their higher ups making so much money off of the corruption in one fashion or another, that they just want things to continue. Doesn't mean that all republicans are bad, but it might mean those making the decisions in that area, or following those that do, are. I'm in a similar, but not quite as thoroughly saturated area in relation to democrats/socialists. The problem here is lack of talent in republican ranks. Most talented people don't run, usually because they are too successful profitting from the wasteful policies of their political adversaries. So we do get idealists that run for office, but they are usually boobs the likes of those Walter has been sparring with. Our last republican candidate for congress here was tasteless, odorless, and colorless. He had a soapbox, but no soap. No way could he convince any socialists to jump ship from the local dynasty that has ruled here for decades in congress, let alone inspire a donation from investment savvy republicans. From an economic standpoint, republicans are just putting their donation money into different areas, and just using our areas as incomes. Now Walter is obviously not in the odorless, tasteless, and colorless category, but the likelyhood is that the republican heirarchy just weighed the current income stream from the area as compared to the potential value of a Moore mayorship prospect, and went with the money instead. Not that they wouldn't like to reclaim the area, but possibly not yet, or not under those terms. Propriety is actually quite a tough sell in politics, regardless of affiliation
ReplyDeleteYou know, I hadn't really thought of that angle, but it makes sense for at least three reasons:
ReplyDelete1. Doug Boyd -- husband of the previous chairman, and still a state party official -- was only too happy to help Democrat Jim Hahn run for Mayor in 2005, after receiving $30,000 in fees for "consulting." Ditto another party operative, Edee Blevins, for $5,000. (This is a matter of public record, BTW, which you can verify at the City Ethics Commission's website.)
2. The guy's reference to "end game" implies I'm doing this to somehow get some personal benefit from it, instead of a benefit to the public at large. That sounds like projection, doesn't it?
3. His offer of "help" likewise sounds like a sales pitch rather than an offer. After all, why offer to help me when he and his wife couldn't even be bothered to list the names of current Republican candidates, running for City Council, on the party's own website?
I am an old school hard core New Deal FDR Democrat and I voted for Walter just because he is preferable to all the corruption in City Hall.
ReplyDeleteAlso, without concerned citizens like Walter, regardless of political stripe, our democracy will quickly fall into the abyss of inefficiency and cronyism - as if it isn't already happening.
$52 million for garages for a billionaire funneled through the crooks at the CRA as the city is cutting back on the $7 million it spends on graffiti removal - one of the major planks in the "broken glass" crime philosophy used so well to reduce crime under Bratton.
I may not agree with Mr. Moore on everything, but he is a vital and informative voice who should be read regularly as he attempts to keep the scoundrels in city hall honest.
Thank you for your support.
ReplyDeleteAnd you make an important point, which is that the problems at City Hall are ones on which liberals, conservatives, libertarians, greens, and everyone else can agree. We ALL oppose corruption. We ALL oppose taxing middle-class people to provide subsidies to the rich, and to politically connected cronies.
The problem with City Hall isn't political philosophy, it's a complete lack of integrity.
This just in: The Diplomat is apparently the son of the Party chairman, not the husband.
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