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| You know you're subsidizing low-riders, right? |
Budget, schmudget. When you're a member of the Spring Street Gang, there's always plenty of money for friends and family.
For example, if you're City Councilman Tony Cardenas -- who's up for reelection on March 8, 2011 -- you don't care how many librarians and fire fighters are furloughed. Come hell or high water, your sister will receive her regular payment of thousands of taxpayer dollars for her "non-profit" organization, Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural.
What do we taxpayers receive in return for the tens of thousands of dollars -- or is it over $100,000 by this point? -- poured into Cardenas's sister's operation?
We get "creative services" for $13,500, or "music education programming" for $30,400, or "music education services" for $13,000. Sure we do.
According to the City's contract website, the latest change to her contract was made on January 12, 2011, adding another $7,000 to sister's bank account last month:
Plus, don't you dare forget that Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural got $50,370 of your money to "exhibit" low-rider cars in Mexico. You could not make this stuff up.
Don't just get mad. Get rid of Cardenas, an abysmal career politician who's in it for himself and his cronies, not you, the taxpayer. Take action to replace him with someone good, namely, David Barron. Wherever you live in L.A., you have a concrete financial and personal stake in kicking Cardenas out of office, so send Barron $25, or volunteer to help with his campaign, but do something.
You will not be wasting your time or money by helping Barron. Cardenas is very, very, very beatable -- a veritable pinata among politicians. As you may recall, in the last election he barely squeaked into office with a margin of just 1,178 votes. Let's make this happen, shall we?
Cardenas and his staff have grossly failed in every area to improve his district. For quite a while now he has stopped even trying to make an effort to mask his sole allegiance to his cronies and select few. He has always been arrogant but now it's to the point that he thinks he is untouchable.
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