The following passage from
David Zahniser's latest article neatly sums up the completely phony justification Villaraigosa has given for selling your parking lots to his campaign contributors for a song:
Villaraigosa and Santana contend that parking garages are not a "core service" of City Hall and should therefore be turned over to a private company. Those statements drew a sharp response from Laura Lake, co-president of Save Westwood Village, a group that opposes the inclusion of the Broxton garage in the proposed parking deal.
If the city opposes subsidies for parking garages then it should also embrace the decision by Gov. Jerry Brown to eliminate its redevelopment agency, a department that routinely doles out subsidies to businesses across the city, Lake said.
Some redevelopment "has been socialism for the rich," Lake said. "And if this city believes in the marketplace for parking, they should believe in the marketplace for redevelopment."
Mayor Villar's phony plan fools the council and we're getting screwed because of it!
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MONEY: Deal expected to bring $53 million to city coffers, but not until July.http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_17080954
The socialism for the rich continues with Garcetti & his gang leading the way to ruin this great city! The incumbent HAVE to be voted out. Please support http://lacleansweep.com
Looks like this scam is going to happen now. I thought there might be some opposition from more reasoned heads of state there, but apparently anything goes at this point. There's only one thing left to do now, and that's to boycott them. The parking lots I mean. If they can't sell their products, maybe the city can buy them back at a fire sale price. Is there any other parking close by that isn't in the hands of the cartel?
ReplyDeleteThe "rationale" is laughably phony.
ReplyDeleteThe BS premise is that taxpayers are "subsidizing" parking -- as opposed to, say, taxpayers subsidizing all Villraigosa's cronies businesses, or subsidizing low-rider displays in Mexico, or dances no one attends, etc.
Well, if these are such money-losing albatrosses, why is anyone in the private sector paying millions to buy them? Are we to believe that City Hall is pulling a fast one over investment bankers and their clients?
No. Clearly these garages can be run at a profit. That is why the people and companies who contributed to Villaraigosa's campaign are buying them.
This is blatant corruption out in the open for everyone to see. City Hall gets away with it because no one in L.A. pays attention to "local" politics.
Perhaps LA is the testing city that allows the state's corruption cartel to see just how much they can get away with and how.
ReplyDeleteNow it will be interesting to see just how the parking violations are enforced after the private companies take over. I'm guessing the city will still do the enforcement at some level so that the courts can be used to hold registrations and such over the heads of the victims
i wonder if the same parking co. that owes the city millions in back taxs will be the ones that get to take over the garages that tony and friends are giving away,just more of tony rip off of los angeles,will it never end.
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