Losing your job at City Hall does NOT mean losing your paycheck. David Zahniser reports how the so-called Reverend Jeff Carr has continued to receive your tax dollars months after leaving his post as Villaraigosa's "gangs czar" or whatever he was supposedly doing for $194,000 per year.
Meanwhile, City Council Member Dennis Zine is pretending he's some kind of outsider, who had no idea such things happened, and boy, if you'll just elect him City Controller, he'll be all over this.
Yeah, right.
I suppose that is also when he will tackle boondoggles like the $192,000 party you and I paid for on Villaraigosa's latest junket, as reported by David Goldstein, plus all the other welfare for the rich recently reported by Dennis Romero.
The ongoing crime scene that is the Spring Street Gang is exactly why you should NOT vote, in 2013, for anyone who is in office at City Hall now. They are all the same person, and they are all co-conspirators in ripping you off. It's not enough to sit there in office and feign surprise at what's happening on your watch.
Greuel, Garcetti, Zine, Beutner, Perry -- they are all interchangeable, indistinguishable cogs in a corrupt machine the purpose of which is to redistribute your hard-earned tax dollars to the special interests that fund their campaigns.
Those special interests have learned, partly due to the campaign of yours truly, that to maintain control of City Hall, they must employ what economists call "brand proliferation." Rather than running one candidate in a race, they run three or four, to soak up all the shelf space or, in this case, media attention. The goal is to prevent the consumer / voter from spotting the one truly different product offered by a real competitor.
If you want change, you must vote for Kevin James for Mayor. He's the only real outsider with actual credentials and qualifications. And, while you're at it, how about sending some cash his way? Even $25 helps. Seriously.
