Who Are You Voting for LA Mayor? (Los Angeles, Oakland: violent crime, daycare)
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Actually Hahn was the one who brought in and appointed Bratton as Police Chief. Crime has city has dropped for six consecutive years thanks to Hahn.
Thank you for setting the record straight on that point. There is really nothing Villaraigosa has done for him to legitimately take credit for crime reduction in LA.
Villaraigosa also has no plan to keep or attract more middle class and high paying jobs in LA. He is in Labor's pocket and only focuses on growing a low wage, under-educated, immigrant driven work force--imposing a living wage law on LAX area businesses, for example, when business taxes in LA are already among the highest in the nation.
He promotes housing policies that are designed to sustain and grow the ranks of mostly poor, illegal immigrants, instead of embracing market based approaches that will allow landlords to update their buildings or build new ones to attract better quality tenants and to improve the appearance of run down neighborhoods.
He has done nothing to improve our streets and roads which are in very bad shape, there are homeless people everywhere, and you have illegal immigrants selling food in plain view on street corners all over town with no permit. On top of that the city looks more ghetto than I can ever recall with graffiti and tagging everywhere. He seems to have no strategy to combat this lawlessness. I guess since he spends most of time hob knobbing with the power brokers in NY and Washington with his sights set on higher officer, he is too busy to be bothered with the daily issues that impact quality of life here.
Thank you for setting the record straight on that point. There is really nothing Villaraigosa has done for him to legitimately take credit for crime reduction in LA.
Villaraigosa also has no plan to keep or attract more middle class and high paying jobs in LA. He is in Labor's pocket and only focuses on growing a low wage, under-educated, immigrant driven work force--imposing a living wage law on LAX area businesses, for example, when business taxes in LA are already among the highest in the nation.
He promotes housing policies that are designed to sustain and grow the ranks of mostly poor, illegal immigrants, instead of embracing market based approaches that will allow landlords to update their buildings or build new ones to attract better quality tenants and to improve the appearance of run down neighborhoods.
He has done nothing to improve our streets and roads which are in very bad shape, there are homeless people everywhere, and you have illegal immigrants selling food in plain view on street corners all over town with no permit. On top of that the city looks more ghetto than I can ever recall with graffiti and tagging everywhere. He seems to have no strategy to combat this lawlessness. I guess since he spends most of time hob knobbing with the power brokers in NY and Washington with his sights set on higher officer, he is too busy to be bothered with the daily issues that impact quality of life here.
but yes, today there was an article about moore in the LA times. when i learned his plan to get rid of bratton if elected, i immediately disqualified him.
bratton is one good thing to happen to LA in the recent past.
now back to the LAUSD issue. i do think its big and thats why the local districts exist, but it seems that those might even be consolidated in order to keep up with the times financially.
That would be a HORRENDOUS idea. The small districts should remain, LAUSD should be broken up and perhaps even privatized. If there is to be any "consolidation" than the smaller districts should take pieces of LAUSD. For example West Hollywood should join Beverly Hills.
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if not LAUSD, what do you think should exist in terms of a school district. im very intrigued maj
Many small districts that serve THEIR communities is one option. Privatization and vouchers are another option. Mayoral control is an option I was hoping for although Tony wasn't able to pull off what Bloomberg and Daley did. Another idea is to abolish the comprehensive high school and to make all high schools magnets and charters. What is clear is that the status quo needs to go.
Thank you for setting the record straight on that point. There is really nothing Villaraigosa has done for him to legitimately take credit for crime reduction in LA.
Villaraigosa also has no plan to keep or attract more middle class and high paying jobs in LA. He is in Labor's pocket and only focuses on growing a low wage
Why would labor be interested in growing a low wage work force?
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under-educated, immigrant driven work force
For the record, the same could be said about Hahn and Bradley (after his third term)
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On top of that the city looks more ghetto than I can ever recall with graffiti and tagging everywhere.
Don't remember the late '80s and '90s?
Even though Riordan's charter was a big improvement over the old "Progressive Charter" it still is insufficient to deal with L.A.'s problems. Executive power needs to be much stronger.
Why would labor be interested in growing a low wage work force?
It's not a matter of interest. That's basically what they do. When you look at the various unions Villaraigosa alligns himself with, their constituency is largely lower wage employees, like hotel workers. He advocates policies that are essentially hostile to business along with keeping a high business tax rate that only drives good business away to other cities. Yahoo is a good example. They considered LA, but instead opened offices in Burbank and Santa Monica.
Bradley did more to bring higher paying white collar jobs to LA than any other politico. So I am not sure what you are talking about.
And although tagging was a phenomenon in the 80s and 90s it was not as pervasive and out of control as it is now. The freeway corridors are a mess. You have the same people returning to the same places over and over again to tag and Villaraigosa and Bratton can't catch and stop them? If a rapist returned to the same location over and over again would they have the same problem catching him? I don't think so. The problem is that they simply don't care and as a result have no law enforcement strategy to combat it.
Bratton's so called "broken windows" approach to policing has not succeeded or is not being enforced when it comes to deterring certain forms of social disorder like tagging.
It's not a matter of interest. That's basically what they do. When you look at the various unions Villaraigosa alligns himself with, their constituency is largely lower wage employees, like hotel workers. He advocates policies that are essentially hostile to business along with keeping a high business tax rate that only drives good business away to other cities. Yahoo is a good example. They considered LA, but instead opened offices in Burbank and Santa Monica.
Bradley did more to bring higher paying white collar jobs to LA than any other politico. So I am not sure what you are talking about.
And although tagging was a phenomenon in the 80s and 90s it was not as pervasive and out of control as it is now. The freeway corridors are a mess. You have the same people returning to the same places over and over again to tag and Villaraigosa and Bratton can't catch and stop them? If a rapist returned to the same location over and over again would they have the same problem catching him? I don't think so. The problem is that they simply don't care and as a result have no law enforcement strategy to combat it.
Bratton's so called "broken windows" approach to policing has not succeeded or is not being enforced when it comes to deterring certain forms of social disorder like tagging.
LA Bratton is not the same Bratton as NYC Bratton. He doesn't enforce "broken windows" and the reason is his boss is not Rudy G. any more. It is the worst mayor ever, Tony V.
It's not a matter of interest. That's basically what they do. When you look at the various unions Villaraigosa alligns himself with, their constituency is largely lower wage employees, like hotel workers. He advocates policies that are essentially hostile to business along with keeping a high business tax rate that only drives good business away to other cities. Yahoo is a good example. They considered LA, but instead opened offices in Burbank and Santa Monica.
Bradley did more to bring higher paying white collar jobs to LA than any other politico. So I am not sure what you are talking about.
And although tagging was a phenomenon in the 80s and 90s it was not as pervasive and out of control as it is now. The freeway corridors are a mess. You have the same people returning to the same places over and over again to tag and Villaraigosa and Bratton can't catch and stop them? If a rapist returned to the same location over and over again would they have the same problem catching him? I don't think so. The problem is that they simply don't care and as a result have no law enforcement strategy to combat it.
Bratton's so called "broken windows" approach to policing has not succeeded or is not being enforced when it comes to deterring certain forms of social disorder like tagging.
The problem with Republicans in LA is that they are generally very much behind the times & behind in the thinking department, in general.
Yesterday, business took me into Hollywood\ West Hollywood & downtown. I drove more than I have in several months & was quite surprised to see so much construction still going on. And some very attractive buildings including a partial "low income" 5 story apartment building on Santa Monica Blvd. Same in West Hollywood. With unemployment in the toilet things will get grim but overall life in Los Angeles has been essentially comfortable for the last 4 years.
Racism & envy are a sad ingredient in Republican psyche & only lead to bitterness for those who stay in California.
It's funny that you can not list any factual information but paint the same old tired response of a political party more suited for the South than the rest of the nation.
I do not see anymore graffiti then years ago & maybe less. But it is not so prevalent to be considered a major problem. Home owners know that the current slump is as bad as it has ever been in California but that people wanting to live in Los Angeles far outweighs those that don't. And property values will return to higher levels here well before the rest of the country.
Villaraigosa is a Democrat deeply involved in the labor movement for more union protections\ universal health care\ better schools with extensive pre-school & after school activities for kids of working parents. The mayor is better known & much more influential than any mayor since Bradley, our finest mayor.
Villaraigosa promised and has delivered more police & lower crime yet Republicans refuse to acknowledge anything but childish mantras [ie. "Villaraigosa spends no more than 11% of his time on city business" - who says?
LA is an exciting & invigorating city. Have you noticed that every entertainment award show [Grammies\ Oscars\ every music category, etc.]comes from LA? Much more than I can ever remember in past years. More interesting people live here than in comparable sized cities [writers\ actors\ musicians\ athletes, etc.].
It so funny that Walter Moore is winning on this poll since the number of people who will vote for him in March will knowingly understand that he will likely get less than 10% of the vote [like last time he ran]. Moore is eccentric & actually if more Republicans were like him the GOP would be better off. But the day a Republican wins anything of any importance in California will likely be a decade or more away.
Last edited by happ; 02-28-2009 at 01:40 PM..
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