Garcetti promises to "act up and act out" if Trump messes with illegals (Los Angeles: sales, hair salon)

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by majoun

Agreed.

I don't know about the elder Garcetti's upbringing but I get the impression he is very much of a "self made man", who grew up middle class or working class and who rose in life because of his own hard work and brain power.

The son is a product of the city's elite neighborhoods and the bubble that rich white people in L.A. inhabit, who was educated in expensive private schools and whose higher education was in elite universities in NYC and London. He's only truly able to relate to his fellow rich white people, and thus is unable to be mayor of a city in which the overwhelming majority are neither rich nor white. His concerns, and his views, are the concerns and views of the inhabitants of places like Brentwood, Los Feliz, etc. By sheltering him from the great unwashed masses his dad did not do him any favors.


I've said this before but he would have made a better mayor for Beverly Hills or Santa Monica than for a city with as many problems as L.A. has.

Wow, totally spot on.

Maybe he is afraid his house will get egged again.

You're absolutely right, his father didn't do him any favors.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Good points .
Wish we could recruit Giuliani as Mayor and Sheriff David Clarke as police chief
For L.A

Great idea.

Rudolph W. Giuliani likens himself to a boxer who never takes a punch without swinging back. As mayor, he made the vengeful roundhouse an instrument of government, clipping anyone who crossed him.

He urged his commissioners to walk out of City Council hearings when questions turned hostile.

As mayor, he picked fights with a notable lack of discrimination, challenging the city and state comptrollers, a few corporations and the odd council member. But the mayor’s fist also fell on the less powerful.

The mayor’s wartime style of governance reached an exhaustion point in the late 1990s. His poll numbers dipped, and the courts routinely ruled against the city, upholding the New York Civil Liberties Union in 23 of its 27 free-speech challenges during Mr. Giuliani’s mayoralty. After he left office, the city agreed to pay $327,000 to a black police officer who was fired because he had testified before the City Council about police brutality toward blacks. The city also agreed to rescind the firing of the caseworker who talked about a child’s death.

In Matters Big and Small, Crossing Giuliani Had Price - The New York Times

The Times article lays out how Giuliani used licensing bureaus, housing codes and other city government infrastructure to punish whistleblowers, critics, detractors and disloyalists. He not only tried to get his political opponents fired; when he heard they were being considered for other positions, he’d call the potential new employers to pressure them to look elsewhere. Giuliani’s vindictiveness could be incredibly petty.

Giuliani was quick to release the sealed criminal records of police critics and victims of police shootings and brutality. He wasn’t as forthcoming with his own records. Just before he left City Hall, he cut a shady deal with the city that transferred all of his records to his own private company, so only he could control who accessed them.

Giuliani at Justice is an especially troubling proposition. This is a man whose career has been marked by prosecutorial excesses, knee-jerk defenses of abusive cops and an affinity for using the power of his political offices to get vengeance on his enemies.

It’s hard to think of a politician more punitive than Giuliani. As a federal prosecutor, he was credited for inventing the “perp walk,” the practice of parading arrestees before television cameras that prosecutors have notified ahead of time. He made a name for himself with high-profile prosecutions of Wall Street traders and mob bosses, but on more than a few occasions, Giuliani had to drop the charges against suspects he perp-walked. In others, the charges were later dismissed by an appellate court.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...eral-giuliani/

Sterling guy. Just what LA needs, eh?

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Well at least you will be able to watch from Prague.

I can see things getting dangerous in L.A . There are quite a few lefties including Hollywood celebs advocating violence in response to Trump.
If things get worse L.A and a lot of other liberal cities could become pretty bad places to live.

The Mayor could of rooted for Hillary Clinton when she was campaigning but once the election was over he should of held back his partisan views and stopped attacking Trump.

Garcetti should of taken heed from Obama and Trump that the election is over it's time to get on with things.
Instead he wants to engage in a divisive battle.

It's also funny and ironic to see so many in L.A protesting when it doesn't matter , when the election is over.
I never saw hardly anything like this for the Iraq War or other situations more serious. Maybe a gathering at the Federal building in Westwood.

There is some people saying that George Soros is funding these protests. There seems to be some evidence of this. There are craigslist postings of people trying to hire protesters.

Even in victory, Trump supporters remain a laughingstock.

[jm1982]

Yeah and Wikileaks emails were fake

[kblauser21]

this whole election thing is hilarious - i thought the PC people would have control from here on out. But they just hit a major speed bump.

[jm1982]

We know who to blame about Garcetti . Thanks Encino Little League !
Makes sense since he's into little league stuff rather than Big League!

Eric Garcetti says he wouldn’t be the mayor he is today without the Encino Little League - LA Times

[Csonka]

Anything to distract from the major homeless problems and that he is a mediocre mayor at best.

[jesse977]

Retards. Americans HIRE these immigrants, then they want to kick them out. You cant be a pimp and a prostitute at the same time.

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by jesse977

Retards. Americans HIRE these immigrants, then they want to kick them out. You cant be a pimp and a prostitute at the same time.

Actually I'd say in LA most are hired by other immigrants most likely legal immigrants .
Many business owners from Israel or Iran or other countries in L.A and they will have undocumented people working at their car washes , restaurants or other businesses .

[Hippityhop]

Originally Posted by seain dublin

Wow, totally spot on.

Maybe he is afraid his house will get egged again.

You're absolutely right, his father didn't do him any favors.

Yeah... he just helped him out enough that he ended up being Mayor of LA. What a loser.