ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK

ERIC PREVEN’S WORLD - The "Get the Sheriff" effort, expected to continue over the next 5-6 months, will be led by Bert H. Deixler, a well-respected attorney who was a lead attorney in the Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence investigation. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - For women's history month, Tina Choi and Associates beat Edgar Khalatian and Mayer Brown in Q3 2021 lobbying numbers at the City of Los Angeles. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The premise was simple: Drivers in South Georgia had the option to go through a fake DUI checkpoint or take the exit.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, there was a closed session meeting of the Board of Supervisors.  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - A politician rapped something unintelligible to go viral and some funny women had a real yucker about how LA City Council meetings, can really break your brain.  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The USC chapter of the college Democrats endorsed Karen Bass but no response to inquiries made in London

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - In July, Chief Second Banana, Mitch O’Farrell of District 13 (shaped like the Quetzal) and Budget and Finance Chief Paul Krekorian led a delegation to an incredible place in Arizona...

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK – In the very moving poem, “We Were All Odysseus in Those Days” by Amorak Huey, the final line says it all, "Call me nobody. Let me live." 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Endless county appeals from lawyers who invoice like crazy is like a failing student getting the five professors to agree to an unlimited amount of extensions. Only a fool would agree to that.  Five fools.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The Registrar's office is quite responsive.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Had I known the discussion of Herb Wesson filling back in for Mark Ridley-Thomas would be conducted in a closed session, I would have objected. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - At the last poorly attended LA City Ethics Commission meeting a typo was discovered misidentifying the law firm that the county recently hired to help with evidence suppression related to the indictment of Mark Ridley-Thomas. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The LA Times had it on some authority that Herb J. Wesson might be tapped as CD10 seat warmer,

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Sometimes, sports are about winning. Other times, they're about more than that. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The wind beneath Kenny's wings: Curren Price brought on two chaps connected to the NFL to join in his non-agendized Kenny Washington tribute. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Nithya Raman and Bob Blumenfield have a nice rapport.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - 3 Points, Holly J Mitchell: The location will have 176 beds and will allow residents who have ongoing substance abuse issues, mental illnesses, and pets, according to Luana Murphy of Exodus Recovery, which is operating the center. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The City Council President Nury Martinez canceled the regular meeting scheduled for Wednesday February 2, 2022 and replaced it with a Special meeting with 43 items.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Since 1892: There was speculation on Wednesday that Marqueece Harris Dawson of CD8 may have been having his goatee professionally trimmed and that Curren Price may have finally gotten the memo from Monica Rodriguez CD7 re: thick black eyeglass frames because both were quite late. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Thwarted: A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has filed a lawsuit alleging that her career was thwarted after she decided a close friend of Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s wife was unfit to serve as a deputy.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Wednesday, January 19, 2022, I had a lot to say, and  I knew that since the Council President had nixed one of the three council meetings this week.