#  LOS ANGELES

   ##  [ Sen. Kamala Harris’ Role in Systemic Racism and Corruption](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20055-sen-kamala-harris-role-in-systemic-racism-and-corruption "Sen. Kamala Harris’ Role in Systemic Racism and Corruption")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 09 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/056g.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20055-sen-kamala-harris-role-in-systemic-racism-and-corruption)

**ONE MAN’S OPINION**-Prior to the advent of Donald Trump, the choice of Sarah Palin to be Sen. John McCain’s running mate in 2008 was the GOP’s most egregious misstep.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20055-sen-kamala-harris-role-in-systemic-racism-and-corruption)

   ##  [ To Debate or Not to Debate](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20051-to-debate-or-not-to-debate "To Debate or Not to Debate")

      Details    Bob Gelfand    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 06 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/055e.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20051-to-debate-or-not-to-debate)

**GELFAND’S WORLD**--In a few more weeks, the presidential nominations will become official: Joe Biden for the Democrats and Donald Trump for the Republicans.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20051-to-debate-or-not-to-debate)

   ##  [ Jose Huizar’s Staff Playing Musical Chairs](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20049-jose-huizar-s-staff-playing-musical-chairs "Jose Huizar’s Staff Playing Musical Chairs")

      Details    Caroline Aguirre    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 06 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/055g.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20049-jose-huizar-s-staff-playing-musical-chairs)

**VOICES**-For the past several years, staff members who left their employment with Jose Huizar’s CD 14 office have found lucrative jobs working for other city and state elected officials or have obtained employment working for various Los Angeles City Departments.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20049-jose-huizar-s-staff-playing-musical-chairs)

   ##  [ Is Billionaire Geoffrey Palmer LA’s ‘Worst Developer’?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20048-is-billionaire-geoffrey-palmer-la-s-worst-developer "Is Billionaire Geoffrey Palmer LA’s ‘Worst Developer’?")

      Details    Patrick Range McDonald    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 06 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/055j.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20048-is-billionaire-geoffrey-palmer-la-s-worst-developer)

**INSIDE LOS ANGELES**-A few years ago, billionaire Geoffrey Palmer was crowned with an ignominious title: [“Downtown LA’s worst developer.”](https://la.curbed.com/2015/10/23/9907972/geoff-palmer-jerk)

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20048-is-billionaire-geoffrey-palmer-la-s-worst-developer)

   ##  [ FBI Notebook - Mitch Englander, the Enterprising Felon](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20046-fbi-notebook-mitch-englander-the-enterprising-felon "FBI Notebook - Mitch Englander, the Enterprising Felon")

      Details    Daniel Guss    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 06 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/055m.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20046-fbi-notebook-mitch-englander-the-enterprising-felon)

@**THE GUSS REPORT**-Welcome to the final few hours of the pre-felony existence of **Mitch Englander**, formerly of the Los Angeles City Council.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20046-fbi-notebook-mitch-englander-the-enterprising-felon)

   ##  [ It's Pretty Hard to Run a City, Mayor Garcetti, When You Have No Credibility](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20045-it-s-pretty-hard-to-run-a-city-mayor-garcetti-when-you-have-no-credibility "It's Pretty Hard to Run a City, Mayor Garcetti, When You Have No Credibility")

      Details    Kenneth S. Alpern    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 06 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/055i.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20045-it-s-pretty-hard-to-run-a-city-mayor-garcetti-when-you-have-no-credibility)

**ALPERN AT LARGE**--Eric Garcetti, meet Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom--you're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't try to reduce the COVID-19 virus, keep the economy alive, and provide people with hope during the current ongoing series of crises.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20045-it-s-pretty-hard-to-run-a-city-mayor-garcetti-when-you-have-no-credibility)

   ##  [ Triumph of the Oligarchs](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20044-triumph-of-the-oligarchs "Triumph of the Oligarchs")

      Details    Joel Kotkin    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 06 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/055d.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20044-triumph-of-the-oligarchs)

**NEW GEOGRAPHY**-A new class of overlords are making their bid for world domination.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20044-triumph-of-the-oligarchs)

   ##  [ Bias and Bigotry Trail a Nominee for Juvenile Parole Board](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20040-bias-and-bigotry-trail-a-nominee-for-juvenile-parole-board "Bias and Bigotry Trail a Nominee for Juvenile Parole Board")

      Details    Mary A Fischer    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 06 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/055o.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20040-bias-and-bigotry-trail-a-nominee-for-juvenile-parole-board)

**PUZZLING**--In a period of increased attention to police violence and the deaths of unarmed young men at the hands of officers, the nomination of Phlunte Riddle *(photo above)* to a state board in California is puzzling.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20040-bias-and-bigotry-trail-a-nominee-for-juvenile-parole-board)

   ##  [ Five Misconceptions about This Era of Protests](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20039-five-misconceptions-about-this-era-of-protests "Five Misconceptions about This Era of Protests")

      Details    Kevin Suscavage    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 06 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/055l.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20039-five-misconceptions-about-this-era-of-protests)

**WOKE 2.0**--Truth matters. Facts matter. Context matters. A complete narrative matters. And nuance matters.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20039-five-misconceptions-about-this-era-of-protests)

   ##  [ Americans Favor Division over Unity and Falsehoods over Reality](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20038-americans-favor-division-over-unity-and-falsehoods-over-reality "Americans Favor Division over Unity and Falsehoods over Reality")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 06 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/055s.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20038-americans-favor-division-over-unity-and-falsehoods-over-reality)

**ONE MAN’S OPINION**--People behave in their own characteristic fashion when they confront new situations; that’s how our neurology is constructed.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20038-americans-favor-division-over-unity-and-falsehoods-over-reality)

   ##  [ Did Huizar’s Council Cronies Really Not See Corruption Hiding in Plain Sight?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20030-did-huizar-s-council-cronies-really-not-see-corruption-hiding-in-plain-sight "Did Huizar’s Council Cronies Really Not See Corruption Hiding in Plain Sight?")

      Details    Dennis Hathaway    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054m.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20030-did-huizar-s-council-cronies-really-not-see-corruption-hiding-in-plain-sight)

**GUEST WORDS**-The most glaring but possibly least surprising fact that arose as I read the 120-page federal criminal complaint against City Councilman Jose Huizar was this:

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20030-did-huizar-s-council-cronies-really-not-see-corruption-hiding-in-plain-sight)

   ##  [ Lay it on Lacey](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20029-lay-it-on-lacey "Lay it on Lacey")

      Details    Liz Amsden    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054k.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20029-lay-it-on-lacey)

**GUEST COMMENTARY**-Jackie Lacey has doubled down on tough on crime at a time when there is a surge in demand that the District Attorney (DA) take the lead on rehabilitation, not incarceration.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20029-lay-it-on-lacey)

   ##  [ Learning Not to Look Away](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20028-learning-not-to-look-away "Learning Not to Look Away")

      Details    Jill Richardson    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054j.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20028-learning-not-to-look-away)

**OTHERWORDS**-When those of us who are white are asked to engage with anti-racism, we are being asked to do something emotionally difficult:

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20028-learning-not-to-look-away)

   ##  [ Reparations: 400 Years of Racism Can No Longer Be Resolved With 40 Acres and a Mule!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20027-reparations-400-years-of-racism-can-no-longer-be-resolved-with-40-acres-and-a-mule "Reparations: 400 Years of Racism Can No Longer Be Resolved With 40 Acres and a Mule!")

      Details    Leonard Isenberg    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054g.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20027-reparations-400-years-of-racism-can-no-longer-be-resolved-with-40-acres-and-a-mule)

**MY TURN**-There are several fundamental problems with proposing traditional monetary reparations to former Black slaves and their ancestors.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20027-reparations-400-years-of-racism-can-no-longer-be-resolved-with-40-acres-and-a-mule)

   ##  [ Slimy Deal Allows CalPERS President and Staff to Hold Secret Star Chamber Discipline of Dissident Board Member Margaret Brown](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20026-slimy-deal-allows-calpers-president-and-staff-to-hold-secret-star-chamber-discipline-of-dissident-board-member-margaret-brown "Slimy Deal Allows CalPERS President and Staff to Hold Secret Star Chamber Discipline of Dissident Board Member Margaret Brown")

      Details    Tony Butka    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054f.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20026-slimy-deal-allows-calpers-president-and-staff-to-hold-secret-star-chamber-discipline-of-dissident-board-member-margaret-brown)

**EASTSIDER**-So one day I’m checking my LA Times, and what do I find? An article with the title: [Column: Amid multiple crises, CalPERS board turns on one of its own members.](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-06-24/hiltzik-calpers-board-discipline-brown)

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20026-slimy-deal-allows-calpers-president-and-staff-to-hold-secret-star-chamber-discipline-of-dissident-board-member-margaret-brown)

   ##  [ Who’s Hacking Jose Huizar?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20025-who-s-hacking-jose-huizar "Who’s Hacking Jose Huizar?")

      Details    Daniel Guss    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054t.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20025-who-s-hacking-jose-huizar)

**@TheGussReport** – It’s not a good time to be suspended and indicted LA City Councilmember **Jose Huizar**.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20025-who-s-hacking-jose-huizar)

   ##  [ Unmasking the Mask Masquerade: Hypocrisy, Double-Standards, and You!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20023-unmasking-the-mask-masquerade-hypocrisy-double-standards-and-you "Unmasking the Mask Masquerade: Hypocrisy, Double-Standards, and You!")

      Details    Kenneth S. Alpern    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054e.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20023-unmasking-the-mask-masquerade-hypocrisy-double-standards-and-you)

**ALPERN AT LARGE**--It appears that Americans want to work. They also want to play, and protest, and all the sorts of things that free people want to do.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20023-unmasking-the-mask-masquerade-hypocrisy-double-standards-and-you)

   ##  [ Crime Doesn’t Pay. Really? Is LA the Exception to the Rule?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20021-crime-doesn-t-pay-really-is-la-the-exception-to-the-rule "Crime Doesn’t Pay. Really? Is LA the Exception to the Rule?")

      Details    Dick Platkin    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054n.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20021-crime-doesn-t-pay-really-is-la-the-exception-to-the-rule)

**PLANNING WATCH**-If you visit, work, or live in LA, you only need to step outside your office, apartment, or house to discover that crime does pay. You will see shady real estate deals, small, medium, and large, allowed by the crew at 200 N. Spring Street (City Hall).

For every member of the City Council, like Jose Huizar and Mitchell Englander, or career officials like former Deputy Mayor and Building and Safety General Manager Ray Chan, who are facing jail time, there are many others clever enough to nibble at the cheese without getting caught. Their ranks include elected officials, [mega-developers](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/20013-the-bridge-that-connects-jose-huizar-and-geoff-palmer), departmental managers, lobbyists, campaign donors and consultants, expeditors, and cronies.

For example, a former Director of Planning recently paid a [$281,000 ethics fine](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-15/former-la-planning-director-281-000-ethics-fine) for buttonholing former colleagues on behalf of private developers. Even though someone squealed on him, no one went to jail, and none of the projects he championed lost their approvals or building permits. As for his fine, it was just another cost of doing business, a tiny fraction of the value of the private projects in his portfolio.

While this case attracted press coverage, there are countless others that fly below the radar, skillfully facilitated by campaign donations, charitable contributions, and [honoraria](https://www.acc.com/sites/default/files/resources/vl/membersonly/Article/1473772_1.pdf). Furthermore, the developers and their paid advocates know that if their schemes are exposed, no one at City Hall will cancel a building permit, revoke a certificate of occupancy, or order a building demolition.

**What else you will you see in Los Angeles:** Despite City Council-adopted policies that [new development must match the character and scale of existing residential developments](https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/3333424a-21b9-4f7b-86db-064926b9dcb9/Wilshire_Community_Plan.pdf), Los Angeles is filling up with McMansions and luxury apartments. They soar above nearby buildings, bring pain to your eyes, and generate homelessness, yet their ministerial and discretionary approvals sail through City Hall.

*![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054o.png)*

*Proposed high-rise tower on LA’s Miracle Mile corridor*.

The City’s Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) grants ministerial (administrative) approvals to these projects, often ignoring municipal ordinances. Those Angelenos who interact with this key City department have quickly learned that the spirit of its former General Manager, Ray Chan, still thrives. Their “customers” are real estate developers, not the public. They rarely respond to code violation complaints, forcing residents to contact City Council offices in the hope that a field deputy can find the pulse of someone at LADBS.

City Hall’s treatment of building projects during the current Covid-19 Pandemic says it all. LA’s Mayor Eric Garcetti excluded [all real estate construction projects](https://www.lamayor.org/sites/g/files/wph446/f/page/file/20200527%20Mayor%20Public%20Order%20SAFER%20AT%20HOME%20ORDER%202020.03.19%20%28REV%202020.05.27%29.pdf) from his executive closure orders, claiming they were essential. Feeling political heat, the Mayor then argued that construction was perfectly safe because contractors and workers meticulously followed LA’s and the [CDC’s construction rules](https://www.oett.net/post/covid-19-safety-guidance-for-construction-sites). According to the LA Times, LADBS then claimed they [inspected 24,000 construction sites](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-24/coronavirus-construction-jobs) to ensure that the City’s Covid-19 orders were being followed.

As I frequently argued through [previous Planning Watch columns](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/19547-in-la-non-essential-construction-like-mcmansions-inhabit-a-non-pandemic-world), these LADBS numbers were imaginary. After multiple inquiries through CityWatch, NextDoor, and Facebook, I eventually heard from two people who had first-hand experiences with these inspections. In one case, the construction site was told in advance when the LADBS inspector would drop by. The contractor showed up before hand and told his employees to temporarily put on masks and practice social distancing.

In another case, a neighbor of mine submitted multiple public health complaints to LADBS about an adjacent McMansion construction site. Eventually Building and Safety sent a letter permanently shutting the project down. Despite this official order, which suddenly vanished from the McMansion’s front fence, the construction work quickly resumed. My neighbor then submitting additional public health and code violation complaints. Despite the City’s multiple executive orders, all posted on the LADBS home page, there is still no social distancing, haphazard use of face masks, no log of visitors to the construction site, and no hand washing or disinfectant stations. The most recent email from Building and Safety, sent a few days ago, told my neighbor to stop bothering them.

Furthermore, this McMansion, like countless others, is strictly a speculative real estate project. Investors, cloaked as Limited Liability Corporations (LLC's), build them all. They will pocket at least $500,000 from each project. They also know that their completed McMansions will be larger, taller, and therefore more profitable than [what the law allows](http://zimas.lacity.org/documents/zoneinfo/ZI2431.pdf). And, if they don’t sell, they can easily convert them into “illegal” [short-term rentals](https://la.curbed.com/2019/12/19/21030087/airbnb-los-angeles-vacation-rentals) or [party houses.](https://trip101.com/article/party-house-to-rent-for-one-night-in-los-angeles) The lesson from these cases is that in Los Angeles crime pays well.

**![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054p.png)**

**Other types of white-collar real estate crime**: LA's white-collar crime wave is hardly limited to the Mansionizers. The City Council has adopted a series or zoning ordinances that substantially increase the value of commercial property, in particular two [density bonus ordinances](https://planning.lacity.org/Code_Studies/Housing/DensityBonus.pdf), as well as [Transit Neighborhood Plans](https://planning.lacity.org/plans-policies/overlays/exposition-corridor-transit-neighborhood-plan). Administered by the Planning Department, they allow new, upscale apartment buildings to bust through the height, size, and density provisions of adopted zoning laws. None of this involves the pay-to-play cases investigated by the FBI. These white-collar delinquents are adept at keeping their City Hall deals out of view, while their projects get glowing photo spreads at real estate sites, like Urbanize LA.

Furthermore, these white-collar crooks know they have a minimal chance of coming under investigation and indictment.

They don’t worry about the LA County District Attorney, the Los Angeles City Attorney, or the LAPD’s white-collar crime unit (WCCU), even though it specializes in bribes to City officials.

They also know there is little chance that the City’s Ethics Commission will fine them for illicit campaign contributions and bribes. In the remote chance they get fined, they will treat it as the occasional cost of doing business at City Hall.

**Bottom line:** The next time someone tells you that crime doesn’t pay, especially if they point to the cases of Mitchell Englander, Jose Huizar, or Roy Chan, please tell them to take a hike in nearly any Los Angeles neighborhood.

*(Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles* [*(UN4LA)*](http://un4la.com/index.html) *and is co-chair of the new Greater Fairfax Residents Association. Please email comments and corrections to* [*rhplatkin@gmail.com*](mailto:rhplatkin@gmail.com) *or via Twitter to* [*@DickPlatkin*](mailto:@DickPlatkin)*.) Prepped for CityWatch by Linda Abrams.*

   ##  [ Letter from Concerned City Employees to Mayor Garcetti and City Council](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20020-letter-from-concerned-city-employees-to-mayor-garcetti-and-city-council "Letter from Concerned City Employees to Mayor Garcetti and City Council")

      Details    Concerned City Workers    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054i.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20020-letter-from-concerned-city-employees-to-mayor-garcetti-and-city-council)

**SIGN THE LETTER**-We, the undersigned members of the Los Angeles City Family, are informed by a wide variety of life experiences and serve in City government in a multitude of ways.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20020-letter-from-concerned-city-employees-to-mayor-garcetti-and-city-council)

   ##  [ Arctic Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20019-arctic-heat-overwhelms-green-infighting-issues "Arctic Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues")

      Details    Robert Hunziker    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054d.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20019-arctic-heat-overwhelms-green-infighting-issues)

**CLIMATE POLITICS**-Arctic temperatures are soaring to new records. . . and staying there, ever since May of this year.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20019-arctic-heat-overwhelms-green-infighting-issues)

   ##  [ Can Nancy Pelosi Stop the GOP from Nixonizing Trump?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20018-can-nancy-pelosi-stop-the-gop-from-nixonizing-trump "Can Nancy Pelosi Stop the GOP from Nixonizing Trump?")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 02 2020       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2020/054q.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20018-can-nancy-pelosi-stop-the-gop-from-nixonizing-trump)

**ONE MAN’S OPINION**-Mark this one “rank speculation,” or we could call it, “there are too many serious problems without solutions; so, let’s jump into silly land.”

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20018-can-nancy-pelosi-stop-the-gop-from-nixonizing-trump)

1. [ The Bridge That Connects Jose Huizar and Geoff Palmer](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20013-the-bridge-that-connects-jose-huizar-and-geoff-palmer)
2. [ Must Read! Amidst LA Corruption, a Silver Lining and Golden Opportunity](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20012-must-read-amidst-la-corruption-a-silver-lining-and-golden-opportunity)
3. [ What Rights Do the Majority have When Dealing with the Unmasked?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20011-what-rights-do-the-majority-have-when-dealing-with-the-unmasked)
4. [ A Ridiculous Debate, But a Welcome Ruling](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20010-a-ridiculous-debate-but-a-welcome-ruling)
5. [ Jail vs Brown Act](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20009-jail-vs-brown-act)
6. [ What Happened to George Floyd Was Unspeakable—So is What's Being Done in His Name!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20008-what-happened-to-george-floyd-was-unspeakable-so-is-what-s-being-done-in-his-name)
7. [ Pride Joins the Fight Against Police Abuse ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20007-pride-joins-the-fight-against-police-abuse)
8. [ Will Mrs. Huizar Testify (Against) Mr. Huizar? ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20006-will-mrs-huizar-testify-against-mr-huizar)
9. [ Will the Corporate Greed of Essex Property Trust CEO Mike Schall Destroy California?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20004-will-the-corporate-greed-of-essex-property-trust-ceo-mike-schall-destroy-california)
10. [ The American (In)Justice System...One for wealthy whites, the other for everyone else](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20003-one-for-wealthy-whites-the-other-for-everyone-else)
11. [ For Many Young People, Socialism Is as American as Apple Pie](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20001-for-many-young-people-socialism-is-as-american-as-apple-pie)
12. [ COVID -19 Has Blinded Us All to the Potential Risks to Our Drug Supply](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20000-covid-19-has-blinded-us-all-to-the-potential-risks-to-our-drug-supply)
13. [ Except for the Court System, LA is Not a Racist City](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/19999-except-for-the-court-system-la-is-not-a-racist-city)
14. [ Trumpism: A Viral Metaphor](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/19998-trumpism-a-viral-metaphor)
15. [ Cry for America](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/19992-cry-for-america)
16. [ MEMO To Black Lives Matter: Ignore the Politicians, Partner up with the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/19991-memo-to-black-lives-matter-ignore-the-politicians-partner-up-with-the-neighborhood-council-budget-advocates)
17. [ Why Los Angeles Cannot Solve its Housing Crisis](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/19990-why-los-angeles-cannot-solve-its-housing-crisis)
18. [ Trump's Surefire Re-Election Moment: Cities Who CHOP Off Their Own Authority](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/19988-trump-s-surefire-re-election-moment-cities-who-chop-off-their-own-authority)
19. [ LA’s Next Wave of Corruption Indictments](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/19985-la-s-next-wave-of-corruption-indictments)
20. [ And Exactly How Will the Mayor Slash $150 Million from the LAPD?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/19983-and-exactly-how-will-the-mayor-slash-150-million-from-the-lapd)

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