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CITYWATCH TODAY—I’m not going to tell you who or what to vote for on March 7 but I am going to offer you this equation and let you do the math.
If you’re satisfied with the molasses-like progress that has been achieved over the past eight years on LA’s homeless crisis, business growth, affordable housing growth, spiraling rent and housing costs, unrepaired sidewalks, streets crawling with traffic jams and City Hall arrogance toward the people … then return this current cast of public servants to office.
If you are not bothered by politicians who take humongous sums of money from developers and then, with a straight face, tell you they will not be influenced when it’s time to vote on that developer’s project ... then return those folks to office on March 7 and stop whining.
If you are not bothered by greed and corruption … even soft corruption … serving as the currency at your City Hall … then just admit that you’ve lost your moral and ethical compass and return these con artists to the City Council horseshoe.
LA’s Charter provides for Community Plans to allow the voices in the community … your voices … to be heard in the City’s planning process. Those community plans have been ignored by our city pretenders through term after term … until now, feeling the pressure of Measure S, these political dandies are feigning interest in updating your plan and hoping to distract you until after the March 7 election is history. If you feel these fancy dancers have found Jesus and have seen the light … return them to their positions of political power and say no to Measure S.
Oh, the equation? It goes like this: Can we really return the same arrogant, secret, backroom dealing politicians to office and expect a different result? We all know what believing in that exercise is called. There will be no change until you change. Do the math.
David Bell clarifies even more, where Measure S is concerned, in Today’s CityWatch. Check it out. Let me know what you think.
Ken Draper-CityWatch, Editor
