The commenter, Concerned82nd, goes on to say, “I really hand it to the writers of L.A. Weekly for bringing these shady stories to light but I wonder, with each story, when will the citizens of Los Angeles stand up?”
Also congratulating Rothman is the antibillboard activist Dennis Hathaway, for “shining a light on what surely ought to be regarded as a scandal — the use of public money to enrich private interests downtown while many local neighborhoods suffer from blight, crumbling infrastructure and lack of economic development. What this excellent article didn’t mention was the money companies like AEG and others getting CRA subsidies spend lobbying the city council and other city agencies. For example, at the time the city council decided to hand AEG another plum — the rights to billboards on the facade of the convention center — the company had paid nearly $500,000 to lobbying firms over the past 18 months.”
Correction
Due to an editing error in last week’s music section, we misidentified the image accompanying Kristine McKenna’s feature on Geoff Muldaur. The photo was of songwriter Stephen Bruton. A corrected version is online at laweekly.com.
NOTE: L.A. Weekly welcomes letters to the editor (readerswrite@laweekly.com) and comments online. We encourage writers to give us their full names, just as we give you ours.
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