L.A. City Council District 13 March Election

Suzzie

Ziggy Kruse should run for city council

but wait..

she is not a United States Citizen!

ahhhhhhhhhhh...another carpetbagger~!

I too am concerned that NONE of the candidates even mention the horrific development plans for Hollywood....or anywhere else in CD 13 for that matter.  Will we EVER get someone who represents us in the LA City Council??  Doesn't seem like it.  

I've been bombarded with hundreds of pieces of advertising materials from these candidates, contributing to nearly filling up the recycling bin at the back of our building. I do hope they're recyclable. None of these materials has given me any real information about them, nor influenced my voting.   Thankfully I came across this article while desperately googling for information before the election.  

And...to 'market' re: "Sorry Ms. Kruse, your activism does not mean that you represent the people of Hollywood" 

I have been a resident of Hollywood for many, many...many years.  Ziggy Kruse is an asset to the Hollywood area and it's residents, working tirelessly toward getting the voices of the residents heard at the City Council level. She's not working alone in that either.  It isn't NIMBY; it's about representation.  Hollywood residents are not represented in the L.A. City Council. The current councilman is a bought and paid for advocate for the big business entities that contribute to his campaign.   These people treat Hollywood like a commodity, rather than a community. It's very sad.   I don't think your boy Szabo is the solution either.  

It is interesting that all the candidates running for CD 13 are silent about Garcetti's Hollywood's Plan except to lavish praise.  According to Garcetti's own plan, Hollywood lost 26,198 people just between 2005 and 2010 while he was CD 13 councilman.

According to the 2010 Census there were 198,228 persons living in the Hollywood Community Plan Area in 2010. The baseline 2005 population estimate used in the Hollywood Community Plan Update was 224,426 persons. Garcetti's Hollywood Community Plan, 10-3-2011 FEIR p 3.1

Garcetti calls this fleeing from Hollywood a "revitalization," the same way that he called the $1/2 Billion loss on the Hollywood-Highland Project a "revitalization." 

All told, Garcetti most likely squandered over $1 Billion in tax dollars on developers and his own Plan says he drove out 26,000 people. As the LA Weekly and LA Times have noted, Garcetti brought about this deterioration while cutting firefighters, fire stations and paramedics for those who stayed.  Yet, none of these candidates noticed -- even when the population exodus was published in Garcetti's own community plan!

John Choi is now genuinely making an effort to learn about the District that he moved into 1 year ago: He's following @MitchOFarrell on Twitter. Yes, THAT Mitch O'Farrell. Smart move, John. If you want to learn about the 13th District, there's no one more knowledgable than Mitch. 

No one has worked with more diligence to represent Council District 13 than Mitch O'Farrell. No one has more understanding of the district or the needs and concerns of its constituents than he.  

 We've been waiting for you, Mitch.

SAM KBUSYHAN for District 13 City Council!!! He is way more legit and caring and ready and able to faithfully represent the district. Please check him out and VOTE FOR SAM KBUSHYAN!

SAM KBUSYHAN for District 13 City Council!!! He is way more legit and caring and ready and able to faithfully represent the district. Please check him out and VOTE FOR SAM KBUSHYAN!

Ziggy Kruse is not our spokesperson!  I believe she is one of the many in a group that placed lawsuits on so many projects in Hollywood. It was a popular story in curbed la; known as: NIMBY greenmail http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/01/leaked_settlement_shows_how_nimbys_greenmail_developers_1.php

Sam Kabushyan camp has been intimidating the absentee voter; they fear retaliation for speaking upThis is not an election for ziggy kruse or sam kabushyan

Matt Szabo  set up PayPal accounts in city hall to pay for Michael Jacksons funeral, he was also instrumental in an attempt to provide an office space for Occupy LA for $1 a YEAR! Once the media found out about it, the deal was pulled    http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_19394416

I believe Ms Kruse sat on that group    Sorry Ms. Kruse, your activism does not mean that you represent the people of Hollywood, even if you are a friend of the writer of this story Patrick McDonald

Mr. Abrams: Your numbers ARE WRONG! You stated: Can 23 candidates all be wrong? Time will tell."We don't have 23 candidates!!!!

OMG! I almost threw up my gelato when I saw the cult-like black and white John Choi billboard in Echo Park. No photo, just "I am Choi, I will save you, read my mailers, join my cult." It's all about him. His website says he wants for break the city free from special interests, yet special-interests have spent $135,000 to get him elected; He claimed to have worked on the Echo Park Lake restoration, yet he had NOTHING to do with it; He says he worked miracles while he was one of 5 over paid commissioners on the Board of Public Works, when he was only there for 11 months! He took campaign donations from the people that want to build more than 800 apartments and commercial space in Elysian Park. You can't break us free of the special-interests if they own you, dude. Please stop polluting my hipster paradise with all your junk mail and scary billboards!

John Choi is the worst example of a carpet-bagger. He moved into the 13th District 1 year ago, 92% of his campaign money comes from outside the District, he's very under-qualified, he's lied and exaggerated in his mailers, and on his website, and special-interest money is the ONLY reason he's even in the conversation and in the race. To win, he will have to buy the election, fool the voters of the 13th District and be the best actor that he can be. He either volunteered to run as a representative of the special interests, or he just completely whored himself to gain their favor and money. It's just the complete worse of any kind of American politics.

All the carpet bagging money drubbers who want to become King of the Development Corruption are dependent on Judge Goodman and his rubber stamping Garcetti's fraudulent Hollywood Community Plan.  The Plan is simply put Garbage -- Garbage in, Garbage out. [The 1601 N Vine Project alone had a $1.4 M appraisal fraud.]

Hollywood's fraudulent nature was exposed when its DEIR was issued in March 2011. It falsely said that Hollywood's population in 2005 was 224,426 ppl, when it was about 206,000 persons.  Five years later, the US Census showed that the 2000 population of 201,794 ppl had fallen to only 198,228 people by 2010.  We are supposed to believe that the population zoomed up by 13,000 in five years and then crashed down by 26,000 the next five year, yet it would then skyrocket toward 250,000 ppl by 2030.   Yep, the Garcetti plan said we had to build high rises for 250,000 people before 2030.  Without the fraud of vast and huge population growth, who would finance the outlandish 55 story Millennium towers and the other mega projects in Hollywood?  

It is interesting to learn from LA Weekly that over One Million Dollars has already been spent on a primary for CD 13 when everything rests on whether the judge can distinguish a verified 20 plus year population decline from a fictictious miraculous population explosion of 52,000 people in the next few years?  

If Facts are Law count for anything, Garcetti's fraudulent Hollywood Community Plan is doomed. Yet, the smart (?) money has already spend over $1 M to gain this most lucrative cash cow. Choi - $192 K, Ocampo, $137 K, Mack $103 K  That's a lot of money to spend when the development plan should be remanded for a complete do-over due to its irreconcilable conflicts with Facts and Law. Can 23 candidates all be wrong?  Time will tell.