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May 2, 2013
Garcetti and Greuel's Worst Days in Power
Setting aside promises, how have they behaved?
Blogs
April 17, 2013
Bad Blood Lingers Despite Settlement Between Carmen Trutanich and Former Campaign Consultant
L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has settled his bitter legal battle with John Shallman, the campaign consultant who ran his failed bid for district attorney.The dispute got so bad that at one point, Shallman called Trutanich "the Kim Jong-Il of L.A. politics." He claimed the city attor ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
Wendy Greuel Edges Eric Garcetti In Fundraising, Has More Cash In Campaign's Final Two Weeks
Update below: Kevin James' super PAC runs out of steam.Controller Wendy Greuel raised more money over the last month than Councilman Eric Garcetti, her top rival in the race for L.A. mayor, and has more cash in the bank with less than two weeks to go before the March 5 primary.Greuel reported raisin ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
Brainiac Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti Pleads Ignorance On Clear Channel Vote as Rival Emanuel Pleitez Files Ethics Complaint
Read L.A Weekly feature article about inner-city success story Emanuel Pleitez. Los Angeles mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez is now getting into the thick of a brewing scandal involving rival Eric Garcetti, who L.A. Weekly reported owned stock in Clear Channel Communications while at the same time ... More >>
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February 9, 2013
Christopher Dorner's Rampage Prompts Question On LAPD Discrimination At Mayoral Debate
Christopher Dorner's rampage intruded into the race for L.A. mayor this afternoon, when the candidates were asked at a forum whether they would investigate Dorner's claims of racial discrimination at the LAPD.Speaking in front of a mostly African-American audience at Crenshaw High School, ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2013
Ariel Sharon Brain Activity Detected By UCLA Scientists Despite His Vegetative State
Creepy brain tests conducted on Ariel Sharon, who has been in a vegetative state since 2006, show "significant brain activity," UCLA said this week. One bioethicist, however, says that the strange readings from functional MRI scanning conducted by UCLA and Israeli scientists do not suggest, as some ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2013
Bad Religion's Greg Graffin Challenges Authority Through Fucking Science
For over 30 years, Bad Religion have carved out a niche as the thinking man's punk rock band. When they formed in Los Angeles in 1980, the inspiration for their lyrics came from the topic of corporate greed and the conflicts between philosophy, science, and religion. The band's 16th full-length albu ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2012
Fresh & Easy's Automated Checkouts an Easy Target For Kids Buying Beer? Not So Fast ...
If critics are right, maybe Fresh & Easy should change its name to That Was Easy. Some local leaders said today that at least one of the chain's stores, the one in Manhattan Beach, has been cited for selling booze to underage drinkers as a result of his unmanned, automated checkout system, which cr ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2012
LAPD's Relaxed Unlicensed Driver Policy Challenged by D.C. Group
An anti-illegal-immigrant group is suing the LAPD over its relaxed impound policy for unlicensed drivers. Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch, which unsuccessfully sued the department over its policy prohibiting officers from investigating a person's immigration status, joins the L.A. police unio ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2012
Marijuana as Religious Right? California Court Says It's Possible
Do some folks have the religious right to use marijuana as part of a sacrament? It's a question we joked off when L.A. marijuana dispensary owner NJ Weedman sued the city of L.A. after his Liberty Temple II was targeted for extinction: He claimed the religious right to cannabis because the shop was ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2012
L.A. Politicians Increase Amount of Money They Can Receive From Unions, Corporations
Smack dab in the middle of an election season, the L.A. City Ethics Commission decided yesterday afternoon to raise the cap on campaign contributions that municipal candidates can collect from their sponsors. In other words: L.A.'s election system just got a little less Democratic, a lot more bough ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
L.A. Politicians Are Trying to Double Their Campaign Contribution Limits
Ah, but how quickly Los Angeles city officials forget the pact they made with the fed-up peoples of Occupy L.A.! At a City Ethics Commission meeting today, a proposal to more than double the campaign-contribution limits for City Councilmembers and other elected officials was almost passed by the fo ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2011
Kinde Durkee Fallout: L.A. Councilman Paul Krekorian Seeks Relief From City Campaign Finance Rules
Councilman Paul KrekorianUpdate below: L.A. Ethics Commission staff recommends four-month extension on debt window for Durkee clients.Politicians are still trying to dig out from the Kinde Durkee campaign finance scandal, two three months after the Democratic treasurer was arrested and accused of ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2011
Occupy L.A: Zuma Dogg Wades Into Hostile 99 Percenter Crowd at City Hall, Claims he Was Attacked by 'Mob'
Zuma vs. Occupy.Why, you ask, do we here at LA Weekly care about Zuma Dogg, the sometimes-utterly-insane City Hall gadfly? We don't always agree with his politics, and his tweets about taking his last breaths for want of food and cash can be annoying. But you have to admit -- he's entertaini ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
L.A. Archbishop: Gays, Abortions Are Ruining American Democracy
Associated PressArchbishop Gomez fights for his right to religious freedom.Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, head of the Diocese of Los Angeles (the nation's largest), thinks democracy is dead in this country. Yeah, well, join the club. But where Gomez parts philosophies with Occupy L.A. is who to b ... More >>
News
October 27, 2011
Occupy L.A.'s Dilemma
Protesters share enthusiasm and disenchantment, but need unity to survive
Blogs
September 7, 2011
NJweedman, Marijuana Dispensary Owner in L.A., Can't Change His Name to NJweedman.com, Court Rules
MySpaceSuperNJ.Update: Mr. Weedman, in a comment below, says he will appeal the court's decision and continue his quest to change his name to NJweedman.com. First posted at 8:06 a.m. You gotta love NJweedman, the L.A. pot shop owner who has much higher hopes than you do. He might have smoked ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2011
Watchdog Group Sues DOJ for Refusing to Release Congressman Jerry Lewis Investigation Records
Republican Congressman Jerry LewisSix months ago, the U.S. Department of Justice wrapped up an investigation into Congressman Jerry Lewis, a 17-term Republican from Redlands, for improperly handling earmarks and government contracts. The DOJ decided not to prosecute and everyone involved moved ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2011
Ethics Fines For L.A. Council Members Garcetti, Huizar, Wesson, Cardenas
Ethics fines for city leaders.Looks like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wasn't the only leader in City Hall invited to this here party. But, unlike other events officials have attended, this one will cost you. Yeah, four City Council members got caught up in ticketgate and will also have to pay ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Raves: Challenger to L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks Asks Him to Give Back Contributions From 'EDC' Promoter, Coliseum Manager
Bernard Parks is being challenged for supporting raves and taking money from a rave promoter.Never thought we'd see the day when raves were an issue in an L.A. City Council race, but that they are -- especially this week, after the Los Angeles Times reported that a public employee who helped ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2011
Nick Pacheco Employee Carlos Lira Says Fellow Workers Pressed to Contribute (Illegally) to Rudy Martinez's L.A. City Council Campaign
Rudy Martinez.Updated after the jump: Nick Pacheco responds, says his firm did not reimburse employees and that the accuser has a history of retaliating against employers. A man who worked for Rudy Martinez supporter Nick Pacheco says the former city councilman's company had employees write ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Anti-Porn-Industry Crusader Michael Weinstein Contributed Cash To L.A. Councilman Bill Rosendahl (Who Then Took A Step Toward Mandating Condom-Only Porn In The City)
Bill Rosendahl.Updated after the jump with city Councilman Bill Rosendahl's response. First posted at 12:12 p.m. It looks like the porn industry is fighting back against L.A. city Councilman Bill Rosendahl after he made a proposal that could lead to mandatory condom use at city-permitted adu ... More >>
News
December 2, 2010
Fantasy Voter Fraud
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Prop 200's dismissal
Blogs
October 14, 2010
Developers Get A Pass Under Proposal That Would Ban City Hall Contractors From Giving Cash To Los Angeles Candidates
It looks like you'll soon be able to vote on a law that will make life hard for city contractors who give money to city politicians in L.A. Only thing is, the law would give a huge exemption to the biggest pay-for-play contributors in town: Developers. That's according to our reading of Davi ... More >>
Blogs
September 18, 2010
Antonio Villaraigosa ticket scandal: Fair Political Practices Commission orders thousands of California politicians to post freebies on Internet to fight corruption
Now I see the light.Thanks to Antonio Villaraigosa's practice of ignoring anti-corruption laws, angling for $50,000 to $100,000 in freebies, then failing to tell the City Ethics Commission, the Fair Political Practices Commission has just enacted a strict rule forcing California politicians ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2010
Villaraigosa Praises New Ethics Commission Limits On Ticket Taking (So Long As They Don't Apply To The Past, Right?)
That Antonio Villaraigosa, he's a wily one. After the city Ethics Commission voted to prohibit elected officials from accepting valuable tickets to sports and entertainment events so they could undertake so-called official duties (and we emphasize the sound of "duty"), the mayor said late Tue ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
L.A. Ethics Commissions Says No Free Tickets For Elected Officials
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been widely criticized and locally investigated for accepting valuable sports and entertainment tickets to events at which he said he had ceremonial duties as the city's top leader. On Tuesday the city Ethics Commission said it's not having it. At least from h ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2010
LA Weekly: Your Place For Quran Burning News
Rep. Maxine Waters, the South L.A. Democratic congresswoman currently fighting House ethics charges, will be joined by other dignitaries and religious leaders, who will courageously come out against Quran burning this morning at the First AME Church on South Harvard Blvd. In case you missed ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2010
Rep. Maxine Waters' Ethics Charges Spelled Out
The House ethics committee spelled out its case against against Rep. Maxine Waters, the legendary congresswoman who represents south L.A., The Washington Post reports. As expected, the case alleges Waters "improperly exerted" influence over Treasury Department officials when she sought ban ... More >>
News
July 1, 2010
Villaraigosa's Vanishing Veracity
His executive directive No. 1 in 2005 vowed to halt even the appearance of sleaze and conflicts
News
June 24, 2010
Villaraigosa's Five-Year Free Ticket Spree
The Los Angeles mayor's usurping of anticorruption rules could spread to pols across California
News
June 28, 2007
Rocky Delgadillo's Flameout
Once a rising star, the city attorney muffs it with endless screwups

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