Stephen Box Earns LA City Workers Endorsement for LA City Council District 04

We are proud to endorse Stephen box over incumbent Tom Labonge in the Race for Council District 04.

We have made this decision after careful review of Tom Labonge’s record against providing services equally and fairly to all residents.

Stephen Box

His abuse of Public power, his disregard for legal contracts, his utter contempt for working people and his lack of knowledge about Public Works issues.

Stephen box is a breath of fresh air who understands the need to maintain the public infrastructure for everyone.

After so long in office he hasn’t learned a thing.

His lack of understanding of the Department of Public works and what works and why is shocking for as long as he has been in City Hall one would assume that he would have learned a thing or two, but sadly he turns to Chicago for ideas on how one should run public services.

In the video below you will see employees not of city forces, but of Tom Labonges office dumping at a city facility debris that was carried away at no charge for select homeowners who have the right connections

These items are the responsibility of the Department of Sanitation, however the employees dressed like City workers dump at a Street Maintenance facility, the cost to transport & dump these items come out of Street Services funds and result in fewer streets getting resurfaced and employees having to take furlough days resulting in more potholes and more trash in the streets.

Hollywood hills residents might care to know about his slashing of funds and furloughing workers resulting in overgrown vegetation, potholes, mudslides and other quality of life issues.

Finally great suspicion surrounds the installation of a traffic signal just feet away from his district office which had been completed for months yet not activated until after the campaign season began. The pressure city engineers were under from his office to approve the installation only a block from another traffic signal.

Shame on you Mr. Labonge for hiring high paid staff to cater to a select few carting away their trash at the expense of ALL city residents.

Is Corruption a good model to follow?

Tom Labonge gets his Public Works idea’s for running the second largest city in the country directly from the most corrupt city in the country Chicago,  Mr. Labonge needs a lesson not only in Public Works 101 but a follow-up from the Ethics Commission!

Further adding to the mess better known as Tom Labonge, his ill advised Motion to transfer Street cleaning to the control of Sanitation shows how out of touch his thinking is.

Tom Labonge will only continue to fail the average resident as has been proven over the last year.

We hope you will give Stephen Box the chance to work for you as the next councilman of the 4th District.

Ron Kaye Chimes In

If we haven’t given you enough reasons to question a life long city hall insider who has little to show for all of those years milking the public Ron Kaye has a good article on Tom Labonge Carolyn Ramsay and their dirty smear tactics. Carolyn Koo-Koo Ramsay AKA CAROLYN MARY RAMSAY is busy earning over 80,000.00 a year and a fat pension while taking care of those well connected campaign contributors or as they like to call them these days constituents, but she took a break to email blast thousands of residents which Might be a violation of city ethics.

Tom is really earning his nickname Tom La-bozo these days!

 

Los Angeles Police Department Detention Officers to be exempted from furloughs

Politics 101, it’s not who you know but who you…. Hire.

LAPD Metropolitan Detention Center

Los Angeles Police Department Civilian Detention Officers in the LAPD were represented by SEIU 721, although technically still represented dues paying members they took it upon themselves to seek and pay for outside assistance.

With the correct political lobbying, and the ability to locate money which let’s be honest can be a nightmare even for seasoned elected officials, you can get an outgoing councilman to draft a motion, find the money and make a loan in a matter of weeks.

This takes us to the Council Motion from GREIG SMITH below. What it does is simple, it loans the LAPD $718,675.00 from the Sunshine Canyon Community Amenities Trust Fund.

Although critics will cry foul that that money is earmarked for use within 5 miles of the Sunshine Canyon Landfill, and the Metropolitan Detention Center is 35 miles away it shouldn’t qualify.

Argument to counter is simple, LAPD officers will be back on patrol where the taxpayers expect them to be and qualified highly trained Detention Officers will be running the Jail exactly as intended.

Simple enough. This should sail through the council tomorrow with little or no objection and SEIU 721 can take zero credit for it.

Yet again Union members working together for themselves accomplished a major goal.

SEIU 721 has only the let’s giveback everything mentality and no Public relations or media campaign at all.

Members suffer while they continue to make money.

PSR’s and Senior PSR’s I continue to work towards this goal as well as for BSS employees and others I will continue the fight giving my all for the workforce and the residents.


CAO, CLA, Mayor Villaraigosa Officially can no longer support erip!

CAO, CLA, Mayor Villaraigosa Officially can no longer support erip!

Erip supporters few and far from enough to pass erip, coalition asked to take further cuts within 24 hours or layoffs and furloughs are back on the table!

$50-60 Million needed Now, CLA claims Furloughs and Layoffs only way out.

Action needed immediately, 24 hours before council makes the choice.

Union coalition asked to make cuts, coalition promises without checking with members it will make cuts amounting 60 million!

CAO attempting to implement furloughs by September 28th furloughs will become effective for all members outside DWP & Airport Harbor.

City Coalition wants to throw out our contracts, give up many bonus codes.

City Coalition officially supports EAA Positions that furloughs are Illegal.

Pensions blamed for financial problems.

“City workforce currently unsustainable.”

No Furlough No Layoff Provision unacceptable.

1.9% Additional Retirement Contribution sought from members bringing it up to 8% of members salary for the rest of your career.

LACityworkers.com will immediately file suit if any changes to ratified agreements occur, any changes must be brought to it’s membership to ratify, not made 24 hours before council vote, No Union is authorized to act on behalf of it’s members without it’s membership voting on it’s contracts.

Budget Commitee Votes 3-2 Against recommendation #1.