Posted on 07/01/2005 10:28:42 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
Hiring 1,300 additional police officers: $130 million.
Planting 1 million trees: $140 million.
Extending the Red Line subway to the beach: $2.7 billion.
All those officers, all those trees, all that track and the more than three dozen other major promises that Antonio Villaraigosa made to the people of Los Angeles during the mayoral campaign will not come cheap.
Just after midnight he became the 41st mayor of the nation's second-largest city, an ascension that will be marked today by an elaborate inauguration ceremony.
Now, Villaraigosa comes face to face with one of the harsh inevitabilities of politics: It's easier to make grand pronouncements than to carry them out.
Even before today, Villaraigosa confronted the city's budget realities, learning that he may have to deal with a potential deficit that could balloon to $278 million within three years. And his agenda faces skepticism from some observers who, though confident in his abilities, say he may have promised too much to deliver in four — or even eight — years.
"In my lifetime, I'm not expecting to be able to get on a subway on the Sunset Strip and go to the beach," said Allen Hoffenblum, a Los Angeles-area political consultant who zeroed in on the new mayor's most ambitious proposal, extending the Red Line to the beach in Santa Monica.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Hey I'm coming to your town today to buy ammo because the communist city council of LA saw fit to ban the sale of bullets in the week preceding Independence Day. If only the British had thought of that in 1776...
Mayor Villar
Law degree from "The Peoples College of Law"
non admitted school to the CA Bar.
James Hahn
English Degree Pepperdine
Law Degree Pepperdine
Richard Riordan
Phiilosopy Degree Princeton
Law Degree Michigan
Tom Bradley
Attended UCLA for three years the joined LAPD
21 year LAPD Officer
Law Degree Southwestern University
Sam Yorty
Attended LaSalle, UCLA, USC, Southwestern University
Law Degree
Served WW2 in US Army Air Corps
Right on! I buy ammo over the internet.
Need any 223?
Just .45 ACP and .38. Ammo over the net? Is that legal in Cal?
it is for now - better hurry! head over to ammoman.com!
Thanks. Great deals.
i predict that senor villaraigosa will implode as his buddy el presidente fox imploded.
big plans, lots of rhetoric, but no brains.
Maybe his buddy, Vicente Fox... will help fund this grandose ideas. Will they see the Los Angeles, Mexico signs pop up again. $ 140 million for trees???? surely they can find better ways to spend monies they don't have.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
ammoman.com
its legal til they say it isnt!! no sales tax either!
At least there were 'boos'
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-070105speech_lat,0,5237143.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Villaraigosa's Inaugural Address -- As Delivered
Thank you, Thank you. Gracias a todos.
Fellow Angelenos, members of the City Council, City Controller Chick, City Attorney Delgadillo, Mayor Hahn, Mayor Riordan, Superintendent Romer, Vice President Gore, Governor Schwarzenegger, representatives of the Congress and the California Legislature, excuse me. (booing in background). Angelenos, excuse me. (booing in background) There will be civility today (cheering in background).
Fellow mayors, county leaders, members of the consular corps, distinguished guests.
Today is a day for thanks. I want to thank all of you.
What a great country this is!
And what a great city this is!
(snip)
His communist beginnings and "La Raza" racism will burn this town down IMO.
Look for violence to be on the rise soon and getting worse from there.
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