Watching City Hall #448 (4-9-06)

Watching city Hall #448

(3-28-06)

Bulldog Head’s Up for today’s Board Agenda

(guess what? your sorry ass loses)

Item # 2 Letting Diona Feinstein’s hubby, Dick Blum and his fellow
thieves keep 250 million of the 300 million dollars they
overcharged us for SFO work.

Ever notice that when problems with this project arise, the
Chron calls the guilty company: ‘Tutor-Saliba’? They
leave off the final name in the company’s true name:
‘Tutor-Saliba-Perini’. That last part. The ‘Perini’ part?
That’s Senator Feinstein’s husband’s company. She’s
been throwing contracts to this greedy, lying bastard for
as long as she’s been in power. Did you know that he not
only made cash off of every construction process getting you
to and from the airport but that the prick owns the
concession for the friggin’ luggage racks you use?

This item represents a giveaway by City Attorney Dennis
Herrera whose Teflon suit is shredding as we speak.

Board rolls over … 11-0 … Blum keeps his loot. you lose.

Item # 3 Overbuilding the new Juvenile Hall in order to lock up
kids of color for minor infractions so that guards can
keep their jobs. This item should be sent back to committee
where the justification for adding jail cells for children when
the crime rate is decreasing.

It won’t … 11-0 … lock the little bastards up.

Item # 10 Handing around 4 million bucks in ‘unspent General Fund
money’ to the 2 baddest lobbiest in town. That would be
Margaret Broadbutt and Gary Delugnuts.

Forget it … you lose 11-0 … again

Item #11 690K to give poor homeless people a thin pad to sleep on
in a dry shelter in out of the cold and rain.

A no brainer, right? Sean Elsbernd voted against it. Oh,
right. He didn’t vote against it. He merely asked that it
it be moved forward with ‘no recommendation’. The
mayor’s against it too.

Note in Item # 10 that the mayor had plenty of unexpended
money to keep shelters like the one run by St. Boniface
open but chose to give most of it to the cops to reward
their inefficiency (do they have some photos of him we need
to see? – like the ones they took of the OCC chief in a love
tryst?) … Daly again to the rescue.

Only an asshole would vote against this. You win 9-2 with
Pier & Elsbernd showing their … well …

Item # 20 Protecting Employees rights

This is a hypocritical smokescreen by a Board prepared to
back Downtown’s move through Human Resources beast,
Phil Ginsberg’s move to toss seniority out the window for
all City employees.

The duplicity is unbelievable. When Newsom fired 38
City workers to hire Mohammed Nuru’s thugs who
helped fix the election for Gavin, the Board voted 1.8
million to hire them back. Ginsberg figured a way
around it and the whistleblowers are still pounding
the streets while the thugs draw City pay. And, the
Board did nothing. I repeat. The Board did nothing.
Now, they’re ‘protecting employee rights’?

Board gives one another undeserved pat on back 11-0

Item # 25 Finally, legal music in the streets. Thanks to Paul
Hayward for fighting this battle for years. Did you
know that the street musicians you’ve been enjoying
for years on the streets were all there illegally? For
once, Jake McGoldrick gets something right. Now
he can go back to sticking pins in his Daly Doll.

Only the Scrooge-like, Fred Lazar could oppose music.

Everyone wins 11-0. Start by letting street musicians
play around Bill Graham auditorium. Morning til
10pm. Improve the ambiance, dude.

Item # 31 Transfer of Development Rights to Old Mint

Bend over and hold your breath. To whom, pray tell?
From whom? Well, from a Swells outfit headed by
Jim (never quite dead) Lazarus … to? … don’t know
but word is they’ll be putting luxurious suites for the
Swells in the upper floors (do I smell a gutted structure
with a dozen stories looking down on the Hearsts?)

It should go to committee. It won’t. You lose 11-0

I’d like to tell you there’s lots of good news today too, but I’d be lying. Lots more bad news. For instance, it looks like the City Attorney’s office has been advising departments in methods to delay or refuse to fulfill Sunshine requests. That’s against the law. But, all of the departments keep using the same method and that’s suspicious. They delay, then change the format of the most innocuous items, copy them onto paper and hand them to activists in a form that can’t be numbers crunched. It looks bad for Dennis. I want to be wrong here but I doubt it.

Newsom has become Gary Delugnuts’ bitch. Yesterday he had Board lackey, Bevan Dufty cancel his trumpeted plan for a ‘Blue Ribbon Panel’ aimed at changing the police culture (what’s wrong with 2,000 club-wielding, steroid-loaded, red-necks with guns?). Seems that now that Gary made Gavin an ‘offer he couldn’t refuse’ that Gav thinks the cops are doing a whale of a job and wants to expand the force by, oh, say 600 or 700 or maybe more. What does the POA have on Newsom?

The rain is lovely. I have some great smoke and I’m drinking Jens’ beer till he gets here with some wine. Cat’s purring. My kids are coming to visit. Things usually balance out I guess. If you let them.

incoming!