If you believe that the case is made in the following essay, dear readers, I recommend that you write a letter to the Los Angeles Times, urging Editor Dean Baquet to fire Paris-based correspondent Sebastian Rotella for consistently cowardly, viciously dishonest reporting. Ethically, journalistically, the gentleman is stone deaf.
My comments are bold-faced.
In a lengthy story on Page Three on Tuesday morning, Mr. Rotella reported on a particularly horrifying crime in Paris.
It is the most despicable destruction of one Jew — for being Jewish — that I have heard of in decades.
Make Mine Malsin, Too
I am an enthusiastic supporter of Scott Malsin for City Council.
When I was President of the Culver City Democratic Club, he set up our website, and he supported the Club in all of its endeavors.
Scott has the endorsement of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, most of Culver City’s past mayors, the Police Officers Assn., the Firefighters Assn., and the Chamber of Commerce.
I have observed him in action at Planning Commission meetings and as an active fellow member of an environmental group, the Ballona Creek Renaissance. Scott has a mature head on his shoulders. He weighs all issues carefully. He comes to realistic positions after considering all of the facts and the possible consequences of his decision.
Considering the above, it is obvious that Scott Malsin has Culver City’s best interest at heart. He will be an outstanding member of the City Council. I heartily endorsement.
An Endorsement for Malsin
I have lived in Culver City for twenty-eight years, since I was one year old. I attended and graduated from La Ballona, Culver Middle and Culver City High Schools.
I am writing because I wanted to acknowledge one of the candidates for City Council, Scott Malsin, on his initiative to include students from Culver City High in the April 11 election for City Council. I was speaking with a friend who now teaches at CCHS. Both of us thought it was such a good idea to hold a presentation and get students involved — earlier than we were — in the political process.
There is no better way to understand how much the policies, rules and laws of a place affect a person than to be an informed voter and to support the candidate of one’s choice.
Mr. Malsin really seems to want to include everyone in his candidacy. I, for one, am going to vote for him. I want to thank him for considering the younger voter bloc. It can only produce benefits for everyone.
I hope every eligible student (or graduate) voter, gets out and votes in the upcoming election.
The Selling of the Fear Factor
Half the truth is often a great lie — Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, inventor (1706-1790)
I cannot get over the feeling that a major, unspoken but agreed-upon reason exists for the School Board’s staunch opposition to the proposed transfer of students living in Ladera Heights.
The Board does not seem to be giving the community all of the facts involved with the transfer, just the negative aspects. The reasons that have been given sound like excuses for continuing the status quo.
New-Look Silbiger Talks Light Rail and Mobile Homes
Seven weeks before Election Day, it can be reported that Gary Silbiger,
the incumbent City Councilman, bears only a ghost of a resemblance to the
immigration lawyer who winged his way into office four years ago.
Mr. Silbiger, who has essayed a distinct reputation by casting himself as a laser-focused populist, has a surprise for City Hall watchers who think he will be a one-termer.
He has matured into a formidable politician.
As he sat down to talk about the campaign along with his much-analyzed votes on light rail and the mobile home parks on Grandview Boulevard, the change in him was as obvious as his perennial congeniality.
Instead of taking a distant seat behind the large desk in his Washington Boulevard office, he drew a chair near to his interrogator. He crossed his legs, relaxed his back, and his eye contact never strayed.
Why I Am Voting No on Measure V
Measure V on the April 11 ballot is an all-encompassing rewrite of our City Charter.
Parts of the proposed new charter are long-needed, and I would avidly support the changes. However, the Charter Review Committee was adamant in its position that this should be one ballot measure, and not several.
Since there are parts of the revision that I cannot support, I must Vote No.
The proponents of Measure V have failed to convince me of the interrelationship among several of the components as their argument for only one ballot measure.
Provocative Question About Ladera Heights
School Board member Stew Bubar posed a provocative
question at Tuesday night’s meeting that may lie at the heart of objections some families have to the proposed transfer of Ladera Heights students.
If the transfer eventually is approved, he wanted to know how many more students — beyond the three hundred and thirty-seven presently identified — will want to enroll on a Culver City campus?
One answer is relatively few, although an exact count is unknowable.
Further, it appears that the School District is capable of handily accommodating all transfers.
At Culver Crest, Vera Upstages All 3 Candidates
Even though it still is early in the Culver City election season, swarms of curious voters are pouring into large, well-lighted rooms these late-winter evenings to hear for themselves from unalike City Council candidates and to tune in on strenuous arguments over rewriting the City Charter.
Every time, their interest is being entertainingly rewarded — such as it was Wednesday night.
Before addressing the standing-room-only monthly meeting of the Culver Crest Neighborhood Assn., Mayor Albert Vera executed yet another U-turn.
Capitalizing on the prerogative reserved for revered politicians — a change of mind —Mr. Vera said that his ailing wife Ursula is on the mend, clearing the way for him to run for re-election after all on April 11.
Capitalizing on the prerogative reserved for revered politicians — a change of mind —Mr. Vera said that his ailing wife Ursula is on the mend, clearing the way for him to run for re-election after all on April 11.
Hot Portion of School Board Tape Missing
The latest stormy face-to-face collision between School Board President Saundra Davis and her frequent rivals on the Board flared into an ugly scene on Tuesday night over a recording of what was said about her at a meeting when she was not present.
Ms. Davis charged that a critical portion of the School District-controlled audio tape — where the validity of a recent honorary doctorate for her was heatedly debated — was missing, unaccountably.
“It was erased,” she flatly told thefrontpageonline.com.
Estimating that a fifteen-minute portion of the tape had vanished without explanation while the rest of the Jan. 24 meeting seemed to be intact, Ms. Davis was not shocked.
Fulwood Responds to Pay Hike Claim
One of the well-trod arguments made against the Charter Reform proposition, Measure V, on the April ballot is that if it passes, Jerry Fulwood will celebrate his new title of City Manager by asking for a raise since his duties would be greatly expanded.
Since the city is financially strapped, opponents of V charge, City Hall cannot afford to raise anyone’s pay, least of all that of its chief executive.
This debate became more acute last Friday when city employees found two extra sheets, a blue one and a white one, in their pay envelopes.
One sheet broke new ground, asserting that City Hall likely would be confronted by a million-dollar shortfall when the revenue counting is concluded sometime before the thirtieth of June, the end of the fiscal year.
One sheet broke new ground, asserting that City Hall likely would be confronted by a million-dollar shortfall when the revenue counting is concluded sometime before the thirtieth of June, the end of the fiscal year.