First of two parts
Re “Schwab Responds tp Greenberg: There Is No Conflict of Interest”
On the first business day after receiving a firm refutation from the city attorney of his accusations against three City Councilmen, the lawyer-activist Les Greenberg this morning proudly announced what he was doing when an inquiring journalist called on him.
“I am proofing a 12-page response to (City Atty.) Carol Schwab,” he said.
As far as Mr. Greenberg is concerned, his dustup with City Hall is just as far from the finish line as it was on Sept. 8, day of the action.
For him, nothing has changed.
While senior Councilman Andy Weissman, the chief target of Mr. Greenberg’s charges, declined comment, the accuser himself was the tactical opposite.
At the outset, he unloaded a zinger.
“I am not surprised by the end result,” Mr. Greenberg said. “I am surprised by the quality of the work.
Of the woman who has been Culver City’s city attorney for 16 years, Mr. Greenberg said:
“Someone has to go back to the drawing board,” he said.
“This is not the end of the line” for protesting a temporary end of tightly bound parking restrictions for the 10700 block of Farragut Drive.
“First, we disagree with just about everything she says and her analysis of the facts and the law. The City Council has not yet acted (in imposing a final ruling on parking restrictions, due sometime next year). If we don’t like what they do, we can go to court on it.”
By his reading of the 1,400-plus word letter, Ms. Schwab did not address Mr. Greenberg’s central charges of conflict of interest, for Messrs. Jeff Cooper, Mehaul O’Leary, the vice mayor, and Weissman.
(To be continued)
