Don't bury local elections underneath presidential, gubernatorial and Congressional elections the way Steve Lopez at the Los Angeles Times (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/03/steve-lopez-switch-local-elections-to-national-cycle.html) wants you to do. Such a ridiculous cure-all would only backfire.
Instead, let's bury the fruitless Steve Lopez campaign to abolish the January- to-May election season.
Lopez’s role model must have been Don Quixote.
First thing: Support your local blogger.
Why not start with the longest-running blog, thefrontpageonline.com?
Visit now.
City Hall bloggers are the ones who made the crucial difference Tuesday when the voters just imposed a stiff death penalty on the city fathers' cock-eyed scheme to raise the city sales tax by a half-cent …forever!
Open letter to Mr. Steve Lopez, whose columnist job is at risk when the next owner – whomever he or she may be – soon takes control of the sinking/stinking Los Angeles Times.
Dear Mr. Lopez:
What a terrible idea you are peddling. Are you envious of the City Hall Blogger Community, under the informal leadership of Jack Humphreville and Ron Kaye who beat Prop. A into a bloody pulp at the polls this Tuesday, without spending one red cent against the Multi-Millionaires Middle-aged Boys' Club, which is chock full of super-wealthy seniors who truly believe what is good for Papa Eli, the Billboard Barons and the Mega-Bucks Real Estate Manipulators surrounding the suddenly exposed Figment of their Group Imagination, the slowly dissolving memory of a Future Farmers Field, is good for us all?
Humphreville and Kaye's stature has increased with the Prop. A defeat, just as your stature continues decrease.
Real estate speculators who won't stop tossing hard, cold cash into the maws of Candidates Wendy & Garcetti (aka Bored & Boring), like raw fish tossed to hungry seals at the L.A. Zoo, have pumped more than a million bucks into the unsuccessful effort to lie their way through deceptive TV and radio ads into a Yes on Prop. A Victory.
Mr. Lopez, you repeat the sore losers' sour grapes excuse for the Prop. A ignominious defeat by borrowing the super-absurd logic that low voter turn-out is to blame
The wealthy whiners, meaning Broad and his ilk, whom you simply echo, say, illogically, that the voters who stayed home were on the Yes on Prop. A side. And if these anonymous Prop. A supporters hadn't sat on their tushes on Election Day, the regressive sales tax would have passed overwhelmingly.
That is sooo absurd.
If 100 percent of registered voters in the City of Los Angeles had trudged to the voting booths three days go, Prop. A still would have landed on its butt.
The recent non-voters may be lazy. They sure as hell are not stupid.
Don't bother to reply, Mr. Current Times Employee Lopez, unless you have something new to say.
Mr. Walsh may be contacted at hollywoodhighlands.org
