Well , LA CIty City won't decide
You know ever since I arrived
in Los ANgeles I have found it to be a place even conservatives are free thinkers.
According to the
LA Times mayor Hahn and councilmember
villaraigosa are in a dead heat as well as
Hertzberg Hertzberg and .
Bernard ParksALarcon is in last place with 3%
It seems that We may have
another villaraigosa and Hahn Runnoff
in MArch.
I still haven't made my decision yet
who I will vote for . SKid row still
doesn't have a
LADOT DASH service. ANd both MAyor HAhn and Villaraigosa
got a DASH for boyle heights in the
summer of 2003 after Villaraigosa was
elected. So thet pretty much makes them
even as far as getting dissed , as far as
Central City East / Skid Row goes.
Mayor Hahn and Jan Perry both got us the
CDBG monies for the JAmes Woods Center ,
at the grand opening MAyor Hahn sent a representative , but didn't come himself.
But at least we got the James Wood
Commuinity Center .
Villaraigosa announced a faith based
initiative to send millions of tax
payer dollars to churches and such
and it is on the
Union Rescue Mission Webiste,
again Mayor Hahn's Picture is
also on that website above
Villaraigosas endorsement of the Rescue Mission.
Again makes it even , in
not getting dissed.
My opinion is that faith
based initiative monies
should be going to the neighborhoods ,
not huge missions with exorbitant
administartive salaries. But the
UNion Recue Mission is looking in
the right places with the establishement
of off skid row family housing to help
families get on with thier lives.
The biggest question of all is that
with all of the embedded investement
in Central City East , I am referring
to the Rehabilitated Hotels , will we
contintue to receive the restricted
funding from
LAhSA Word from the low income advocates
is that the market rate developers
want to push us out of here. And
they blame the
Adaptive Reuse Ordinance.
I kind of like the ARO .
I am getting all sorts of
benefits like new places
to eat healthy food , instead
of food laced with carbohydrates
and sugar as well as new neighbors
who say I don't belong here.
So who will I vote for.
I know I will be voting for
JAn PErry . That is a given.
But which candidate for mayor.
All of the candidates running for
mayor besides Hertzberg and ALArcon
and the not so name recognized, signed
the Resolution Recognizing me in mY role
as the Downtown Los Angeles Town Crier.
So I may not be able to publicly
endores a candidate for mayor.
One thing is for sure when before
I yelled at candidates HAHN when
I ran into him as he was leaving
the Central Police Station looking
for votes before he won the last race,
he looked at me as I was asking him what
he has done for skid row , what he will
do for skid row, and why none of the
candidates actively campaign here so
we can be inofrmed voters, because
we do vote , he looked at me and told
me that I need to use personal
responsibility if I want to change
things. Instead of someone looking
at me and saying that I was helpless
and hopeless. He said I had something
inside me to change my life and my
neighborhood.
He talked to me as an equal.
Take personal responsibility
for my neighborhood. As he
walked away I yelled at him
and said I wasn't going to
vote for him , no matter how
pretty the campaign people
are who were with him,
( nice looking gals ) ,
because he didn't actively
campaign in central city east
with the over 6 thousand residents
who live here .I didn't vote for him
I voted for Villaraigosa. But the fire he reignited in me has stayed with me.
Personal repsonsibiity . I had forgotten
those words. Even in my situation and condition
I can still practice personal responsibility.
As you can see I have some thinking to do.
And I have to choose at the polls.
Like most angelenos I still can't
make up my mind.