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We find ourselves in a POLITICAL CALAMITY not just in our Nation's capital but here in California as well. Everyday we watch our Country slip farther and farther away from the original vision of our Founding Fathers. We watch as California crumbles underneath the weight of a crushing deficit without the needed leadership to put our state back on track. "We The People" can no longer sit idly by and wait. Take the first step. It is your responsibility to arm yourself with information. You must seek out facts and make up your own mind. No one can tell you how to think, YOU MUST THINK FOR YOURSELF! Part of the reason we are so deeply entrenched in mediocrity is we’ve been all too willing to accept people and their word at face value. We are far too trusting of our Teachers, Main Stream Media and our Politicians. We send our kids to school and expect they will be taught an accurate depiction of History, when in fact History is often rewritten to reflect the views of the “politically correct”. We read newspapers and watch the nightly news and expect we will be told the truth, but instead we’re given agenda based reporting. We elect politicians and trust they will stand by their word and make decisions based on our best interest, only to find we’ve been sold out to special interests. Look around: The herd mentality hasn’t worked out so well, especially here in California. YOU MUST GET INFORMED, BE INFORMED AND STAY INFORMED!

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JULY 21, 2009: LA City Council Debate Jackson Memorial Bill

By CalamityDevon

Today at 10AM the LA City Council will meet to hash out who will be footing the bill for the cities resources used for Michael Jackson Memorial at Staples. 5 motions will be brought up during the meeting to resolve the outstanding issues over who will pick up the tab, the taxpayers or AEG/Staples.

Council member Dennis Zine has been outspoken in defense of the taxpayers, even before the memorial took place. Council Member Zine has also called on City Attorney Carmen Trutanich to look into who gave the green light for the expenditure and if the city can take legal action to seek reimbursement.

Los Angeles, with it’s over $530 MILLION dollar deficit can little afford to be the sugar daddy for such privately planned events. The exact total for resources needed at the memorial, the private service at Forest Lawn and the Encino and Holmby Hills homes has yet to be finalized. LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has stated that the memorial cost the city $1.4 MILLION dollars.

The city absolutely had a responsibility to be prepared but the all hands on deck approach of amassing over 3,000 police officers was excessive. During the memorial a SWAT call came in and none were available to respond as they were all at Staples, the Sheriffs Department was deployed instead. The cities planning was inflated due in part to AEG/Staples and the media hyping up the event with rumors of 750,000 people flocking from all over the world to Los Angeles for the event. The city estimates less than a 1,000 showed up without a ticket and reports no incidences or arrests. For Los Angeles it was much ado about nothing. But…there is still the issue of the bill. Oh and don’t forget the little issue of the just under $50,000 spent on box lunches for the over 3,000 police officers that came from Jensen’s Fine Foods in Wrightwood, 80 miles outside of Los Angeles.

The issue of who pays is deeply intrenched in politics. LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Council Member Jan Perry both have very close ties to the AEG camp (owner Philip Anschutz/AEG president and CEO Tim Leiweke). AEG has contributed BIG money to Villaraigosa and his city initiatives. AEG in turn has benefitted from hundreds of millions of dollars in bond money, “rebates” and free building permits from the city. As long as AEG, the Mayor and Council Members engage in a tit-for-tat money games, the taxpayers will always be the ones holding the bill.

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