
As a “tough watchdog” Wendy Greuel was invited/hired by the Board of the Los Angeles Community College District to investigate whether or not the procurement of a $3.25 million Inspector General contract was corrupted. Greuel’s “investigation” drew heavily from the evidence already established by State Controller John Chiang’s August 2011 report that concluded that officials at LACCD were likely guilty of criminal malfeasance in office.
When Kelly Candaele huffily asked Chaing’s auditor who should be brought in to investigate the Inspector General contract, the auditor elicited a gasp in the Board room when he said: “Bring in the Attorney General or the District Attorney.” Did the LACCD Board, including Candaele, invite these criminal prosecutors in to investigate? No. They brought in Wendy Greuel because she is lap dog to Mayor Villaraigosa.
Wendy’s investigation concluded that there was a failure to procure the Inspector General’s contract in accordance with the District’s procurement regulations. Then Greuel incredibly concluded with a weak knee and lame conclusion that she hoped the District would change its procedures. So the completely unqualified Christine Marez, the LACCD’s laughably unqualified sex pot Inspector General, continues to hold onto her ill-begotten $3.5 million contract.
A BOLD LEADER…. A REAL FISCAL WATCHDOG…. would have called for the Inspector General contract to be cancelled and re-bid with a lawful process. Not Wendy. She’s too busy with her nose up Antonio Villaraigosa’s ass to stand up for some integrity in this City.
And as a post script. Kelly Candaele did NOT file papers to seek another term on the LACCD Board. Most of the incumbents are not running for re-election because they know what a sad farce they have been overseeing hundreds of millions of financial waste and fraud at LACCD.
Look at all these comments. When you add it all up and think about it…kinda like arguing over WWE wrestlers. One would think some organizational effort and action would slip into all of this brilliant banter.
Regarding the statistics on the video. Here they are as of this post:
Key discovery events
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facebook.com
Jan 27, 2013 – 145 views
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First embedded on: laweekly.com
Jan 27, 2013 – 245 views
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First embedded on: facebook.com
Jan 27, 2013 – 324 views
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First view from a mobile device
Jan 27, 2013 – 3,636 views
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First view from ad
Jan 28, 2013 – 426 views
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First referral from YouTube: /subscribe_widget
Jan 28, 2013 – 778 views
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First embedded on: betterwayla.com
Jan 28, 2013 – 884 views
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First view from ad
Jan 28, 2013 – 1,530 views
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First view from ad
Jan 28, 2013 – 28,626 views
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First view from ad
Jan 28, 2013 – 103,368 views
Much of the clicks, whether the person watched past the first two seconds, or not, are from the paid ads that say, “L.A. City Hall is corrupt,” with the still frame of the cute fox animal prop. So those people most likely weren’t looking because of an election and then factor the number of viewers who are actual registered L.A. voters, who are going to vote.
Most of the rest of the traffic are from sites where the readers are well aware of the situation, the players, and know who they like and don’t like.
But, there will be some people who vote as a result of the ad, maybe.
Very nice production value. A lot of time spent telling what could have been told in about 9 seconds. And, the rest of the time could have been used to make sure viewers knew about the preferred candidate. Because, you also have to consider how many people sat through the entire set up and didn’t just click away, in already engrained frustration.
If I need to produce a documentary or music video, I’m going to hire this guy.
Much of the other traffi
So when will they start going after Garcetti?
Or is it HIS mega funded campaign that’s going after Wendy, his strongest opponent to blow her out of the water.?
No one who sits or has sat on that Corrupt City Council can be Mayor.
Appreciate Cerritos News, but will they move onto the Little Prince/Dictator at some point? Won’t someone..Please??
Why does he get a pass.. He is the worst of the bunch of them.
He is at the Core of the Corruption on that City Council..
They all are his accomplices and enablers..
No one says NO to Lieing Prince Eric.
Someone needs to blow the lid off of all that he has been up to..
So all of L.A. will say NO to Eric.
Interesting thought. Garcetti could be banking on James to do the attacks. Eric, then, comes out the good guy-free of criticism, controlled and diplomatic.
Have you noticed Greuel won`t defend her numbers on camera? She has the tax dodger Shallman b. s. the press. And she wants to be Mayor? She so clueless. it is pathetic. I hope the press and eventually the voters wake up and retire this snake oil saleswoman.
Just watched the video — 181,000 hits. Not too shabby. A well made video with some good points emphasized though I’d argue that things were already going in the wrong direction in 2003. And 10.7% unemployment is a joke, your real un and under employment is probably 20-25%. Plus hundreds of thousands on disability
But are you and yours going to vote for a republican after demonizes the Republican Party? Ha!
Say hello to mayor Garrcetti.
Yeah! Let’s beat up on Wendy Gruel who is no better or worse than Garcetti, who’ll face her in the run-off. Forgotten in these petty arguments are far more crucial issues that were raised by Riordan and dropped by his cowardice & the idiot business community who are supporting a tax hike in LA. The biggest issue that should be at the forefront of the Mayoral debate are unsustainable LA City employees pay, pension and their numbers. The average compensation for Fire & Police is about $200,000 a year. The average pay for a city employee other than fire & police is over $100,ooo. If you account for the actual number of work hours than double all the compensation for the minimal productivity. Compensation accounts for 85% of the 7 billion+ budget. Less than 15% is left for infrastructure such as street or sidewalk repairs that residents have been taxed for.
Are people who make far less than the over 50,000 city employees who eat up almost 7 billion of their hard earned money aware that they work for these employees that include the Mayor and the 15 Councilmembers. Why would anyone with half a brain tax themselves as the crook Wesson wants to keep this gang in gravy? Why is LA Times or anyone responsible not asking the hard questions that affect our quality of life.
Instead, we have Madeline Janis, a labor advocate and former CRA Commissioner, who has admitted to Commissioners’ corruption and who should be questioned by the legal authorities, if we have any about her CRA dealings is free to write another BS article in Citywatch, where not only does she trivialize the pension issue but wants to densify every neighborhood in support of the temporary jobs her labor buddies will have to the detriment of all residents. An excerpt as follows:
“The argument that framed the debate – that Los Angeles could go bankrupt – is ridiculous. L.A. is one of the richest cities in the world. Yes, we face some budget challenges, but the solution is not to gut the modest retirement benefits of hard-working people. We need to focus on creating good jobs, which will increase our tax base, and making sure that we are generating the revenues we should from our incredible city-owned assets.
There are a number of issues facing the city that are going to require tough leadership and an ability to put out a bold vision – bold meaning that we are going to create good jobs. We are building the biggest transportation infrastructure expansion in our history – how are we going to make sure people from South LA get those jobs, that the equipment is going to be built here in Los Angeles, that we are building out transit-oriented development that will create thousands of jobs.”
BS, BS & BS to Madeliene Janis and her labor buddies. Find someone else to rip-off.
Great job, Ron. Keep it up.
Greuel would be a disastrous mayor. With the charismatic leadership ability of James Hahn, this “schoolgirl from the valley” is busy running a popularity contest, not a city office. She is ill-equipped to run anything of any importance. Just look at her tenure as Controller by comparing her to Laura Chick. Chick had innovative ideas about how to tackle problems. Greuel’s simply following the lead of Chick without anything new to combat the increasingly rampant waste of taxpayer money…. which is one reason it’s become so out of control. She has proven she’s not equipped to think creatively outside the well-trodden path, which, given the current state of the city, is a skill that is critical for the new mayor to have.
Wendy is any day better than Garcetti. She needs to hire good staff and not the useless left-over Villaraigosa