City Council Blows $13,000 On Hotel “Retreat” While Mayor Keeps On Posing
By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, Walter Moore For Mayor.com
The City Council spent Tuesday and Wednesday not at City Hall trying to reduce crime or your taxes or anything like that, but instead at the San Pedro Doubletree Hotel. Why? Well, they felt they needed a “retreat.”
The cost to you, the taxpayer: $13,000.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
I guess meeting in a conference room at City Hall just wouldn’t facilitate brainstorming. An example of the insights they gained: Council Member Janice Hahn said “we’re rubber-stamping everything.”
The Brain Trust will end its retreat, the L.A. Daily News reports, “with a harbor cruise, courtesy of the Harbor Department.” Gives you a warm feeling, huh?
You’ll be glad to know, however, that Mayor Villaraigosa has gotten back to “business as usual,” which is to say, spending all his time traveling from one photo-op to the next. So far this week -- and remember, it’s only Wednesday -- he had the school photo-op, the pothole photo-op, the summer jobs photo-op, an “environmental event” photo-op at the Port of Long Beach, a Community College photo-op, and, reports the Daily News, he was scheduled to “appear at Univision for his weekly show.” (He has a weekly show on Univision?! Who knew!) Tomorrow, he’s scheduled to appear at an energy conservation photo-op.
Is it any wonder that America’s second-biggest city is a mess? No one’s minding the store! If you want a Mayor who understands what “full-time job” means, break out the paper or plastic (i.e., your checkbook or credit card): click here to contribute to the Committee to Elect Walter Moore.
Doubletree Hotel San Pedro