PUBLIC FORUM : DAVIS' BLUNDER.In total disregard for California voters, Gov. Gray Davis has broken his promise to take Proposition 187 to the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition, there is ongoing evidence that Davis is, incrementally, attempting to unravel other initiatives (13, 227, 209, etc.) that were passed by California voters. It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a that we the people send a clear message across this state and this nation that we will not tolerate such arrogant abuse of power! Gray Davis should be recalled. - Ellen Erickson Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. Voter appalled Outrageous is the only way to describe the actions of Gov. Gray Davis in regard to Prop. 187. How dare he impose his will upon the majority of California voters? He may very well have been victorious in court, but he was afraid to take that chance. An adverse ruling would have upset the agenda. Get used to it, California voters. Apathy is the order of the day. - Robert D. Hazen North Hollywood Davis hailed I'm responding to the ``King Davis'' crowd in Tuesday's (Public Forum). I really love it. When their will is harmed, the Republicans love to scream, yell and kick around dirt. They love to belittle be·lit·tle tr.v. be·lit·tled, be·lit·tling, be·lit·tles 1. To represent or speak of as contemptibly small or unimportant; disparage: a person who belittled our efforts to do the job right. Davis by calling him a king. Get this straight Mr. (Ms.) Californian Republican, he did follow the will of the people. Davis listened to the voices that your boy, Pete Wilson For others named Pete Wilson, see . Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that , turned a blind eye to, the Hispanic voters'. The governor knows that if we're not satisfied, he will become a citizen again in the next election. - Ramiro Corletto North Hollywood Garcetti's role questioned Once again, District Attorney Gil Garcetti's fitness is being called into question. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Daily News (Aug. 2), the district attorney has not taken definitive action in the Belmont fiasco ``despite calls for action from the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. and state legislators.'' If we add this to Garcetti's decision to change the O.J. Simpson murder trial venue, guaranteeing a not guilty verdict, then obviously the district attorney should take the same walk out as the wife-beating defendant did at the trial's conclusion. - Irv Bergman Camarillo Mom knew best Re Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. : In the mid-1950s, my family lived in the area which is now the infamous Belmont Learning Center. I can still hear my mom calling out as my brother and I went out to play, ``Don't play in the oil fields This list of oil fields includes major fields of the past and present. The list is incomplete; there are more than 40,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world[1]. , it's not healthy!'' Now why couldn't the high-priced scientists and engineers that the school district hired figure that out? My mom could. - Andres J. Ruiz Mission Hills Belmont payback The best and fairest way to pay for all the disgusting Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. arrogance and misappropriation misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate, or by any of our tax money down the drain for Belmont, bilingual bureaucracy, and the useless and wasteful social engineering from such irresponsible public servants is this: Freeze all salaries with no possibility of additional bonuses, per diem per diem adj. or n. Latin for "per day," it is short for payment of daily expenses and/or fees of an employee or an agent. or other bureaucratic mumbo jumbo mum·bo jum·bo or mum·bo-jum·bo n. pl. mum·bo jum·bos 1. Unintelligible or incomprehensible language; gibberish. 2. Language or ritualistic activity intended to confuse. 3. to get around the mandatory income freeze. Deduct 25 percent each month from salaries, beginning with Superintendent Ruben Zacarias, the administrators, associates, and any and all responsible City Council members who knew all along about this fiasco. Downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs. (2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system. (jargon) downsizing works. - Jack Smith Van Nuys Zero credibility Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified School District's proposal to maintain an environmental system at Belmont is likely a deadly alternative to demolition. The history of shoddy maintenance of our school facilities speaks volumes about incompetence and corruption of the district. It is absolutely unthinkable to believe the district can maintain this site in a healthy and safe condition. Its credibility is gone. The effect of toxic poisoning to the human body takes years to surface. Kids attending Belmont may not show signs of cancer until age 30 or later. Sadly, board members making decisions today won't even be around to see what they have done. Let's stop wasting more taxpayer millions on another round of studies. The decision to demolish the buildings and abandon the site may be costly but will likely save many lives. - Michael C. Hines West Hills `Blair Witch' hooey hoo·ey n. Slang Nonsense: "the romantic hooey that always sold women's cosmetics" Jerry Adler. [Origin unknown. I saw the silliest movie of the year. It's called ``The Blair Witch Project.'' The movie runs 1 hour 20 minutes long, and if they cut the first 90 minutes it might be good. The audience for this R-rated film included parents with elementary-age children, and even they were laughing. I presume the filmmakers are laughing at the public who bought the ad campaign also. I read the film cost $40,000 to produce. All $1,000 is up on the screen, and the remainder must have gone to the reviewers and the Sci-Fi Channel for the half-hour promo special they ran. Based on what this film is doing to the box office, be afraid, be really afraid, if this is the future of the motion picture industry. - Lloyd A. Fradkin Canyon Country NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga begone be·gone v. Used chiefly in the imperative to express an order of dismissal. [Middle English begone : be, imperative of ben, to be; see be + gone I find it repulsive that politicians such as Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. and Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas want to make Los Angeles a ``great city'' and force something down the throats of taxpaying citizens to make it happen. I for one don't want an NFL team in L.A. that will use public money as a guarantee to lure it here. I also find the investors of this endeavor very arrogant. And again, the cry from NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue is that more public money is needed or his cronies will look elsewhere. That's fine with me. I still remember how the city of Irwindale got a $10 million lesson on how to be a great city by none other than former resident Al Davis. In any case, if somehow football does come to Los Angeles, I won't be attending the games. The cost of sports tickets and the frustration of freeways in this great city always lead me back to one thing I can count on: leaning back in my easy chair and shaking my head when I study my tax bill. - Michael Foxen Canoga Park Tax cut supporter C'mon guys, between your editorial ``Millenium politics'' (Aug. 3), a letter from Philip Wilt (Public Forum, Aug. 3), and the idiot cartoon insulting the intelligence of all thinking people, many of whom are Republicans, the rationale is that the overpayment o·ver·pay v. o·ver·paid , o·ver·pay·ing, o·ver·pays v.tr. 1. To pay (a party) too much. 2. To pay an amount in excess of (a sum due). v.intr. To pay too much. of taxes by the taxpayer is a big pot of money and to the victor go the spoils. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The big pot of money is the overpayment by taxpayers. Married taxpayers, single taxpayers, dead taxpayers and retired taxpayers. And 10 percent of $1 is 10 cents. If you were coerced by the government into paying millions of dollars, 10 percent of that would be considered an overpayment. Why hate the Bill Gateses of the world? He has provided a whole industry for this country that was sweating because jobs were exported across our borders! My wish is that more of us could be that smart and forward-thinking. - Theodora Howell West Hills Taxing comments Re your Aug. 3 editorial (``Millennium politics,'') and Philip Wilt's letter (``A rich joke,'' Public Forum) the same day: While comments regarding ``a tax cut for the rich'' are common throughout the media, I was disappointed that your editorial pushed that liberal line. Approximately 80 percent of taxes collected are paid by less than 40 percent of the taxpayers. Wilt states that those earning less than ``$18,000 per year will get zero, zip, nothing.'' He should understand that a tax cut is not a ``giveaway program'' or an entitlement. It is a return of excess money taken from the taxpayer. If we're to ``save'' Social Security, we should be more concerned with stopping the congressional raids on the nonexistent non·ex·is·tence n. 1. The condition of not existing. 2. Something that does not exist. non ``fund.'' Further, more money for cleaning up Medicare isn't needed. What is needed is the elimination of fraud and abuses in the system. - John Holt La Canada CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Gov. Gray Davis shows Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo the Assembly floor during his visit to Sacramento in May. Associated Press |
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