Tomas O'Grady, District 4 City Council Challenger Calls Shuttering Libraries "Biggest Scam"

Looks like Stephen has "Boxed" himself in:

http://www.latimes.com/news/lo...

http://www.losfelizledger.com/...

All the while painting himself as a model off fiscal responsibility,

Mr. Box failed to disclose the multiple judgments recorded against him that belie this characterization

: SIX liens in the past ten years, including at least two state and one federal tax lien.

This is the man to lead our city out of it's fiscal crisis???

Box also promises a "rose garden" of sorts on private property of Hollywood and Garfield as an Armenian Genocide Memorial Park is like planting weeds and false promises! We are not stupid

Mr. Box claims the lot was empty for five years. A week before election he comes up with way to entice armenian vote and like

Tomsm O'Grady is a lying fraud who has abused children at Franklin Elementary when he was in position of authority. He abuses and uses children inappropriately for his own ends.

I feel like I can't believe O'Grady anymore regarding his stance on measure L. I have heard him flip flop from one forum to another and the lack of conviction of standing by his beliefs frightens me.

"Stop insulting the guy for being sincere. I am voting for him for just that reason."Absolutely!!Go Tomas!!

I will be upfront about the fact that I am an assistant on the O'Grady campaign. Tomas is glad to put to rest all these comments with regard to the fact that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He has made very clear that he can be reached every day at 323-644-1629 if anybody would actually like to speak with him and see what he does or doesn't know. Please call our office and Tomas will explain in detail how wasted pennies in city hall have added up to shuttered libraries. Tomas brought spreadsheets to his interview at the LAT showing how saving money, whether that be on his own salary and staff or on other waste, adds up to real solutions to our budget problems. This is one of the things that led to the endorsement. Again, Tomas’s number is 323-644-1629. Why not get the answers directly from the candidate?

Measure L rearranges fungible cash between departments from a set amount of property tax. It also changes the City Charter to allow the City to then legally heist that increased amount for indirect costs and utilities to place into the General Fund- something the charter currently makes illegal to do.

Not only will it eventually cost taxpayers - likely in lost services from other departments who lose part of their annual percentage allocation to the Library - but it removes one of the few protections the taxpayers had granted the Libraries from theft of their funding for the General Fund.

After reading this article, can you even pretend O'Grady knows what he's talking about?

You know darned well that LaBonge knows what he is perpetrating as the author of this thinly-veiled measure.

Measure L is a huge mistake, and most voters won't have a clue that they're making that mistake. Neither does O'Grady, based on his silly grandstanding commentary.

This is all hype for O'Grady, but the facts do not back him up. O'Grady still does not show any understanding of Prop L. In reality, all Prop L means is that parks and libraries will each suffer the same degrees of cuts next year. O'Grady's complaint about the expensive park shows he does not know the difference between the CRA and the rest of the City. The article's author had to fill in the fact that as a councilmember LaBonge has oversight responsibility for approval or rejection of CRA projects.

Stephen Box is the only CD #4 candidate who knows the solutions now -- Mr. O'Grady is waiting until he is elected to took into the budget. That is a little late. O'Grady has missed every budget meeting, while Stephen Box attended every budget meeting. Box knows which department duplicates the functions of any other department; he knows which jobs should be switched from one department to another. He knows how to save the City about $500 Million next year, while O'Grady says he will look into the budget if he is elected.

O'Grady has no approach to fiscal matters except simplistic, feel-good sound bites. He will cut his salary in 1/2 and cut his staff in half. O'Grady is a nice guy but those two ideas are foolish. The city has lost $1.5 Billion in property tax dollars while LaBonge has been in office, so cutting one councilmember's salary is like removing one grain of sand from sandbox. LA is at one of its lowest moments in history and we need all the help we can get resurrecting ourselves -- this is NOT the time to cut the staff who can bring us back to life.

Hospitals who try to save $ but cutting staff by 50% end up with a lot of dead patients. If O'Grady had any understanding of the magnitude of the problems facing LA, he'd want to hire as many Competent and Honest people as possible. The problem with the nice people on LaBonge's staff is that they waste their time doing things for Tommy and not for the City.

Box and his brain filled with minutiae, like how to save us $500 Million, will have a staff which will revive LA and not cater to his persona.

Wow - this shows how much Tomas O'Grady does not understand about how the City works since he clearly does not understand in even the simplest way what Prop O and it's funding is about.

So yay for him not wanting libraries closed. Until he learns even the most rudimentary workings of the City and City Charter, he's not electable.