Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Wants Occupy L.A. Gone By Monday

By Gene Maddaus Tue., Nov. 22 2011 at 8:45 PM

Mayor V to Occupy: You don't have to go home, but...

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants Occupy L.A. to decamp by next Monday, according to notes of a meeting between the mayor's office and Occupy protesters.

The mayor's office and the protesters are trying to work out an agreement. But those negotiations took a big step backward today, following disclosure of City Hall's offer of office space at last night's General Assembly.

That offer is now off the table, and most of the Occupy protesters have dismissed it anyway.

The notes of today's meeting are pretty fascinating...

... because it seems that the mayor's staff and the Occupy delegation fundamentally misunderstand each other.

The mayor's office can't quite grasp why the Occupy folks need unanimous consent to approve an agreement. For their part, the Occupy folks don't seem to have a complete grasp of the political cross-currents affecting the mayor.

To make a deal, the Occupy folks need to negotiate in public, and their General Assembly meetings. But the mayor has to worry about council members and department heads, and so his office has to negotiate in secret. That's a pretty fundamental conflict. Doesn't seem like there's much room there to make a deal.

Where does that leave it? Villaraigosa seems insistent on getting a deal by next week. If there's no deal, he wants a Nov. 28 "evacuation date." The Occupy negotiators are pleading for more time, so they can leave with a flourish.

Also of note from today's meeting: Seems Villaraigosa is OK with renaming City Hall park as "Liberty Park," provided the City Council agrees.

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deadline, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Occupy L.A.

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Deborah Hyatt DeStefano

P.S. of course he's smiling. He lives in a multi-million dollar estate in Hancock Park on HIS SALARY??? Yeah sure. Eh Tony? Relocate us to a visible location and you get to keep the mansion you stole from the people. And it might put you in a better light if you put LOMOD, the INVESTMENT COMPANY, back on the legal status just like other investment companies who must pay tax on their profits from their investments. This toad gave them non-profit status and made them a part of City Housing AS IF... Get with the program Antoine. If you want to get away with your crimes against the poorest people, you'd better get out there and do right by them because they will jump on your crooked lifestyle in a heart beat when they become aware of what you did and who all the others are that took our housing money, or should I say STOLE.

Deborah Hyatt DeStefano

This moron thinks that the occupation would move INSIDE? One someone really stupid would propose something THAT STUPID! For someone in our local gov't who is as corrupt as Villaraigosa, it could be only a matter of a short time before it rains on HIS parade, so it would be in his best interest to leave this occupation alone, or find it another outdoor location where it can be witnessed by the public 24/7. He must think this is some kind of bad joke. This is the people's very survival which is at stake in this country, knocking out the middle class and poisoning our planet, not to mention the theft of millions, possibly billions of tax payer money for themselves. I will be happy to expose the rest of Rudy Montiel's group of criminals and thieves, so if Villaraigosa want to continue to live in luxury on OUR tax dollars that he stole from HUD and HACLA funds, then he had better start helping our occupation. Want us to move? Find us a safe outdoor location... no problemo

New Day

Evacuation day was when last of British authority left the United States following the American Revolution on November 25, 1783.

If the removal of U.S. citizens that are expressing their rights is the new "Evacuation Day" then what does that say about America?

Seems like things have gone full circle and the current authority is as bad or worse than what caused this once great country to be born. Maybe it is time for a rebirth? Throw out the those that are of little use to the populace and have far to much authority and possesions of their own.