WHY on earth would Rocky Dullwinkle "renegotiate" the city's strong ordinance against billboards, and requiring them to pay for inspection fees, that Weiss managed to get through Council, instead of simply enforcing it -- which is the City Attorney's job: to enforce directives and legislation from the Council. INSTEAD Rocky gave select billboard companies -- which just happened to have given him a half-million $ in free ads for his run for City Attorney --special exemptions, and a huge bonus of adding 800 LED billboards. (Including right next to busy freeways with NO setbacks, which CMs Jan Perry and Ed Reyes just approved in violation of the intent of the Council's anti-billboard Ordinance, because the companies kicked them a few bucks for pet projects while getting away with NOT paying the huge fines they owe the city.) -- This duplicitous treatment of select billboard companies/ conbtributors by Rocky and certain Councilmembers, caused the Courts to void the whole ban, saying it can't be selectively enforced. Rocky accepting a "thanks to a jolly good fellow" lavish party from the very companies he helped violated the Council Law was a clear ethics violation and a disgrace.

Jack Weiss is the biggest phony on the council, and has done everything he can to stall hearings on Dennis Zine's bill nullifying sanctuary for illegal alien gang members. The city is in crisis from all the damage and death this illegal alien trash brings, and he does NOT care. He can take his billboard ordinance and shove it where the sun don't shine.

Rocky, who thinks the sanctuary policy protecting illegal alien thugs is just fine, and Jack Weiss, valley councilman who refuses to allow Dennis Zine's bill out of committee to deny sanctuary to these thugs, have once again managed to deflect criticism with a "fluff" bill. There are real problems facing the city that demand leadership, not the usual sweetheart deals to "select" businesses making illegal contributions to pet projects and back pockets.

"Larry S" and "Joey S" who sound suspiciously like the same person, just have something in their knickers against Weiss over the Zine motion -- which couldn't be more irrelevant to this billboard situation and in fact, by trivilializing the billboard blight and how we got to this point, makes them/ him dangerous to the city. This person(s) probably still stewing that Weiss didn't let his group shake down the Century City developer for a cool $7.5 MILLION (that Homeowner Assn's final take) without interceding as requested and as is his job. -- Zine's brilliant "motion" as touted on KFI and Doug McIntyre and other right-wing ignoramuses not only has nothing to do with billboards (not a "soft" issue but vital to whether we're a First World city with control over our appearance or a Third World receptable of visual and dangerous detritus), but Zine's motion is based on his own ignorance and grandstanding. It's the LAPD's determination as borne out by objective analysis that they don't have the staff to do what other agencies should be doing when it comes to federal immigration enforcement; they're way understaffed now, and as anyone who follows the news can see the city is struggling to get the police force upto a minimal 10,000 to control crime. FELONIES ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, STEVE COOLEY, NOT THE CITY COUNCIL OR CITY ATTORNEY, CERTAINLY NOT JACK WEISS. And prisons are the domain of Sheriff Baca's dept.; between Baca and Cooley, they're the ones who let Pedro Espinoza walk out of jail (for the umpteenth time) from a felony conviction, because he just CLAIMED to be a US citizen: it's DA Cooley's dept, which has hundreds of investigators who should be ID'ing illegal felons IN JAIL, but they don't. (Challengers Steve Ipsen and Robles both made that clear -- in fact, that Cooley intimidates Asst. DA;s who try to.) -- It's sheer stupidity to blame Bratton and the Mayor's office or Weiss. It's a DA/Sheriff issue, but even more so, a State issue if these moronic talk show hosts want to bring the San Francisco/ Balogna case into it, and lay that at the feet of Bratton/Weiss, too. -- Zine's grandstanding, along with that fool "candidate for Mayor Walter Moore" who doesn't even think much of Zine, is worth ignoring as a nuisance, a PR stunt, like his paparazzi "law" and that whole flap he generated.
-- AGAIN, only the pettiest person who loves ugly billboards and companies who put them up without paying for them and against the law, could make such "arguments" against it.