{"id":367633,"date":"2010-02-26T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.956"},"modified":"2010-02-27T01:39:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T06:39:23","slug":"even-whitewash-cant-hide-the-truth-how-county-supervisors-improperly-influence-planning-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367633","title":{"rendered":"Even Whitewash Can&#8217;t Hide the Truth: How County Supervisors Improperly Influence Planning Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        The charges leveled by fired LA County Planning chief Bruce McClendon a year ago got credence from a just completed outside consultant&#8217;s audit of alleged improper influence in decisions on development by Supervisors and their staffs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s how politics works in the insiders&#8217; game of public policy in both the city and county.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the report largely whitewashes what went in, citing the fact county employees were not under oath, feared for the loss of their jobs and McClendon didn&#8217;t record private conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Those reasons for the failure of the report to come to a clear conclusion ought to justify a Grand Jury investigation &#8212; which is what should have happened from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/audit-finds-la-county-supervisors-behindthescenes-effort-to-control-policy.html\">Times report<\/a> and you can read the report yourself at <a href=\"http:\/\/ourla.org\/\">OurLA.org.&#8217; <\/a><br \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><!--Session data--><input onclick=\"jsCall();\" id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><!--Session data--><input onclick=\"jsCall();\" id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charges leveled by fired LA County Planning chief Bruce McClendon a year ago got credence from a just completed outside consultant&#8217;s audit of alleged improper influence in decisions on development by Supervisors and their staffs. It&#8217;s how politics works in the insiders&#8217; game of public policy in both the city and county. Yet, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}