{"id":418674,"date":"2010-03-11T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.986"},"modified":"2010-03-11T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:02:09","slug":"bruno-las-watchdog-the-partys-over-except-for-you-know-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/418674","title":{"rendered":"Bruno, LA’s Watchdog: The Party’s Over … Except for You Know Who"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lights. Camera. Action. Bullshit!<\/p>\n

No sooner have our city employees cleared the champagne glasses at Getty House from Antonio’s pre-Oscar party last week, or read of his recent lobbying exploits in far-away Washington (I guess they turned off his phone), then we learn this morning that he’s clamping down on spending — by everyone else.
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“Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sent a letter to city departments Wednesday demanding a freeze on much of their spending, from the purchase of new furniture to the use of food and beverages at city events,” the Dog Trainer reported.<\/p>\n

That sound you hear is every dog in the neighborhood howling with laughter.<\/p>\n

We’re living in a comedy that would probably earn an Oscar — if it weren’t so tragic.<\/p>\n

The Trainer’s reporter David Zahniser, as always, has at least some of the story:<\/p>\n

“With the city facing a $484-million shortfall in the fiscal year that starts July 1, Villaraigosa also instructed several departments to halt negotiations for leased office space and barred any efforts to remodel city offices.”<\/p>\n

DZ, as he is known around City Hall, which is the opposite of ZD, which is short for my pal Zuma Dogg  added the memo does not apply to several city departments, including the Department of Water and Power, the Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports and two agencies that oversee pension funds for retired and civilian city workers.<\/p>\n

I guess those guys, who have huge fat-filled budgets, can buy food and beverages, purchase furniture, rent space and, well, party, as Prince (a popular dog name) sung, “like it’s 1999,” which really was a good year.<\/p>\n

Problem is it ain’t 1999, which is probably when Dick Riordan should have started working on this budget mess.<\/p>\n

Woof!  <\/p>\n

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Lights. Camera. Action. Bullshit! No sooner have our city employees cleared the champagne glasses at Getty House from Antonio’s pre-Oscar party last week, or read of his recent lobbying exploits in far-away Washington (I guess they turned off his phone), then we learn this morning that he’s clamping down on spending — by everyone else.“Los […]<\/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-418674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418674","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=418674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}