It’s hard to believe that City Hall was in the doldrums so long it was hard to stay awake during their endless exercises in self-aggrandizement and self-service and now just look at what’s happening — it takes your breath away.<\/p>\n
Let’s start with the City Council grilling David Freeman and calling him in the liar he is, leaving him dissembling and mumbling even as he insisted the DWP is going broke despite a billion dollars sitting idle in the bank. <\/p>\n
Hopefully, it was his last stand for deceit and ripoff of the public with his disastrous term as general manager ending next week. It’s as hard to believe he could make David Nahai as it is the Antonio Villaraigosa could make us long for boring Jimmy Hahn.<\/p>\n
Speaking of the mayor, he responded immediately to the Council’s calling on him to sit down with them and DWP officials to work out the transfer of $73 million to the general fund so the city doesn’t run out of cash May 5 and have to shut down.<\/p>\n
The mayor has other ideas: He ordered the City Administrative Officer to prepare to close all city departments two days a week<\/a> starting Monday with the exception of police, fire and revenue-generating agencies.<\/p>\n Now there’s a plan for the history books, a profile in courage in the mayor’s mind.<\/p>\n