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YJ Draiman Articleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277647913663158182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6836804845371012788.post-8210113810639694422017-03-04T22:47:00.001-08:002017-03-07T22:48:03.968-08:00YJ Draiman for mayor: Questions and Answers He calls himself Mr. Fix-it,<br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">He calls himself Mr. Fix-it, and hopes to use his innovative approach to energy conservation to shake up Los Angeles government, and move to a brighter future. YJ Draiman is a real-estate developer, utilities and conservation specialist, and member of neighborhood council in Northridge, where he resides, and is extremely active in his community. He is running for mayor for the second time, and his priorities are the economy, water and energy, and education.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Q: You say in almost all your campaign literature that you are running for mayor because you love the city of Los Angeles. My experience has been that I love the city, the sunshine and the beach; but I don’t feel that the city loves me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">A: No, the city doesn’t love you. The city doesn’t love anybody. It’s a very, very selfish city. When I was getting campaign signatures to run for mayor, I found the three out of every ten people I asked were moving out of state, because it’s too costly, taxes are eating them up alive, and it’s too liberal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">I ended up here because my son [lead singer for the Grammy-nominated band, Disturbed] had a castle, listed as one of the castles of California, but he moved because he wasn’t going to pay that much in taxes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Q: So, someone living in a castle can’t even afford to live here?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">A: That’s why he moved to Austin, Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Q: Well, there’s a lot going wrong, but what do you love about Los Angeles?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">A: The weather. It’s got the best weather in the country. If you do the analysis, out of 365 days of the year, we have, on average, 360 days of sun; and we’re not capitalizing on that. We also have winds that we’re not capitalizing in. I want all new developments to have solar panels with vertical wind turbines. It’s possible to produce 80 to 90 percent of your power. I think it should be part of the building codes. They should also require that you have a storage tank to catch rainwater.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Q: Do you think that having standing water all over L.A. might cause a mosquito problem?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">A: No, these tanks are underground and use pumps bring the water up. Anything I recommend to people, I try, myself, first. At my house, we open the windows and use fans for much of the day. People don’t realize that indoor pollution is so much worse than outdoor pollution because of the way we live today – everything is synthetic. That’s why I recommend having a lot of house plants to clean the air. I was against it, when people started installing synthetic grass. They’re cutting back oxygen in that air.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Q: What about water-conservation?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">A: We need to even it out with ground water and rain water harvesting. I think it’s shocking that Los Angeles has had water problems for centuries and we don’t have a desalination plant.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Q: Our president is a businessman, who ran for office and won. Did his election inspire you to run for mayor for the second time?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">A: I’m running for mayor because I was elected to a neighborhood council, which is a voluntary job, and I see a lot of problems coming across our council, and it’s only the tip of the iceberg, I see so many other aspects. We need somebody up there who cares about the city and doesn’t worry about his own agenda or own party. That’s why I’m running as an Independent. We have a mayor that doesn’t even bother to show up to the debates, which is astounding. It just shows he’s got no respect for the people.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Q: Can you talk about your experience in real-estate and as a utilities conservationist?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">A: It taught me how to find ways to cut expenses and utilities. I’ve restored old buildings. I was energy director of utilities and sustainability for 40 health care facilities in the state of California, and I was going from one facility to another, and educated them how to save money, how to clean the air inside the facility to get all the germs out, and put in a special ventilation system to clean up the air. I developed a way to use infrared cameras to find leaks and short circuits. I found company billing errors with utility bills; tens of thousands of dollars of mistakes, and I got a refund for my clients. I come to a situation where I’m Mr. Fix-it. And we need to fix it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Q: It sounds like you want to employ the same fix-it strategies in office, as you do with your developments.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">A: You know what, this is the kind of innovation; and this is the kind of aggressiveness that we need. We need an aggressive mayor who says, “The hell with all the tenements. The hell with the city council.” My goal is, if I get elected, in the first hundred days, since I'm the people's choice, I'm going to show the people that I'm living up to everything I promised them. Within the constraints of the job. Anything that the council fights me on, that I feel is important. I'll put on the ballot for the people to vote it and bypass the council. I'll do this one - two times, and the council will see what, we cannot fight this guy. We better start working with him now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">1) Getting Candid with YJ Draiman full 020117. Amori, Paul E. February 1, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFVNIoVn2o&t=65s.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">2) YJ Draiman Dad to Disturbed’s Lead Singer: Top 5 Reasons Unknown Underdog 2013 LA Mayoral Candidate is Freaking Interesting. Melencoff, Mars. LA Weekly. April 6, 2011. http://www.laweekly.com/news/yj-draiman-dad-to-disturbeds-lead-singer-top-5-reasons-unknown-underdog-2013-la-mayoral-candidate-is-freaking-interesting-2387953.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">3)Voter’s Edge California. YJ Draiman Neighborhood Council Boardmember. http://votersedge.org/ca/en/ballot/election/area/48/contests/contest/16043/candidate/136669?&election_authority_id=19.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">4) YJ Draiman Campaign Website. http://www.yjdraiman.org.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">Frantz Pierre (Community Activist)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">David Hernandez (Community Advocate)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">Eric Preven(Writer/Producer)</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">Mitchell Schwartz (Small Businessperson)</li>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;">I won't allow how I feel to be predetermined by how a political party feels.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">George Washington ended his farewell address with, "The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local distinctions."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="redactor-invisible-space"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Washington</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span class="redactor-invisible-space"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> foresaw the destruction of a nation that could be undone by one of two things: political parties that split the nation, or terrorism. He knew that the will of nation could easily be overturned by the will of a party. </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="redactor-invisible-space"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Washington</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span class="redactor-invisible-space"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> told the people that unity would provide them with "greater strength, greater resources and greater security from danger".</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">George Washington, one of our nation's Founding Fathers, warned against having political parties. What did </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> do? They did it anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">So now I'm following the advice of an influential forefather and refusing to be defined by a political party. I am not a democrat. I am not a republican. I am not an elephant, nor a donkey. I am not left-wing. I am not a right-wing. I am a person.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Once we define ourselves by political parties, we divide the nation. Continuing to divide the nation will not solve the same problems it created. In order to solve the problems that have been plaguing </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> for years, we have to try a solution we have never tried before - unity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">We've stood with </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Paris</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, with </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Liberia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, with other nations in distress, but we have forgotten to stand with </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Georgia;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">Unity is not everyone feeling the same way about abortion, gay marriage and guns. It is standing together and respecting differences in opinions. It is compromising. It is the halt of attacks on political parties.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">"Republicans are destroying </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Georgia;">."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">"Democrats are destroying </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Georgia;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Georgia;">."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">No more political based hate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">We all want the same thing. We want a better world for our family, our friends and our children.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">You want hungry children to get fed. You want homeless animals to find homes. You want more affordable college for your children. You want the burden of the national debt to go away. You want lower taxes and a higher pay check. You want a phenomenal economy, versus the inflated one. You want to ensure that your son or daughter who is fighting for freedom gets home safe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">We all want the same things.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">You will never live united with people you call "radicals," "extremists," "morons," "lunatics" and "fools."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Stop viewing people as Democrats and Republicans. Start viewing them as people who want to make the world better, just like you.</strong><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">When I vote I choose a candidate who agrees with my morals and my heart, not my party.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">Every candidate should be asked!<br />How much of your soul and integrity are you willing to sell to get elected to a high public office?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>One of the most cherished constitutional freedoms on which this great nation was founded upon is the right to "freedom of speech". However, at the same time We are a nation of Laws. Thus, while You have a constitutional right to express your opinion, you do not have the right to promote hate, incite riots and advocate violence. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court clearly, and specifically addressed the restriction on "Freedom Of Speech" when it ruled a person DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT "To incite actions that would harm others (e.g., "{S}hout[ing] 'fire' in a crowded theater.") <i>Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919)</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: blue;">The freedom of speech and expression has its limitations; and unless we wish to push the United States into an abyss of anarchy, said "limitations" must be recognized and aggressively enforced.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">We are a nation built by people who came from, and continue to come from all walks of life to this country. As such, we must respect the freedoms of each other and be united in observing the laws of our country. While I do not have to agree with you or even like you, I must NOT infringe upon your rights to exercise and be protected by the same freedoms as me. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">The Media in many cases distorts the facts and many times produces outright fabrications in order to promote its' own insidious agenda. Many people treat the Media as if its the Holy Bible, and thus, allow themselves to become incited by the news and in many cases carry out acts of hate and violence. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">The Media knows it has the capability of inciting hate and violence. Thus, the Media has a responsibility to report news accurately, whether it agrees with the facts or not. To do otherwise is without question to promote hate and violence, divisiveness and animosity which is detrimental to the very constitutional rights the Media so loudly claims protects it. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">Visitors to our country are welcome, but they must abide by our laws, no exceptions. This enforcement of law applies to all immigrants who come to our country. They must abide by the laws of our country, and while waiting for citizenship if they break the law they must be deported, which is also the law. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">Many of us have parents and/or grandparents who were immigrants to our country; they obeyed the laws, and if qualified they got their Green Card, filed the required yearly report truthfully and after 5 years were qualified for citizenship. They studied English and the required information to pass the test in English to be sworn as law abiding American citizens. The successful immigrant-to-citizen process which has helped to build and move this country forward, and offers the same opportunity to future immigrants should NOT be abrogated in any manner.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">Immigrants should not be allowed to come to our country and impose their native country laws which are in direct conflict with the founding principles of this Country. While you have the right to the same protection as citizens, you are also bound by the same laws which protect others from you.</span></b><br />
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"<strong>THE</strong> Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution."</div>
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The quote is part of the preamble to the <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/print_friendly.html?page=bill_of_rights_transcript_content.html&title=The%20Bill%20of%20Rights%3A%20A%20Transcription" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bill of Rights document</a> that indicates that the States and the Congress have the right to amend the Constitution of the United States of America.</div>
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They are stating that our government recognizes that it has a duty to clarify and institute regulations regarding our rights as citizens and as human beings.</div>
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."</div>
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As writers, journalists and even as HubPages authors, this amendment affects us the most. This is the "big one"!</div>
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Many hubbers write about religion. They use their free speech rights to do so. This means that we are free to criticize any religion we want to. We are free, in this country, to say and write whatever we feel like saying and writing.</div>
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We are also free to say and write and use words that are considered inflammatory, insulting, rude and socially unacceptable. You are free to rebut those words.</div>
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We are also free to assemble a group of like-minded people and petition our government or other groups to try to sway their opinions about things.</div>
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The members of the Press are given special dispensations for saying and writing about whatever they want to say and write about and to protect their sources from freedom of speech persecution.</div>
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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."</div>
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There is no question that a country needs a military force. We must defend ourselves against those that seek to invade and take by force our land and homes. This is our right as a nation. It would be lovely if we didn't have to do this, but until evolution brings us to a more peaceful nature, we must have a protective military. No one truly debates this.</div>
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As for each and every one of us having the right to bear arms, well that is just a huge can of worms. Just because we have the right to do so, doesn't mean we should all go out and buy guns.</div>
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Indeed this is currently a highly regulated area that continues to be misconstrued each and every day. People get really radical about it and lie about it and cause untold amount of grief. Why can't we all just get along?</div>
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Well, this is one you don't really hear about! Apparently, we have the right to refuse a bed to the military during times of peace, and must be legally compelled to do so in times of war.</div>
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This sets up the stage for the huge budget of the military! They have the right to build quarters for the fighting soldiers in both peacetime and wartime. Whew! At least we only have to pay outrageous taxes because of this one.</div>
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Fourth Amendment - Unlawful Search and Seizure</h2>
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"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."</div>
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This human right has apparently just gone the way of the dinosaurs. It only applies to the rich folks these days. Cops have found a way around this edict in many ways.</div>
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The Supreme Court recently ruled that in some cases it is perfectly all right to search and seize without a warrant.</div>
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People, themselves, often relinquish their right to unlawful search and seizures by actually consenting to be searched without probable cause.</div>
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Whenever a cop stops you on the side of the road, they can pretty much get away with anything these days. Your best bet is to keep your mouth shut if approached by a police officer and never, ever consent to a search without a properly executed warrant!</div>
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Stand up for your rights and those of every other citizen.</div>
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Fifth Amendment - Grand Jury, Military Court, Double Jeopardy, Self Incrimination, Property Seizure</h2>
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"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."</div>
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These amendments just keep getting longer and wordier, right? The government was really trying to cover all bases here. Cases that violated these rights were already under scrutinization and laws had to be made.</div>
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Still, this amendment looks like it was tailor made for rich people. The average Joe on the street doesn't even have much in the way of property that can be protected by this right.</div>
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It's also easy to get people to testify against themselves! The cops do it all the time. They twist and turn whatever you may say into an indictment against you. That's why the Miranda warning was sent down by the Supreme Court.</div>
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If you are ever arrested, be sure to exercise this very important right!</div>
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Sixth Amendment - Speedy Trials, Habeas Corpus, Witness Confrontation, Subpoenas, Right to Counsel</h2>
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"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."</div>
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I'll have to say that this right seems to have held up pretty well over time. It still has not prevented our jails from becoming the most crowded and overused institutions in the world.</div>
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I wonder if our law schools just do not instill on young law students the responsibility that they have to defend the poor and those unable to defend themselves.</div>
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Public defenders tend to be seen as the "bottom of the barrel" lawyers. Rich people get the cream of the crop, of course.</div>
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Of course, citizens need to do their civic duty and respond to the call for jury selections and witnesses. But population being the overwhelming burden that it is, our rights are just going to get trampled on by the sheer weight of numbers.</div>
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Seventh Amendment - The Right to a Trial by a Jury</h2>
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"In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."</div>
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Did you notice the 'double jeopardy' clause? If you are tried by a jury and the facts are ruled on by a jury, A retrial should not be allowed.</div>
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I think this is mostly applied as, "The judgement of the court is final". But I'm no scholar of constitutional law. Correct me if I am wrong about this one.</div>
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Eighth Amendment - The Cruel and Unusual Thing</h2>
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"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."</div>
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This amendment is mostly used in the 'cruel and unusual' defense. A very high bail amount would be considered unusual. An excessive fine would be cruel. Unjust imprisonment, up to and including, the death penalty, would definitely be considered cruel by most people.</div>
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There is no way to reverse death, if that penalty is unfairly applied. Most people in this country apparently do not support the death penalty. So this amendment is almost always in the spotlight.</div>
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Ninth Amendment - The Catch-22 Amendment</h2>
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"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."</div>
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Because every human right could never be listed or even explained, this amendment was thrown in as a 'catch-all' kind of thing.</div>
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Basically, it states, that just because it isn't listed and numbered, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. They couldn't possibly think of Everything, right?</div>
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Tenth Amendment - Separation of State and Federal</h2>
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"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."</div>
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It would be very hard to designate every State's Rights versus every Federal Right, but this little amendment attempts to cover that situation in a rather broad statement.</div>
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This amendment is a very important one when it comes to constitutional law. But basically, if the Federal government makes a law, the individual states may or may not incorporate that law. The people of each state may or may not have a say in the ratification of said Federal laws.</div>
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Yes, most of this amendment is gobbledy gook speak for the right hand may or may not know what the left hand is doing.</div>
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On Thursday March 2nd we will be hosting our Los Angeles<br />
Mayoral Debate Show at the iHeart studios in Burbank.</div>
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There are are 11 candidates running, and 10 of them have<br />
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hasn't agreed to show up? You got it, it's Eric Garcetti!</div>
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We'd love for him to be there, so please help us convince him:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.lamayor.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Email him</a> - mayor.garcetti@lacity.org</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Election day is: Tuesday March 7, 2017</span></b><br />
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The deadline for submissions is <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2/28 at 2:00pm PT.</span></div>
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If you don't get in, that's okay. You can handle it, you're not a snowflake!<br />
You can still tune in and hear a great show!</div>
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Save the date, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thursday </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">March 2, 2017</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">. 4pm to 6pm</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;">Paul E. Amori</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> YJ Draiman</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Eric M. Garcetti</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Diane Harman</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> David Raymond Hernandez</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Yuval Daniel Kremer</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Frantz Pierre</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Eric Preven</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Dennis Richter</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> David Saltsburg</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Mitchell Schwartz</span></span></span><br /><br /><strong>Informal after debate meet and greet will be held across the street<br /> Los Candiles - 2100 Cypress Avenue</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 24px;">For additional information<br />about the candidates:</span><br /> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;">Los Angeles Times "Your next mayor answers: What's the biggest problem in L.A. and how would you fix it?"</span></strong></div>
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YJ Draiman Articleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277647913663158182noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6836804845371012788.post-74130256725569417512017-02-24T01:01:00.002-08:002017-02-24T01:01:41.245-08:00The Survival of Humankind, and Improving the World, Society, and Yourself! - YJ Draiman<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Yet who can the world trust to be idealistic and moral enough to help all of humanity and the environment, and at the same time, be practical enough to make extremely difficult decisions that can and will harm a great deal of people?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Humanitism is a philosophy for the continued survival and perpetuation of the human race. Humanitists (people who believe in humanitism) do not have the luxury of trying again after failing. Humanitists must be more vigilant than environmentalists, because we will not have a second chance at survival.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The survival of humanity is more important than the well being of our environment; however the environment is necessary for humanity to survive. That does not give the right for big businesses to continue doing whatever they want with only minimal or no consideration for the environment, so long as our surroundings support human life. We need to protect the environment for the continued survival and future well being of humanity. Keep in mind that without the human race, there would be no one and no need to protect the environment. Therefore, humanitism is more important than environmentalism.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">It seems that in the past 50 years the human race has pursued the money train, that such desire for financial gain has caused society to ignore and abandon honesty, values, morality and candidness etc. (Candidate - means candid and forthright, truth, honesty and integrity). </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The race to financial gain has caused our leaders and the executives of the corporate world to disregard laws, ethics and the caring for each other and humanity as a whole. Deception, fraud and outright theft are their new motto all for the sake of financial gain, personal ego, fame and success.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">It seems that for the sake of success and profit people will step on anybody, family friends, co-workers and anyone who stands in their way or take advantage of anyone that could help them achieve what they want.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">That is not to say that honest and compassionate people who care do not exist, where honesty and integrity is a way of life for them, but they are a very small minority.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">As we begin the year 2017, we should all look at the past and decide with determination that everyone will from now on contribute to the betterment of humanity, society and mankind.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">We should all learn to live with each other and respect each other for the sustainability of mankind. Humanity should strive for harmony, tranquility and peace.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;">"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you<br />become by achieving your goals”.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Debate </span></b><br /><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">on Wednesday March 1, 2017 - Time 7-9 pm</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Doors open 6 pm</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Informal after debate meet and greet will be held across the street - </b><b>at Los Candiles - 2100 Cypress Avenue</b></span><br /><b><span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Co-sponsors: LANCC, LA River studios, VOX productions</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #4c1130;">Please submit questions to: LANCC@EMPOWER LA.ORG</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;">LOCATION:</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">at: Sonia Sotomayor Learning Academies </span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;">2050 N. San Fernando Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90065</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: medium;">Moderator:</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: medium;">Susan Hirasuna - Award Winning broadcast Journalist</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: medium;">and KTLA FOX 11 Anchor</span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">If Donald Trump's election proved anything to Peebles Corp founder Don Peebles, it is that Americans value business leadership over political experience. So for someone who has successfully managed a portfolio of billions of dollars in commercial real estate, a city with an $80B budget should be just as easy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Peebles is still mulling a run for New York City mayor in an attempt to unseat incumbent Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary. He is just one of a handful of commercial real estate executives across the country who are eyeing public service in the wake of Trump's historic win of the U.S. presidency. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">“I think Donald Trump's election as president is a lasting change,” Peebles said, regarding high-level political positions. "No more will a person seeking a political seat have to be a career politician. They will not need to have that experience of the career politician or the career public servant to go and seek America's highest office.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">This 2017 election season is seeing a handful of current and former real estate executives jumping into the political arena. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">IV Capital's Sidney Torres IV is considering a run for mayor of New Orleans, and, in a Trumpian twist, will be starring in a reality show. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>YJ Draiman, a retired real estate executive, is running for mayor in Los Angeles for a second time. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>LA Mayoral Candidate YJ Draiman and Son David Draiman the frontman for Disturbed</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">And the biggest names of all are running for mayor in the president's hometown: Peebles, Massey Knakal brokerage co-founder Paul Massey and Abyssinian Development head Calvin Butts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Attributing a plethora of political candidates with commercial real estate backgrounds seeking public office to Trump winning the presidency may be overstating things. But a successful Trump administration could certainly have a long-term, inspiring effect of more commercial real estate and other private sector executives pursuing public office, said Loyola Marymount University political science professor Richard Fox. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">“It's way too early to say there's a Trump effect, but yes, there's a potential for that,” Fox said. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">In a study he and American University professor Jennifer Lawless conducted for the National Science Foundation, Fox said there was a measurable uptick on the number of African-American high school and college students who expressed interest in pursuing political roles while Obama was president. Unless Trump crashes and burns, Fox said he would expect a similar effect under Trump. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: blue;">“There is a negative connotation for being a developer," Draiman, a retired Chicago real estate investor who did hundreds of residential rehabs in Chicago with his former company, Bankers Realty, said. "I've seen a negative effect from various people who I met. They feel, when they see a developer, that it's a no-no." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: blue;">Today, Draiman — whose son, David, is the Grammy-nominated frontman for the rock band Disturbed — is hoping to discover the power of politics in his quest for the Los Angeles mayoral seat in the March primary. He also ran for mayor in 2013, and in a 2011 interview with L.A. Weekly, he was making many of the same cases for himself Trump made in the presidential campaign. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: blue;">"Some politicians were basically coerced, if you want to call it, to support a developer," he told the publication. "And remember, I was a developer myself, so I know where it's going to and where it's coming from." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: blue;">This time, he is running on the platform of pushing for economic development and for pushing for smarter growth and development with developers in the city. Much of his rhetoric is similar; after all, it worked for Trump. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: blue;">“The public as a whole feels that large, wealthy developers, since they contribute so heavily … to various other elected officials, they have an in, if you want to call it,” Draiman said. "They get by with certain benefits that the little guy doesn't get. And it's true. I won't deny it. I've seen it with my own eyes." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Terranova Corp founder Stephen Bittel takes exception to the idea that any real estate executive who jumps into the political arena does it because of Trump's success. For Bittel — who recently was elected as Florida Democratic Committee chairman — the longtime Democratic Party donor and activist was mulling an ascent long before Trump announced his candidacy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">“American history is replete with successful business leaders getting involved in the leadership of our country,” Bittel said. “I think Donald Trump, what he did for a living, has nothing to do with this. And to suggest that might even encourage people not to seek careers in public service. I don't think that the electorate cares about how you made your money, I think they care about how you lived your life.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Atlanta native Kirk Rich has been enmeshed in the commercial real estate industry for decades. He is president of the Georgia Chapter of the Certified Commercial Investment Member organization; a board member of Invest Atlanta — the city's economic development arm; and a member of Georgia State University's real estate board. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">He recently sold his boutique Atlanta third-party leasing and management firm to Avison Young, and has been tapped to head that firm's third-party platform. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Rich has also thrown his hat into the ring for Atlanta City Council's 6th District seat, which covers a wide swath of Atlanta's most prestigious neighborhoods, including Morningside-Lenox Park, Druid Hills, Virginia-Highland, Piedmont Heights, portions of Midtown; the nexus of growth since the last recession. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">“I don't think Trump has affected people in real estate wanting to run for office,” Rich said, noting he did not support Trump for president. “But I think people are tired of politicians, and they're looking for people from the private sector. And Trump is about as private sector as it gets.” In Atlanta, the issues trumping voters' priorities in city council races are about growth and development, and the stress associated with it on traffic and infrastructure. And that's where Rich said real estate executives can be effective in public office. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">“That opens the door for people who understand commercial real estate development to get involved,” he said. "And they need to get involved, because with the challenges we have I don't think they've been at the table enough already." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">While voters might find appeal with a business person running government, at least in New York City, where Hillary Clinton snagged 80% of voters, “I'm not necessarily sure being in the real estate business, especially in light of President Trump, is an advantage,” Peebles said. In fact, he added, it could be a double-edged sword. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">What being a commercial real estate executive does, Peebles said, is give him the ability to manage city issues and delegate authority. After all, one of the biggest issues facing New Yorkers is right in a developer's wheelhouse: housing affordability. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">“Real estate developers, by and large, don't have a very specific technical skill set. They have broad vision and leadership skills to be able to lead a team and be able to execute,” he said. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">But Peebles is also taking some cues from executives cum politicians like Trump and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (whom Peebles credits for blazing a trail with New York voters to accept a private sector executive in high public office): he vows to largely self-fund his campaign, if he runs. Peebles also said he will instruct the executives running Peebles Corp not to do any real estate deals in New York City while he's mayor to avoid conflicts of interest. His firm also has projects in Charlotte, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Miami and Boston. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Bittel is taking a similar tactic during his four-year stint as the Democratic chair: He will not draw a salary, nor will he seek expense reimbursements, he said. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">“I'm doing this for all the right reasons,” he said. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Lawless said it's not uncommon for politicians to have come from the private sector. Typically, a third of Congressional members have backgrounds in Corporate America or business ownership. The other common paths are from law, education and career political activism. Those ratios were consistent with congresses in 2001, 2008 and 2011, Lawless said, with Republicans substantially more likely to have a business background. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">“When you think about local office, I'm not surprised by the real estate background [of candidates], because they really know the community,” she said. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Lawless said it is too early to tell if President Trump will inspire more real estate executives to enter politics, especially on a national level. That will come to bear in the 2018 election, perhaps. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trade_gothic_regular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">See Also: BGC Partners Is Taking NGKF Public Related Topics: Chicago, New Orleans, American University, Atlanta City Council, Don Peebles, Kirk Rich, Abyssinian Development Corp, Loyola Marymount University, Paul Massey, President Donald Trump, Trump Effect, YJ Draiman, Bankers Realty Capital, Jennifer Lawless, Richard Fox, Calvin Butts, Bakersfield, Kyle Carter, Carter Realty , Sidney Torres IV, IV Capital, Boise, Tommy Ahlquist, David Draiman , Disturbed</span></span><br />
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<img alt="Candidates for the top job in Los Angeles city government take questions Thursday, Feb. 15, 2017, during the Northridge East Neighborhood Council Mayoral Candidate Forum at the Northridge Women’s Club. (Photo by Gene Blevins/Special to the Los Angeles Daily News)" class="CToWUd a6T" id="m_7259056056676147760m_6140768990368370309yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487322801029_17057" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi3kYNqVMM-ZKxBh1b7rCkpakaP_wcoyM3BOTmKwjmpbkPurXLPaoHu2WOMeh3Q82a3X4cq3-xOTtZCT3iOurxgpNxlwIFsLLBuEj4JyCQDKcIXPbeN5VAWVrF8mbcBmlc__KGPV1a9GwtCdG4jeuwOQJzpMJBaRAH7ZUeJ30pxbEqHR3AlHnq0j_yiRaaXhhsYRBrDNXa2r4YtMGE4Y82pHBye-wN_ZpE=s0-d-e1-ft&maxh=400&maxw=667" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 5px 10px 10px !important; max-width: 98%; min-height: auto; outline: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" tabindex="0" />Candidates for the top job in Los Angeles city government take questions Thursday, Feb. 15, 2017, during the Northridge East Neighborhood Council Mayoral Candidate Forum at the Northridge Women’s Club. (Photo by Gene Blevins/Special to the Los Angeles Daily News) <span id="m_7259056056676147760m_6140768990368370309yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487322801029_17059" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: inherit; white-space: nowrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Mayor Eric Garcetti, who is running for re-election against 10 challengers, skipped a pair of candidate forums held Wednesday night in Northridge and the Hollywood Hills.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">The mayor’s absence at the events was not surprising. Many believe Garcetti will easily win re-election in a contest in which he faces challengers who are at times colorful, thoughtful and spirited, but who are nevertheless doing poorly in the polls and mostly lacking in governing and political experience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Some challengers took advantage of Garcetti’s absence Wednesday night, accusing him of being more preoccupied with running for higher office, letting the crime rate go up under his watch and spending more time at ribbon-cuttings than putting in the necessary hours to fix the city’s homelessness crisis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">David Saltsburg, a gadfly better known as Zuma Dogg, delivered some of the night’s harshest salvos, including this one:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">“Everybody says Eric Garcetti is such a nice guy — no, he’s not!” Saltsburg informed an audience of a couple dozen people gathered at the Northridge Women’s Club on Lassen Street, where the Northridge East Neighborhood Council was hosting its forum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">“He’s a psychopath, politically, who has higher aspirations to be president,” Saltsburg continued, adding that Garcetti “doesn’t care about the side effects to this city at all.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Garcetti, it turns out, did take a campaign-funded trip to Sacramento earlier in the day in which he managed to fit in a fundraiser and meetings with Gov. Jerry Brown, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and state Sen. Jim Beall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">According to his campaign spokesman Yusef Robb, that trip was not what kept Garcetti from taking part in the Northridge forum and an event right before at the American Legion Hall that was put on by the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Anastasia Mann, president of the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council, said many attendees at their event were upset that Garcetti’s representative, who had been scheduled to come in the mayor’s stead, canceled. The reason given was that Garcetti’s campaign decided they did not need to be part of an event “with candidates who didn’t have at least 15 percent in the polls,” Mann said, adding that the decision was “very disappointing.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Robb did not disclose what Garcetti was doing Wednesday night, saying only that the mayor was “unavailable.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">With Garcetti not in the picture, the eight challengers who took part in the Northridge forum were given the spotlight when sharing their ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Homelessness was the big issue at the Northridge forum, with two people in the audience querying the candidates on it. The responses ranged from concrete ideas to more vague concepts about changing society’s attitudes toward homeless individuals.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Mitchell Schwartz, one of the better funded and more politically experienced of the candidates, said he wants to help homeless veterans and will work to increase the number of affordable housing units in Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">YJ Draiman who is the only candidate with experience since previously running for Mayor in 2013. Draiman has some name recognition and is known as an Energy Conservation expert. He is promoting bringing businesses back to LA via economic and tax incentives and has some valid ideas how to ease LA's water problem.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Diane “Pinky” Harman, an actress and former teacher, said that she feels more needs to be done to understand the different reasons people become homeless, before prescribing solutions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Dennis Richter, a member of the Socialist Workers Party, said that he wants to “launch a public works program” that will provide jobs to anyone who wants one, including the homeless.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Saltsburg said there needs to be an “all hands on deck approach,” that includes converting storage space into residences for the homeless. He also criticized Proposition HHH, saying the homeless housing bond measure passed by voters in November will be a “drip in the bucket” that will likely be mired in delays and increasing costs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Paul E. Amori, who says his campaign is about making “love” a “core value when deciding policies,” says he wants more people to “come together” to help the homeless and to acknowledge “certain people just simply need our love.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Eric Preven, a City Council critic and board member of the Studio City Neighborhood Council, said homeless service facilities should resemble the communal atmosphere of a “kibbutz.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">“We don’t need a hammer on a guy if he falls off the wagon and starts drinking again,” he said. “It’s a part of life, and other cultures and societies do a better job of taking care of their population.”</span></div>
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The conversation moved on to crime after one audience member asked the candidates what they would do about a local strip club where several people were killed.</div>
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None of the candidates seemed aware of the circumstances at that club, but Preven said the city has some land use tools to put pressure on the strip-club business, while Saltsburg said the issue should be referred to the city attorney.</div>
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Others like Schwartz and David Hernandez took a wider angle, saying the city is “under-policed” and needs more officers.</div>
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Richter diverged from the others in answering that “more police is not going to help.”</div>
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Those involved in criminal activity need jobs, which will keep them out of trouble, he said.</div>
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There did not seem to be a clear winner at the Northridge forum, with one 70-year-old Northridge resident, who declined to give her name, saying that the only thing she is certain about is that she will not be voting for Garcetti.</div>
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She said she did not vote for him last time because she felt he was not qualified. This time, “he really has abandoned us, the fact that he isn’t even campaigning,” she said.</div>
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And by the end of the night, the long-shot idea of Garcetti losing his re-election bid no longer seemed so unreasonable for some.</div>
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Glen Wilson, the treasurer of a nearby neighborhood council, said he is leaning toward Hernandez.</div>
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Anything could happen, he added, noting that Donald Trump, who many had discounted, won the presidential election because voters “wanted change.”</div>
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The night’s moderator, Nick Beer, who is a board member of the Northridge East Neighborhood Council, was also open to the idea of an unexpected outcome.</div>
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Beer kept his own pick a secret while saying that based on media coverage, Garcetti “is probably going to get re-elected.”</div>
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“But I also know elections can be very surprising,” he added. “I was personally quite surprised at the outcome of the presidential election, so I know that sometimes, there are ... things that you just don’t see coming.”</div>
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<em id="m_7259056056676147760m_6140768990368370309yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487322801029_17292">This article was amended to reflect that candidate Eric Preven is a city council critic and Studio City Neighborhood Council member and a comment about YJ Draiman.</em></div>
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YJ Draiman Articleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277647913663158182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6836804845371012788.post-78221993869952834722017-02-01T14:59:00.001-08:002017-02-01T14:59:48.733-08:00YJ Draiman for Mayor of Los Angeles - 2017 Check #33 on the Ballot<br />
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<span style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: navy;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">YJ Draiman for Mayor of Los Angeles - 2017<br /><br />Check #33 on the Ballot<br /><br /><img alt="" height="452" src="http://yjdraimanformayor.com/attachments/Image/000000_yj-draiman-button-2017.jpg" width="450" /></span></strong></span></span></span><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.6667px;"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: 18pt;">"I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true."</span></b><span style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: navy;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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YJ Draiman Articleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277647913663158182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6836804845371012788.post-59366427104612689462017-01-10T00:26:00.003-08:002017-02-02T20:33:48.470-08:00Northridge East Neighborhood Council will hold a 2017 Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Forum<br />
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YJ Draiman Articleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277647913663158182noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6836804845371012788.post-51957350331649664442016-12-30T14:09:00.002-08:002016-12-30T14:09:26.036-08:00YJ Draiman, Candidate for mayor of the City of Los Angeles, propose a joint effort to fix our city and re-establish Los Angeles as one of the most vibrant, productive and progressive cities in America.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">I, YJ Draiman, Candidate
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">In order to achieve this
goal it will require you the people of </span></b><st1:city><st1:place><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">L.A.</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> and me, as
Mayor, to roll up our sleeves and work elbow-to-elbow together, or it won’t be
done. What has to be done has to be done. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am not asking for you
to give something to your city, rather, I am asking you to join me in doing
something with, and for your city.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am not asking not for
your gifts, but for your assistance, because hand-in-hand, united in our common
cause, we will NOT fail.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I believe there is no
greater force than the will and spirit of the people of </span></b><st1:city><st1:place><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Los Angeles</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> if we choose to unite and work together.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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supposed to be law abiding people. All current laws on the books must be
enforced equally and not selectively. If you think a particular law is unjust,
you can try to amend it or abolish it in a legal Democratic way and procedure.
Anyone, who violates the law, be it governmental representatives, local
government and people who decide to violate the law are endangering our
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YJ Draiman Articleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277647913663158182noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6836804845371012788.post-91563843328933189532016-12-30T12:34:00.000-08:002016-12-30T12:34:05.116-08:00Throughout the rest of this Year and all of 2017.. May you always make the right moves - May your cup runneth over with love.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">Throughout the rest of this Year and all</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">of 2017.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">.</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><br />May you always make the right moves.</span></b></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image001.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="368" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA1.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.1&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ8XluGNYTDYHOermDxpWyD1trPa56YR_OdJsdBF6pzUmLNycENpMCd0i2eJa4rulDjcmkJ4Vwc7tB-nh6MEdzDQBsUxyxoPtd9QyHy5MXxEF_SGeJWfwxEm8ck&sz=w1080-h736&ats=1483129793092&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="540" /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">May your cup runneth over with love.</span></b></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image002.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="365" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA2.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.2&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ9f-zajlpL8PnVRGDg1HyWMSUe9AcR7Qa7dIeys0NzaXBhhhG8fRrjNTO0SSCvse4i-NGuW1w_OmcAGzoYXZI7MdqNMj-7lzl8doK-ohU4NMxI55XG2XlOT72M&sz=w968-h730&ats=1483129793093&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="484" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">May you always find shelter from any storm.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image003.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="405" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA3.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.3&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ8KdzrMzZBsiG0FIG6oecCOQfmFJmma1wwcxI9TD3dCCjbX6CGcnlprFRGEm1kV8SuAhiTyTTnhsUYScPqVnEfRqaFkQNapXab6bSN4D_2bBi1Y6QRE3-yx4hs&sz=w1080-h810&ats=1483129793093&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="540" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />May you remain good looking and looking good!</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image004.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="326" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA4.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.4&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ9YsMJf1etitkp8rZhbV6tk_7AjSY2nElp4GFufkKKXwUAhY2dFdKO2-1FUhxfs2s7-81spO4sB9QZ6psC2craZEZdCunxCUXhDSNEz_7x12ytFjCbxQuvyxv0&sz=w980-h652&ats=1483129793093&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="490" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />May you find the perfect diet for your soul.<br />(If this face doesn't make you want to stop eating sausage, nothing will.)</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image005.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="366" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA5.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.5&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ897BGBQkj3ansA-LRI5qGf7lB0jWyk-mUFJsV0TJ1S2Lo2CZazke37zVnlDjEMfK-a2Bo2lRujDJjGUuVGOzaGr_TMiLCCFMVfOPnRDtxPwe2iuJQlNZwEr6I&sz=w1096-h732&ats=1483129793093&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="548" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />May you find perfect balance in the company you keep.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image006.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="322" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA6.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.6&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ9kVd6qAw3rFZ2bTQENjrg4VDEmBUBrOoirq8a6e7vRVtApi8Cdu3T359U-q8y6_OqXVVZUR7LKuJbjikxAsztqpIQgCTl6Pxcnpe7JJMKXPbdVofz9O8zQHyI&sz=w1096-h644&ats=1483129793093&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="548" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />May you have as much fun as you can before someone makes you stop.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image007.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="360" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA7.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.7&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ9_-5HoXeh71qzduvH9N6C6xSB8rJxxmUwSwhJ4WVBWWxLUTUerMkGw8iG6aIb0dukXXg6RVzp2VnTwdgsV1HY93i9ktohAoAJ114vUbbIGmA8FCrJX5neEDKc&sz=w1080-h720&ats=1483129793093&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="540" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />May the worst thing that happens to you come in slobbery pink and furry tan.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image008.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="415" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA8.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.8&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ_33YRRCIcdmvfq1848vOujKVq1v-DYetc2dGX3a3p5vudPOyelXnKkR4OLaZeIeNZyn1L4ndiewf0tNTuWxPV-aK1bO15HM82yLX5Z3568mpOuOcBFf3A7gNQ&sz=w1096-h830&ats=1483129793094&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="548" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />May you manage to make time for siesta.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image009.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="364" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA9.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.9&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ9eSvGkXmQ2b5lmGj5G0egBbvvG0ahetbaoi6XwUNQgcMICsZnI9jcVTsuuB0si8c36qKsYdunxOPWDpL65ToEpK2CxVQd333dvZeoZoSmqJ6HHE52lV8CROlU&sz=w1096-h728&ats=1483129793094&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="548" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />May all the new folks you meet be interesting and kind.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image010.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="468" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA10.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.10&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ8NrDRtcQo0BbsND0JXQtNF8JaadOhzEuATWYSpqmE4z5-NWVs0mgZH-096Asms4yYWeKaDt5rQN8jeZrHr-1CtvcSaBVSPVVXc-HyjroGJ87lky4CgHRAj1rI&sz=w1096-h936&ats=1483129793094&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="548" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />May your accessories always harmonize with your natural beauty!</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image011.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="368" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA11.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.11&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ-b3JEg_sr-RCTz_j753YRNXAIu2VcBRhj-pnX1phL0usIiOwApWlVpSt2KWgB8cc0PbRPrahOzm8IvjSvN6FnV8ErLSqF8DsoTYLSPC1kkygMRsz_1aFcj5pc&sz=w1096-h736&ats=1483129793094&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="548" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />Should your mouth be bigger than your stomach, may you have a chewing good time!</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="cid:image012.jpg@01CB952B.1F541E90" aria-expanded="false" height="442" id="m_-9045168648934949834MA12.1483029602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49f17aade6&view=fimg&th=1595167b4cf13e90&attid=0.12&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ-0zZclzih0ObPuz_a-KI_Ml1MD1aZLm_691wADfAsx3Vs6aMlDoOcmhiiarHGDxu_RpRa7GZEtc8f82Jm9dVW-FxcttT8Bd0bsJ-Fb1YukkK-3ftrvY76qB3k&sz=w754-h884&ats=1483129793094&rm=1595167b4cf13e90&zw&atsh=1" width="377" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /><br />May you always know when to walk away and know when to</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; 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YJ Draiman Articleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277647913663158182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6836804845371012788.post-638706783857798172016-11-13T09:45:00.002-08:002016-11-13T09:45:24.209-08:00Two Major Lawsuits Claim LA Illegally Collected More Than LA Steals $2 Billion in Taxes June 9, 2015 By Stephen Frank <br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Two Major Lawsuits Claim LA Illegally Collected More Than LA Steals $2 Billion in Taxes</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Good grief—it looks like the City of Los Angeles stole as much money as Bernie Madoff—and he is in jail and those responsible for the LA thefts get re-elected. Criminals in the courtroom (illegal aliens can now be attorneys in California and New York). In LA the city stole billions by illegally charging taxpayers and ratepayers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">I guess they hoped they would never be caught. Now the problem will be returning the money to those they decided to steal from.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">“The first lawsuit, Ardon v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in December, 2009. It alleges that that the 10% Telephone Users Tax was an illegal tax, resulting in the collection of approximately $750 million between 2006 and 2008. With interest, the potential liability to the City is more than $1 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The second class action lawsuit, Patrick Eck v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in April, 2015. It alleges that the undisclosed 8% Transfer Fee levied by the Department of Water and Power is an illegal tax. This has resulted in the collection of over $1.25 billion from Ratepayers since the passage of Proposition 26 in November, 2010.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Obama famous said, “so sue me”. Guess that disease has spread to all of government—try to get away with criminal action; refusal to enforce the laws, then when caught say, “so sue me”. Billions stolen is not a math mistake—it is a criminal act. Maybe Eric Garcetti should need a good attorney.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">LA WATCHDOG-The City of Los Angeles is the defendant in two major class action lawsuits alleging that the City illegally collected over $2 billion in taxes from the Taxpayers and Ratepayers that were not approved by the voters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The City, Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Council President Herb Wesson, Budget and Finance Chair Paul Krekorian, and the rest of the City Council have a massive conflict of interest as they attempt to minimize the return of our money that was illegally collected while we, their constituents, want full recovery of our hard earned money.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The first lawsuit, Ardon v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in December, 2009. It alleges that that the 10% Telephone Users Tax was an illegal tax, resulting in the collection of approximately $750 million between 2006 and 2008. With interest, the potential liability to the City is more than $1 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Parenthetically, in a special election held in February, 2008, 66% of the voters approved the 9% Communication Users Tax (Proposition S). This replaced the 10% Telephone Users Tax.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The second class action lawsuit, Patrick Eck v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in April, 2015. It alleges that the undisclosed 8% Transfer Fee levied by the Department of Water and Power is an illegal tax. This has resulted in the collection of over $1.25 billion from Ratepayers since the passage of Proposition 26 in November, 2010. The plaintiff is requesting the elimination of the 8% Transfer Fee ($266 million for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2015) and the return of over $1.25 billion to Ratepayers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Another lawsuit, Tyler Chapman v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in January, 2015. It also involves the illegal the 8% Transfer Fee.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The City has been less than transparent about the potential liability involving the $1 billion liability associated with Ardon litigation. To the contrary, the City failed to disclose its potential liability in the contingency section of its audit financial statements, referring only to a class action litigation. The City is continuing to fight this litigation and its certification as a class action, all on our nickel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Rather than waging a war against the Taxpayers and the Ratepayers, the City needs to develop a plan to finance the repayment of our $2 billion without paying big fat contingency fees to the class action lawyers with our money. This plan will involve new taxes that will need to be approved by the electorate, not an easy ask since the voters do not trust the fiscally irresponsible City Council.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Therefore, the City will need to engage in wholesale financial, budget, pension, and work place / personnel reform. This would include, at a minimum, placing on the ballot a Live Within Its Means charter amendment that would require the City to develop and adhere to a Five Year Financial Plan, to pass two year balanced budgets based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and, over the next twenty years, to repair our streets and sidewalks and to fully fund the City’s two pension plans.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The longer Mayor Garcetti and the Herb Wesson-led City Council wait, the city’s bargaining and financial condition will deteriorate. Now is the time to repay the Taxpayers and Ratepayers their $2 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><b>Y.J. Draiman would take Mayor Eric Garcetti’s job by boosting business. </b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">David Hernandez would supplant the mayor by building infrastructure. And Garcetti would be re-elected mayor by having already led Los Angeles.</span></div>
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They were among the dozen candidates to formally declare they would run for mayor before the deadline ends at noon today. Candidates have until Dec. 7 to collect enough signatures to get onto the March 7 city election ballot.</div>
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“We have people filing even today for mayor,” said Tom Reindel, public services administrator for the Los Angeles City Clerk-Election Division, which remained open during the Veterans Day holiday.</div>
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“If someone shows up at 12:01 p.m. (today), they will not be processed.”</div>
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Besides the mayor’s race, elections will be held for city attorney, controller, eight-odd numbered council districts and even-numbered Los Angeles school board and community college districts.</div>
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Garcetti, a native of Encino, was voted into office in May 2013 after a bruising battle with former City Controller Wendy Greuel, a native of North Hollywood.</div>
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Highlights during his term include passing a $15 minimum wage, a new contract with Department of Water and Power workers, a Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Olympics, and the recent passage of the Measure M transit tax.</div>
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After announcing he’d run again more than a year ago, he has raised $2.25 million toward his re-election bid, according to a Sept. 30 campaign filing, the latest available.</div>
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Among the dozen challengers for the $249,000 mayoral seat were five from the San Fernando Valley: Draiman, a Northridge East Neighborhood Council board member from Northridge; Hernandez, a community advocate from Valley Village; Rudy Melendez, a laborer/artist from North Hollywood; Eric Preven, a writer/producer from Studio City; and Diane “Pinky” Harman, a retired educator/actor from Northridge.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><b>Draiman, a retired real estate developer, had run for mayor three years ago. He says he’s running again to make a difference: in energy and water conservation; and in bringing business back to Los Angeles.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><b>“That is key to this city,” said Draiman, 67, a registered independent. “You bring business back to the city, and you employ the unemployed. I am very determined. I want this city to move forward. It’s ridiculous; we’re going backwards.”</b></span></div>
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Hernandez, a retired insurance adjuster, once ran for Los Angeles County supervisor as well as Congress. He’s also been active in community issues, from advocating for Asian elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo to fighting a proposed bullet train in the Northeast Valley.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">“I’m running because I can only do so much as a community advocate to make a positive change,” said Hernandez, 68, a registered Republican who raised $1,300, “including going to basics and resetting our priorities to public safety, infrastructure, business opportunities and quality of life.”</span></div>
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Harman taught English as a second language in Los Angeles schools for more than three decades before she found a second wind as a senior rapper and hip-hop dancer.</div>
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She says Queen Latifah named her “Pinky” on account of her signature head-to-toe pink getups. She is running for mayor, she said, to advocate for senior citizens, end racial injustice and put an end to criminal hacking and stalking.</div>
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“I’m pink and positive,” said Harman, 65. “Keep it pink and positive. I would paint the town pink and make Los Angeles have a pink horizon.”</div>
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Of the dozen candidates to have declared their intention to run for mayor, Mitchell Schwartz has raised $255,000. The former communications director for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, who lives in Windsor Square, has cited crime, traffic and education as key issues.</div>
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Paul E. Amori, creator of Amori’s Casino & Burlesque, will run for mayor having founded the Love Party, which he said will launch a political paradigm by putting love into action to solve problems.</div>
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Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot Public Schools, had raised $18,000 to campaign for mayor by last fall, but he had not formally declared his candidacy by noon Friday.</div>
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The most active city race may be to replace Councilman Felipe Fuentes, who stepped down from his job in September to become a lobbyist in Sacramento.</div>
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By Friday, 21 residents had declared their intent to run for City Council District 7, which includes Northeast Valley neighborhoods from Sunland-Tujunga to Sylmar.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Two Major Lawsuits Claim LA Illegally Collected More Than LA Steals $2 Billion in Taxes</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Good grief—it looks like the City of Los Angeles stole as much money as Bernie Madoff—and he is in jail and those responsible for the LA thefts get re-elected. Criminals in the courtroom (illegal aliens can now be attorneys in California and New York). In LA the city stole billions by illegally charging taxpayers and ratepayers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">I guess they hoped they would never be caught. Now the problem will be returning the money to those they decided to steal from.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">“The first lawsuit, Ardon v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in December, 2009. It alleges that that the 10% Telephone Users Tax was an illegal tax, resulting in the collection of approximately $750 million between 2006 and 2008. With interest, the potential liability to the City is more than $1 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The second class action lawsuit, Patrick Eck v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in April, 2015. It alleges that the undisclosed 8% Transfer Fee levied by the Department of Water and Power is an illegal tax. This has resulted in the collection of over $1.25 billion from Ratepayers since the passage of Proposition 26 in November, 2010.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Obama famous said, “so sue me”. Guess that disease has spread to all of government—try to get away with criminal action; refusal to enforce the laws, then when caught say, “so sue me”. Billions stolen is not a math mistake—it is a criminal act. Maybe Eric Garcetti should need a good attorney.</span></div>
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Written by Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA, 6/9/15</div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">LA WATCHDOG-The City of Los Angeles is the defendant in two major class action lawsuits alleging that the City illegally collected over $2 billion in taxes from the Taxpayers and Ratepayers that were not approved by the voters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The City, Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Council President Herb Wesson, Budget and Finance Chair Paul Krekorian, and the rest of the City Council have a massive conflict of interest as they attempt to minimize the return of our money that was illegally collected while we, their constituents, want full recovery of our hard earned money.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The first lawsuit, Ardon v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in December, 2009. It alleges that that the 10% Telephone Users Tax was an illegal tax, resulting in the collection of approximately $750 million between 2006 and 2008. With interest, the potential liability to the City is more than $1 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Parenthetically, in a special election held in February, 2008, 66% of the voters approved the 9% Communication Users Tax (Proposition S). This replaced the 10% Telephone Users Tax.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The second class action lawsuit, Patrick Eck v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in April, 2015. It alleges that the undisclosed 8% Transfer Fee levied by the Department of Water and Power is an illegal tax. This has resulted in the collection of over $1.25 billion from Ratepayers since the passage of Proposition 26 in November, 2010. The plaintiff is requesting the elimination of the 8% Transfer Fee ($266 million for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2015) and the return of over $1.25 billion to Ratepayers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Another lawsuit, Tyler Chapman v. City of Los Angeles, was filed in January, 2015. It also involves the illegal the 8% Transfer Fee.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The City has been less than transparent about the potential liability involving the $1 billion liability associated with Ardon litigation. To the contrary, the City failed to disclose its potential liability in the contingency section of its audit financial statements, referring only to a class action litigation. The City is continuing to fight this litigation and its certification as a class action, all on our nickel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Rather than waging a war against the Taxpayers and the Ratepayers, the City needs to develop a plan to finance the repayment of our $2 billion without paying big fat contingency fees to the class action lawyers with our money. This plan will involve new taxes that will need to be approved by the electorate, not an easy ask since the voters do not trust the fiscally irresponsible City Council.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">Therefore, the City will need to engage in wholesale financial, budget, pension, and work place / personnel reform. This would include, at a minimum, placing on the ballot a Live Within Its Means charter amendment that would require the City to develop and adhere to a Five Year Financial Plan, to pass two year balanced budgets based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and, over the next twenty years, to repair our streets and sidewalks and to fully fund the City’s two pension plans.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;">The longer Mayor Garcetti and the Herb Wesson-led City Council wait, the city’s bargaining and financial condition will deteriorate. Now is the time to repay the Taxpayers and Ratepayers their $2 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">Background</span></span></h2>
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) estimates and totals up the equivalent money value of the benefits and costs to the community of projects to establish whether they are worthwhile. These projects may be dams and highways or can be training programs and health care systems.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The idea of this economic accounting originated with Jules Dupuit, a French engineer whose 1848 article is still worth reading. The British economist, Alfred Marshall, formulated some of the formal concepts that are at the foundation of CBA. But the practical development of CBA came as a result of the impetus provided by the Federal Navigation Act of 1936. This act required that the U.S. Corps of Engineers carry out projects for the improvement of the waterway system when the total benefits of a project <u>to whomsoever they accrue</u> exceed the costs of that project. Thus, the Corps of Engineers had create systematic methods for measuring such benefits and costs. The engineers of the Corps did this without much, if any, assistance from the economics profession. It wasn't until about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2007861522" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">twenty years later</span></span> in the 1950's that economists tried to provide a rigorous, consistent set of methods for measuring benefits and costs and deciding whether a project is worthwhile. Some technical issues of CBA have not been wholly resolved even now but the fundamental presented in the following are well established.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">Principles of Cost Benefit Analysis</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">One of the problems of CBA is that the computation of many components of benefits and costs is intuitively obvious but that there are others for which intuition fails to suggest methods of measurement. Therefore some basic principles are needed as a guide.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">There Must Be a Common Unit of Measurement</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">In order to reach a conclusion as to the desirability of a project all aspects of the project, positive and negative, must be expressed in terms of a common unit; i.e., there must be a "bottom line." The most convenient common unit is money. This means that all benefits and costs of a project should be measured in terms of their equivalent money value. A program may provide benefits which are not directly expressed in terms of dollars but there is some amount of money the recipients of the benefits would consider just as good as the project's benefits. For example, a project may provide for the elderly in an area a free monthly visit to a doctor. The value of that benefit to an elderly recipient is the minimum amount of money that that recipient would take instead of the medical care. This could be less than the market value of the medical care provided. It is assumed that more esoteric benefits such as from preserving open space or historic sites have a finite equivalent money value to the public.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Not only do the benefits and costs of a project have to be expressed in terms of equivalent money value, but they have to be expressed in terms of dollars of a particular time. This is not just due to the differences in the value of dollars at different times because of inflation. A dollar available <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2007861523" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">five years from now</span></span> is not as good as a dollar available now. This is because a dollar available now can be invested and earn interest for five years and would be worth more than a dollar <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2007861524" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">in five years</span></span>. If the interest rate is r then a dollar invested for t years will grow to be (1+r)<sup>t</sup>. Therefore the amount of money that would have to be deposited now so that it would grow to be one dollar t years in the future is (1+r)<sup>-t</sup>. This called the discounted value or present value of a dollar available t years in the future.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">When the dollar value of benefits at some time in the future is multiplied by the discounted value of one dollar at that time in the future the result is discounted present value of that benefit of the project. The same thing applies to costs. The net benefit of the projects is just the sum of the present value of the benefits less the present value of the costs.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The choice of the appropriate interest rate to use for the discounting is a separate issue that will be treated later in this paper.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">CBA Valuations Should Represent Consumers or Producers<br />Valuations As Revealed by Their Actual Behavior</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The valuation of benefits and costs should reflect preferences revealed by choices which have been made. For example, improvements in transportation frequently involve saving time. The question is how to measure the money value of that time saved. The value should not be merely what transportation planners think time should be worth or even what people <u>say</u> their time is worth. The value of time should be that which the public reveals their time is worth through choices involving tradeoffs between time and money. If people have a choice of parking close to their destination for a fee of 50 cents or parking farther away and spending 5 minutes more walking and they always choose to spend the money and save the time and effort then they have revealed that their time is more valuable to them than 10 cents per minute. If they were indifferent between the two choices they would have revealed that the value of their time to them was exactly 10 cents per minute.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The most challenging part of CBA is finding past choices which reveal the tradeoffs and equivalencies in preferences. For example, the valuation of the benefit of cleaner air could be established by finding how much less people paid for housing in more polluted areas which otherwise was identical in characteristics and location to housing in less polluted areas. Generally the value of cleaner air to people as revealed by the hard market choices seems to be less than their rhetorical valuation of clean air.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">Benefits Are Usually Measured by Market Choices</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">When consumers make purchases at market prices they reveal that the things they buy are at least as beneficial to them as the money they relinquish. Consumers will increase their consumption of any commodity up to the point where the benefit of an additional unit (marginal benefit) is equal to the marginal cost to them of that unit, the market price. Therefore for any consumer buying some of a commodity, the marginal benefit is equal to the market price. The marginal benefit will decline with the amount consumed just as the market price has to decline to get consumers to consume a greater quantity of the commodity. The relationship between the market price and the quantity consumed is called the demand schedule. Thus the demand schedule provides the information about marginal benefit that is needed to place a money value on an increase in consumption.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">Gross Benefits of an Increase in Consumption is an Area Under the Demand Curve</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The increase in benefits reulting from an increase in consumption is the sum of the marginal benefit times each incremental increase in consumption. As the incremental increases considered are taken as smaller and smaller the sum goes to the area under the marginal benefit curve. But the marginal benefit curve is the same as the demand curve so the increase in benefits is the area under the demand curve. As shown in Figure 1 the area is over the range from the lower limit of consumption before the increase to consumption after the increase.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">When the increase in consumption is small compared to the total consumption the gross benefit is adequately approximated, as is shown in a </span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/e132.htm%23WELFARE&source=gmail&ust=1478664718120000&usg=AFQjCNEZPH9QSFBg17TJmWCWoDEZAOB16g" href="http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/e132.htm#WELFARE" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">welfare analysis</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">, by the market value of the increased consumption; i.e., market price times the increase in consumption.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">Some Measurements of Benefits Require the Valuation of Human Life</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It is sometimes necessary in CBA to evaluate the benefit of saving human lives. There is considerable antipathy in the general public to the idea of placing a dollar value on human life. Economists recognize that it is impossible to fund every project which promises to save a human life and that some rational basis is needed to select which projects are approved and which are turned down. The controversy is defused when it is recognized that the benefit of such projects is in reducing the risk of death. There are many cases in which people voluntarily accept increased risks in return for higher pay, such as in the oil fields or mining, or for time savings in higher speed in automobile travel. These choices can be used to estimate the personal cost people place on increased risk and thus the value to them of reduced risk. This computation is equivalent to placing an economic value on the expected number of lives saved.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">The Analysis of a Project Should Involve a <i>With</i> Versus <i>Without</i> Comparison</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The <b><i>impact</i></b> of a project is the difference between what the situation in the study area would be with and without the project. This that when a project is being evaluated the analysis must estimate not only what the situation would be with the project but also what it would be without the project. For example, in determining the impact of a fixed guideway rapid transit system such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay Area the number of rides that would have been taken on an expansion of the bus system should be deducted from the rides provided by BART and likewise the additional costs of such an expanded bus system would be deducted from the costs of BART. In other words, the alternative to the project must be explicitly specified and considered in the evaluation of the project. Note that the with-and-without comparison is not the same as a before-and-after comparison.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Another example shows the importance of considering the impacts of a project and a with-and-without comparison. Suppose an irrigation project proposes to increase cotton production in Arizona. If the United States Department of Agriculture limits the cotton production in the U.S. by a system of quotas then expanded cotton production in Arizona might be offset by a reduction in the cotton production quota for Mississippi. Thus the impact of the project on cotton production in the U.S. might be zero rather than being the amount of cotton produced by the project.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">Cost Benefit Analysis Involves a Particular Study Area</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The impacts of a project are defined for a particular study area, be it a city, region, state, nation or the world. In the above example concerning cotton the impact of the project might be zero for the nation but still be a positive amount for Arizona.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The nature of the study area is usually specified by the organization sponsoring the analysis. Many effects of a project may "net out" over one study area but not over a smaller one. The specification of the study area may be arbitrary but it may significantly affect the conclusions of the analysis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">Double Counting of Benefits or Costs Must be Avoided</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Sometimes an impact of a project can be measured in two or more ways. For example, when an improved highway reduces travel time and the risk of injury the value of property in areas served by the highway will be enhanced. The increase in property values due to the project is a very good way, at least in principle, to measure the benefits of a project. But if the increased property values are included then it is unnecessary to include the value of the time and lives saved by the improvement in the highway. The property value went up because of the benefits of the time saving and the reduced risks. To include both the increase in property values and the time saving and risk reduction would involve double counting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">Decision Criteria for Projects</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">If the discounted present value of the benefits exceeds the discounted present value of the costs then the project is worthwhile. This is equivalent to the condition that the net benefit must be positive. Another equivalent condition is that the ratio of the present value of the benefits to the present value of the costs must be greater than one.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">If there are more than one mutually exclusive projects that have positive net present value then there has to be further analysis. From the set of mutually exclusive projects the one that should be selected is the one with the highest net present value.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">If the funds required to carry out all of the projects with positive net present value are less than the funds available this means the discount rate used in computing the present values is too low and does not reflect the true cost of capital. The present values must be recomputed using a higher discount rate. It may take some trial and error to find a discount rate such that the funds required for the projects with a positive net present value is no more than the funds available. Sometimes as an alternative to this procedure people try to select the best projects on the basis of some measure of goodness such as the internal rate of return or the benefit/cost ratio. This is not valid for several reasons.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The magnitude of the ratio of benefits to costs is to a degree arbritrary because some costs such as operating costs may be deducted from benefits and thus not be included in the cost figure. This is called <i>netting out</i> of operating costs. This netting out may be done for some projects and not for others. This manipulation of the benefits and costs will not affect the net benefits but it may change the benefit/cost ratio. However it will not raise the benefit cost ratio which is less than one to above one. For more on this topic see</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/bcrmagnitude.htm&source=gmail&ust=1478664718120000&usg=AFQjCNEworivR-sccdTvOsgYGbt73ZWCeQ" href="http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/bcrmagnitude.htm" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">Benefit/ cost Ratio Magnitude</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">.</span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="m_-2757090740266716495_ANALYSIS" style="color: #222222;"></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 22pt;">An Example</span></span></h2>
</a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">To illustrate how CBA might be applied to a project, let us consider a highway improvement such as the extension of Highway 101 into San Jose. The local four-lane highway which carried the freeway and commuter traffic into San Jose did not have a median divider and its inordinate number of fatal head-on collisions led to the name "Blood Alley." The improvement of the highway would lead to more capacity which produces time saving and lowers the risk. But inevitably there will be more traffic than was carried by the old highway.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The following is a highly abbreviated analysis using hypothetical data.</span></span><br />
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<tr><th><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">TRIP DATA</span></span></th><th><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">No Extension,<br />"Blood Alley" Only</span></span></th><th><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">101 Extension<br />and "Blood Alley"</span></span></th></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> Passenger Trips<br /> (per hour)</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">3,000</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">4,000</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> Trip Time<br /> (minutes)</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">50</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">30</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> Value of Time<br /> ($/minute)</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$0.10</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$0.10</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Nonrush Hours</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> Passenger Trips<br /> (per hour)</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">500</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">555.55</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> Trip Time<br /> (minutes)</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">35</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">25</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> Value of Time<br /> ($/minute)</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$0.08</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$0.08</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Traffic Fatalities<br /> (per year)</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">12</span></span></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">6</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The data indicates that for rush-hour trips the time cost of a trip is $5 without the project and $3 with it. It is assumed that the operating cost for a vehicle is unaffected by the project and is $4.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The project lowers the cost of a trip and the public responds by increasing the number of trips taken. There is an increase in consumer surplus both for the trips which would have been taken without the project and for the trips which are stimulated by the project.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">For trips which would have been taken anyway the benefit of the project equals the value of the time saved times the number of trips. For the rush-hour trip the project saves $2 and for the nonrush-hour trip it saves $0.80. For the trips generated by the project the benefit is equal to one half of the value of the time saved times the increase in the number of trips.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The benefits per hour are:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Rush Hour</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">6,000.00</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">1,000.00</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">7,000.00</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Nonrush Hour</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">400.00</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">22.22</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">422.22</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">To convert the benefits to an annual basis one multiplies the hourly benefits of each type of trip times the number of hours per year for that type of trip. There are 260 week days per year and at six rush hours per weekday there are 1560 rush hours per year. This leaves 7200 nonrush hours per year. With these figures the annual benefits are: </span></span><br />
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<tr><th><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">TYPE</span></span></th><th><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">Trips Which<br />Would Be<br />Taken Anyway</span></span></th><th><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">Trips Generated<br />By the Project</span></span></th><th><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">Total</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Rush Hour</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$9,360,000</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$1,560,000</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$10,020,000</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Nonrush Hour</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$2,880,000</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$160,000</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$3,040,000</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Total</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$12,240,000</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$1,720,000</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$13,960,000</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The value of the reduced fatalities may be computed in terms of the equivalent economic value people place upon their lives when making choices concerning risk and money. If the labor market has wages for occupations of different risks such that people accept an increase in the risk of death of 1/1,000 per year in return for an increase in income of $400 per year then a project that reduces the risk of death in a year by 1/1000 gives a benefit to each person affected by it of $400 per year. The implicit valuation of a life in this case is $400,000. Thus benefit of the reduced risk project is the expected number of lives saved times the implicit value of a life. For the highway project this is 6x$400,000= $2,400,000 annually.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The annual benefits of the project are thus:</span></span><br />
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<tr><th><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">TYPE OF BENEFIT</span></span></th><th><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">VALUE OF BENEFITS<br />PER YEAR</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Time Saving</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$13,960,000</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Reduced Risk</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">$2,400,000</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Let us assume that this level of benefits continues at a constant rate over a thirty-year lifetime of the project.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The cost of the highway consists of the costs for its right-of-way, its construction and its maintenance. The cost of the right-of-way is the cost of the land and any structures upon it which must be purchased before the construction of the highway can begin. For purposes of this example the cost of right-of-way is taken to be $100 million and it must be paid before any construction can begin. At least part of the right-of- way cost for a highway can be recovered at the end of the lifetime of the highway if it is not rebuilt. For the example it is assumed that all of the right-of-way cost is recoverable at the end of the thirty-year lifetime of the project. The construction cost is $200 million spread evenly over a four-year period. Maintenance cost is $1 million per year once the highway is completed.</span></span></b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The schedule of benefits and costs for the project are as follows:</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><th style="padding: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">TIME<br />(year)</span></span></th><th style="padding: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">BENEFITS<br />($millions)</span></span></th><th style="padding: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">RIGHT-OF<br />-WAY<br />($millions)</span></span></th><th style="padding: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">CONSTRUCTION<br />COSTS<br />($millions)</span></span></th><th style="padding: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">MAINTENANCE<br />($millions)</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">100</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">1-4</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">50</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">5-29</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">16.36</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">1</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">30</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">16.36</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">-100</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">0</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">1</span></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: #dd0000; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The benefits and costs are in constant value dollars; i.e., there was no price increase included in the analysis. Therefore the discount rate used must be the real interest rate. If the interest rate on long term bonds is 8 percent and the rate of inflation is 6 percent then the real rate of interest is 2 percent. Present value of the streams of benefits and costs discounted at a 2 percent back to time zero are as follows:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">Net Benefits</span></span></td><td align="right" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;">50.35</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The positive net present value of $50.35 million and benefit/cost ratio of 1.2 indicate that the project is worthwhile if the cost of capital is 2 percent. When a discount rate of 3 percent is the benefit/cost ratio is slightly under 1.0. This means that the internal rate of return is just under 3 percent. When the cost of capital is 3 percent the project is not worthwhile.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It should be noted that the market value of the right-of-way understates the opportunity cost of having the land devoted to the highway. The land has a value of $100 million because of its income after property taxes. The economy is paying more for its alternate use but some of the payment is diverted for taxes. The discounted presented value of the payments for the alternate use might be more like $150 million instead of $100 million. Another way of making this point is that one of the costs of the highway is that the local governments lose the property tax on the land used.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">By reducing the positive and negative impacts of a project to their equivalent money value Cost-Benefit Analysis determines whether on balance the project is worthwhile. The equivalent money value are based upon information derived from consumer and producer market choices; i.e., the demand and supply schedules for the goods and services affected by the project. Care must be take to properly allow for such things as inflation. When all this has been considered a worthwhile project is one for which the discounted value of the benefits exceeds the discounted value of the costs; i.e., the net benefits are positive. This is equivalent to the benefit/cost ratio being greater than one and the internal rate of return being greater than the cost of capital.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CBA has its origins in the water development projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps of Engineers had its orgins in the French engineers hired by George Washington in the American Revolution. For years the only school of engineering in the United States was the Military Academy at West Point, New York.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">In 1879, Congress created the Mississippi River Commission to "prevent destructive floods." The Commission included civilians but the president had to be an Army engineer and the Corps of Engineers always had veto power over any decision by the Commission.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">In 1936 Congress passed the Flood Control Act which contained the wording, "the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters or their tributaries, including watersheds thereof, for flood-control purposes if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs." The phrase if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs established cost-benefit analysis. Initially the Corps of Engineers developed ad hoc methods for estimating benefits and costs. It wasn't until the 1950s that academic economists discovered that the Corps had developed a system for the economic analysis of public investments. Economists have influenced and improved the Corps' methods since then and cost-benefit analysis has been adapted to most areas of public decision-making.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #003366;"><img alt="" height="271" src="http://www.yjdraiman.org/attachments/Image/0_Power_to_the_People.png" width="400" /><br />One of </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: #003366;">Americas</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"></st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #003366;"> statesmen stated “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” His presidency ushered in an era of disdain for government and a widespread cynicism that government could be effective in addressing our challenges.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #003366;">Today, as we confront a crisis that has shaken confidence in our financial system and economy, we have an opportunity to restore public trust and confidence in the legitimate role of government. Indeed, to effectively tackle our economic challenges and to implement the reforms we need in our healthcare, education, energy, and environmental policies, our government will need to garner strong public support.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #003366;">However, rebuilding public trust will not happen in the face of a pervasive perception that government is not transparent and accountable, cronyism is rampant, and public officials are more interested in helping themselves than in serving the public good.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #003366;">Taking strong, swift, and decisive action to address abuses and begin to rebuild public trust should be the first priority for our city, state and federal government in the new legislative session.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #003366;">Create a Task Force on Public Integrity with a mission to develop a comprehensive proposal for ethics and lobbying reform in our city and state. Which addresses reforms in three areas: (1) strengthening enforcement of ethics, campaign finance, and lobbying laws; (2) strengthening civil and criminal penalties for abuses; and (3) improving awareness and education for public officials.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #003366;">Reinforce honesty, integrity and transparency by government officials as the core requirement to be and stay in office, any violations of these core tenets will cause the removal of the public official and the loss of "all benefits" retroactive.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #003366;">While the many of our elected officials and government employees are honest, dedicated public servants, the actions of a few create a dark cloud over all.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A polluted society </span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We've done larger things, but not better things.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We write more, but learn less.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We plan more, but accomplish less.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We've learned to rush, but not to wait.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.</span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just ignore it. </span><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: "helvetica neue light", helveticaneue-light, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Compiled by: YJ Draiman</span></span></b><br />
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Why Do Values Matter?<br />
The main benefit of knowing your values is that you will gain tremendous clarity and focus, but ultimately you must use that newfound clarity to make consistent decisions and take committed action. So the whole point of discovering your values is to improve the results you get in those areas that are truly most important to you.<br />
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Values are priorities that tell you how to spend your time, right here, right now. There are two reasons that priorities are important for our lives.<br />
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The first reason is that time is our most limited resource; time does not renew itself. Once we spend a day, it's gone forever. If we waste that day by investing our time in actions that don't produce the results we want, that loss is permanent. We can earn more money, improve our physical bodies, and repair broken relationships, but we cannot redo yesterday. If we all had infinite time, then values and priorities would be irrelevant. But at least here on earth, we appear to be mortal with limited life spans, and if we value our mortal lives, then it's logical to invest them as best we can.<br />
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You're free to decide what "best" means to you. The very idea that some possible permutations of your life appeal to you more than others means that knowing your values will be of great benefit to you. On the other hand, if any life you might live is as good as any other to you (whether prince or pauper, Olympian or obese, saint or sinner), then you can stop reading - you don't need this information. But most people can certainly envision lives that are more preferable to them than others.<br />
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The second reason priorities matter is that we human beings tend to be fairly inconsistent in how we invest our time and energy. Most of us are easily distracted. It's easy for us to fall into the trap of living by different priorities every day. One day you exercise; the next day you slack off. One day you work productively; the next day you're stricken with a bout of laziness. If we don't consciously use our priorities to stick to a clear and consistent course, we'll naturally drift off course and shift all over the place. And this kind of living yields poor results. Imagine an airplane that went wherever the wind took it - who knows where it would eventually land? And the flight itself would likely be stressful and uncertain.<br />
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So for these two reasons - limited time and a typically low index of distraction - consciously knowing and living by our values become extremely important. Values act as our compass to put us back on course every single day, so that day after day, we're moving in the direction that takes us closer and closer to our definition of the "best" life we could possibly live. The "best" is your own ideal, but generally as you get closer to this ideal, you'll enjoy increasingly positive shades of "better" even if you never reach "best." And this makes sense because many results in life exist on a continuum. There are some discrete entities like being married or not married, but your health, financial status, relationship intimacy, and level of happiness are generally continuous, meaning that they can gradually get better or worse. It seems reasonable that more health, happiness, wealth, intimacy, inner peace, love, etc. is better than less.<br />
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But here's the interesting part: Since our time is limited, and since it takes time to move along the continuum through the various "betters," we usually cannot instantly achieve the state of "best." We can't land our plane just yet - it's still in flight. Moreover, everyone has a different definition of what "best" means to them. For some people, good health is an absolute must.<br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The position of a Mayor of the City of Los Angeles is an enormous undertaking and a great responsibility. It must be assumed with the yoke of great duty and humility; one must bear the weight of such a revered position and earn the trust and honor to serve the people of Los Angeles. Only with such state of mind and intent can an individual honestly lead the Great City of Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Mayor must serve as an example to his staff and the people in honesty, integrity and fiscal responsibility. To serve the people of Los Angeles is no easy task and it must be performed in a manner that projects the Mayor as the leader of all the people of Los Angeles with no exceptions. The Mayor of Los Angeles must represent the aspirations and goals of the people he serves and not the special interests.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Mayor should revitalize the City of Los Angeles and restore public faith and confidence in City Hall by taking actions that benefit the people. He should promote business and streamline bureaucracy, institute a strict financial responsibility, promote and enhance the education system, devise and implement systems to eliminate corruption and fraud, rebuild the infrastructure and expand public transportation. The Mayor should unify the transit system; direct the building of low-cost public housing, public playgrounds and parks; upgrade the airports; reorganize the police force; defeat the powerful special interests political machine; and reestablish merit employment in place of patronage jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">He should lead by example and implement reform politics that are carefully tailored to address the sentiments of his diverse constituency. He should defeat the corrupt political machine; he is presiding during an era of extreme economic depression and an era of foreclosures that have not been seen since the depression era. The mayor should make the city the model for welfare and public works programs and champion immigrants and ethnic minorities. The mayor will succeed with the support of the masses. He should secure his place in history as a tough-minded reform mayor who helped clean out corruption, bring in gifted experts, and instill upon the city a broad sense of responsibility for its own citizens. His administration should engage new groups that had been kept out of the political system, give Los Angeles its modern infrastructure, and raise expectations to the new levels of urban possibility. He should synthesize the human sympathy of the special interests with the honesty and efficiency of the good government reformers. The Mayor should embrace the Neighborhood Council’s advice, for they represent the cross-section of all the neighborhoods in Los Angeles. He should consider adding some voting power to the Neighborhood Councils.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The mayor should be tough on his staffers and leave no doubt that he is in charge. He should never lose control; he should utilize federal money and grants to the full extent. He should work with all concerned for the betterment of the people and the city. According to today’s political standards, the people would have to support the Mayor’s vision and actions.</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Implement and overhaul of our educational system</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Expand the federally funded work relief program for the unemployed</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Develop and implement an atmosphere of a business friendly city</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">End corruption in government and racketeering in key sectors of the economy</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Replace patronage with a merit-based civil service, with high prestige</span></li>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">We need to rebuild the infrastructure - highways, bridges and tunnels, transform the physical landscape of the City Los Angeles. We need to address the wages, pensions and benefits for teachers, police and city workers without borrowing more and more until the City of Los Angeles is faced with bankruptcy. No juggling the books to pay the city's bills.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The mayor must restore the economic lifeblood of the City of Los Angeles during these hard economic times and initiate public works programs which would employ thousands of angelinos. The mayor should pursue a relentless lobbying for federal funds to upgrade and develop LA’s economic infrastructure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">There is no time like the present to start investigating in alternative methods of insuring the financial security of the City of Los Angeles, and in particular the people of Los Angeles don’t deserve procrastination and partisan gotcha politics. The people of LA need and demand real action and real results.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>In closing The Mayor of the City of Los Angeles for 2017 must have <span style="color: black;">courage, wisdom, honesty, and vision with an added tenacity and perseverance? What we need is</span> gutsy political leadership and a realistic plan that includes sacrifices by everybody.</em></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">If Los Angeles is to avoid the potential of Bankruptcy, like N.Y. in 1975.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Mayor of Los Angeles must pull the stakeholders together and forced them to make sacrifices -- unions, banks, legislators, debt holders, community groups. The obstacle to that seemed to be the politics of getting everyone to make reciprocal concessions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Mayor of LA has to come up with a plan that looks realistic. This includes sacrifices from everybody. Which maintains the economic viability of the city because you can also tax yourself out of existence, LA already has high taxes and fees? Which probably puts in a control structure that oversees budgets? You just have a big economic plan that stretches out between six and 10 years that will be acceptable to the markets and not be destructive to the economy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #003300;">As Mayor of LA, how would I create jobs? We have a tremendous amount of natural resources here in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, which we need to develop. To put it succinctly, "You can not drill for American oil and natural gas in <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Saudi Arabia</st1:country-region> or anyplace else other than <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>."</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #003300;">The more domestic energy we produce, renewable and non-renewable, the more domestic jobs we create. Moreover, jobs in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas pay more than twice the national average. At the same time, the domestic energy we produce will increase R&D in renewable energy sources, thus, increase efficiency.</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #003300;">Just look how far we have come in the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the past 10 years. I intend to accelerate that trend, and to take advantage of every resource possible in technology and funding. As I stated many times</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">; </span><span style="color: purple;">“Those who control the energy supply control whole continents”; </span><span style="color: blue;">“Those who control the water sources control life”.</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #003300;">Americans should demand products made in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>. We can produce a better product with better quality at a competitive price. It is my intention to provide numerous incentives to retain businesses here in <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city>, and to offer those incentives to bring businesses back to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>.</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #003300;">One of my top priorities is to ensure that we continue to develop and promote renewable energy sources. Many in the natural gas industry believe the day when renewable energy dominates our energy landscape is far off. I disagree. With American ingenuity, innovation and determination, the dawn of renewable energy sources can be upon us now.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #003300;">What I propose is a "do-it-all strategy" in which we focus not just on developing renewable energy, but also on the development of our abundant fossil fuels. While further technology and innovation in building construction would need to be developed, such need would also provide more jobs. More importantly, our reliance on over-priced outside energy would be decreased resulting in positive economic growth.</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #003300;">I would promote the design of a thermal solar system that provides energy, heat and hot water. In addition, I would initiate a new and advanced fuel technology for vehicles such as hydrogen, natural gas and ultra-capacitors for energy storage. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place> wastes an enormous amount of energy and work hours due to traffic congestion. I plan on an expedient advancement of our public transit system and devise systems to reduce traffic congestion.</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #003300;">In urban areas: roads, sidewalks, buildings and other structures prevent rainwater from being absorbed in the ground and replenishing the aquifers. It is time for us to compensate for that loss by collecting the rain runoff into retaining ponds. We need to implement the use of rainwater harvesting, gray water technology, collecting the billions of gallons of rain runoff into retaining ponds, desalinization projects powered totally by renewable energy (solar and wind combo systems) and other methods of conserving natural resources. As such, we would make existing renewable systems more cost effective and more efficient.</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #003300;">The result of my programs would be the increase of jobs, the decrease of energy and operating costs, and a reduction of our reliance on foreign oil. That in turn would result in decreasing the deficit and creating permanent jobs.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #003300;"><span style="font-size: large;">In short, the key to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place> economic recovery is not an increase in taxes and fees. Rather, true long-term recovery will rely on the increase of efficiency and productivity; the reduction of bureaucracy; and the promotion of businesses and employment. All of which will instill confidence in our economy, generate greater revenues for the city of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place> and other governmental entities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #003300;">American confidence in government is at an all time low. We no longer have the same level of faith in our institutions and leaders that we once had. Consequently, we are seeing a continued erosion of our outlook on the future. This outlook must change by initiating a massive and sound education program that produces innovation and technology.</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #003300;">We have an opportunity to jumpstart our economy, protect our environment and put our city on the path toward energy security through greater use of our domestic energy production such as natural gas. Our domestic energy production can serve as a foundation for our energy and economic independence. This path will enable us to develop the required innovation and production of other forms of energy sources.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #003300;"><span style="font-size: large;">To realize a course toward energy and economic security we must do what is necessary to instill confidence in the responsible development of our energy sources. We can use natural gas as a solid foundation on which to develop extensive R&D in renewable energy sources, and the efficient means to operate and maintain the mechanisms needed for such use.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #003300;"><span style="font-size: large;">Improving our educational system is the key to our economic survival. In a global, knowledge-driven economy, there is a direct correlation between engineering education and innovative progress. Our success or failure as a city will be measured by how well we do in providing the needed educational tools to promote innovation in all fields.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #003300;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leadership is not a birthright. Despite what many Americans believe, our city does not possess an innate knack for greatness. Greatness must be worked for and won by each new generation. Right now that is not happening. However, we still have time. If we place the emphasis we should on education, research and innovation, we can lead the world in the decades to come. Nevertheless, the only way to ensure we remain great tomorrow is to increase our investment in science and engineering today. In addition, we must invest in trade schools to train our future workers in the new and old technology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #003300;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have to learn how to balance the need of the people vs. the need to protect the environment. Any extreme to either side is not good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #003300;"><span style="font-size: large;">In today’s fast moving technologies, government as well as companies must learn to adjust and maneuver quickly to keep pace, or they will be out of business or incur deteriorating revenues and infrastructure. We must learn how stay competitive and resourceful to survive and thrive economically.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #003300;">I submit: Leadership by example. I plan to cut waste, maximize productivity, reduce bureaucracy, increase efficiency and conservation in all city departments and assets, eliminate duplicating tasks and reward excellent performance and innovative methods of job performance. In addition, we have to use the Neighborhood Council’s more effectively; they are the eyes and ears of all the communities in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>. These are hard economic times; we must all put our shoulder to the task.</span></b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #003300;">We must put all our differences aside and work together in harmony for the good of the people and the city of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>. This direction will be a win for all the people in LA.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">In your hands, my fellow Angelenos</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal;">, </span></strong><strong><span style="color: navy; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;">more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since the city of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>, was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.</span></strong><span style="color: navy; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal;">Now the trumpet summons us again. Not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; Not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; But a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: greed, tyranny, poverty, disease, corruption, violence, deception, enslavement and war itself.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></h5>
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