Councilman "Huevon Huizar" too lazy to communicate with family of slain LAPD officer before exploiting Martinez Badge Issue for political gain
Once again Councilman Huizar's actions denigrate the Council Office of CD 14
Huizar had used her brother for political gain and to make himself “look like a better man.”
Karen Kulby, sister of slain LAPD Officer David Kubly regarding Councilman Huizar's exploitation of Officer Kubly's duplicate badge controversy.
Parke Skelton and Michael Trujillo's "game changer" may benefit the other political team. As for Parke, Madres de East Los Angeles Santa Isabel and the Family of slain LAPD Officer David Kulby can compare stories how Skelton's political tactics brought long lasting harm and pain to their respective organization and family.
Memo to Councilman Jose Huizar, real men stand front and center especially when taking ownership for past mistakes in life. Now once again in your political life, or in this latest case the effort to save it, the actions of your campaign staff which you should have control of, have cause needless pain and suffering.
Your exploitation of the family of slain LAPD Officer David Kulby and the false controversy over his duplicate badge, has once again expose your proclivities to exploit tragedy for political self-promotion. After all, it was yourself that offered a $75,000 reward for information pertaining to a double murder near Oscar's Bar on First Street, in which one of the victims had a supposed close relationship to someone in your family.
Now with your latest "political game saver" turning on you, can you for once, stand up, face the masses (and voters) and take full responsibility for the actions of your underlings?
** Read former LAPD Officer Karen Kulby and sister of slain officer David Kulby, email to Councilman Huizar after the bloggin leap.
The full e-mail follows as posted in the LA Times:
Councilmember Huizar,I am writing this letter [asking] that you and your campaign stop using the memory of my brother and his badge for your re-election campaign. Your actions and those of your campaign have been hurtful and most disrespectful to our family, since we have never recovered from David being killed. Your campaign has never contacted our family to talk about this matter, but just used David's precious memory to tarnish the Martinez campaign.
I have no vested interested in either campaign, so forth with this is not [to] make things better for either candidate, it was the right thing to do.
Mr. Martinez and myself met a few days ago to discuss this issue [in] great detail after he contacted me [requesting] a meeting to speak with me concerning the controversy regarding my brothers badge. After our meeting and much discussion with my family, it is clear that Mr. Martinez had no gains in having this badge.
He could not have any idea whom this badge belonged to, how could he have.
Our family wants a through investigation of the issues concerning the LAPD's mishandling of my brothers badge. Unlike the investigation in 2005 where there was no resolution or closure. We expect LAPD to investigate this matter and be honest about my brother's badge. Who booked the badge when my brother was shot?
Who took the badge evidence when it was supposedly given to our family? Why would they (LAPD) change the words "Policeman" to "Police Officer?" This takes away from the true badge David wore when he was killed. Why was their a "duplicate badge?" bearing the same numbers as David's badge. Why was I never allowed to wear David's badge when I came on the department in 1987? We never had these questions answered and expect an answer from the LAPD.
If you have any concern about our family, you could begin now by asking LAPD for a through investigation of this issue which they never did. In the meantime we hope that you will respect the wishes of our family and refrain from using my brother and his memory in any future campaign communications. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions. I will give you my time just as I did for Mr. Martinez.
Sincerely,
Karen Kubly
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Scott Johnson in CD 14
Labels: "COUNCILMAN LAST SEEN AS JOSE HUIZAR", Outtakes from CD 14, Parke Skelton, Rudy Martinez
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 2/17/2011 03:17:00 PM
63 Comments:
And now REED SPIT violates the family's wishes, by trying to bash HUIZAR back.
What part of "forth with this is not [to] make things better for either candidate..."
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND. She's asking EVERYONE to stop using this issue.
Idiot!
Huizar said on KPCC today that the badge slick was in the mail before the ER forum.
RUDY'S hit mailers, were not - however.
Rudy is scum, was at LAPD, and is now.
Sorry, Joe, Red had to bottlecap your last post but this is breaking news.
That being said leave it to Trujillo to once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Looking forward to an invitation to Rudy's swearing in.
Higby, instead you'll probably get an invitation to Rudy's "victory" party which will break up VERY early, when he finds out he's been trounced.
There, he'll be having a swearing-AT (not swearing in) when he goes ballastic against his campaign consultants for wasting $200K on a horribly embarrassing campaign, and still got beat by a landslide.
Rudy obviously schmoozed the sister over, and that's fine.
The issue of who the police badge belonged to was always a dicey one, and one that Turd-jillo's idiot missteps have now removed from full examination...but the real main issue about Rudy Rich having it remains.
Rudy wasn't supposed to have it. As a police volunteer he KNEW he wasn't supposed to have it, and the police report and his subsequent actions show him to be OH SO incredibly guilty - so much as to have literally FLED the scene by resigning, and refusing to answer questions about it from the very same authority he had surrended himself to in order to be considered an authorized reserve officer.
This man is a coward who's unwilling to deal with his own transgressions like a real man.
He has no business reopresenting other people. He barely has the integrity to sell foreclosed, flipped houses.
We may eventually be able to do "better" than Huizar, but we can do NO WORSE than Rudy Martinez.
Haaaaaa, ha!
HIGBY once again predicting the outcome of a race in CD14.
Heee, heee.
I'm PRETTY sure you've NEVER called a race right on this side of town, or even CLOSE!
If you WANT to bet, this election, ALWAYS bet against Mayor Sam's choices.
It's one or the other, laziness or incompetence? Take your pick Skelton but we all know why Huevon Huizy developed his laziness reputation.
It's amazing how Skelton's clients always think they are so untouchable. This has got to be the worst managed campaign this generation - and despite that Huevon Huizy's money will ensure him a victory. It is so easy to fool the masses, that's how Parke makes his money.
It's over Huizar spinners. You don't have jobs anymore.
Huizar should not worry. Mulholland Terrorist and Valley Dope will campaign for him!
LUV YAH
LUV YAH
LUV YAH
Fuck you Higby!
What's up with the results of Rudy's nasty poll?
Why not released yet?
Result too disappointing for the unknown carpet-bagger?
(Guaranteed!)
Buh bye Rudy Rich, self-proclaimed "reformer" and "community leader" (of GLENDALE?)
Thanks for playing; make sure you change the name of that Huizar sushi roll to "Rudy the Loser" roll.
Yeah, let's track back and see where that business of Huizar being "lazy" really started - with the Weakly newspaper.
And who did they "quote" as their source for that... Why, it was the SAME guy that Huizar DEMOTED three times while on his staff, Alvin "DOH" Parra. The sad-sack Homer Simpson of L.A. Politics who ran his ENTIRE campaign 4 years on claiming Huizar was taking it easy.
And Parra got schelacked, and has never been heard from since.
Yeah, I think we know where the LA Weakly got wind that Huizar was "lazy" - from a disgruntled, loser, failure of an employee.
"Great jouralism" there. I think I'll check with the L.A. Times and see how good a newspaper they think the WEAKLY is - and consider that a "source".
50 times more people in CD14 will read the police report send by Huizar's campaign - about Rudy Rich's lies and avoiding investigation -- than will ever see that the dead cop's family is unhappy.
Nice try, Rudy. Putting the family up to a blowback for YOUR aims.
Rudy's mailer sent days after the "truce" basically called Huizar unAmerican and said he didn't believe in the words of the Declaration of Independence.
Not only is that pretty low, it's a really stupid game to try and pull off, even in CD14 politics.
Why is Rudy Rich's campaign now hiding the El Sereno list they posted earlier?
What's the game - who's sh*tting a brick over it's release.
When things DISAPPEAR from campaign websites, you really need to ask yourself "why"?
That could prove to be one of the more interesting stories of this election.
The "vanishing" enemies list... (even more so than the "reappearing" police badge).
Rudy was wrong in having the badge.
If Jose's campaign had just stuck to that it would not have blown up in their face.
By trying to exploit the fact that the badge belonged to a fallen officer, they went too far.
Rudy knew he was wrong in having the badge and that is why he "lawyered up" and resigned from the reserves.
I am sure everyone on this blog would have "lawyered up" once they were caught doing something wrong. Anybody who says otherwise is either an idiot or just a straight out liar.
This hurts Jose and takes away one of his issues for the rest of the campaign.
Why didn't Jose talk to the family??
Pretty stupid, especially since a man died wearing "that badge" or at least that badge number.
In what warped hack-invested world would anyone think this latest from the cop's sister is some kind of final nail for Huizar, when HAVING the badge illegally in the first place wasn't for Rudy?
Someone's been patching the holes in their roof with black tar heroin, and breathing in too deep.
PFaaaaah!
Why is it that Mayor Sam's blog's definition of "breaking news" is hours after everyone else knows something.
Getting dispatches from the Martinez campaign front via carrier pigeon, maybe?
"I am sure everyone on this blog would have "lawyered up" once they were caught doing something wrong. Anybody who says otherwise is either an idiot or just a straight out liar."
NOPE, not true.
There are still a few honest people in this world. Despite your cyncism. Some of us would have answered legitimate questions from the cops they had volunteered to serve beside, at the very least out of for respect for the authority.
(But then, those of us who still believe that way wouldn't have possessed teh badge illegally in the first place).
We can do NO WORSE than Rudy Martinez.
Period.
Geez, and we haven't even reached the typically Parke Skelton "11th hour A-bomb" moment yet, and Rudy has successfuly wiggled out of the "truce" by trying to change the ER forum terms, in VERY bad faith.
Now he has only himself to blame when he's wiped out by the last minute hits.
Yeah, that other poster's right... BYE-BYE Rudy!
At least you won't have to go out an find a real job, like Nick and Alvin did.
Huizar needs to stand on his record. If it is good, he will win. Why throw dirt on inconsquential matters. If Martinez is found to be the scoundrel Huizar depicts him to be, he'll be thrown out come next election. Meanwhile, Huizar is pathetic if he doesn't have enough to show for what he has done all these years.
A lot of City Council members in LA think this is a permanent job with all retirement and medical benefits they can get. This is why noone should be allowed to serve more than a term, unless they have earned it. Let them get real jobs like the rest of us.
To highlight what a "huevon" Huizar is, Rudy should highlight all those "re-dedications" that Cubas and Skelton thought up to put up brand spanking new plaques with Huizar's name on them. That would make a nice mailer.
There is a plaque on the Hollenbeck Bridge with Huizar's name on it after he "re-dedicated" it. That bridge was built before Huizar was born but yet his name is on it now. The same is true of the Evergreen Walk, Mariachi Paza, that garden in Eagle Rock, etc.,...
I guess this is where all the CLARTS fund money went, to "re-dedicate" every notable public space in CD14 in Huizar's honor. That's the ultimate definition of laziness, taking credit for someone else's work.
3:50
"Huizar is viewed by some of his colleagues as the laziest council member, and his personal schedule obtained by the Weekly bears out such sentiment: It is filled with empty blocks of time, light weekends and workdays that sometimes end at 4 p.m. Huizar sits on the powerful Planning & Land Use Management Committee, or PLUM, where Los Angeles residents go to beg its three sitting council members to tone down multimillion-dollar projects."
http://www.laweekly.com/content/printVersion/477796/
So, my little one, it was his peers (other councilmembers) that labeled him lazy not Parra.
Huizar has no one to blame but himself for this label because it is his colleagues that know his work the best.
Now that is solid journalism from the LA Weekly.
Just when you think Scott Johnson can't stoop any lower, he does the limbo under his own basement-level lack of ethics...
Violating the dead cop's family's wishes that this not be used as a political football, he (badly) attempts a "Hail Mary" pass with it, from his own 1-yard line.
God'll get you, dude.
Wow, the sister even recorded a message for the Martinez campaign. And Skelton is crying to the Times that the message is still going out despite the sister's request to stop.
Skelton, just like your badge mailer - the shit is out of the horse. It can't go back in! Even if the Martinez campaign stops the message - it is already out - it will go viral very soon and the Martinez campaign has no control over it.
I guess Trujillo was right, this is a game changer.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/02/sister-of-slain-lapd-officer-accuses-huizar-of-using-brothers-badge-in-hurtful-and-most-disrespectfu.html#more
4:21
This is CD14, there is no respect. This issue will be milked until election day and Huevon Huizzy is th eonly one to blame. I wonder where Trujillo is now? Remember that story of the gy who was shot in the head but the bullet ricocheted back and killed the shooter?
4:09
Do you not HAVE a mailbox, or maybe you're not EVEN a register voter.
I've received 7-8 Huizar mailers in the last two weeks all talking about his record and what he's accomplished in six years.
He's seems perfectly happy to "stand" on that - it's pretty damned impressive considering a lot of the things on them are projects the last two councilmembers couldn't keep moving.
And it's even more funny, to show how out-of-touch his opponent is... today, on KPCC, there was another one of those "gotcha" moments that there have been at EVERY public forum, where Rudy says... "when I'm elected, I'm going to start... THIS" (and then when it's Huizar's turn, he says, "we already have THAT, and it works well."
Then Rudy has to back down and say "ooh, oh, sorry, I didn't KNOW that."
I think we could fill all the potholes in CD14 with what Rudy doesn't "know" about this area.
4:16
Hey, my "big" one (BIG ... idiot?)
... it ain't "real" until someone goes on record. Anyone can quote an unamed source. That's BAD journalism everywhere but at the LA WEAKLING.
For every day that "ends" at 4 p.m., there are a dozen that go well into the night, and Huizar has met with communty groups all over the district for the full 6 years. I've attended many of them,.
There isn't a blogging nitwit here that works more hours than even the "laziest" councilmember, and if you think that might be Huizar, you haven't watched some of the others in action.
4:23
Yeah, well, we've seen how well Rudy's "viral" stuff works.
Every testimonial video he's put out sits in YouTube with less plays than your mother's Karaoke.
PFaaaaah!
You have to give people something BETTER to get them to change from an incumbent.
There's nothing BETTER about Rudy Rich, except that he is RICH.
He wouldn't get two looks if he wasn't.
18 days left Rudy Rich, and 40 precints unreached.
It's all over by your mama's crying, dude.
Stock up on kleanex.
What idiots, Huizar campaign's lunch is being eaten by the other side.
Talk about a steal, Huizar goes from a press conference with this women which could have ended the race, to being blasted to hell in a robo call by her two weeks later.
It takes a genius to pull that off.
Love him or hate him, Rudy is running the far better campaign in this case. Only the haters would deny that.
No, the real backfire here, is that every time Martinez supidly drags the issue of the police badge back up again, - defensively or otherwise, more and more people go back and say "now what was that about... I missed it the first time".
And then, they READ the complaint - provided by Huizar...
"Hmmm, he:
possessed a badge he knew he wasn't authorized to have
quickly resigned and attempted to contrive a fabricated explanation to justify possessing the badge
was uncooperative from the onset of this investigation
refused to be interviewed
obstructed the investigators from carrying out and fulfilling their duties in appropriately investigating this matter
wasted no time in shutting down the investigation, contacting his attorney
quickly tendering his resignation.
refused to be interviewed regarding this matter
allowed no one to question him regarding the sequence of events or circumstances of this incident
offered an explanation that was not only highly unlikely but also implausible to a degree that defies belief and logic
claim he forgot about the item, an item of such paramount importance and significance.
BOTTOM LINE, no matter how many slams and slaps go back and forth, LAPD says...
Rudy Rich as a LIAR and a COWARD!
(Game over...!)
In every face-to-face, Huizar conatinues to come across confident and unworried, and Rudy Martinez sounds like he's just figuring out what the job entails.
NOT impressive.
People want confidence, not vapid promises.
Enjoy the moment, Rudy. This is a speed bump, and your last "up" moment was the L.A. Times.
There's nothing left to rise with.
Buh=Bye!
Reed Spitt, you're barely understandable in English.
Spanish? REEEEALLY! Well, I guess it doesn't actually qualify as a "second" language for you, since you still don't have a command of the "first" one.
DOH!
4:42
He is really defensive, isn't he. That massive badge mailer must have really taken him out of it. No doubt he's been getting doors slammed in his face because of it.
His "core" has to be the law-and-order crowd, and if he's seen to be obstructive of the police, he's dead all the way around.
I can't believe someone with as many campaigns as Hacopian has keeps letting this BADGE issue come up, considering how BAD and corrupt it makes his client look, even as a second pass once the "new" news is out on it.
Either Rudy's not listening to his counselors, or they know they have nothing to lose at this point - they're so far behind, it's just through evrything on the fire and LEAN forward.
5:07
Yeah, the badge issue really made Martinez look bad - ha, ha.
What's the world like throuh those rose colored glasses?
Red Spot,
How can you spell the officer's name BOTH WRONG and RIGHT IN THE SAME SENTENCE?
5:11
You think LYING to the cops he hopes to work side-by-side with as a councilmember doesn NOT make him look bad?
Seriously?
How's the view through your sh*t-covered glasses?
Geez!
5:11
Go back up to 4:42 p.m. post and read what the people of Cd14 can now read, from the police report, and think again.
And that's just an excerpt. The "magic reappearing" badge story is a HOOT.
Not only is the man horribly dishonest, he's not even a good storyteller.
I've read children's fairy tales that are more believable.
It's nice to see more and more of the Huizar haters' here every day having to back track and admit that he WILL win.
Welcome back to reality.
They hate it, they wished otherwise, but Rudy Rich just wasn't an electable alternative.
Oh well - 4 more years to kick Huizar around. (Nobody will LISTEN anymore, after March - but it's still 4 more years).
Well, at least Rudy Rich has plenty of booze to drown his sorrows in, in less than 3 weeks.
Yeah, huizar will hav a great community victory - doesn't quite sound right, does it.
Another vendido another electon for Skelton.
You Huizaristas are real stupid. Hacopian has Parke tied up in knots and just took away Jose's best attack line, and you think this is bad for Rudy?
For today atleas the point is to Rudy big time.
6:23
True but I dont think Parke is the problem in this case, but the very poor candidate he needs to deal with.
5:39
Huizar will win but he won't last 4 years. The FBI and DA will get to him. He really didn't learn much at Berkeley or Princeton. For his mother's sake, i hope he learned a thing or two at UCLA law, he's goin gto need it.
Woe, even the old guard loyalist at Street Hassle are questioning whether Parke is out of touch.
Is th ehouse of cards crumbling?
Once again, the Martinez family posting one-sentence snipes after hours to support their homie.
Sorry, there's just not even enough real "meat" there to make responding worthwhile.
You HATE Huizar, we get it?
You can't defeat him with a wet noodle "reality" candidate like Rudy Rich... you'll GET that, in about 17 days now.
The writing's on the wall, Rudy (Red Spot can't read it... but it's THERE, and it says):
BUH Bye Rudy Rich. Save your receipts and organize them well when you get home to GLENDALE.
8:07
(Heard that before, exactly 4 years ago, from a supporter of another loser candidate that was never heard from again).
Sorry, you're just engaging in self-amusing fantasies. Huizar will be running for re-election, again, exactly 4 years FROM now, and some of you same out-of-touch bloggers will be banging your heads against Mayor Sam's trying to make up new slime that won't stick.
The most AMAZING aspect of all this back-and-forth is to find out there are people who pretend to know something about Eastside politics, who think a council seat can be won and lost on the pages of the LOS ANGELES TIMES.
Not in this century, and not for the last third or so of the previous one.
Someone will break it to Scott Johnson, sometime soon I hope - before he embarrasses himself more, that "huevon" isn't really a Spanish word?
And even in "Spanglish" - without the missing sccent mark, it means absolutely nothing.
Nah, never mind. Let him keep looking stupid.
Rud Spit, if you haven't been payin' attention before now, let me school you.
If the badge issue was the "game changer" for Skelton, you STILL wouldn't know about it.
Consider that a "jab" to be followed by a one-two punch next week, and then, the hard right to the head (but NOT with a "bullet").
Parke always waits to have the last word, and even from some of the rumblings I hear where I live under a rock, there's TONS of stuff left to explore in the as-yet unexamined life of the Glendale Republican.
I almost feel sorry for him but them I remember he's RICH and thought that would be enough to "qualify" him for one of the City's most important jobs.
That kind of arrogance deserves a hard lesson being taught.
WTF??? The Huizar groupies continue to slam and personally attack but not one can post an accomplishment Huizar has finished. The postings of the Huizar camp is beyond childish and silly. The sister coming out is BIG. Blaming Huizar for disrespecting her brother's memory and using it for political gain hits the heart of every police officer and people who have children. It shows Huizar lack of character and desperation to do anything to attack Martinez. Its pretty damn sad for Huizar not to have a conscience to have used a fallen officer's badge.
A man of no integrity and even less character - gee, where have we seenthat before?
12:36
Huevon is common street vernacular among Spanish speaking Mexicans and Mexican Americans to describe a lazy person. If you question this your blind faith in Huizar is impacting your cognitive skills.
Huevon Huizzy - ask around in Boyle Heights, El Sereno and even Eagle Rock - everyone knows what a huevon is.
7:39
You leave our beloved mayor out of this!
I THINK CAMPAIGNS SHOULD BE ABOUT WHAT A PERSON HAS DONE FOR HIS COMMUNITY OR ENTENDS TO DO NOT THESE SMALL PERSONALITY FLAWS. IF YOU DIG DEEP ENOUGH THERE'S DIRT ON EVERYONE. I THINK HUIZAR HAS ENOUGH TO CALL HIM OUT ON WITHOUT SCHOOL HOUSE ACCUSATIONS.
12:36 PM is another huevón that has no idea of what he's talking about.
Huevón is a common epithet in Latin America, even if it is not found in the "Diccionario De La Real Academia De La Lengua". Look it up in Google Translate sometime, you'll learn a useful word.
Huizar is a disgrace to use a slain LAPD office to win votes. Who the hell does he think he is? He has no class let alone respect for the dead.
Parke Skelton needs to go on a diet. He is beginning to look like Vera Del Pozo and Mago put together. LARD ASSES from the Boyle Heights. Start using the Evergreen Jogging Path that former Councilman Nick Pacheco built!
Ana Cubas is Huizar's side squeeze.
2:24
oooh que gross!!!!
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