Where’s the Recall Mayor Tony Campaign?  With much media
fanfare, the usual coterie of Mayor Tony loathers launched a
recall petition against Mayor Tony some weeks ago. It
disappeared faster than a speck of dirt in a Hurricane. Where’d
it and they go? One would think that with the load of dirt
that’s piling up at Tony’s door, they’d be going full blast. The
stuff in the Mayor’s dirt pile is by now well known. His
obsessive penchant for grabbing at every ticket freebie in
creation, then not reporting it, squandering thousands of tax
dollars on globetrotting fun and game trips, smiling face photo-
op management, a costly, wasteful and ultimately muddled effort
at the LAUSD takeover, featherbedding jobs and plum positions to
the unions even as revenues shrunk, a bungled effort to get the
DWP to pay its fair share, foisting dubious tax hikes and even
more dubious reasons for and use of the money on residents,
mounting layoffs, service cuts, and a deficit that continues to
lift faster than a runaway helium balloon.