tg – Yeah, I agree. As annoying as Aguirre is, he’s serving a constructive purpose. Mayor, council and establishment crooks may view it otherwise, but he’s an important ‘pushback’ right now. Also, I don’t know that he’s been particularly effective from a legal standpoint, but politically, he’s a kick in the nuts to the foxes that have been raiding the henhouse. I laugh my ass off whenever my ultra-conservative Aguirre-hating friends complain to me about him. I’m like “You ran the bus into the ditch. What do you expect?” The fraud has been systematic and endemic.
Actually, I’m kind of TICKED we haven’t seen major indictments over what happened. My theory, I think they removed Lam because she was getting too close. Also, where does Scott Peters get off running for CA? He’s a documented fraudster. He deserves a jail cell and a criminal record.
On a more level note, and I don’t have any facts or insider insights to support this, but I think the revenue side is going to dip and when it does, there won’t be any way out of the mess but bankruptcy. The numbers are too big. The real estate / mortgage ‘boom’ almost bailed the city out but it turned out it was just a bubble. If the judicial establishment had given the pension issue a fair hearing, they might have been able to adjust the liabilities. All the nails in the coffin now.
