April 7, 2008 - 9:23am
Zev means wolf, but what does Yaroslavsky mean?
By Wally S. Edge
Tags: Zev YaroslavskyTop Story: Opinion
Everyone knows that Zev means Wolf, but how many people know that Yaroslavsky translates into hypocrite. The Los Angeles Times Opinion section ran a piece about the powerful County Supervisor and former Los Angeles City Councilman as being the “undeveloper”.
Interestingly, virtually everyone who travels the Wilshire Corridor, or almost anywhere else on the Westside of Los Angeles, is bogged down in traffic primarily caused by Zev Yaroslavsky as “the over-developer”. During most of his dozen or so years on the Council, Zev allowed more high-rise development and high density housing than any Councilmember in memory. Nor did he care that all of the housing he created catered to the rich and the super-rich. Only rarely did he work hard for market-race or affordable housing. He also stopped the building of a subway line from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean. A mass transit necessity for all of Los Angeles, especially those who babysit the children and clean the toilets of the super- wealthy who Zev helped build housing for.
The fact that he is now praised for trying to reduce development in the County is not his laying the groundwork for his campaign for Los Angeles Mayor. After-all, he’s already shown that he didn’t have the guts to do that when he could have won – some people say it is an effort to take attention away from the awful job he is doing as County Supervisor where he regularly grandstands about the County’s healthcare crisis, budget woes yet rarely provides meaningful solutions.
It has been said in the past that the most dangerous place to stand is between Zev Yaroslavsky and a television camera – it still is.
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Los Angeles County Does Not Believe in Tears, or State Law
I had a couple of interesting conversations
today. One was with an assistant of Mr. Yaroslavski. The other was with 'a customer service rep' for The Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services.
Both were asked about whether The County is allowed to pay less than the State-specified minimum level of Cash Aid to a General Relief client when The County is already operating under a State-approved Distress Waiver to allow reduction of the normal level of Cash Aid to the rock-bottom minimum.
The County is paying less than that by falsely claiming the value of a client's Shared Housing (living with others either not related or not legally responsible to the client) as the same value as Free Rent, which is defined as a landlord supplying a client with his/her own private residence out of pocket with a loss of market value to the landlord,as an in-kind aid which, according to The County, can be deducted from the client's benefits and can also be used to disqualify any applicant, even though these rules are not found in the State Code which requires The Counties of California to take care of it's poor childless singles while the State takes care of families and children.
According to both persons, the County General Relief program is separate from the State and administered independently by The County of Los Angeles with no obligation to any State laws, in spite of being created by the State Welfare and Institutions Code commencing with Section 17000 and in spite of the decision by Gardner vs. The County of Los Angeles(1999) where the judge determined that The County is a contractual division of the State and failed to abide by the very same State Code. The County and the Supervisors, including Mr. Yaroslavsky, were directly sued in court and lost and now they are at it again while the clients who ask about the State Code and County compliance issues are given the run-around
by 'duty-bound' County point scorers eager to earn advancements in their profession by saving The County some money against The County's legal obligations.
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Zev has always been a slow growther, but the Westside was overdeveloped when he got there and the people who followed him were completely in the developers pockets.
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