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What Happened at the VNC Meet ? Chaos Reins!

Posted by :reta On : February 19, 2020

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Opinion

By Reta Moser

Wow what was it that happened last night at the VNC! Totally, disgusting. Police came, Christian Wrede of the board ran back to get their support; yet only one person seemed to support him. Police stood like motionless blue soldiers that didn’t operate throughout the evening. Meanwhile, insults, vanity statements, and a native ritual were being carried on during the Pledge of Allegiance. Chaos reined!

The Allegiance is a one-liner that unites all peoples under one Republic. If other groups want to display disgust for the rewards of this country, it seems unfitting to do what was done last night. There are places for such display. There wasn’t any justice, it was all selfish display,

“I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands, one nation (under God), indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” We are all one — rich poor, nationality, race, religion, doesn’t matter — all one.

Venice is 34 to 40 thousand in population. The homeless are 1100 according to the 2019 figures, and yet, the homeless and homeless supporters and those who want to remain Indian get the stage. It is no wonder my neighbors, the real Venetians, do not attend.

I was there, not as one covering the story, but to speak against Matt Fisher who was up for removal. He filmed and published on youtube me in a neighborhood committee meeting using the words “cultural” and “ethnicity” and labeled me a “racist” because he didn’t know the definitions of the two previous words. Nor did his little group as evidenced by their yelling “racist” in the meeting. That is not right. I tried to talk with him, Mike Bravo, and John Wolfe after the meeting but they didn’t want to talk about anything. They were just too filled with hatred. We should be able to express our First Amendment rights in meetings, in the VNC without this type of harassment. I personally was not offended by them calling me a racist in the meeting just astounded at their lack of knowledge, but to publish such was not necessary.

Many of the others who felt he should be removed left without speaking.

Matt Fisher received the 2/3 thirds necessary for removal from the board.

Housing? Sure, Elsewhere

Posted by :reta On : October 28, 2018

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Category: Homeless, opinion

Tags:homeless, Steve Lopez

By Darryl DuFay

Steve Lopez homeless propagandist interjects himself into the “Bridge Home” debate. Chris Tilly of the VCHC Board of Director’s family fame is liberally quoted.

Venetians are not buying the sanctification of “Bridge Home” especially when Venice is being justified as the “only” appropriate location in Council District 11.

Venice already has 48 percent of the homeless in CD11. It seems so easy to use that fact. We are “one of ten” CD11 communities. How could a few more make any difference? So what if this confused “Bridge Home” adventure sends out a clarion call to come to an awaiting nirvana called Venice.

Bonin continues to talk of Brentwood when discussing the VA bridge housing, implying that the VA is CD11 bridge housing. That is dishonest. Brentwood is only adjacent to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles (WLA) campus.

The WLA Veterans Affairs campus is 388 acres separate from Brentwood, The WLA Veterans Affairs campus belongs to the U.S. Government and is administered by Veterans Affairs. The council office announced that the VA was going to do a “Bridge Home” dedicated for Veterans but the VA has not provided a notification or verification of such.

Another wonderful Catch 22! With Venice’s present situation, it is a Catch 44!

San Francisco Homeless Advocacy Group Tosses BIDs Under the Bus

Posted by :reta On : September 19, 2018

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Category: opinion, Uncategorized

Tags:Opinon Piece

My Opinion Reta Moser

LA Times reported about a report by the Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law. The report was written for the Western Regional Advocacy Project, a San Francisco homeless advocacy group.

Western Regional Advocacy Project released the report to the public with this statement: “BIDs are a concerted and growing effort to erase from cities any sign of vast inequality while at the same time perpetuating it,” the group’s executive director, Paul Boden, said in a statement. “BIDs work to manufacture the appearance of prosperity in the city square but that farce comes at the expense of basic human rights for the unhoused poor.”

My personal observation of the Venice BID operation is to clean up the areas that are not cleaned up, look blighted, and are totally unsanitary. Many homeless are within the BID area. But area covered by BID is not a targeted homeless area.

Homeless people, in general, do not clean up after themselves. They create an unsanitary blight in the neighborhood where they reside. Both the safe and the clean teams for the BID have had positive comments from the homeless, not negative, and certainly reports of affecting homeless adversely have not been the case, quite the contrary.

See the Venice BID August report https://veniceupdate.com/2018/09/17/bid-august-report-of-save-and-clean-operations/ Read some of Rick Swinger’s reports of rats, alley defecation. The BID doesn’t even address those problems. They clean up graffiti, pickup trash. Once again see their report for August. LA Times article http://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=029721af-5783-4edf-ba07-5ae28d11c634

This document looks like it was slanted for the people paying for it. Shameful.