- 1. Theatre Of the Absurd: Martinez, Wesson, Ridley-Thomas ...
- (NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS)
- ... “The president of the Los Angeles City Council Wednesday appointed former councilman Herb Wesson to represent the city’s 10th district to replace Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, who was suspended ...
- Created on March 03 2022
- 2. Biden Must Play the Hand He Is Dealt ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Welcome to the Presidency of the United States, Joe Biden! This mess is now your mess. Like each of your predecessors, you must play the hand you are dealt. Just 234 days into his ...
- Created on January 18 2021
- 3. Newsom, Garcetti Are Rejected, “Whether Ya Like It or Not!” ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-There are silver linings to be found in local politics. The newest ones include California Governor Gavin Newsom's likely recall and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti being wisely left behin ...
- Created on December 17 2020
- 4. LA By-the-Numbers on Election Eve ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-However things turn out on Election Day we will soon calibrate life over the next four years with a President named Trump, Biden. . .or Harris. In the meanwhile, here are some final ...
- Created on November 02 2020
- 5. Gil Cedillo Tells Constituent ‘Eff You,’ Then Denies It ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Politicians should learn to embrace their mistakes and say hey, I’m human and made a mistake, can we let this one go? That is what LA City Councilmember Gil Cedillo refused to do when ...
- Created on September 28 2020
- 6. Why I’m Canceling Baseball and the NBA in 2020 ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-I believe in the phrase when in Rome, do as the Romans do. But I also believe that even the Romans had their tipping points, which is why I am tuning out Major League Baseball (MLB) ...
- Created on August 31 2020
- 7. Eric Garcetti is Driving Southern California Nuts ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-From the desert to the ocean, to all of Southern California, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is driving 24 million people across the region nuts with unscientific cogitations on the recent ...
- Created on July 27 2020
- 8. FBI Notebook - Mitch Englander, the Enterprising Felon ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Welcome to the final few hours of the pre-felony existence of Mitch Englander, formerly of the Los Angeles City Council. Englander is about to enter a federal courthouse in downtown ...
- Created on July 09 2020
- 9. FBI Notebook - Mitch Englander, the Enterprising Felon ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Welcome to the final few hours of the pre-felony existence of Mitch Englander, formerly of the Los Angeles City Council. Englander is about to enter a federal courthouse in downtown ...
- Created on July 06 2020
- 10. Eric Garcetti and Other LA Foolishness ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Los Angeles is roughly two months into the corona virus lockdown and its Mayor, Eric Garcetti, still mistakenly thinks it needs comforting and a shoulder upon which to cry rather than ...
- Created on May 11 2020
- 11. ‘Well, Here's another Nice Mess You've Gotten Me Into!’ -- Oliver Hardy ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- ONE MAN’S OPINION-Although most people are too young to have heard these words when uttered by Oliver Hardy in a series of movies from 1929 to 1951, almost everyone has heard the meme. It is classic ...
- Created on March 12 2020
- 12. Indicted: Mitch Englander Finally Faces the Music ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @TheGussReport – At LA City Hall, nobody wore their arrogance more defiantly than then-LA City Councilmember Mitch Englander who, after serving as chief-of-staff to his predecessor Greig Smith, represented ...
- Created on March 09 2020
- 13. Tom Brady’s Jersey, Nury Martinez’s Pants and Other LA Observations ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Wikipedia says “he was the prototype of the modern era marquee quarterback, with a strong passing game, media fanfare, and widespread popularity. He has been consistently listed as one ...
- Created on March 02 2020
- 14. For the Love of Pete (Buttigieg), Just Say It, Eric Garcetti ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-In some other dimension, the late John Walsh, the eccentric, crusty and crotchety Dean of LA City Hall gadflies, is probably gesticulating wildly while proclaiming, “I told you so!” That ...
- Created on February 17 2020
- 15. Kamala Harris Didn’t ‘Speak Truth,’ Even at the End ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-There are big post-mortems on why California Senator Kamala Harris failed miserably in her campaign to become the 2020 Democrat nominee for president. In the New York Times, Miriam ...
- Created on December 05 2019
- 16. Fake Outrages of the Week ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-It’s October again and that means Columbus Day, which in LA means Indigenous Peoples Day. But like the majority of things seeping from local governments which try to erase bad parts ...
- Created on October 14 2019
- 17. Why I’m Suing LA City Hall Again, and Not for the Last Time ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-A few weeks back I reported that a Los Angeles judge whose courtroom is situated across from LA City Hall awarded me $2,000 for ongoing abuses of my 1st Amendment rights by the LAPD as ...
- Created on September 09 2019
- 18. Why It’s Not the LA it Used to Be ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-A friend in the health field wrote last week to advise of a gnarly encounter on the way to work: “Saw some guy pooping on Haskell Ave in Van Nuys, trousers to the ankles and perched ...
- Created on August 19 2019
- 19. LA Politics – The Full of Crap Edition ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- THE GUSS REPORT-One of my favorite Mark Twain observations is “politicians and diapers must be changed frequently, and for the same reason.” While Twain took the last train out of Dodge nearly 40,000 ...
- Created on August 12 2019
- 20. Helping the FBI Peel Garcetti’s Corrupt Onion ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-One of the more amusing things to happen as I write columns on Los Angeles’ political corruption was when Ana Guerrero, the chief of staff to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, started telling ...
- Created on July 29 2019
- 21. Why Robert Blake is Owed an Apology the DA Won’t Give ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Of the various celebrities seen in my local supermarket, the easiest to recognize may be actor and mid-octogenarian Robert Blake, due as much to his sleeveless shirts and cowboy hat as ...
- Created on July 08 2019
- 22. Mariachis Before Crises and the Latest City Hall Stupidity ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Lest anyone think Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Herb Wesson-led LA City Council are serious about confronting LA’s homeless crisis and fecal factor, there was lots of sheer nonsense ...
- Created on June 24 2019
- 23. Garcetti, LA Times and Their Sinking Nanny-State Credibility ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-There was plenty of schadenfreude last week as LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s and the LA Times’ beloved Measure EE not only failed to get the needed 67% of votes to pass, it didn’t even get ...
- Created on June 10 2019
- 24. How LA’s Homeless Won the Battle with Garcetti, Wesson and Feuer ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Kudos to LA’s homeless population, their civil rights attorneys and poverty rights advocates, as the City of LA last week settled their lawsuit, Carl Mitchell v. Los Angeles. The ...
- Created on March 11 2019
- 25. Typhus at City Hall? LA Times Continues to Mislead the Public ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-There are many ways that the Los Angeles Times misleads the public. As this column has shown over the past few years, the paper does this with misleading reporting, lying by omission and, ...
- Created on February 11 2019
- 26. City Hall: Garcetti’s Hidden Email Account and Other Flavors of Corruption ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @TheGussReport – (This is the first of a series of in-depth reports on the current investigation into the possibility of corruption at Los Angeles City Hall.) On Sunday, the LA Times published a story ...
- Created on January 14 2019
- 27. Garcetti Chooses another Non-Black Westsider ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti keeps a scorecard of the race and gender of everyone he appoints to dozens of City commissions, as well as in which City Council District the appointee ...
- Created on December 17 2018
- 28. Short and Shallow: Richelle Huizar’s Political Career, and LA Times Reporting on It
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-Well, that was quick. Last week, I posed this question about the upcoming race for Jose Huizar’s LA City Council seat: “will (his wife Richelle) quit the race before the end of the year? ...
- Created on November 26 2018
- 29. Exclusive to CityWatch – The FBI Raid You Didn’t Hear About ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-LA City Hall was abuzz last week about City Council president Herb Wesson stripping his best friend, LA’s lecherous lawmaker, Jose Huizar of his committee positions, including his Chair ...
- Created on November 19 2018
- 30. Why Trump May Get the Last Laugh ...
- (LOS ANGELES)
- @THE GUSS REPORT-When all is said and done on Election Day 2018, the anti-Trump movement and each of its subsets will likely wake up on Wednesday with two sobering realizations. The removal of President ...
- Created on November 05 2018