Treetop Yodeler has his say

Obviously there is much more that can be said and done by voters in response to the LA Weekly story, “The Lid Comes Off” by Jeffrey Anderson. It is revealing of the ugly environment that has become the signature of this city’s administration. We are inclined to post the feedback received from whistleblowers as it describes the passion burning in the trenches. And it provides incite into the wasteful manipulation and mismanagement of relatively helpless human capital.

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Flipping DWP's Lid? Is Mo Chaudhry out of the closet and into the dog house? Is arfing in the offing? A golden handshake? Or brass boot?

A recent article in the LA Weekly may put a smile on some faces, and serve as a laxative to others. Rumor suggests it has propagated internally, from one DWP computer to another. And what buzz? Although costing more than a Martin Luther King holiday in lost productivity, and terabytes of server storage, does it really engender hope for change?

The Lid Comes Off and Jeffrey Anderson keeps probing. Is there a mini Pulitzer Prize in his future? Does he have connections to DWP insiders? To City Hall insiders? Do you have info, and feel compelled to call him privately to share or fax the goods? Would he say no to more good stuff?

The actual memo, a pdf copy, is of special interest. A gold mine for some, a manure pit for others?

"The DWP has become a fox-run henhouse of epic proportion," Chaudhry writes. "The union now runs the department. They blur the line between bargaining and criminal extortion."

Imagine sending such a memo to the "Honorable James Kenneth Hahn." (Does that title make sense?) A memo citing serious, endemic, egregious, regenerative, criminal problems.

Sending an appeal for remedy and change? Sending it directly to the perpetrator, the "Honorable James Kenneth Hahn?"

Rocket science here? Unless one is out of touch, of low IQ, a union stalwart, a denier of truth, making a pact with the devil, or perhaps listening to yet more lies, spin, half truths and clichés from IBEW leadership, does anyone think Mo's memo contains any real "news"? How long have DWP employees privately discussed the evil empire, relentless Taliban style management, and reveled in the occasional firing off an RPG-like memo aimed toward City Hall/DWP?

Are there better places to send such a memo, Mo? Like to the FBI? Regarding racketeering, controlled extortion, interfering with/sabotaging a pubic utility, bribery and payoffs? Illegal contracting with public funds across state lines (Joint Safety Institute/Joint Training Institute)? Unreported income. Kickbacks from JSI trainers to union stalwarts, to habitués, and to sons of habitués?

Send memos to the Los Angeles County Grand Jury? Misfeasance, Malfeasance?

Bottom line, nice try Mo. Love you for it. Know you must sleep better at night. But hope you sent the letter, and hard evidence elsewhere too, wear a wire, and honestly testify for the rest of you life on every deposition and trial, civil or criminal, until justice is truly served. And watch your back, and get a remote starter for your car.

And who else will be either brave enough or foolish enough to follow your example Mo. Do the others really have a conscience? How well do they sleep at night? Can they just go to hell?

But really, in two weeks, will the bathroom gossip disappear, and nothing really change? Unless someone goes to jail, will anyone really be motivated to change their henhouse ways?

Treetop Yodeler

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