LA Weekly's Jeffrey Anderson is on the scene. Go get 'em Rocky.
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APRIL 22 - 28, 2005
Where’s the DWP’s $12 million
Two secret training institutes remain unaccountable to the public
by JEFFREY ANDERSON
On his way into the Henry Fonda Theater last month to celebrate City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa’s victory in the mayoral primary, S. David Freeman stopped and shared some of his plainspoken wisdom about the Department of Water and Power. The former DWP general manager was reacting to a recently released “for your eyes only” memo to Mayor Jim Hahn, in which DWP Assistant Vice President Mahmud Chaudhry warned that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, was driving the nation’s largest public utility toward a “moral and fiscal crisis.” (See “The Lid Comes Off,” L.A. Weekly, March 5.) To Freeman’s way of thinking, it seemed that Local 18’s tendency to “blur the lines between [negotiating] and criminal extortion” — as Chaudhry described its squeezing of concessions from DWP management — was a good thing. Local 18 business manager Brian D’Arcy should be proud of himself, crowed Freeman, as he stood near Hollywood Boulevard in his trademark Western hat. “Hell, if I was Brian [D’Arcy] I’d nail that memo to the wall of the union hall as a badge of honor,” Freeman said. “It’s his job to do his best for the members. If managers can’t stand up to him, that’s their fault.”
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Rocky Delgadillo made a big claim about going after anyone taking the taxpayer's money... Any movement from the City Attorney's Office?
APRIL 22 - 28, 2005
Where’s the DWP’s $12 million
Two secret training institutes remain unaccountable to the public
by JEFFREY ANDERSON
On his way into the Henry Fonda Theater last month to celebrate City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa’s victory in the mayoral primary, S. David Freeman stopped and shared some of his plainspoken wisdom about the Department of Water and Power. The former DWP general manager was reacting to a recently released “for your eyes only” memo to Mayor Jim Hahn, in which DWP Assistant Vice President Mahmud Chaudhry warned that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, was driving the nation’s largest public utility toward a “moral and fiscal crisis.” (See “The Lid Comes Off,” L.A. Weekly, March 5.) To Freeman’s way of thinking, it seemed that Local 18’s tendency to “blur the lines between [negotiating] and criminal extortion” — as Chaudhry described its squeezing of concessions from DWP management — was a good thing. Local 18 business manager Brian D’Arcy should be proud of himself, crowed Freeman, as he stood near Hollywood Boulevard in his trademark Western hat. “Hell, if I was Brian [D’Arcy] I’d nail that memo to the wall of the union hall as a badge of honor,” Freeman said. “It’s his job to do his best for the members. If managers can’t stand up to him, that’s their fault.”
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Rocky Delgadillo made a big claim about going after anyone taking the taxpayer's money... Any movement from the City Attorney's Office?
posted by The Gadfly at 10:34 PM
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Freeman "helped" create deregulation in California (ISO/PX and AB 1890), permanently messed up DWP while taking undeserved credit, bought millions of $$ electric busses for the 2000 Democratic National Convention in LA, tried to shortchange the DWP retirement plan, squandered the DWP green power program-generated more photo ops than energy, unnecessarily (1998) got critical employees to leave under threat of layoffs (at $300M cost to the DWP retirement plan), sucked up to IBEW Local 18, not to mention City Hall and Sacramento politicians, ultimately was fired by DWP for giving away the store to Sacramento, then sold the State budget down the river into near bankrupcy with excessively priced energy contracts as the California "Energy Czar", quit just before the Governator took charge, then promoted boondoggle hydrogen powered cars, now wants to come back to DWP as a Commissioner for Villaraigosa? Only in America? Only in Calif? Only in LA??? Give me a break! Is there a Pulitzer Prize for con artists? Or a Bozo award?
Comments by the Fermented Avocado
To think Villaraigosa wants to put Freeman back at DWP. A little hair from the dog that bit you. Huh?
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