Rahm Emanuel Trashed By Bill Moyers ... Go Bill!

On the Bill Maher's Real Time TV show journalist and former White House staffer Bill Moyers trashed Obama's Chief of Staff and the architect of Obama's health care reform Rahm Emanuel.

Moyers said that through Emanuel Obama told "... most out-spoken champions of health care reform to 'Sit down and shut up.' That's what Rahm Emanuel in effect, Chief of Staff at the White House, has told progressives when they stood up as a unit in Congress and said 'No public insurance option ... NO health care reform.'

"And I think the reason for that is" Moyers continued, "... in the time since I was there, forty years ago, the Democratic Party has become like the Republican Party ... equally influenced by corporate money."

"I think Rahm Emanuel, who is a clever politician, understands the money for Obama's re-election will come primarily from the health care industry, the drug industry and Wall Street. And so he (Emanuel) is a corporate Democrat who is destined ... DETERMINED that there won't be something in this legislation, if we get it, that will turn off those powerful interests."

Zara Kriegstein Died.

Zara in a marbleized outfit she made.


Zara with Jack Sinclair at the Las Vegas, Nevada show of Santa Fe Artists.

Parking Ticket ... Santa Fe Style!

Even a fair judge can’t administer an unjust law. Tommy Fiorina tried and they rode him out of town on a rail.


A City parking enforcement vehicle that was parked illegally in a Santa Fe downtown yellow zone was ticketed with an over-sized 'citation.'

I recently got a parking ticket for a loading zone violation. I left my vehicle running and dashed out to deliver something at a downtown store. I came right out and found one of those cursed ticketing City employees hovering over my car like some hungry vampire.

I yelled, “I’m leaving. I’m out of here.”
The heartless creature turned toward me, smiled and then pushed the button on his hand-held torture device. Out popped a $37 ticket. Now, judging from the line at the once-a-month municipal court session to challenge a parking citation, I bet many people regularly face the brutal money-grubbing unfair parking policies of Mayor Coss and Judge Yalman’s administration.

As much of a monopoly and CORRUPT program and as bad as the punitive selective tax called ticketing is, the worst part is it is not designed to solve the parking problem. It is a cash cow. It is government for profit and injustice for sale.

Sitting in Judge Yalman’s court one has to take pity on those poor (and soon to be poorer) people who have gotten caught entering the hallow grounds of a “Handicapped Zone” without a permit issued with approval of any quack in New Mexico.

Do you know that there are now more handicap permits issued in Santa Fe than there are parking meters? Why is this important? That is because if a handicap space is not available to a permit holder they can park at any meter without paying anytime.

In Yalman’s very P.C. court one sad pizza delivery guy was made to grovel to get his fine reduced from the doubled $500 to “normal” 250 smackers because he had pulled in front of his employer’s business where there were five vacant handicapped parking spaces. I bet that fine was more than the man took home for the week.

When I asked Judge Yalman about people coming to her court pleading “No Contest” to a parking ticket (mine or the pizza guy’s) that should really be handled ‘administratively’ rather then ‘judicially’; that had mitigating circumstances; that was part of a fee collecting scam by, for and of bureaucrats; and that was driven by rich doctors facilitating permits for anyone who would pay … Judge Yalman’s cold reply was “There no sliding scale based on …” What Judge? Justice?

Gov. Richardson Hosts Reception For Mayor Coss ... yawn.

I parked my 1980 pick-up truck at the end of the line of expensive cars with Obama bumper stickers that were leading to Steve and Kristen Flance's beautiful Wilderness Gate home. I hustled to catch up to City Councilor Carmichael Dominguez who was walking alone toward the reception. He turned and said, "I thought I heard someone."
I then asked a question that I knew the answer to, "Did you bring your check for two hundred and fifty dollars?"
He simply replied, "No."
"Me neither. I'll just say I'm with you."


Mayor Coss speak with his wife, Earl Potter, City Councilor Chris Calvert, Jack somebody and an unidentified women working on her wedgie.

We were greeted at the door by Carol Oppenheimer. Extending my hand I introduced myself, "Hi, I'm Cove."
"I know" she said. "Remember me from the old days?"
"I do. And I know you are one of the hosts."
Carmichael tried to slip right in but Carol said to wait and sign the guest book and get a name tag to stick on your shirt. As if all the insiders inside didn't know each other already.
Funny thing as I wrote my name on the sticker I notice the bowl of donation checks sitting there. The two checks on top were not made out to anyone or to any committee. Humm?
"You missed the Governor", Carol said. "He came, he ate and he left."


In the split second it took for me to lift my head she had realized (as Obama says) that she should have calibrated her words differently especially since she was talking to a guy who writes a blog about Governor Bill Richardson called "Fat Bill and Me."
"I mean I don't know if he ate ... he spoke and then he left." Nice recovery Carol, I thought.
Inside, the first person I saw was Coss' Mayor Pro Tem, City Councilor Rebecca Wurzburger. There weren't that many more people there than the almost 30 people who were listed as "hosts" on the invitation.


A silhouetted Rebecca Wurzburger in shadows.

On the way over to the small group surrounding the Mayor, I shook Morty Simon's hand. Basically he is Coss' campaign manager and money guy. Morty like Bill Sisneros, David Barker, Earl Potter, Flance, and Oppenheimer have mixed feelings about seeing me anytime no less at one of their gatherings.

The Mayor saw me approaching and nervously spoke first.
"You see we got the fountain going." He was speaking about the only public fountain (Fountainhead Rock) in Santa Fe. That fountain has been neglected and in a state of disrepair for the last ten years.
"Yes." I said. "Now you owe me a game." I was referring to a chess game because I had put on a outdoor chess tournament near the fountain's vicinity to call attention to its condition, among other things.
"I promise to throw the match." I joked.
The Mayor smiled as if to say 'Isn't that understood?'

I looked around and realized beside thanking Flance for letting me into his house I really didn't want to hang around. As I did just that, thanking my 'bud" Steve Flance, I turned back toward the Mayor and snapped the photo on the left. I think it was a tell.

Governor Bill Richardson is Running Santa Fe's Mayor Coss' Re-election Campaign.

Seated: Governor Bill Richardson (left) and Ben "The Rat" Lujan Sr. (right). Standing third from the left, Santa Fe's Mayor David Coss.

When former County Commissioner Javier Gonzales was running for mayor of Santa Fe against David Coss and it looked like Javier could actually win, the boss "Fat Bill" Richardson called Gonzales into his office and told him to drop out of the race ... which of course Javier dutifully did. Richardson was heard saying about Gonzalez's possible defeat of David Coss, "Not my Regent."

Then one year later when Gonzales was going to run for Tom Udall's Congressional seat Richardson again called Javier into his fourth floor office at the Round House and told Gonzales that the fix was in for Ben Ray Lujan to be the next U.S. Representative from New Mexico's 3rd District. Ben Ray Lujan is rumored to be the gay lover of Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and is the son of Richardson's right hand man, Speaker of the New Mexico House, Ben Lujan Sr.

The following is how the story was spun in the local rag, the Santa Fe New Mexican.


"Gonzales, who chairs the Highlands University Board of Regents, confirmed Tuesday that he's considering a run for lieutenant governor in 2010. He said he wasn't pressured by any other candidate to drop out, and his decision wasn't the result of any deals. "

Most people don't think of David Coss as a hardball go-for-the-throat politician but in Santa Fe, New Mexico politics is the only major league sport and Coss came up from the farm team for the Big League by being a State worker and getting Bill Richardson's help. He spent almost a quarter of a million dollars geting elected to a $25,000 a year job.

So now with the help of help of Richardson, Ben Lujan Sr., and money people like former NM Finance Authority Chairman and former rock star Steve Flance ... Coss is running again.

For a suggested $250 donation you can go to the event at Flance's house OR you come with me and just crash the party.


Richardson, Lujan Sr., and Flance

Young John Huddy is a Reactionary Implant.

John Huddy then.
John Huddy NOW.

Luis Rodriguez died.