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city is not looking after their
interest if it would knowingly
collect and use their tax
money when Measure P
might one day be overturned.
Remember, almost 50% of
voters did not agree with
Measure P, a forever tax
which passed by only a mere
255 votes out of almost
14,000 cast.
Mayor Aja Brown has since
used Measure P and the
promise of bringing in
8 million dollars additionally
annually as the cornerstone
for her re-election. This even
though the collection of the
tax is only netting about half
that or about 4.8 million
dollars annually so far.
The entire premise of her
campaign and promise of
"progress" hinged upon
Measure P which just had a
bomb dropped on it. If
Mayor Brown had been
capable of successfully using
the existing funds available in
the city budget instead of
waiting until 2016 to pass
Measure P, no matter her
excuses, Compton residential
streets would be in much
better shape.
According to the Board of
Equalization, Item VI
specifically, any funds
collected on a disputed tax
must be held in an interest
bearing account and cannot
be used until the court case
renders its judgement. This
means the Mayor's boast of
Measure P funding is up the
creek without a
paddle, so you can
just throw out all
that Aja Brown
campaign literature
and commercials.
It's all wrong for
now. So in the
words of the Gap
Band, residents just
"dropped a bomb
on you.” Aja.
So thank you to the "No on
Measure P" Committee, and
all those that dug in their
pockets and did not give up
or give in to saddling our city
with the highest sales taxes in
the state, forever, for our
children and grandchildren.
An inspection of ballots from a recount
showed persons outside of the city of
Compton, listing other cities as their
address, did vote in the election. And
Measure P lost election night, and for
16 days of counting ballots, before it
did a miraculous flip-flop in the last five
days with votes coming from just 14 of
44 precincts. Go figure.
M EASURE P had a bomb
dropped on it by the residents
of Compton opposed to a tax
that will last forever instead of other
sensible measures like a time limit.
Former mayoral candidate Lynne Boone
filed an election contest in July 2016 in
Superior Court against the county
registrar Dean Logan and Measure P,
Mayor Aja Brown's one-percent sales tax,
arguing ineligible persons from outside of
Compton were allowed to vote. A
downtown Superior Court judge declared
the evidence, prepared by former city
attorney candidate Marcus Musante, aided
by the "No on Measure P" Committee,
sufficient for trial and set a court date for
January 2018.
City Attorney Craig Cornwell was then
asked by the council for his advice on
whether the city had the right to still use
incoming funds from Measure P collected
by the Board of Equalization. Craig
Cornwell stated that in "his opinion" the
city could still proceed with using the tax
funds and did not have to await the
decision of the trial. Cornwell compared it
with trying to put toothpaste back into the
tube, saying it could not be done.
This led to shock and outrage in the
community by those citizens alleging the
HEADS TO COURT!
HIGH TAX
“...in the event that a legal action is
commenced challenging the validity of the
tax in its entirety, as opposed to its
application to an individual taxpayer, the
district shall place the tax proceeds into an
interest-bearing escrow account until the
legality of the tax is finally resolved…”
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Fooling the National Press
and Compton Public One
Article at a Time
T here is an old saying the
higher you climb up the lad-
der, the more your bottom
shows. Compton Mayor Aja Brown
took her duplicity, false facts, lack of
truthfulness, and manipulation of the
press media on the road to the capitol
Washington D.C. last November 2016
and stood before the nation and the
microphone, smiling, to dishonor his
name by accepting the prestigious John
F. Kennedy Library Award for leaders
under the age of 40 for, of all things,
reducing crime in Compton.
For those residents still in total awe
and disbelief at this spectacle given
murder statistics fully reversed under
her administration in 2016, rising from
her claimed low of 13 to 39, an overall
200% increase, you would be correct
absolutely to be both incredulous and
incensed. Not one but three bodies
were found left murdered in a
Compton park shed right before the
Mayor traveled to Washington DC on
the wings of an illusion.
Compton in 2016 hit Aja Brown’s
administration’s all-time high in
murders since she took political office
in 2013. Veteran Compton citizen
crime-fighters, aware of the real truth
behind Mayor Aja Brown’s faked
public relations stunts and pretend
efforts to fight crime, are seriously not
amused.
So how and why could the nation get it
so wrong? Well first of all, there is
brazen Aja Brown. It was Mayor
Brown who took computer in hand
and wrote “her own article” published
by CNN Money on June 14, 2016
filled with her unabashed prevarication
and astonishing mistruths about her
faked success in reducing crime in
Compton. She wrote this article
knowing full well the city was actually
in the midst of a major murder crime
wave so she quoted 2015 statistics
instead of 2016.
It takes brass and nerve to take to the
national stage and tell and sell such a
mythic proportion lie, to write the
news to make the news, and Aja
Brown has plenty of it, nerve that is.
In fact, two days later on June 16 after
the CNN article appeared, the local
Compton Herald newspaper
editor Jarrette Fellows responded with
an article entitled: “Murders have in-
creased in Compton, not declined!”
The tagline for his article read: “Mayor
Aja Brown omitted Compton’s
dramatic rise in murders this year in
her editorial; more blood in the streets
in 2016 than at same time last year.”
A huge increase in murders in just one
year, to be exact, according to the Los
Angeles County Sheriff Compton
Station just released statistics.
You see, Mayor Aja Brown has no
problem taking credit or giving herself
credit for the accomplishments and
ideas of others. Her audacity in this
respect has left many in awe of her
capacity for deception. To put it in the
words of one Compton elder: “That
girl can tell a lie between two drops of
rain.”
So fooling the press is nothing new for
Mayor Aja Brown. From the beginning
of her time in office, Brown has
excelled in self serving promotion
through falsification of fact while
operating under a full head of public
relations steam.
Her manipulation of the press is
legendary in Compton, if nowhere else.
Brown started off promoting
Compton as a “New Brooklyn” until
distractors pointed out redevelopment
and gentrification had run minorities
out this New York town, so Brown
claimed she never stated such,
attributing the comparison instead to
over-zealous Time and Elle Magazine.
Earlier this year, Brown declared the
Pulitzer Award-winning Huffington-Post,
a news agency that helped catapult her
to national fame, to be “just a blog and
not a real new source.” This because
their interviewer’s 2013 video of the
Mayor seen denouncing
marijuana resurfaced in 2016
in the midst of Brown’s big
push to bring the marijuana
industry to Compton, a move
counter to resident’s wishes.
And in the opinion of
seasoned Compton crime
fighters and law enforcement,
Aja Brown’s Compton Police
Task Force and list of other
crime programs enumerated
in CNN are nothing but
empty public relations ploys
masking abject failures in
implementation. As an
indicator of the magnitude of
her DC deception, Mayor
Brown erroneously declared
herself to be the sole
innovator behind a crime
task force, gang summits,
gang training, and local hiring
quotas--all programs which
successfully pre-existed and
were in place prior to her
arrival in Compton.
Mayors Omar Bradley and
Eric Perrodin and countless
others were known for
hitting the streets, in danger,
to combat crime during
troubled times when
Compton was known as the
“murder capital of the
country.” By the time Mayor
Aja Brown arrived, claiming
all credit, the city was already
enjoying achievement of
record lows in crime.
Aja Brown in Washington DC at John F. Kennedy Library
accepting award for faking reducing crime in Compton.
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C itizens now have raised
three significant major
environmental issues and
controversies in Compton which
have netted negligible reaction from
the city's Mayor Aja Brown.
Perhaps now more attention will be
paid by her to the concerns of
citizens who have repeatedly come
before city council in the last three
years to voice their concerns about
their health and that of their children
and community. Mayor Brown,
more interested in promoting her
image and agenda, has shown only
feint acknowledgement and passing
lip service but never great concern
for the plight of residents.
A September 2015 article in the Los
Angeles Times by writer Oscar
Rodriguez points out the following:
"Thus, when people like me use the
term environmental racism, we are
not accusing anyone of a "systematic,
calculated scheme to punish a
specific race," or even accusing any
person of racial animus. We are
instead referring to the fact that low-
income minority communities have
historically been (and still are)
disproportionately affected by
industrial operations, because politi-
cians and industry leaders choose to
site and expand these operations in
low-income neighborhoods."
O n Friday, May 5th in a
press release, the South
Coast Air Quality
Management District (SCAQMD)
announced it will seek funding for a
47 million dollar project to start in
the next few weeks to take seven
years to complete. The agency will
conduct special air monitoring of the
City of Compton due to concerns
about possible high levels of a toxic
cancer causing compound called
hexavalent chromium. The project
will determine if the toxin is coming
from any of the city's metal-
processing facilities in an action
prompted by incidents in Paramount.
The chemical hexavalent chromium
is reportedly associated with lung
cancer when inhaled over long
periods of time, typically years to
decades. The monitoring over a
period of years will determine if
processing plants in the Compton
community—located especially near
schools, homes, hospitals, senior
citizen buildings, and other criteria—
have been impacted with the toxin
known to pose a significant health
risk to a community.
City of Compton officials have been
notified in writing. SCAQMD will
employ newly developed modern air
monitoring technologies to conduct
its new appraisals.
I n District 3, residents have took
to the microphone at city hall to
complain of brown water
dispensing from their taps used for
bathing, cooking, and drinking in a
scene reminiscent of environmental
racism out of Flint, Michigan.
The city indicated the source may be
water that has lied dormant in the
pipes, and notified residents the
water, though colored, was fit for use
and consumption. Residents felt
otherwise.
The city issued the following
statements: "Similar to other
neighboring cities faced with brown
water, the discoloration is not a
health concern, and is comprised
predominately of rust. The water is
safe to drink and use. The City of
Compton continues to test its water
quality on a weekly basis. Sediment
build-up can be particularly high in
areas with dead-end pipes, and in
neighborhoods with older cast iron
mains."
Residents were told to expect this
condition to arise from time to time
until the city's 128-year old
infrastructure gets replaced. In the
meantime, like in Flint, residents
should consider the purchase of
lots of bottled water when brown
water surfaces again.
N eighborhoods surrounding
The Brickyard, a large new
industrial complex built in
close proximity to residential homes
in District #1, voiced complaints of
excessive dust and noise, a major
pest infestation, fear of cancer, and
impending truck congestion and
pollution, only to fall on the deaf
ears of city council.
Then in 2016, a major controversy
arose when raccoons, opossums,
insects, and roof rats escaping the
construction by Trammel-Crowe, the
developer, invaded surrounding
homes causing a major infestation.
The City of Compton administration
appeared powerless in the matter,
raising concerns among citizens
about the city's limited role and
power in the future to be able to
handle any anticipated complaints.
Several letters were registered by
citizens with the city planning
department requesting answers about
the possible environmental impact..
In a possible conflict of interest, the
City of Compton requested its
independent environmental study of
the Brickyard site, yet the vendor
chosen, EcoTierra, was noticeably
the same company listing the
Brickyard developer, Trammel Crow,
as one of its other clients.
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Robin & Omar
Married 33 Years
Omar Bradley—Compton No Doubt
Al Gore, Omar Bradley, President Clinton
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I opposed Omar Bradley when he was in
office at one point. I now endorse him for
Mayor of Compton. He was young then
like Aja Brown, but his works when in office
were impressive. Aja Brown has been a
waste of time. I have lived in Compton for
50 years and I have never seen worse.
Compton is under assault. The city needs a
fighter and not someone interested in self
and their agenda more than the people and
their issues. We can do better, Compton.
It is important for our politicians to truly
know, care, and love the people of Compton,
first and foremost. Actual respect for all
citizens of Compton and our worth is key to
running this city. Old, young, Latino, Black.
The Compton experience cannot be taught.,
it must be lived, or you use sight of what
makes Compton unique, what makes us
fighters. We, the people, are its treasures.
Marijuana was the defining moment for me.
I voted for Aja Brown when she came to
office, me desiring change. But I kept
hearing negative rumors until one, her
proposal to let the marijuana and cannabis
industry into Compton, came true. I can
remember her running in 2013 saying she
was opposed and wanted the dispensaries
closed, yet now she shows no interest in
enforcement. I have taken to the streets to
fight her on this issue. This is not the pro-
gress I wanted. I feel she lied to the people.
Me and my wife both voted for Aja Brown in
2013 wanting to see the city change and
progress. I always go to city council
meetings and the very first year I noticed
something seriously wrong. She was out of
town a lot, and we were reading all these
great articles about her achievements, but it
wasn’t happening right in front of our face in
the chambers. Aja Brown was blowing her
own horn and the work was not being done.
Latino or Black, we in Compton have always
shared our cultures and struggles. We are a
family. I do not like to see the city torn in
half. With Mayor Brown, you are on her side
or the outside. We are not so stupid just to
vote for her because we are Latino. We drive
the same potholes, do not want marijuana in
Compton, and want to see the city clean. Aja
made a lot of promises she hasn’t kept to
both the Latino and Black residents. No más.
I did not vote for the Mayor but was loyal to
the task when she won so volunteered to
help my community in any way possible. The
Mayor could call on me for any job and did.
It was Measure P that made me depart ways.
I asked the Mayor personally if there was a
cap on Measure P and would it be turned
into a bond. She assured me the cap was
10% and there would be no bond, so I
ignored what her opponents were saying.
Well, taxes will now be 10.25% and I
watched Aja go all out for a bond. I need to
be able to believe in your word.
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“It was the Patricia Moore case which got me a lot of notoriety with
respect to my involvement in Compton.
I was very shocked that the United States government had entered into that
community and spent so many years with such intensity trying to corrupt
public officials.
I know from their point of view it was a sting operation. It was designed to see
if political officials would accept bribes, and they don't see themselves as
corrupting people, but I thought they went really over board in that case and I
was quite offended by it.
There were over 600 surveillance tapes—video and audio—that were a part of
the Compton investigation that I was involved in and I listened to all of them.
There also were some other tapes that were disturbing, particularly involving
the investigation into Omar Bradley. I saw repeated efforts by various agents
and informers to try to corrupt Omar Bradley.
And when they were not successful, they just kept trying. And I remember
clear as day, one agent who was posing as a Waste Energy plant developer
sitting down with Omar Bradley and telling him: "We will pay you a
commission, we'll pay you a referral fee, we'll pay you a consulting fee, we'll
give you cash." And he kept saying "no, no, no."
And I distinctly remember him having a shirt that said "African-American" on
the shirt, and the FBI video surveillance tape zeroes in on those words African
-American, on his sweatshirt and then zooms back, but he kept saying: "I'm a
teacher and I'm only interested in the community and I'm not here to make
money."
When that didn't work, they had other people approach him, saying essentially
the same thing in other words. And of course when that didn't work, they kept
trying to call Omar Bradley on the phone, and I heard all those audio tapes
where they keep trying to reach him.
I even heard one audio tape where one under cover informant was trying to
suggest that they could set him up with a white blond woman in a hotel.
And this is about, as I recall, about 4 years into the investigation where they
appeared a bit frustrated because they can't get him to do something illegal.
Clearly there was tremendous frustration in their inability to get Omar Bradley
to take a pay-off and I could see it in all these tapes and they went on for four
years.
-Tom Mesereau Speaks on Omar Bradley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKxC2pi4-U
Court Document Showing Exoneration of Omar
Bradley who Refused to Take a Plea Deal.
Wrongly Imprisoned. Cleared of all Charges.
Not A Felon As Wrongly and Viciously Reported.
Next chapter of persecution of him and his
family by the LA County DA’s office to help Aja
Brown win office will begin on June 9, 2017.
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H ave you seen this from
2015? A plan and grant
proposal by Mayor Aja
Brown and the City of Compton in
conjunction with Los Angeles County
to rebuild two bridges along
Wilmington Avenue to hold higher
weight so bigger trucks can move to
and from the Port of Los Angeles in
San Pedro. The Compton Ports
Access Connector Plan. What?!
Was there a vote in the City of
Compton to re-open Wilmington
Avenue into a major truck transit
route for the Port of Los Angeles that
will run from Los Angeles directly
through the residential area of
Compton through the 91-freeway and
Carson to the 105 Freeway?
While the bridges are increasingly
structurally unsound and do require
addressing for residents’ safety, it is
the intent to raise bridge weight
capacity and open the Wilmington
residential adjacent areas to the
incursion of today’s increased port or
warehousing activity which is
opposed. The issue is any intent to
deliberately increase truck usage.
At any point in time did Mayor Aja
Brown hold discussions and Town
Hall meetings with Compton residents
to ask whether they want progress that
changes Compton from a residential
low and middle-income community in
need of better services and streets, into
a truck thoroughfare and industrial
center with yet another trucking
superhighway in addition to the
Alameda (Train) Corridor that already
runs through Compton, but not
underground this time?
Anyone take a survey of the people
and neighborhoods who live on either
side of Wilmington, like Richland
Farms, to see if they agree to any
increase in the volumes of trucks
running back and forth constantly?
Anyone survey the parents from the
five schools (Chavez, Willowbrook,
Davis, Washington, and Walton) along
Wilmington Avenue to see if they
want to place their children in real
jeopardy alongside heavy-ton trucks?
Anyone notice there is no industry
from the 105-freeway until nearing the
91-freeway so residents are not the
ones in need of increasing the capacity
for trucks along Wilmington?
Anyone stand on Wilmington or
Central Avenue and say to themselves:
“What we need is more trucks.”
Finally, do people know
exactly what type of progress and
change they have bought? And
please don’t ridiculously argue
trucks already use this route, like
people who pointed out trucks
already use the Brickyard. Both
of these projects—The Brickyard
and Port Connector—will bring
an entirely new level and volume
of traffic and further intrusion
into our communities and lives.
And what of our city council?
They keep getting fooled into
voting for something that sounds
innocent and simple that turns
out to be Mayor Aja Brown’s
opening move to an entirely
hidden agenda. Think about
Wilmington Avenue. “We just
need council to approve
removing the “No Trucks”
signs.”
Compton is literally being run
and sold out by two outsiders,
Mayor Aja Brown and
Councilman Galvan, moved into
Compton arriving just in time to
run for office. The Compton
Ports Access Connector Plan
report was a 4-color, multi-page,
detailed sophisticated plan by
someone.
Why bring up the Connector
plan now? Because Mayor Aja
Brown has been spending her
time on actually a different
trajectory. Pass the Brickyard.
Check. Pass Measure P. Check.
Streets paid for by the people for
the trucks. Check. Bridge repair for
the trucks. Check. Park
projects and funding held up until
after Measure P to fool the people
into paying for the streets. Check.
And so on, but always industry and
trucks first.
Mayor Aja Brown is running the
agenda of outsiders and regional
interests, that’s why there was no
time for a written plan for citizens.
And don’t fall for the sidewalks
and bicycle trails and more pretty
pictures. Demand the “No
Trucks” signs be placed back up
on Wilmington, rigorous traffic
enforcement, and raise ticket
prices for truck violators extremely
high. Who cares if they have to
turn off and go around. Protect the
residential areas of Compton.
Citizens failed with the
Brickyard, and now industry is
pushing right into another
residential sector of Compton.
Draw a line in the sand. Residential
first, industrial down by the 91
Freeway and Alameda in their
designated zone.
Just look at the Mayor’s backers
for Measure P and her re-election.
Developers, unions, and county
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
People have feared county
intrusion into Compton for
decades. It is now here—full
blow—in the form of Aja Brown,
an instrument of Compton’s
destruction not salvation, some
believe.
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U nited Parcel Service aka
UPS, a transportation
leader is coming to
Compton joining the ranks of 25
other Fortune 500 companies now
operating in the city. This new
enterprise should feel like gold but
the terms of the deal and lack of
transparency have left many citizens
with the feeling of holding a black
lump of coal. The problems lie
directly with Compton Mayor Aja
Brown, the City Council, and their
continuing disavowal of public
concerns, slowness to respond to
complaints, and failure to institute
safeguards, devise regulations, or
create a mechanism to respond or
protect citizens.
The most shocking revelation for
the public was the inadvertent
announcement the Brickyard, the 59
acre largest single open parcel in the
city, was now owned and in the
hands of a county entity known as
the Los Angeles County Employee
Retirement Association (LACERA),
a union headquartered out of the
mayor’s hometown of Pasadena.
For many, this was an absolute deal
breaker for Compton residents
fearful for decades of growing
county influence and possible intru-
sion into Compton, a charter city.
In addition, Amazon Corporation
will not be coming to the Brickyard
courtesy of Mayor Aja Brown who
sought a one-percent sales tax
increase—against the advice of the
Chamber of Commerce and the
business community who warned of
the city losing its competitive edge
—called Measure P that passed in
June 2016.
Amazon sells taxable products and
so being subject to the highest sales
tax rate in the state of California
sent them packing. Bye, Felicia.
Amazon balked so UPS (United
Parcel Service) took their place in
just one of the two buildings at the
site, but not before UPS received a
30% ten-year break on its sales taxes
by the city as an incentive to come
to Compton. Citizens will pay, but
UPS will not.
To cover up the faux pas (mistake),
Aja Brown attempted from the dais
to spin the facts stating the reason
for the break was “property taxes,”
this after UPS had clearly stated the
break would be on capital
improvement purchases meaning,
sales taxes.
The Brickyard also has received low
score marks on the possibility of
increased cancer and fume-related
illnesses in residents, especially
those adjacent and surrounding the
site. 23 different routes have been
designated for trucks to travel, but
the facility is slated to run 24 hours
a day, and seven days a week, so
traffic congestion, noise, and fumes
are still potentially impactful on the
community.
The words "no impact, less-than-
significant Impact, and less-than-
significant impact with mitigation
Incorporated" rang throughout their
report. But one item of note read:
"While it is noted that
incremental carcinogenic risks
approach the level of significance
for the Central Avenue
residences, it is important to
understand that these
calculations are conservative and
represent the worst-case impact
scenario."
Residents who were promised
"hundreds of jobs" were then
discouraged to find UPS would
only guarantee 50 jobs and once
again their voiced concerns about
the details fell on deaf ears. The
council preceded that very night
with approval without taking any of
the audience's valid suggestions.
The pattern of disregard of resident
input continues.
Residents requested a lower
percentage and a shorter time
period than 10 years for the sales
tax incentive, a greater number of
jobs than the 50 guaranteed, desired
answers on traffic patterns,
questioned the accounting and
benefactors of $70 million in
promised purchases by UPS, and
balked at Compton CareerLink Center
training and enrollment being
democratic. Tellingly, one citizen made
the observation only city council
cronies received earlier promised jobs.
And notably, the leasing agent, CBRE,
changed the name from the “Compton
Brickyard” to the “Brickyard South
Bay” even leaving Compton’s name
off their brochure sales map signaling,
for some, advancing gentrification,
growing regional identification and
interests, and a lack of confidence in
the Compton Brand.
It was further revealed the company
selected by the City of Compton to
conduct its Brickyard Commerce
Center Study, EcoTierra, numbered
amongst its own clients the developer
of the Brickyard, Trammel Crow, a
potential conflict of interest some say.
Trucks cannot roll from the Brickyard
until it receives its Certificate of
Occupancy which cannot be acquired
until street modifications—reason for
Measure P?—ordered by the local
DOT (Department of Transportation)
are completed. Street modifications
cannot be done until someone pays
the bill, either the City of Compton, or
the Brickyard which will then be
compensated back by the city, in some
cases, according to terms outlined.
And all the details on how
Compton became wedged
between a ‘Brickyard’ and a
hard place.
COMPTON WIN/LOSS
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Record low in murders is not
due to Aja Brown but others.
Murders falling when she came
in, but reversed in 2016, up
200% to 39. Never talks about.
Aja Claimed 4824 new businesses
opened in Compton in her 2016
Progress Report. Now we all know
that is a blatant lie.
Grocery stores to replace grocery
stores that closed. Ralph’s
swapped out for Smart N Final.
Bank opened against warning of
construction hazards. Restaurants,
plural? You mean Steak N Shake.
Reduced the deficit? Didn’t Aja
originally claim she solved the
entire 40 million dollar deficit
her first months in office. It’s in
all her magazine articles.
Does it look like improvements?
Note, the funds are from the
regular city budget approved in
2014, but held up two years by
the Mayor to trick voters into
passing her Measure P.
Measure P is in Superior Court
scheduled for trial in January 2018.
Funds are to be held in an interest
bearing account until the ruling. City
Manager says will be 4.8 not 8
million. Citizens oppose paying
highest sales tax in California,
10.25% not 10% like Aja said.
Didn’t Aja promise all
this in 2013?
Wow, she’s stealing Omar
Bradley’s plan that worked in 1993!
Thank you, President Obama.
Her multiple Non-Profits
“My NEW” plan. What happened to
Measure P? Notice how she slides. Prostitutes on Long Beach and
citizens protesting motels and
illegal marijuana dispensaries.
Aja is always making a list with
pictures of projects she never
completes. Fixing the streets
and downtown was her promise
to voters in 2013, now again.
3.7 Million in corruption
under her watch. Not to
mention her new form of
corruption. Four years wasted.
Already going backwards.
Let’s start the work. Aja has wasted four
years on her image and faked
achievements. Omar Bradley had a Taco
Bell rebuilt in 48 hours after the LA Riot
to symbolize how fast he would bring
Compton back and he did.
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