Cracking the Code
Ray sits at his Sac Tree office desk with a woman in a bonnet sitting in front of him reading the newspaper. We have redacted her name from our transcripts. Ray is on speaker phone on a conference call with his staffers and unidentified people.
Ray: Ok so what do you have to report [...]
Upon hearing iMayor Johnson’s new year’s resolution to “improve relations with the city council,” Armour Steel’s Steve Ayers (the guy who wrote the letter to the city decrying the tumultuous political environment at city hall), is quoted as saying, “[Johnson] needs to bend over backward and extend a hand to every council member. “ What [...]
Read the rest of the story»Poor Mayor Johnson is taking hostile fire again. Shots rang out all over the media kingdom today when two “ranking” [Republican] senators released information gleaned from an earlier investigation of St. Hope. Specifically the report states Mayor J offered to pay a young woman $1,000 per month in return for her silence about a groping [...]
Read the rest of the story»Ryan Lillis (my favorite Bee personality), reports Mayor Johnson had an escort service on his Twitter list (the actual icon the service uses is pictured here). Of course, the service was swiftly removed once discovered by Johnson. And of course, the Johnson camp responds, it was one of the mayor’s staffers, not the mayor (and [...]
Read the rest of the story»Just piggy-backing on the comments thread from my last article. Specifically I wanted to address a few points about the D1 seat and the candidates whose names have been tossed into the hat so far (there will be more incidentally, I know this for a fact).
In my opinion, the only real “skill” you need to [...]
The U.S. Attorney Gen. announced today it has reached a “settlement” with Sac Town Mayor Kevin Johnson [Ed: Our boy KJ sure does do a lot of settlin' don't he?]. The straight dope is this: If St. Hope pays back half the fed funding it received (a cool $450,000), the Fed will take Johnson’s name [...]
Read the rest of the story»About a year ago (to the day even), when Kizzy-to-the-Jizzy hinted he might run for Sack Town mayor, Heather Fargo’s fortune teller Richie Ross made an ominous forecast. Ross boldly declared Kevin Johnson would “make the worst decision of his life” (or something as equally foreboding), if he dared to pierce the Fargonian mayoral veil.
At [...]
At a time when the state unemployment rate is at 10%, businesses are closing down, the county is on the verge of bankruptcy, and– in what may very well be one of the most bird-brained ideas ever hatched at city hall–Sacramento’s homeless are headed to Cal Expo, the valley press corps are reporting the city [...]
Read the rest of the story»When Mayor Kevin Johnson said he was going to bring in some big names to put Sacramento on the map, he wasn’t kidding. It’s not every day someone like Reverend Jesse Jackson stops by The Sacramento Boys and Girls Club downtown to promote a charitable cause. Specifically, the grand puba of all things racial was [...]
Read the rest of the story»Former-Sac-Bee-columnist-turned-gadfly-extraordinaire R.E. Graswich broke an interesting little story last night on KOVR13’s The Scoop. In the segment, Graswich exposed an internal mayoral “staff report” containing–what some might call–covert city charter amendment proposals. Not surprisingly, the proposals–if passed–would give the mayor more power over city council meetings and excuse him from being present under certain conditions.
In [...]