"Free parking" in LA City may cost $35!

In case you haven't found this yet - here's a link to Eric Garcetti's blog, where he indeed confirms that hybrid parking is still free in LA until at least the end of May:
www.lacity.org/test/cd13/page.cfm?doc=home
Printing just that one relevant page (currently 3) should give us something more or less official in writing.
Hope this helps.

 

Apparently free parking is still available in Los Angeles until May 31,2005

Hybird Parking Still Free

 

Strange. I bought my car in Feb. '04 and it has a Q listed under engine type on the registration form. Maybe it has something to do with the dealerships who fill out the DMV forms and send it out to them.

 

Now that Los Angeles has a new mayor, will he extend the Free Parking???

 

One caveat to the free parking in LA. You can only park for free for the time timit shown on the meter or sign. So if you park in a 1 hour zone for 1 1/2 hrs, they can ticket you. (They put a chalk mark on the tires and look for them when they come back)

BTW, I've also parked for free in LA city metered lots. No tickets, no promblems

 

I just got my registration and found a "Q" but it was listed under MP, not engine type. I don't see "Engine Type" anywhere on my registration card.

 

BEWARE!

Tomorrow, Tues 5/30, is the end of the current LA free parking perk.

If it isn't extended you might pick up a few of those 35$ tickets. (and won't have a lot of recourse to fight it.)

If anyone hears otherwise, please post the information.

 

Official Notice from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Office:

Illegal Aliens without a valid drivers license can now park anywhere in Los Angeles without payment of meter fees or regard for time limits or curb coloring. Any meter maid who dares cite such an individual is guilty of a hate crime and will be punished accordingly.

All other owners of vehicles will be fined double, since they enjoy the benefits of citizenship.

Hybrid owners are thanked for their willingness to pay exorbitant sums of money in an effort to make the world a better place for those of us unwilling to spend our own money for that purpose. We however will also gladly spend your money. Your free parking privileges are suspended as soon as I take reign.

Gracias,
Office of Antonio Villaraigosa
Mayor of Los Angeles, Azatlan

 

Advocate,

This is not funny and is a perpetuation of an outrageous racist stereotype.

 

Advocate,

IsrAmeriPrius is right. That post was in bad taste and bad form.

 

Your statements play right into the hands of those who look to take away your rights as an American.

IsrAmeriPrius,
Unfortunately it is only a SLIGHT exaggeration. The truth is even more disturbing. The caption should have read from the office of Gil Cedillo and not Antonio Villaraigosa, as Mr. Villaraigosa has not yet demonstrated any anti-American sentiment as Mayor of Los Angeles. So that bit of satire was a little premature. However Gil Cedillo has proposed just such laws parodied by my little letter. Check out SB 591, which would make illegal aliens 'exempt' from impound laws for driving a car without a valid license. Here is the link

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_055...6_sen_comm.html

Also, both of these men belong to an admittedly racists organization whose sole goal is to reclaim the southwest from the "Brutal Gringo Invasion" - here is the link from their own website -

http://www.berkeleymecha.org/documents/epeda.html

Just don't think that these are innocent groups wanting to help an underprivileged minority. They are pure power hungry racists who find it easy to pit one racial group against another to acquire their power and they find it easy to do here where they can browbeat any opposition by raising the "racist" banner. These groups do not exist in Mexico as they do here. Because the Mexican racial group that maintains power effectively keeps them as an underclass, and even assists them in crossing the border illegally so as to rid Mexico of its problems.

Unfortunately you both have fallen into the trap of calling the comments "inappropriate, while not understanding its purpose. All satire is inappropriate to someone and the closer to the truth the more inappropriate the satire appears.

My problem is not with any racial group. I'll admit I have different reaction to different racial groups given different venues of interaction, but that a racist does not make.

I would more accurately be called a Nationalist. My disdain for these groups, while not for those they purport to represent, is their advocacy for those who are not citizens of this country to enjoy the rights and benefits of those who are citizens because they "deserve" them not because hey are willing to sacrifice for the ideals that allow the benefits to even exist.

OK this discussion could go on for quite some time, and may be better in its own thread, needless to say this vitriol I have is for the fundamental beliefs of these organizations that I believe the two men mentioned above represent. The Mexican who are lured and encouraged to come here illegally are wrong, not because their Mexican but because they are here illegally.

This also applies to any and all other Nationalities who are here illegally.

Also, any "corporation" hiring an illegal alien should be fined $10,000 per instance. So don’t say that I am all in the corporations pockets.

Yes, I would pay $2 a head of lettuce if I knew Americans picked it or I would pay $20, to wash my car instead of $8. But for the most part low labor rates have stagnated automation in certain industries. A loss of labor would spur design and automation to compensate.

 

Well, I didn't think of your post as satire. Nor did I find it funny.

I'm not hispanic, but I was offended. I found it in extremely poor taste and not in keeping with the spirit of this board.

So there you have it.

Tom Lehrer and George Bernard Shaw you're not.

My favorite satire.

 

Devil,

I disagree with State Senator Gil Cedillo's efforts to have California driver’s licenses issued to those who are in this country illegally and to protect them from the sanctions of the law when they break it.

While I believe that we should debate this issue intelligently and articulately, it is improper to resort to racist personal attacks of the proponents of such laws. No one should have a Carte Blanche to slander every politician of Mexican American heritage whether or not they support such legislation or not.

I do not know Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa’s position on the drivers license legislation, but that is a state issue on which the mayor has little if any control (outgoing mayor Jim Hahn supported the driver’s license bill - http://www.lacity.org/mayor/oldpresss/mayo...01_05302003.pdf - I don't see you attacking him, is that because he is not brown skinned?).

As far as I know, Mr. Villaraigosa has never supported the Aztlán concept.

Your claim that you would more accurately be called a Nationalist reminds me of Germany in the thirties.

 

Well IsrAmeriPrius you have a point about the Jim Hahn critique, but I didn't lambaste him because he was white, just the threads did not present the same opportunity.

Honestly the problems I have with Jim Hahn would fill up its own Board!

Now, NOWHERE in my original post did I slander ANYONE based upon their race. Any implication as to such would be a gross exaggeration of the term. Now, there was some social commentary as between wealth based classes and even then it lambasted the rich stating that the wealthy classes in Los Angeles can be a tad bit hypocritical. (not all) Again nothing disparaged the poor.

This was satire plain and simple, while correct I am no Jonathan Swift, I can guarantee you this, you change Irish to Mexican in that tome and you would certainly be branded a racist, mostly because people would have no Idea that you are actually trying to help a certain group by pointing out their plight in a way that exposes the readers own foibles.

Last point, NEVER, equate American Nationalism with Nazi Socialism. I accept ANY person from any R,R,N,G or SO who want to come to America to be an American and respect all those cultures and take the same national pride in their countries.

This social commentary could go forever, suffice to say, the racist or Nazi badges are thrown around way to easily today, a practiced to be watched should the words lose their true horrific meanings.

Thank you, and good night.

PS. Does anyone have any information on whether the free parking is going to continue next month?

 

Good Luck!

 

Good Luck!