New York Times and Campaign for Liberty Hails Maywood, CA a Model City

New York Times ^ | 8/4/2010

[Ladycalif]

While many communities are fearfully contemplating extensive cuts, Maywood says it is the first city in the nation in the current downturn to take an ax to everyone.

The school crossing guards were let go. Parking enforcement was contracted out, City Hall workers dismissed, street maintenance workers made redundant. The public safety duties of the Police Department were handed over to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

At first, people in this poor, long-troubled and heavily Hispanic city southeast of Los Angeles braced for anarchy.

Senior citizens were afraid they would be assaulted as they walked down the street. Parents worried the parks would be shut and their children would have nowhere to safely play. Landlords said their tenants had begun suggesting that without city-run services they would no longer feel obliged to pay rent.

The apocalypse never arrived. In fact, it seems this city was so bad at being a city that outsourcing — so far, at least — is being viewed as an act of municipal genius.

[Ladycalif]

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=37365

[Ladycalif]

Ping

[caseinpoint]

So, after one month, the reporter declares the experiment of a “city” which is one square mile (that’s eight city blocks square) located in the middle of the LA metropolitan area can get along without city employees. (Let’s see what the fallout is from their subcontracting the work out to neighboring neighborhood Bell, the city that paid its manager nearly $8k a year until he resigned.)

Time will tell but this is hardly a blueprint for other cities, except perhaps those itty-bitty neighborhoods within major cities with neighbors willing to pick up the slack.

[Ladycalif]

Maywood is run by Mexican drug cartels.

[caseinpoint]

That should prove interesting. So is the whole “city” financed by drug money?

[caseinpoint]

Puts me in mind of a favorite old song:

“Oh, give me a home
Where the coyotes roam,
Where the mules and the illegals play,
Where seldom is heard
A single English word,
And the federales stay away.”

[Pru]

Maywood is a sanctuary city in tatters and certainly not a triump. It's been run into the ground by it's current La Raza city council, corrupt police and a mayor worthy of scorn. It would help if the NYT’s would bother to do a little research. The fact that Maywood was forced by it's own mismanagement to fire everyone and outsource the services to Bell should have caused an alarm to alert a reporter with a modicum of curiosity and wattage.

[AirForceBrat23]

Isn’t Bell (the neighboring city) the one where all those city employees were making six figures?

[Blue Ink]

It’s “being viewed as an act of municipal genius?” Really? By whom, besides the New York Times? I posted this already, but it’s worth repeating: Maywood, CA was a nice little AMERICAN city twenty-five years ago that was destroyed by its current overwhelmingly illegal population importing Mexican-style corrupt thug government.

Yeah, “the apocalypse never came,” you condescending Northeast bas——s. It’s only shameful, that’s all. Another American town ceded to another country. All Californians should be humiliated. I am. Washington does nothing. New York applauds. Yawn.