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Villaraigosa Fights For Taller Walls Around Mayor’s Mansion
CBS ^ | February 25, 2011 | CBSlocal.com

Posted on 02/25/2011 11:25:56 AM PST by ColdOne

LOS ANGELES (CBS) —Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has asked for approval for a six-foot-wall around the Getty House, the mayor’s official residence in Windsor Square, according to city documents.

But at least one planning official was “caught off guard” by Villaraigosa’s request for increased security around the taxpayer-owned property.

The mayor’s office filed its request on Feb. 2 for a variance to city bylaws with plans to erect a security wall around the property at 605 S. Irving Blvd.

Officials say the wall’s design includes “embedded” security features that will save taxpayer money by cutting costs for security staffing.

Initially, the mayor proposed an eight-and-a-half-foot wall, which was quickly rejected by the Windsor Square Association.

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: antoniovillaraigosa; gettyhouse; losangeles; tonyvillar; windsorsquare
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1 posted on 02/25/2011 11:26:00 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

OMG are you serious Tony Villar want this wait till John and Ken from KFI radio go off on him


2 posted on 02/25/2011 11:29:40 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: ColdOne

Can’t let the great unwashed get too close to their patron............


3 posted on 02/25/2011 11:30:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: ColdOne

I would think security would be pretty important. This shouldn’t be a partisan issue. I’m worried about the “cutting staff” part of the equation. There are always crazies out there.


4 posted on 02/25/2011 11:31:13 AM PST by marron
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To: ColdOne

Now, to be snarky, I’d point out that walls do serve a purpose. Let the mayor have his, and let us have ours on the border.


5 posted on 02/25/2011 11:32:27 AM PST by marron
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To: Red Badger

But I thought the people loved their El Patron?

Then again tyrannts seem to never feel safe do they?


6 posted on 02/25/2011 11:34:10 AM PST by Gasshog (going to get what all those libs asked for, but its not what they expected.)
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They are beginning to fear the peasants.


7 posted on 02/25/2011 11:34:50 AM PST by Rio
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To: ColdOne
Why does any mayor have a mansion, is my question? A governor, prime minister or president needs one for security, entertaining and staff, but a mayor?
8 posted on 02/25/2011 11:34:58 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (All gave some, some gave all.)
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To: Gasshog

El Patrón is afraid that he will be the next Qaddaffi.....................


9 posted on 02/25/2011 11:36:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: ColdOne

All homes of the upper class in Mexico have substantial walls around them. Since he is importing Mexico into Mexifornia, he is just carrying on the tradition.


10 posted on 02/25/2011 11:37:24 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: SevenofNine
OMG are you serious Tony Villar want this wait till John and Ken from KFI radio go off on him

I'll be sure to listen to them today.

11 posted on 02/25/2011 11:37:39 AM PST by Digger ((If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election))
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To: SevenofNine

Exactly!!!! John and Ken today should be great!!!


12 posted on 02/25/2011 11:38:36 AM PST by ColdOne (Your Tag Line Here.......inquire within)
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To: ColdOne

EVALUATION: WASTE OF AMMO.

13 posted on 02/25/2011 11:39:09 AM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: BOOM. Taste My Cluebat!)
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To: SmithL

ping


14 posted on 02/25/2011 11:39:59 AM PST by ColdOne (Your Tag Line Here.......inquire within)
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To: ColdOne

They should move his ass to South Central instead. Make him live among the serfs and the gunshots and the drugs and the gangs and the neighborhoods ruined by the illegals he supports.

}:-)4


15 posted on 02/25/2011 11:40:34 AM PST by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Why does any mayor have a mansion, is my question? A governor, prime minister or president needs one for security, entertaining and staff, but a mayor?”

I think the Getty family gave this house to the city for this purpose. Mayor Riordan preferred to live in his house in Brentwood. The mayor’s big old house is in Hancock Park area one block north of Wilshire Blvd. There are a lot of beautiful old houses there, but if you go two or three miles away you are in MS-13 country. If I lived there I would have walls with razor wire on top.


16 posted on 02/25/2011 11:46:49 AM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: ColdOne

Now the socialist liberal rat bastard elitists want to receive “special security protection” to protect them from the deranged mobs of illegal aliens, drug runners, human trafficers, and the general poor unwashed masses, that they self-righteously claim to speak for & protect from the big bad conservatives. He’s now worried about protection from the TEA Party or conservatives....He is terrified by not receiving enough protection from his deranged leftist hordes. Personally I would love to see him caught dead square in the middle of a liberal dimturd riot and see how he would feel about lefties after that.


17 posted on 02/25/2011 11:54:43 AM PST by rcrngroup
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To: rcrngroup
Mayor Villaraigosa is building his own “Fuhrer Bunker” in LA? When can we expect the suicide in the bunker scene?
18 posted on 02/25/2011 11:59:19 AM PST by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: Moose4

Correction, the “illegals” live in East LA and the Valley. South Central is the Crypts and Bloods. As you move to the west its the Hollywood Leftist Loons and to find anymore sanity amongst the county head a bit Norteast to Glendale, La Canada, Pasadena and Arcadia. That is about all that is remaining of California sanity.


19 posted on 02/25/2011 12:04:45 PM PST by Republic Rocker
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To: ColdOne

Why? Is he worried about people sneaking in illegally?


20 posted on 02/25/2011 12:06:31 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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