If Only My April Fools’ Column Were True

And if only it were only true that Sacramento established a block grant program where the City of Los Angeles received $400 million a year.

The response from CityWatch readers was overwhelmingly in favor, including both those who were pranked and those that knew it was too good to be true.

But we would like to apologize to a talk show host who was pranked, only to be called out by one of his listeners. Needless to say, this led to some on air laughs.

We would also like to apologize to two Councilmen who, according to the City Hall rumor mill, were pranked, and especially to one who was very upset that Mayor Garcetti had not informed him in advance of the decision to oppose the sales tax.

Please accept our apology.

Or maybe the City Council and the Mayor should be apologizing to us for the sorry state of our City’s finances, the four year projected budget deficit of over $700 million, the $10 billion unfunded pension liability, and the sorry condition our streets, sidewalks, curbs, and the rest of our failing infrastructure.

In case you missed it: Jack’s April Fools column: Garcetti Opposed to Sales Tax Increase, Brown to Abandon High Speed Rail

(Jack Humphreville writes LA Watchdog for CityWatch. He is the President of the DWP Advocacy Committee, The Ratepayer Advocate for the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council, and a Neighborhood Council Budget Advocate. Humphreville is the publisher of the Recycler Classifieds -- www.recycler.com. He can be reached at: [email protected]. Hear Jack every Tuesday morning at 6:20 on McIntyre in the Morning, KABC Radio 790.)
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