Waste on Wilshire Wilts & Ahmad Zahra Has a “Day Job”
Last week the wretched waste known as “Walk-on-Wilshire” was extended another three months – to the end of January, 2025.
At the City Council meeting a cavalcade of comedy ended with a fun twist. More on that in a bit.
Right out of the gate we learned from Ahmad Zahra that he had to jet away that very evening for parts unknown because of his “day job” as a “producer.” He didn’t elaborate on what he produces; or where or how or what. But he also says he’s a doctor and the faithful believe. Cynical people think that his plagiarizing gig at the OC Water District was his first paying job.
Any how he admonished the crowd he helped manipulated to be there, to exercise brevity. They didn’t.
Of course Fullerton BooHoo was fully mobilized to defend the idiotic and continue spilling disinformation all over downtown. Listening to these uninformed nitwits you’d get the idea that a botanical garden had sprung up in the 100 block of West Wilshire, a veritable garden spot in an endless plain of burning sulphur.
It was brutal to listen to the whole damn thing. Jesus H. Christ, what utter nonsense.
It was fun the hear our old pal Diane Vena pontificate; I would have been hard pressed not to ask her about her role in the Scott Markowitz perjury conviction, but that’s another story.
In the end Shana Charles, the boobish mastermind behind this boondoggle made a motion – the usual temporizing – more study needed to make the Wilt of Wilshire permanent; and also to apply the same study to the rest of the block – all the way to Malden Avenue.
Then the fun started. The Mayor-pro-tem, Fred Jung intervened with a “friendly” amendment to the motion. Half-measures were wrong if Fullerton was going to do this thing, said Jung, and he proposed dumping the existing couple hundred feet as part of future study and go for the whole enchilada – the other 400 feet to Malden.
Doctor Charles got giddy. And greedy. In her haste to promote her hobby horse, the PhD of Public Health agreed and the motion passed 3-1, Whitaker voting no and Dunlap abstaining. Some Fullerton boohoos rejoiced, but they rejoiced too soon. Why?
Because now staff has direction to address only the entire block as relevant.
Closing the entire 100 block of West Wilshire block is a much different animal than the keeping the existing 200 feet that the City has nursed along with temporary extensions and the comical phrase “pilot program.” Much different indeed. Closing the street would entail cutting off a dozen commercial businesses on the south side of the street from direct auto access; another half dozen offices on the north side would be cut off, too.
The Villa del Sol parking lot, and the east end of the Promenade parking structure could only be reached via a narrow alley off of Whiting, itself a traffic restricted street at Harbor Booulevard.
At least 35 parking spaces would be lost or made useless.
Some businesses would actually no longer have useful street addresses if the street were to disappear.
In short, the Jung Amendment was a non-starter, a rather creative effort to stall the issue, and force a new council majority, if there is one, to start over again in February.
It was entertaining to see Charles go for this. Perhaps she could see the Jungian end run and decided that she needed the three votes to keep it alive, so she went along with it. If so she must be counting on Vivian Jaramillo to win in District 4.
So the clusterfuck Weak on Wilshire continues, albeit with a humorous twist. I believe the dummy Charles fell for it. She seemed so happy.
Jung is the goat!!!!!
I told them it was going away that night, they didn’t believe me.
Then the observer deleted my comment.
So I am gloating here.
I love how the Big Gummint lackeys like Flory and Jabamillo are suddenly all about “listen to the people.” Of course this is just another astroturf gaggle – just like in the case of the Trail to Nowhere.
I know what Zahra’s real day job is. It’s located at Long Beach.
Not sure if manning the Glory Hole at a gay bar in LB can be considered a “real day job”?
If Jung thinks this is going to keep staff from preparing ANOTHER presentation for the 200ft section at the end of January he’s got another think coming. It’s called insubordination and it about the only thing Fullerton bureaucrats are any good at. Of course they have to have a deferential council and Jung, Dunlap and Whitaker (his wife would probably show more backbone than him) just suck up the humiliation and top it off with praise.
Dunlap can’t because he conveniently recused himself and avoided the public firing squad that would have bruised his ego. Whitaker won’t be there in January. His wife won’t either. While it was probably missed by Dr. Shana in her erotic level excitement to close off all of the street, it simply cannot be done. The huge apartment complex on Wilshire would only have one way in and out off Malden, which is against code. The roundabout would become a car hazard. The city would have to eliminate 40 plus parking spaces and spend a lot of money they don’t have. This was an impressive verbal airshow from Jung and I’m no fan of his support of the fire heroes. But no one caught on. Ahmad was too busy trying to get on a plane to his “J-O-B” and the before mentioned Dr. Shana was too dumb to figure it out. Stick a fork in it! This thing is D-E-A-D!
You better hope Jaramillo doesn’t get elected, Chief.
If she does get elected, and Jung and Bruce had shut WOW down, Jaramillo, Dr. Shana & Ahmad would bring it back from the dead. Guess Markowitz needs to win so we can have our street back.
Dr. Shana is a PhD! She is far too intelligent to let Jung outsmart her. She kept Walk on Wilshire alive, and Jung was her third vote. Kudos to Dr. Shana.
Facts! What that insufferable “doctor” lacks in the looks department, she has in the smarts one. Unlike Ahmed who didn’t get either in the life lottery.
a street to myself
makes me a thief
for the court has said
it must be brief
no cars on Wilshire
or children with chalk
if given three votes
can save the walk
WoW is a joke and needs to go away. It’s always empty whenever I’m in the area. No one is ever there.
Don’t fuck with the narrative, man. The Kennedy Siblings will question you motives.