A. Create job opportunities for law abiding U.S. citizens and legal residents within his or her district.
C. Reduce taxation to private businesses and taxpaying residents.
D. Use his or her influence to make his or her jurisdiction “business friendly”.
E. Streamline the functions of government through upholding the law to hold government entities and employees accountable to minimize fraudulent activity and government wasteful spending.
“I don’t feel safe in my own community” by Rae Shaw, who is running in response to her nephew’s (Jamiel Shaw, Jamiel’s Family,Sgt. Anita Shaw) murder. He (Jamiel Shaw) was shot by an undocumented individual (Pedro Espinoza) who was released from jail the day before. She (Rae Shaw) insisted that the issue of undocumented workers (Hispanic, Somali, Haitian, Cuban, Kenyan, Nigerian, Ghanian, Arab, Chinese, Korean, Jamaican, etc., etc.) was not being adequately addressed. This generated enthusiastic applause by some members of the audience, at the C10 candidates forum.
“Doing the same thing, the same way and expecting different results for our community is the definition of insanity. It’s Time for a New Generation of Leadership” by Auston Dragon, 10th District Candidate 2011
Indeed Mr. Dragon, and well stated.
What is needed are elected officials who truly serve the people as opposed to any elected official, such as 10th District Councilman Herb Wesson, who has shown contempt for law abiding taxpaying U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who reside in the 10th Los Angeles City Council District.
What is needed are elected officials who truly uphold his or her oath of office, which has been a decade(s) old problem in most any community to where the primary voting electorate are U.S. born and Black. The 10th District does not need another term of dysfunctional elected leadership, who serve labor unions or labor union bosses, who serve outsiders who are not taxpaying residents of the 10th District, and/or who represent illegal/undocumented immigrant advocates……….
……..at the expense of the rule of law and Constitutional rights of law abiding U.S. citizens, especially U.S. citizens who are honorably discharged U.S. veterans, and legal immigrants.
“The challenge we face is creating jobs and reinventing how we deliver services during this budget crisis. My experience in knowing how to get things done and my track record of creating over 23,000 construction permanent jobs are important assets that will serve our community well in the next few years” by Herb Wesson
Inalienable rights are simply food, clothing, and shelter needed for survival which are acquired through labor by any man or woman with limited means….
……..limited means in that the common individual is not an heir to wealth, has a slim or no chance of hitting the lottery to provide the necessities of life, and acquiring assets through criminal activity is a foolish risk because this path will result in jail time, a felonious criminal record, and/or result in contributing to his or her own death.
“The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property. It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty both of the workman, and of those who might be disposed to employ him. As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the aothersa from employing whom they think proper. To judge whether he is fit to be employed, may surely be trusted to the discretion of the employers whose interest it so much concerns. The affected anxiety of the law–giver lest they should employ an improper person, is evidently as impertinent as it is oppressive.” by Adam Smith, Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence Vol. 2a An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol. 1, CHAPTER X: Of Wages and Profit in the different Employments of Labour and Stock (paragraph 591)
……For decades, be it Herb Wesson or any elected Black leader prior to Herb Wesson, the 10th Los Angeles Council District has yet to have a competent black elected office holder who truly serves residents of the 10th Los Angeles Council District. Other candidates, one candidate being my Mom, Mrs. Esther M. Lofton, have attempted to unseat inept black elected officials, who have shown contempt for his or her sworn duty to uphold the California Constitution, the U.S. Constitution , but unfortunately an unintelligent Black electorate, who have turn the voting process into a popularity contest, have been the primary voters to keep Herb Wesson, former Congresswoman Diane Watson, Congresswoman Karen Bass, Congresswoman Maxine “Kerosene” Waters, convicted felon Martin Ludlow, Former 10th District City Councilman Nate Holden, former 10th District City Councilman Dave Cunningham, 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, former 2nd District Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke, etc., etc., in office.
…now the truth, the truth being no good 10th District City Councilman Herb Wesson:
Councilman Herb Wesson does not give a rat’s @ss about creating and maintaining permanent jobs for law abiding U.S. born Black men, specifically Michael L. Lofton, because when petitioned for redress to resolve a serious Constitutional violation of Michael Lofton inalienable rights the right to lawful employment, by unethical actions of LADWP supervision, Herb Wesson did nothing, to use his sworn duty as an elected official to uphold the U.S. Constitution, the California Constitution to so much so, Los Angeles Superior Court case BS 111697 had to be filed for redress against Herb Wesson and LA Superior Court Case BC 385899 had to be filed against the Mayor of City of Los Angeles. Since both claims are similar, LA Superior Court Case BC 385899 consolidates both claims into a single claim for redress. To date even though guilt is established against the defendants based on the demurr of falsehoods (Deputy City Attorney Lisa Berger’s demurr to BC 385899) and/or outright admission of guilt pertaining to related case (Los Angeles Superior Court Case 895188), to “Equal Justice and Protection Under the Law” has yet to be realized by the plaintiffs, Michael L. Lofton (BC 385899) and Mrs. Esther M. Lofton (895188), because elected officials, both past and present have capitulated in his or her duty to uphold the rule of law.
Herb Wesson is a protégé of no good carpet-bagging former 2nd District Supervisor and Congresswoman Yvonne B. Burke. Former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson was just as dysfunctional as California State Assemblyperson. 2nd District Supervisor Yvonne Burke actual residence is in the 4th Supervisorial District, which is in violation of the Los Angeles County Charter. When qualifying for the California State Assembly and U.S. Congress, Yvonne Burke used a Marlton Square as her qualifying address for candidacy, when her actual residence was in the 4th Supervisorial District.
Be it through published newspaper articles and/or televised media proof, former Los Angeles County 2nd District Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke had no intention of respecting the LA County Charter.
Senator Rod Wright and fraud:
“The district attorney's office obtained an indictment on two counts of perjury, one count of filing a false declaration of candidacy and five counts of voting fraud, all stemming from Wright's claim to have been living in a multi-family complex he bought some three decades ago in Inglewood, in the 25th Senate District he represents. Prosecutors allege he instead lived at a single-family home in Baldwin Hills, outside the district, and lied about it to run for office”
More so than any other voting block, an unintelligent and incompetent black electorate elected and re-elected no good carpet-bagging former 2nd District Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke to the LA County Board of Supervisors, carpet-bagging Senator Rod Wright, Congresswoman Maxine “Kerosene” Waters, etc.
I’m a better than 30 year property taxpaying resident of the 10th Council District, and be it Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson, and/or any predecessor, the elected officials of the area are a disgrace to the essence of what it means to be an elected official:
Former 10th District City “Carpet-Bagging Ludlow” Councilman and now convicted felon Martin Ludlow
Former 10th District City Councilman Nate Holden
Former 10th District City Councilman Dave Cunningham.
For decades, be it Herb Wesson or any elected Black leader prior to Herb Wesson, the 10th Los Angeles Council District has yet to have a competent black elected office holder who truly serves residents of the 10th District. That same can be said for the 2nd Los Angeles County District, the 9th Los Angeles Council District, the 8th Los Angeles Council District, the Los Angeles County 2nd Supervisorial District, the State Assembly, the U.S. Congress, or for that matter an inept President of the United States of America, pertaining to President Barack Obama.
…government is supposed to instituted for the protection of its citizens
Sincerely,
Michael L. Lofton