At over 1,000+ members, the In Memory of Zac Champommier Facebook group is a bona fide grass roots movement, and if at least HALF of those members were registered voters.... well now we're looking at not only a grass roots movement, but a grassroots political voting block and those tend to grow rather rapidly with enough organization and nurturing.
Thankfully, Zac has lots of friends who have studied with various legendary community organizers and activists, and we're told now is the time for us to "bulk up" politically so that we can flex our collective voting muscle come election time.
How can you help? Join the Zac Political Party -- REGISTER TO VOTE!
If you are 18, it's time for you to register to vote! Our friends at Rock the Vote are here to help! Here's a little bit about Rock the Vote and their organization (from their website):
Rock the Vote's mission is to engage and build political power for young people in our country.
Founded twenty years ago at the intersection of popular culture and politics, Rock the Vote is growing its team and its campaigns in 2010, to support the tidal wave of young people who want to get involved in elections and seize the power of the youth vote to create political and social change.
Over the last two decades, Rock the Vote has registered more young people to vote than any other organization or campaign, and we intend to register and turn out millions more in 2010 – and to be the best-informed place online where young people can find out what they need to know before casting a ballot.
After years of declining participation at the polls, a new generation of young voters has arrived. Millions of new voters between the ages of 18 – 29 cast ballots in 2004, 2006, and 2008. Rock the Vote is dedicated to building the political power and clout of the Millennial Generation by registering and turning out young people, by forcing the candidates to campaign to them, and by making politicians pay attention to youth and the issues they care about once in office.
If any of the local politicans in both Porter Ranch where Zac lived (Los Angeles Council District 12, Congressional District 27) or Studio City where Zac was killed (Council District 2, Congressional District 28) would like to speak with us about our support and possible endorsement for your candidacy or upcoming re-election (hello Mitch Englander, Brad Smith, Brad Sherman , whom we've spoken to and have been impressed with his time and consideration to our cause, and Mark Reed!), drop us a line: justitia dot vobis at gmail dot com and we'll talk.
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let me be the first to say that we will not succumb to the complacency that has allowed the law enforcement culture of secrecy to thrive. It is just as much the culture of law enforcement that led to Zac's killing as it was the person who pulled the trigger.
I suggest the following items become some of the bricks in the foundation of our platform:
1. The name(s) of any officer involved in a shooting will be immediately released to the media (there is no sense in turning the sheriff's into one giant firing squad with every member of the department a suspect executioner. How can that arrangement foster public trust?)
2. There will be immediate testing for drugs and alcohol whenever an officer or a member of their team is involved in a shooting.
3. There will be an end to the use of MOU's (memorandum of understanding) where the agency whose officer was involved in the shooting is allowed to investigate their own. (How convenient? Wouldn't we all love to be charged with conducting investigations into our own possible wrongdoing. The current set-up is a joke and, no doubt, inherently biased)
I like it!
I Love it!
We seek justice.
The truth is the prerequisite for justice.
If we are sincere in our passion for justice, then we must be even more sincere in our effort to discover the truth.
We must follow all leads with equal vigor and relentlessness.
We must subject all evidence to equally rigorous testing and verification.
We must be willing to accept being wrong about what we thought was right.
We must be willing to accept that another was right about what we believed was wrong.
I cannot accept the version of events attributed to Doug Oeters as reliable.
This is because the journalist(s) who reported about their communications with Doug Oeters have not offered any confirmation of having verified this persons identity to any acceptable standard.
The reports attributed to Doug Oeters are favorable in "tone" to the innocence of Zac.
The purported "witness" statement attributed to Doug Oeters is in "substance" favorable to the version of events used to justify the shooting.
That is because Doug Oeters is presented as an independent witness to seeing Zac driving a car which struck an undercover narc thus precipitating the shooting.
Except for Doug Oeters, there seems to be nobody who saw Zac's car hit any person at any speed whatsoever.
Except for what the deputies involved supposedly witnessed.
The truth is the prerequisite for justice.
In service of a comprehensive and objective search for the truth,
the following questions are in need of an honest response:
Who is Eric Rick Feldman?
What is the connection between Eric Rick Feldman and the Los Angeles District Attorneys Office, the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department, and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration?
Where was Eric Rick Feldman on June 24, 2010?
Mitch Englander breaking and entry
Featured in “LA Observed”
Let's break into Jimmy's office
Kevin Roderick • February 25 2004 10:31 AM
Here's an odd story out of Los Angeles City Hall by David Zahniser in the Breeze. Seems that Alex Padilla, the president of the City Council, and the chief of staff to councilman Greig Smith were spotted last weekend shooting video inside the closed -- and locked -- suite of Mayor Jim Hahn. They didn't have permission to be there, says Hahn's office, but had talked City Hall guards into unlocking doors for them.
Padilla and Mitch Englander explain the after-hours entry as innocent, "part of their effort to shoot a satiric video for an upcoming American Diabetes Association fund-raiser in which Padilla will be a featured guest. Padilla had the mistaken impression that he was allowed to go into Hahn's office and has already apologized to the mayor, Padilla spokesman David Gershwin said. 'There was no harm intended.'"
The mayor's sister, councilwoman Janice Hahn, calls it a "childish prank" that showed lack of respect on Padilla's part. Englander retorts that "some people have a sense of humor, some people don't...it ruffled some feathers, but that's what spoofs usually do."
Count Hahn's communications deputy Julie Wong among the un-amused. The guards who let Padilla in are being investigated. "It's a matter of security, and we want to make sure that concerns about getting into the mayor's office are addressed," Wong said. "If they had asked, we would have met them here and let them in."
City Hall Prank Results in Inquiry
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles
February 26, 2004|Jessica Garrison | Times Staff Writer
Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn said he felt "a little violated." Council President Alex Padilla said he was very sorry, but meant no harm.
Meanwhile, the city has launched an investigation into why security guards allowed Padilla -- and a video camera -- into the mayor's personal office without permission last weekend.
Welcome to Videogate, the newest scandal to rock Los Angeles City Hall.
As first reported Wednesday in the Daily Breeze, the incident began as a well-intentioned prank on a rainy afternoon last Saturday.
Padilla said that he and Mitchell Englander, a top aide to Councilman Greig Smith, had gone to the mayor's office to capture some footage for a spoof video. The video will be shown at a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Assn., at which Padilla will be a featured guest. (To preserve the joke, Englander declined to explain for the record exactly why he and Padilla needed to be in the mayor's office.)
Trouble was, Hahn's office is locked on weekends. So Padilla and Englander persuaded security officials to let them in through not one but two sets of locked doors.
As they were on their way out, someone from the mayor's budget team spotted them. (The budget team was working away that day, grappling with the city's $250-million projected shortfall for next year.)
The budget team called Chief of Staff Tim McOsker, who was so concerned about the security breach that he drove in from San Pedro.
Now, the city's General Services Department has placed one security official on administrative leave while it investigates.
"It was a mistake," Padilla said, adding that he had thought someone in the mayor's office knew he was coming in, and that the mayor was justified in being upset. He added that one "silver lining" to the debacle might be the discovery that there are "loopholes in our security."
Hahn, for his part, said the issue had raised some concerns among his security detail.
"I think my personal office ought to be my personal office," he said. "You do feel a little violated."
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