Jose Huizar gave a corporate style power point presentation at Eagle Rock’s State of the Town speech on Feb. 1st, 2012. Huizar’s attitude appeared laissez faire as he discussed local graffiti, tree trimming, and the hot topic of banning medical marijuana collectives. As if he were speaking to his locker room buddies he seized a moment to make a joke about cracking down on local massage parlors due to reports of sexually transmitted diseases.
First it was pot shops. Now it’s erotic massage parlors.
In previous raids, police have discovered that some of the women working in the parlors are illegal immigrants working to pay off debts. Isn’t this human trafficking?
Despite the fact that human trafficking may be taking place in our own neighborhoods all questions presented to Huizar were about marijuana collectives. The first question asked was to show evidence that the medical marijuana dispensaries increased neighborhood crime. Jose haphazardly read the question by skimming over the words as if most of it were irrelevant to those in the audience. Folks in the crowd began to yell, “We can’t hear you!” When he doubled talked his answer the group shouted, “You’re not answering the question!” He was ill prepared to deal with their heckling and walked the room like a bad comedian.
After about 20 minutes of nothingness he finally answered, “My constituents tell me there is increased crime from the marijuana collectives.” Who are his “constituents” and why is their word the truth despite other evidence such as the Rand Report? Hasn’t he researched his data, or is he just taking instructions from another source? Based on his power point presentation, his “constituents” appear more like CEO’s of a powerful corporation than local authorities. Huizar came ill-prepared for the bombardment of marijuana questions, and may have had to wear a dunce cap back at the office. If we were to rate Huizar’s performance like a porn revue…I would give him the rating of a “soft woody”.
Part of Huizar’s defense was that the collectives claim to be non-profits that make over a hundred thousand dollars a year without paying taxes. This is entirely untrue. The collectives do pay taxes, and measure “M” was passed which would allow a tax based revenue stream to help local cities. Meanwhile, our local city council members make over one hundred thousands dollars a year. Let’s tax Huizar to help create revenue for our much needed economy, and make this a real Happy Ending.
Tim Ryder at the State Town Address
Marijuana activists showed up unified under the leadership of Tim Ryder who is the founder of Cannabis Clubs United with the Community. They were dressed in black to express that if marijuana collectives are banned patients would be forced to get their medicine from the Black Market. To listen to Tim Ryder on Hollywood Hemptress Hour click here .
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