California may be out of cash in a couple weeks, but they do have enough money to throw a multi million dollar victory parade for the Lakers. While the club may cover half the cost, the LA city budget will be covering the rest of the festivities unless there are private donations. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is adamant about this.
We’re going to have a parade. People can complain about it, that’s fine, but we’re going to have a parade.”
No word yet on who will be paying for Kobe’s victory parade.
L.A.’s Broke but Still Wants a Party [WSJ]
California
Knows how to party
Cal-i-forniaaaa
Knows how to partyyyy
In the cityyyyy
City of LA
Compton
South Central in da house
I heard private donors were covering the other half. Oh well, I still hate the Lakers.
i kno theres probably 5 ppl who watch sports on this site.. but nobody likes kobe and nobody wants to go to his parade
Californication.
That word exists for a reason.
Dumb story Greg
Dumb story Greg
In similar news Pelosi will be flying in on her jet for the parade. Obama is sending his plane too but he wont be on it.
@7 what are you talking about? this site is like 95% male readership. guessing more than that watch sports.
If BLANUS is a sport, sign me up!
Greg
@2- Always good to see CPT in da house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ0_HYuR_fk
Lakers are covering half and private donors are covering the other half. This has been expressed by a few outlets. Come on DB, you’re better than this.
It’s not the most interesting topic to begin with, but the fact that it’s not even accurate…
Someone please excuse Greg for the rest of the day.
@12 Did you see the byline?
i think sports viewing here is well below the mean.
i think sports viewing here is well below the mean.
I guess you could blame the WSJ for more C-level journalism. Still… pretty much every other news outlet (ESPN, CNN, etc.) had this right.
How do you define irony???
Watching a bunch of multi-millionaires laud themselves on an elevated platform distinctly separated from the hoi polloi while being regaled by those very same peasants in a state burgeoning on a historic bankruptcy…
Oh yeah, AND paid for by the peasants…
Unfucking believable. Why can’t people just tell themselves no? This is why this country is going to shit.
It’s OK greggie, you gave sports a try but failed.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4263680
fucking idiot.
The sunshine state where the bomb-ass hemp be. A state where you never find a dance floor empty.
Hey Greg, how does Kobe’s ass taste?
Man, that is some douchy clip art right there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmgE9csoMek
The parade and Coliseum celebration came after several days of controversy over who should foot the bill. The City of Los Angeles originally planned to cover the estimated $2-million cost, but that spurred objections from members of city unions, who said the spending didn’t make sense amid city budget cuts and layoffs.
Now, private donors are covering the costs.
I wonder if Gregg reads these posts. If so, I bet he’s crying in the fetal position right now.
Wouldn’t it just be cheaper if they had some kind of rally in a fixed location… Greg’s anus?
What!?!?
They could have the rally in Greg’s anus.
Where’s my Shaq pack?
@26 crying because of weak put downs from a bunch of nerdy spreadsheet jockeys??? I think not.
- Johnny Bravo
clips in 2010. lepoof is their lone fan.
@25
So Greg is full of shit? Then he should hand his badge at EOD.
Journalistic abortion, Greg.
Try to thread some narratives next time. See below:
from espn:
Not far away, Letitcia Gutierrez was crammed against a chain-link fence separating fans from the parade route. But she didn’t mind the cramped quarters.
– she got to LA by disguising herself as a cocaine bag in a goddamn shark.
from usa today:
In the days before the parade, Fisher, Bratton and others pleaded with fans to remain well behaved and avoid a replay of the looting and vandalism Sunday night that led to 18 arrests
– you can bet your sweet ass that Mark Walsh is long whatever they damaged.
Peace
California is discovering the same problem that blacks learned years ago and hispanics are about to learn – that the Democratic party knows their vote is a sure thing so they don’t have to work to earn it. The reason Obama is telling California to sort out their own shit is because he can. Stupid tree-hugging Californians will still vote for him.
@33 we nominate you to be Greg’s writing coach, because Beth sure isn’t
-cliff
Greg,
I didn’t support the rampant bashing of your writing. I think that there is a transitional period in any new job. I was hoping you would come around. But you ripped off an article from Opening Bell yesterday, and fucked this one all to hell…CA isn’t paying for the parade. Get with it, or the readers are going to tear 13-14 new assholes.
The fact that the Lakers won the championship is the first sign that the world order is getting back on track, and may presage our economic recovery. The stupid Celtics winning last year was a clear sign that the world was off track.
I am a fucking bad-ass.
signed,
Andrew Ross Sorkin
hiring Timmmay to write under the pen name “Greg Michaels” was obviously a mistake by the DB editorial board
@25 When Greg posted this story, the private donors had already stepped up. Greg is beyond help and it only makes sense that he came from the structured products desk of a failed bank.
@34
YOU are out of place here. Find the proper forum for your drivel. For example:
http://freerepublic.com/
To be fair, it is the bankrupt LA City that’s doing the parade. The California budget has its own problems:
The state continues to hand out 10,000s of Blackberrys to employees, even during this crisis.
The state spent $4 million to produce this “Sid the Science Kid” TV show: http://pbskids.org/sid/ .
Over 4800 people get over $100k/year for life pensions from the state’s CalPERS account.
does anyone think the magic coach looks like ron jeremy?
f the lakers, Go warriors