Stakeholder Comment About "Bradley" and Glassell Park NC System

WATCH THIS FIRST: BRADLEY AT THIS WEEK'S MEETING -- FULLY AWARE CAMERAS ARE ROLLING AFTER LAST MEETING'S BROWN ACT DEBACLE. THEN READ THE FOLLOWING ABOUT THIS GUY.


THIS ENTIRE PASSAGE IS A 100% QUOTE FROM A GLASSELL PARK STAKEHOLDER WHO CONTACTED ME IN RESPONSE TO MY STORY ON GLASSELL PARK NC: Original Glassell Park's NC "Racket" Story

Glassell Park Stakeholder said...I tried to get involved in GPNC in '01 when I first moved to town. Met Bradley Sept 8, 2001. I didn’t know the man more than five minutes till he said, "I can’t wait till they open the LA City college on Fletcher, so he could kick out the low income residents who were renting his apartments, and get some real money from the college students."

I just thought, “Oh my gosh, you don’t even know me, and you are telling me this. And that has been very telling as to what Bradley is all about.”

My first NC meeting was Monday sept 10, 2001 and he just ran the meeting with an iron fist. They were not certified at that time, but it was very clear that he was going to run rough-shot over this process and he had no fear, whatsoever.

Later, a few months later, I called the DONE rep for GP and asked why is he taking over this NC, and I instantly became an enemy of DONE.

They treated me like crap, snide remarks at the meeting. Hostile treatment because I had “dared” to challenge Bradley. The day I called and asked, she scolded me at the meeting that night. “HE’S IN CHARGE.” And comments to the effect of that, "What he says, goes!"

Then, Bradley got himself on the By Laws Committee and now he has more authority to pull the, “I’m in charge, do what I say” mentality.

I was on the By Laws Committee, too, and he declared himself Chair of the By Laws Committee. There was no vote. So I guess it was his assumption. The whole committee challenged him, and it went to remediation. (Sitting down with Patricia Villasenior, the mediator from DONE.)

We learned she was a friend of Bradley’s. So when she walked into the next meeting, and he gave her a hug, we knew, “Huh! We’re just wasting our time.” He (Bradley)quit showing up to By Laws meetings. So we DID get rid of him, but not officially.

Alisa Smith, or someone not from the “Dark Side” was voted in as new By Laws Chair.

So we beat him down there, then he was still on the GPNC board as a business rep, or something; but he never recused himself from any votes.

When asked if board members had to fill out a “Form 700”, he fought and said, “No, we don’t.” And DONE agreed that you don’t have to.

“Why the hell not, he’s an elected official.” A Form 700 is for all public officials. If he is elected by this City agency, and NC is an official City agency – which is why they are required to adhere the Brown Act, then he should he have to fill out the form.

And it was a constant battle at every turn. Everything that we wanted, any issues about concerns about development, he would just run rough-shot over us. And I know many people who just walked away from GPNC because of HIM.

And his constant pulling of the race card. Oh my gosh! “You disagree with me, you’re a racist” anytime you disagree with him. My neighbor is African American, and SHE disagreed with him, too. We kept pointing out, “How could she be racist?” And he ignored it. Any time you would try to use logic, he would ignore it.

By the time the second elections rolled around, he was defeated and no longer sat on the board. (Around Fall of ’03.)

Then he came back the next election, and he had formed his diversity coalition with Victory Outreach. And I guess those people came by the bus loads, and voted for Bradley. PROH-LA may have been out in full force election day, too. Because, part of the Bylaws said that we couldn’t verify stakeholders, by checking IDs. By then, he had his slate of candidates lined up of people from either Victory Outreach and PROH-LA.

It WAS busloads of people from Victory Outreach. At this point they were pissed off because GPNC didn’t vote for the new VO sign. So, VO and Bradley were pissed off, so they said, “You know what…we just need to take over this board.”

And I know a lot of former board members elected not to run, because they could see the GPNC was about to self-destruct. And I hadn’t heard much, until last week with that YouTube episode. (I was disenfranchised, so I stopped showing up.)

Someone discovered that he was using two different addresses. One was his NEW house in area four of GP, and the other one was his old house in area one. He chose to run as an area rep, which is exclusive to that area, and he didn’t live in that area now. And all sorts of people challenged his victory and DONE said, “He won alright…he’s allowed to self-affirm his address.”They didn’t bother to verify his address, they just said, “Oh, he’s allowed.”

When he was President of GP Improvement Association (the local “do go” organization that has been around 38 years, founded in 1968) – A community member headed up the opposition to the McDoanlds, and the Phillipino community did not like that. Ruby De Vera, working for Jackie Goldberg at the time, when Jackie was our CM, before she left to go to the Assembly. And the City didn’t see fit to hold another election, so we had Jackie's office staff running our council district. And Ruby made the connection between McDonalds and the architect who developed the building (hooked the two up) in Glassell Park, and it was questioned by the communtity at the time whether Ruby got anything for the negotiation. De Vera then went on to work for CM Ed Reyes.

Bradley wanted the McDonalds that the pueblos were against. The McD’s was denied. And from that day forward, Bradley declared an all out war on the improvement association. He tried to discredit them. And by then, he was on the NC and their motto is “you’re voice to the City.” He took that to mean, it’s the ONLY voice to the city. And the GPIA could kiss his ass for challenging the McDonalds and having his piece of the pie denied.

This is a waste of taxpayer’s money. I would be GLAD if they were decertified, then out on the ballot to just go away. We need to vote to go away.

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AND HERE'S KING BRADLEY OF GLASSELL PARK IN ACTION WITH THE YouTube CLASSIC THAT TRIGGERED THIS WHOLE AVALANCE THAT DRAGS IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPERS AND FORMER CLINTON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY APPOINTEES/GLOBAL ROUND THE CLOCK OPPOSITION RESEARCHERS