Instead of posting blame and busting up over billboards and advertisements in public parks, the City of Los Angeles needs to consider every available revenue source to save vital public services without raising taxes and cutting the depleted and dwindling municipal workforce.
PBS news program SoCal Connected already ran a report on prospective plans to implement advertising in public parks. Val Zavala and guest reporters have indicated that controversy surrounds the sudden advance of advertising into public parks. However, NBC 4's Conan Nolan interviewed Los Angeles' former Director of Parks Services, who has now come forward supporting the revenue streams which would flow in from private advertising.
Personally, I do not see how an increase in private advertising would add blight or blemish to Venice beach or the Westside public spaces.
Because LA-area politicians have insisted on making billboards and digital advertising so important, they seem to be promoting an ineffective an unnecessary attachment to ancillary issues that do not require them to focus on the city budget and entitlement spending, two issues fraught with political dangers which need immediate attention. All the haggling over propaganda and advertising is a big waste of time, and Los Angeles has no more time or money to spare when it comes to saving taxpayer dollars while taking in requisite revenue to keep the city solvent.
On another note, I am impressed that City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has kept his word to prosecute illegal billboard operators. I only wish that he had kept his promise to take out full page ads declaring "I AM A LIAR" when he ran for higher office while serving as LA City Attorney, another campaign promise which Nuch had made in order to get elected in the first place!
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