Thread: TACO TRUCKS GET SOME LEEWAY.

Taco trucks get some leeway
By John Rogers, The Associated Press
Article Launched: 08/28/2008 01:01:16 AM PDT


The hundreds of taco trucks that dot Los Angeles County and dish out cheap fast-food dishes will be allowed to conduct business from set locations, a judge has determined. The hundreds of taco trucks that dot Los Angeles County and dish out cheap fast-food dishes such as carnitas, quesadillas and carne asada will be allowed to conduct business from set locations, a judge determined Wednesday, throwing out a law requiring that the trucks move every hour.

In issuing his ruling, Judge Dennis Aichroth also dismissed a citation issued to taco-truck driver Margarita Garcia, who had faced the possibility of a $1,000 fine and six months in jail for violating the ordinance. Garcia was one of the first taco-truck drivers cited after the county Board of Supervisors adopted the measure last spring.

"The court finds that the ordinance as written is too ambiguous to be enforceable," Aichroth said in his eight-page ruling. He also said the county law appeared to conflict with the state's vehicle code.

The law was passed after restaurateurs complained that taco trucks parking on the streets near their businesses were drawing away customers and forcing some of them to the brink of bankruptcy. Although it only affected unincorporated sections of the county, not the city of Los Angeles itself, the area under the law's domain included the vast, largely Latino East Los Angeles neighborhood where many of the trucks operate.

A spokeswoman for Supervisor Gloria Molina, who introduced the ordinance, said the county would appeal.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_10323469


*NOTE:

The taco trucks or "roach coaches" as they are more commonly known here in Los Angeles exclusively service the companies that illegally employ undocumented workers.

Supervisor Gloria Molina spearheads a movement making life easy for the legions of illegal aliens here in L.A.


TS77

The law was passed after restaurateurs complained that taco trucks parking on the streets near their businesses were drawing away customers and forcing some of them to the brink of bankruptcy.


More evidence of how Mayor Tony the Weasle talks out both sides of his face.

On one hand he's screaming about immigration enforcement driving businesses away from LA, and at the same time he's got his minions at all levels doing everything humanly possible to side with illegals and drive businesses OUT of business in LA.

Supervisor Gloria Molina spearheads a movement making life easy for the legions of illegal aliens here in L.A.

This is no suprise! Gloria Molina is a card carrying reconquista!!!

This whole decison is a joke! The reconquista so called "leaders" in this city control everything. The fact is these "taco trucks" are operated in large part by hispanics, a majority of which are illegal. Just another law disregarded because it would have made life more difficult for LA's beloved invaders!

Disgusting...

These trucks parked on the sidewalk in front of restaurants and stole their business. And they parked there all day. That was the reason for the law telling them to keep moving. This judge threw the law out to favor the illegals. Judges should not make laws. They should just enforce them.

Sounds like LA is way over due for a recall for the mayor, council and the judges.

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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
District 1 - Ed Reyes
District 2 - Wendy Greuel
District 3 - Dennis P. Zine
District 4 - Tom LaBonge
District 5 - Jack Weiss
District 6 - Tony Cardenas
District 7 - Richard Alarcón
District 8 - Bernard Parks
District 9 - Jan Perry
District 10 - Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
District 11 - Bill Rosendahl
District 12 - Greig Smith
District 13 - Eric Garcetti
District 14 - José Huizar
District 15 - Janice Hahn
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton
Police Commision President Anthony Pacheco
Police Commision Vice President John Mack
Police Commisioner Andrea Ordin
Police Commisioner Robert M. Saltzman
Police Commisioner Alan J. Skobin
Supervisor Gloria Molina
Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky
Supervisor Don Knabe
Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich

Originally Posted by Buzzm1

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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
District 1 - Ed Reyes
District 2 - Wendy Greuel
District 3 - Dennis P. Zine
District 4 - Tom LaBonge
District 5 - Jack Weiss
District 6 - Tony Cardenas
District 7 - Richard Alarcón
District 8 - Bernard Parks
District 9 - Jan Perry
District 10 - Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
District 11 - Bill Rosendahl
District 12 - Greig Smith
District 13 - Eric Garcetti
District 14 - José Huizar
District 15 - Janice Hahn
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton
Police Commision President Anthony Pacheco
Police Commision Vice President John Mack
Police Commisioner Andrea Ordin
Police Commisioner Robert M. Saltzman
Police Commisioner Alan J. Skobin
Supervisor Gloria Molina
Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky
Supervisor Don Knabe
Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich

Thanks for the 411.


TS77

Thanks, Buzzm1. I will email them all when I can figure out something more to the point than "have you all lost your minds!"

"We feel this ordinance regulates quality-of-life issues, which are of ultimate importance to residents in our unincorporated areas," Molina spokeswoman Roxane Marquez said. "Our intent was not to put any catering trucks out of business but to ensure fairness to our residents — those who live in homes right in front of or across the street from where trucks do business everyday, all hours of the day or night."

The truck drivers, many of them immigrants or first-generation Hispanics, complained that they were unfairly singled out by the ordinance. They pointed out that they faced the same health requirements as restaurants and said they provided good, cheap food, often to a low-income clientele that couldn't afford restaurant dining.

"If you can't manage your restaurant business in a way so that you can compete with a taco truck, maybe you should find another business," attorney Phil Greenwald, who represented Garcia and other taco truck drivers, said after Aichroth's ruling.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hqMV ... AD92R6A0G1


"If you can't manage your restaurant business in a way so that you can compete with a taco truck, maybe you should find another business," --Phil Greenwald.


With this attitude in 10 years Los Angeles will be a province of Mexico.


TS77