![Bob Blumenfield, Councilmember from CD3, providing yet another example of how hard it is to find good staff.](https://michaelkohlhaas.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/BB_Official_Portrait-240x300.jpg)
But then in June 2016 Hillel Aron used the 11% figure in the L.A. Weekly, although he retracted it promptly when the error was pointed out to him.1 and I thought that would be the end of it. However, this past week brought us two new Council files supplementary to the Homelessness Crisis file. These are CF 15-1138-S12, moved by Curren Price and Marqueece Harris-Dawson and CF 15-1138-S13, moved by Bob Blumenfield and Harris-Dawson again. And both motions (S12 and S13) cite the erroneous 11% figure for some reason. There are some red faces on the fourth floor of 200 N. Spring Street this morning, friends!
![Curren Price, Councilmember for CD9.](https://michaelkohlhaas.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Councilman_2-1-300x199.jpg)
These are both worthy causes, and neither depends for its worthiness on whether the increase was 11% or 5%. Either way it’s too many. But it seems like everybody in City government at one point or another has reminded the whole damned universe in an email blast or in a tweet or press conference or photo op or a comment in an elevator or whatever that THIS IS A WORLD-CLASS CITY. E.g. here’s Price himself saying it in June 2016 with reference to a freaking George Lucas museum in Exposition Park. Well, I don’t know what makes a city world-class, but I do know that the governments of world-class cities know the difference between 11% and 5%.
Official portrait of CD3 Councilmember Bob Blumenfield is a public record, as is the image of CD9 Councilmember Curren Price.