Beverly Hills schools call on Trump administration to strip Purple Line funding

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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"Beverly Hills school board president asks Trump to stop growth of mass transit in Los Angeles" is a level of toxic NIMBYism I wasn't expecting.

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Students in Beverly Hills planning districtwide "walkout" this morning to protest Purple Line extension to the Westside. https://la.curbed.com/2018/10/11/17961850/beverly-hills-purple-line-walkout-trump-schools …

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Don’t forget the punchline: The students will not actually walk out of school and to the park, which is a 35-minute walk from campus, rather, they will be loaded onto buses and driven 1.7 miles to the walkout site, the Beverly Hills Courier reports.

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Beverly Hills schools call on Trump administration to strip Purple Line funding

The school board president launched a website blasting the project, and students are planning a districtwide walkout

By Jenna Chandler@jennakchandler Oct 11, 2018, 3:43pm PDT

The president of Beverly Hills Unified School District’s board of education helped build a website that blasts Metro’s subway to the Westside and urges the Trump administration to block federal funding for the project. ... The website, “Stop the Purple Threat,” claims constructing a subway underneath Beverly Hills High School will pose a danger to students. When the website surfaced over the summer, no one knew who was behind it. ... That changed Wednesday, when the Beverly Hills Weekly revealed that school board president Lisa Korbatov built the website herself, with help from lawyers and consultants.

The newspaper obtained a recording from an October 4 meeting, held at a private residence in Beverly Hills, where Korbatov, speaking to a crowd of about 75 people, acknowledges that the website “was put up by a professional organization... Myself and one or two lawyers and consultants, we loaded all the information.”

While the school district had tried repeatedly in court to stop Metro from building the subway underneath the high school’s campus, Korbatov’s “Stop the Purple Threat” campaign takes a different approach: Nab the attention of President Donald Trump and try to convince him to order the withdrawal of federal funding from the Purple Line extension.
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The students will not actually walk out of school and to the park, which is a 35-minute walk from campus, rather, they will be loaded onto buses and driven 1.7 miles to the walkout site, the Beverly Hills Courier reports.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. where they will be served hors d'oeuvres and sparkling water, no doubt...catered

I guess the problem is that the subway is just too pedestrian and make it entirely too easy for the peasants to get to Beverly Hills.

[dawg day]

2. I don't know all the issues, but a subway like this would be so great for commuters

.. and tourists.

[marylandblue]

7. The Purple Line will allow Blacks and Hispanics to get to Beverly Hills without a car.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. Too bad the subway

isn't done - the kids could use it to get to their protest!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. The plot thickens: Force behind campaign against Metro's Purple Line may have a Trump card

The article touches on it, but this is all perpetrated by a school board member who has ties to Trump and stands to gain financially if the line is moved. Super shady. Kids don't really care beyond getting a day off. ( I know some BH families).

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Force behind campaign against Metro’s Purple Line may have a Trump card

Lisa Korbatov’s husband, who once sold the president a home, is appealing to POTUS for help

By Natalie Hoberman | July 09, 2018 05:00PM

In Beverly Hills, an anonymous group that has been petitioning President Trump to stop a planned subway extension beneath their high school may not be so anonymous, after all.

It turns out that Lisa Korbatov, a Beverly Hills resident who is heavily involved in the city’s politics, is spearheading the campaign, and she has a direct connection to Trump, sources said. Her parents, Leonard and Selma Fisch, sold a home to him via an Egyptian pastor and alleged fraudster who appeared to be fronting for a Trump-controlled LLC, The Real Deal has learned. ... And Korbatov’s own husband, Igor Korbatov, brokered the deal.

It all started in 2008, when Korbatov’s parents sold their home on Rodeo Drive to Mokless Girgis, the Egyptian pastor, for $10.3 million. Six weeks after purchasing, Girgis inexplicably transferred the 10,400-square-foot mansion to an LLC named 806 Acquisitions, property records show. The deed was transferred for no money.

That LLC, it was revealed a year later through business registration records, was created by Trump, property records show.
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[BigmanPigman]

9. Am I reading more Russian names?

Is it me or are there a lot of Russian sounding names connected to the moron and his business deals over the years?

[meadowlark5]

5. I'm sure the Beverly Hills school has celebrity connections

If they have one of those celebs, who Trump wishes loved him, contact him and tell him how awesome he is, the funding will be stripped the following day.

[TwistOneUp]

6. Years ago...

The Butler family built Oakbrook, IL, and told the regional bus authority, "No buses will run to Oakbrook". Wanted to keep out the Chicago "riff-raff".

Fucking racists.

[Croney]

8. Just call Susan Sarandon, she'll help shut down the subway extension

so the revolution will come quicker.