{"id":2739,"date":"2008-05-23T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2008-05-23T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T17:27:13","slug":"south-la-groups-demand-investigation-into-contributions-to-mta-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/05\/23\/south-la-groups-demand-investigation-into-contributions-to-mta-board-member\/","title":{"rendered":"South LA Groups Demand Investigation Into Contributions To MTA Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-052408\/2008_05_24_goodmon.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-052408\/2008_05_24_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/www.friends4expo.org\/images\/goldline320.jpg\" alt=\"Expo Light Rail\" \/><em>GUEST: Damien Goodmon, Coordinator, Citizens Campaign to Fix the Expo Rail Line<\/em><\/p>\n<p>South LA community organizations have uncovered apparently illegal campaign contributions from a contractor to an MTA board member. Former LA police chief Bernard Parks who sits on the board of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has accepted almost $20,000 from Tutor-Saliba, and smaller donations from other contractors to fund his election campaign for LA County Supervisor. The organizations who are calling for an investigation into these contributions include Save Leimert, Expo Communities United, and Baldwin Hills\/Crenshaw Homeowners&#8217; Coalition. They represent a growing chorus of voices that oppose the construction of a light rail project saying that it impacts communities of color disproportionately compared to the majority white communities in other areas. Part of the criticism is that the light rail is designed to be similar to an existing rail, the Blue Line. Ninety people have been killed in over 800 accidents at the Blue Line, making it the most dangerous light rail system in the nation. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixexpo.org\">www.fixexpo.org<\/a> or call 323-761-6435.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Damien Goodmon, Coordinator, Citizens Campaign to Fix the Expo Rail Line South LA community organizations have uncovered apparently illegal campaign contributions from a contractor to an MTA board member. Former LA police chief Bernard Parks who sits on the board of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has accepted almost $20,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}