Dear Councilperson LaBonge and Staff:

Rarely is anything left to an individual.  Thanks again to a job well done and your personal evidence of support by your yes vote this past week.  I pray recent threats by Dick Bove that banks may “drop” clients’ accounts because banks “cannot make a profit” will not spoil the well-placed intentions of the  measure OR APPLY TO BANK OF AMERICA!  (although Bove was referring to the federal law concerning bank overdraft fees, late fees, duplicate fees and such, ATTACHING to a customer’s bank account, the timing of Bove’s statement on Bloomberg TV has a tangential “spill-over effect”, intentioned or non-intentioned). 

I don’t know if you care I cc’d a limited partnership of New York  origin, BloombergTV, a part of Bloomberg, L.P.  I’m proud of them Tom, and I’m especially proud of you.  I know Eric Garcetti’s father is ultimately proud of his son, as I am of both of them. 

Did O.J. do it?  We may never know.  But I had a dream of him pasty-faced in a room with his arms limited, saying “I didn’t do it.  I didn’t kill Nicole”.  The dream appeared like a movie.  O.J. had a white shirt on and was past perspiration.  There was a spotlight shining on him.  He was looking at me as if, “See what they have done.  You know what’s goin’ on.”   It could be… . 

JOHN RUBENS