Jimmy Blackman parking ticket dismissal request

An aide to Los Angeles May­or Ant­o­nio Vil­larai­gosa got quick ac­tion in Septem­ber 2009 when he sent an email to a city trans­port­a­tion of­fi­cial, ask­ing that someone re­view a park­ing tick­et he thought had been un­fairly is­sued to a friend.

The email from Jimmy Black­man — now chief of staff for City Coun­cil­man Den­nis Zine — showed up this week in doc­u­ments from the Gold Card Desk, which trans­port­a­tion of­fi­cials set up as a way to handle tick­et ap­peals sought by City Hall of­fi­cials.