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Lakers win another championship and fans get unruly right away
Lakers coach Phil Jackson won his tenth championship tonight as the Lakers won their 15th championship, against the outmatched Orlando Magic. This game was a foregone conclusion. The Magic players had already given up before it even started. I was upset to see Lakers fans going wild at the Staples Center - some of them even set a fire and according to a T.V. news report a woman took off her shirt. Talk about no class. Why do some fans think it is cool to act like complete asses when their team wins? It is disgusting. I don’t know why the cops don’t just arrest the lot of them. It really takes away from the accomplishment of the team. I am a lifelong Lakers fan. I am so proud of the team. They really came together this year. They deserved to win. Kobe Bryant in particular deserves accolades as does his comrade Derek Fisher. They came into the league together and now have their fourth championship. How many would they have won if Shaquille O’Neal had not lost his mind and forced a trade? Go Lakers and shame on you L.A. Lakers fans. Get a hold of yourselves and celebrate with at least a modicum of class. You’re making us all look bad! Lastly - boycott the Clippers! Their owner, Donald Sterling, is an ass. I read that he does not like to rent his apartments out to Latinos. Fine. Let’s boycott his team. The Clippers suck and always will suck until Sterling sells the team to a real pro owner, which he is not. New Blight Report: "Fullerton Airport Unsafe"
Lawyers for the Fullerton Redevelopment Agency have a tough job in trying to defend the bogus blight findings that have been so effectively demolished by County Counsel Attorney James Harman and Friends for a Livable Fullerton's & FFFF Attorney Robert Ferguson.
They just came out with a weak 14 page response to the blight objections, in preparation for the scheduled hearing this Tuesday, June 16 (Item 14). If the council has any sense, they'd shelve this turkey project now. Click here to read more. One third of all Republicans view their party unfavorably!
And that is not all the bad news for the Republican Party.
The lame GOP can’t even figure out who is going to speak for this dying party… SAUSD once again bribes their students so they won’t skip school
Picture Courtesy of the O.C. Register Javier Zamorano, a student at Santa Ana’s Middle College High School, won “a shiny black Chevy Aveo with a price tag of $15,200,” for perfect attendance this year, according to the O.C. Register. The Santa Ana Unified School District doles out prizes at the end of each school year to students who have achieved perfect attendance. They do this because they lose a lot of money when kids skip school. However, the World Health Organization just declared a Phase Six global pandemic, as the Swine Flu has now emerged all over the world. Is it a smart idea to encourage perfect attendance - and thereby discourage sick students from staying home? Of course not. And quite honestly I don’t know of any other school district in Orange County that bribes students so they won’t skip school. This fits right into the culture of low expectations that is the rule at the SAUSD. Now let’s consider the wisdom of giving away a car to a poor family. They admitted that they don’t have a car. So how are they going to pay the taxes incurred by winning this car? And what about driver’s lessons for the young man - and insurance? And who is going to pay for the gas and service fees? It is nice to win a car - but there are many thousands of dollars in hidden costs that this struggling family is going to now have to contend with. Shouldn’t the SAUSD give out bikes instead? Wouldn’t that be “greener?” And what if, God forbid, this kid gets in an accident and gets maimed or killed? Will the SAUSD incur liability? It is good to encourage kids to stay in school. But there are times when they legitimately have to be late or leave early or not attend at all. My oldest son had numerous appointments with his doctor this year after he hurt his arm pitching for the baseball team at school. So he could not win a perfect attendance prize. But he is an honors student. You see the problem with this stupid prize program? There are times when students cannot achieve perfect attendance - but that doesn’t take away from their academic achievements, does it? The ultimate irony is that this same school district is laying off hundreds of teachers and classified workers and already planning to increase class sizes next year. And at the same time they are advertising for six figure administrative positions. And God knows how much they blew remodeling the district offices this year. So no, I am not going to join in celebrating this perfect attendance program. It is lipstick on a pig. Good luck to Zamorano. I hope he can come up with the money to pay for the taxes and insurance on his new car. He is a good student - and that is the rub. We should be celebrating his hard work and his academics, not the fact that he had perfect attendance. The latter is quite simply a fluke. Our SAUSD corruption thread has had over 14,000 unique visitors this year!
One of our readers reacted angrily today because we have, yet again, exposed more corruption at the SAEA (the Santa Ana Educators Association). So our reader wrote that most teachers in Santa Ana don’t read our blog. Well, I am not going to sit here and take that B.S., not when I know it is not true - and can prove it. We use software provided by Google, called Analytics. This software tells us exactly how many readers enjoy our blog - and how many of them read each of our stories. Above, for example, you can see our readership over the past year, for all stories containing the word “SAUSD.” The numbers speak for themselves. Over 14,000 unique readers have read our main SAUSD corruption thread over the past year - and over 13,000 have read our 2009 SAUSD corruption thread. And the new 2009 thread that we started this month already has racked up over 1,900 unique readers, in just two weeks.
So how have these posts done over the past six months? Check out the graphic above and you will note that over 12,000 unique readers have visited our 2009 SAUSD corruption thread. And all of our SAUSD posts have enjoyed hundreds, if not thousands, of readers. The reader who was upset was angry because he believes we are too negative. Well, what do you expect? The SAUSD is chock full of corruption - and so is the SAEA. It is simply unbelievable. Evil, greedy people have taken over these organizations and made them their own personal piggy banks. Of course we are going to continue exposing these cretins! Does this mean we are against public schools - or against unions? No. All of my kids attend SAUSD schools, except my daughter who graduated last year from Santa Ana High. She is now a college student at the prestigious Fashion Institute for Design and Merchandising (FIDM), in Irvine. And I am a teacher too. I have been teaching at Cerritos College since 2003. I am a member of our union, which is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers. I am proud to be a union member. But my union has actually fought for us and treated all of us fairly. Not so the SAEA! If you are looking for a blog that is going to gladhand the SAUSD and the SAEA, sorry. Look elsewhere. If you are on the other hand looking for a blog that will fight for the people of Santa Ana - and the teachers and classified employees, look no further. You have found a home in the blogosphere. We will not be cowed by SAEA hacks. And we won’t let them present lies without debunking them. The numbers tell the story - this is the top political blog in Orange County - and our SAUSD/SAEA coverage is second to none. Don’t ask us - ask the thousands of readers who enjoy this blog day in and day out. By the way, just this week our latest SAUSD corruption thread has racked up over 1,200 unique readers. And our blog has been visited this week by over 8,000 unique readers. You can see our overall numbers on Sitemeter by clicking here. Prez Obama thinking big time about “bulldozing” entire sections of major US citiesNo one can refute the fact that president Obama thinks in big terms. US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline. By Tom Leonard in Flint, Michigan The US government is looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature. The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature. Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area. The radical experiment is the brainchild of Dan Kildee, treasurer of Genesee County, which includes Flint. Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country. Mr Kildee said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes. Most are former industrial cities in the “rust belt” of America’s Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis. In Detroit, shattered by the woes of the US car industry, there are already plans to split it into a collection of small urban centres separated from each other by countryside. “The real question is not whether these cities shrink – we’re all shrinking – but whether we let it happen in a destructive or sustainable way,” said Mr Kildee. “Decline is a fact of life in Flint. Resisting it is like resisting gravity.” Karina Pallagst, director of the Shrinking Cities in a Global Perspective programme at the University of California, Berkeley, said there was “both a cultural and political taboo” about admitting decline in America. “Places like Flint have hit rock bottom. They’re at the point where it’s better to start knocking a lot of buildings down,” she said. Flint, sixty miles north of Detroit, was the original home of General Motors. The car giant once employed 79,000 local people but that figure has shrunk to around 8,000. Unemployment is now approaching 20 per cent and the total population has almost halved to 110,000. The exodus – particularly of young people – coupled with the consequent collapse in property prices, has left street after street in sections of the city almost entirely abandoned. In the city centre, the once grand Durant Hotel – named after William Durant, GM’s founder – is a symbol of the city’s decline, said Mr Kildee. The large building has been empty since 1973, roughly when Flint’s decline began. Regarded as a model city in the motor industry’s boom years, Flint may once again be emulated, though for very different reasons. But Mr Kildee, who has lived there nearly all his life, said he had first to overcome a deeply ingrained American cultural mindset that “big is good” and that cities should sprawl – Flint covers 34 square miles. He said: “The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there’s an assumption that all development is good, that if communities are growing they are successful. If they’re shrinking, they’re failing.” But some Flint dustcarts are collecting just one rubbish bag a week, roads are decaying, police are very understaffed and there were simply too few people to pay for services, he said. If the city didn’t downsize it will eventually go bankrupt, he added. Flint’s recovery efforts have been helped by a new state law passed a few years ago which allowed local governments to buy up empty properties very cheaply. They could then knock them down or sell them on to owners who will occupy them. The city wants to specialise in health and education services, both areas which cannot easily be relocated abroad. The local authority has restored the city’s attractive but formerly deserted centre but has pulled down 1,100 abandoned homes in outlying areas. Mr Kildee estimated another 3,000 needed to be demolished, although the city boundaries will remain the same. Already, some streets peter out into woods or meadows, no trace remaining of the homes that once stood there. Choosing which areas to knock down will be delicate but many of them were already obvious, he said. The city is buying up houses in more affluent areas to offer people in neighbourhoods it wants to demolish. Nobody will be forced to move, said Mr Kildee. “Much of the land will be given back to nature. People will enjoy living near a forest or meadow,” he said. Mr Kildee acknowledged that some fellow Americans considered his solution “defeatist” but he insisted it was “no more defeatist than pruning an overgrown tree so it can bear fruit again”. Larry Gilbert, OC Co-Director, Californians United for Redevelopment Education. Member, Board of Directors, California Alliance to Protect Private Property Rights KFC’s new grilled chicken is flavored with beef!
Pity KFC. “The marinade on the chain’s new grilled chicken contains beef powder and rendered beef fat. And competitor El Pollo Loco wants you to know every finger-licking detail,” according to the L.A. Times. What were the folks at Kentucky FRIED Chicken thinking? This is one of those marketing mistakes that sinks companies! The irony is that here in Orange County, Pollo Loco doesn’t make the best grilled chicken. There are plenty of local chains that are better, including my personal favorite, El Pollo Norteno. Click here for a list of their locations. To make matters worse, it turns out that KFC doesn’t even grill their beef-flavored grilled chicken! They use “grill racks inside ovens” that, combined with the spices and the cooking process, replicated “grilled chicken that tastes” as good as “what comes off the backyard grill,” according to a KFC spokeshole. Which grilled chicken in the O.C. is your favorite? It surely can’t be KFC’s bogus beef-flavored pollo! Why did a SAEA union board member misuse a blogger’s home address and phone number?
Why did SAEA union board member Scott Miller misuse blogger Art Pedroza’s home address and phone number? And why does he wear such goofy clothes? What would possess two members of the Santa Ana Educators Association (SAEA) Board of Directors to reference their union’s office address and phone number while advertising their anger management side business? That is what Jennifer Isensee and Scott C. Miller did. Click here to see the proof of this. Isensee even bragged about this during a union board meeting. Click here to see the minutes that refer to her anger management business. These people just got elected to the SAEA Board of Directors! They are not small fries. Isensee is their Secretary and Miller is their Treasurer. Miller also is a teacher at Walker Elementary. And he is involved with the “Stand up for Schools” organization. We outed them here at the Orange Juice and they had to change their address listing - but then Miller completely lost it. He decided, apparently, to list my own home address and personal cell phone number as his own, on a web page belonging to “Century Anger Management.” How crazy is that? Our blogger Red Vixen was alerted by OJ poster Anonplus, and she then brought this to my attention. I then contacted Century Anger Management. They promptly removed the information from their website and are trying to figure out why Miller did this. What a bad idea by Miller! People have been charged with crimes for this sort of behavior. Ironically, the sentence for such a crime usually involves, here’s the kicker, anger management! I will of course be contacting the Better Business Bureau, the O.C. District Attorney and the State Attorney General about Miller’s actions. I hope he has a good explanation, but I doubt it. I would hope that the new SAEA president, Susan Mercer, would do something about this, but somehow I doubt it. Perhaps I need to let the CTA know what these folks are up to. City of Fullerton to honor Cal State Titans baseball team on Saturday
Picture Courtesy of the O.C. Register This just in from Fullerton Mayor Pro Tem Pam Keller: The College World Series-bound Titan baseball team from California State University, Fullerton, will get a rousing send-off Saturday, June 13, at a rally in Downtown Fullerton. The festivities will take place from 10-11 a.m. on Harbor Boulevard, between Commonwealth and Chapman avenues. The event is being sponsored by the City of Fullerton, the Fullerton Downtown Buisness Association, and Cal State Fullerton. The rally will coincide with the No. 2-seeded Titans opening the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, against the Arkansas Razorbacks. In addition to the rally, a banner honoring the Titans will be raised by the city on the railroad bridge that crosses Harbor at Santa Fe Avenue, the entrance to the city's historic downtown. This is the 16th time in the university's baseball program that the Titans are among the "Elite 8" in the College World Series field. In the 11th year of the Super Regional format, the Titans advanced for the seventh time to Omaha. Cal State Fullerton leads all schools in number of appearances in this format. The four-time National Champion Titans will grace Rosenblatt Stadium on their fourth trip in the last six seasons of the College World Series. Titan skipper, Dave Serrano, is hoping to make good on this year's team slogan "First to Practice; Last to Play." Fullerton Mayor Pro Tem Pam Keller is urging all citizens to turn out for the rally. "We want to root our Titans on to victory and send some Fullerton pride back to Omaha," she said. "This is a chance to showcase our team and city to the rest of America." Mike Ritto of the Fullerton Downtown Business Association is also hoping a large crowd will turn out for the event. "We were the first to practice and hope to be the last to play this year," he said, referring to the Titans opening practice on midnight on Feb. 1, 2009. At the rally, the University will be selling Titan merchandise. Following the rally, many downtown restaurants will be showing the Titan game and offering food and drink specials in honor of the team. Americorp-Gate: Obama firing Inspector General for revealing crooked crony
The AmeriCorps IG accuses prominent Obama supporter of misusing AmeriCorps grant money. Prominent Obama supporter has to pay back more than $400,000 of that grant money. Obama fires AmeriCorps IG. Latest Update: Friday 4:55PM AmeriCorps IG sends email responding to improper “quit or be fired” order from Special Counsel to Obama. CLICK HERE to read it on Orange Juice! According to Congressional sources, “Walpin received a call from the White House Counsel’s office on Wednesday evening. Walpin was told that he had one hour to either resign or be fired. Senate sources say Walpin asked why he was being fired and, according to one source, “The answer that was given was that it’s just time to move on. The president would like to have someone else in that position.” Walpin declined to resign.” The leftists still scream and howl about when George W fired US Attorneys who serve “at the pleasure of the President.” This is much worse. In fact, President Obama is trying to subvert the law! Part of the 30 Day Act was a requirement that the president give Congress 30 days’ notice before dismissing an IG and that reasons be given so as to ensure it is not done for political reasons. One of the co-sponsors of the Act was then-Sen. Barack Obama!! Get the state run media’s take here. Get the Washington Examiners Full Story Here or Read the Excerpt from Byron York below… There are a number of new developments since my post above was published. First, the White House is confirming that it decided to fire IG Walpin because of the Kevin Johnson/St. HOPE affair. In a letter sent Thursday night to Sen. Charles Grassley, White House counsel Gregory Craig cited a complaint lodged by the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento, Lawrence Brown, accusing Walpin of misconduct in the St. Hope investigation. “The Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, a career prosecutor who was appointed to his post during the Bush Administration, has referred Mr. Walpin's conduct for review by the Integrity Committee of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE),” Craig wrote. “We are aware of the circumstances leading to that referral and of Mr. Walpin's conduct throughout his tenure and can assure you that that the President's decision was carefully considered.” This is the White House’s first public statement of its reason for firing Walpin. In the referral which Craig mentioned, which was sent April 29, Lawrence Brown accused Walpin of conducting a biased investigation and seeking “to act as the investigator, advocate, judge, jury and town crier.” Brown was particularly angry that Walpin’s office had talked with the press at various times in the St. HOPE investigation. Brown asked AmeriCorps to investigate Walpin’s behavior. In a stinging response, Walpin wrote that several of Brown’s points were flat-out wrong. More importantly, Walpin’s response sheds light on the process by which St. Hope will allegedly return to the government about half of the $850,000 grant it received from AmeriCorps. Walpin accused the U.S. attorney’s office of undermining Walpin’s attempt at “suspension and debarment” — that is, from taking action that prevents an organization that has engaged in misconduct from receiving any other federal money. According to Walpin, the U.S. attorney’s office resisted efforts to get St. HOPE to repay the money. Even though AmeriCorps inspector general officials had found “six specific instances of diversion and misuse of [AmeriCorps] grant funds,” and even though Kevin Johnson never “submitted a single fact to dispute those findings,” the U.S. attorney, according to Walpin, insisted that the settlement agreement forbid suspension or debarment. Further, according to Walpin, even with the settlement agreement as it now exists, there is little hope the government will ever get any of its money back. “As St. HOPE is insolvent, the absence of any obligation imposed on…[Kevin Johnson], and the absence of any guarantee or security to ensure payment, makes the settlement a farce,” Walpin wrote. “Mr. Brown knows,” Walpin concluded, “that the settlement agreement was carefully drafted so that no obligation is imposed on Mr. Johnson to pay to [AmeriCorps] a single penny of the amount supposedly to be paid to [AmeriCorps] by St. HOPE.” Walpin’s response has led congressional investigators to want to know more about Brown, the acting U.S. attorney. I referred to him earlier as a “Bush holdover.” That’s not entirely accurate. Brown is now the acting U.S. attorney, and he was in the office during the Bush years, but he is a career official, not a Bush appointee. In the days to come, congressional investigators will be weighing Brown’s claims versus Walpin’s. A lot is going on with the story, and it is happening very quickly. My email responds to your telephone call to me while I was in a car driving on a highway, at about 5:20 p.m. I have now reached a destination and therefore can write you this email. In your telephone call, you informed me that the President wishes me to resign my post as IG of CNCS [Corporation for National and Community Service, which includes AmeriCorps]. You told me that I could take no more than an hour to make a decision. As you know, Congress intended the Inspector General of CNCS to have the utmost independence of judgment in his deliberations respecting the propriety of the agency’s conduct and the actions of its officers. That is why the relevant statute provides that the President may remove the IG only if he supplies the Congress with a statement of his reasons–which is quite a different matter than executive branch officials who serve at his pleasure and can therefore be removed for any reason and without notification to Congress. I take this statutorily-mandated independence of my office very seriously, and, under the present circumstances, I simply cannot make a decision to respect or decline what you have said were the President’s wishes within an hour or indeed any such short time. As you are aware, I have just issued two reports highly critical of the actions of CNCS, which is presently under the direction of the President’s appointee and, I am advised, someone with a meaningful relationship with the President. Chairman Solomont and I have had significant disagreements about the findings and conclusions contained in these reports. It would do a disservice to the independent scheme that Congress has mandated–and could potentially raise questions about my own integrity–if I were to render what would seem to many a very hasty response to your request. I heard your statement that this request that you communicated on behalf of the President and the timing of our reports and disagreement with the CNCS Board and management are “coincidence,” as you put it on the phone, but I would suggest there is a high likelihood that others may see it otherwise. I suspect that, when presented with the circumstances I have just discussed, the President will see the propriety of providing me additional time to reflect on his request. If however he believes that my departure is a matter of urgency, then he will have to take the appropriate steps toward ordering my removal, without my agreement. Gerald Walpin ———————————————————————— Well, you have your Chicago thug operation in full swing. It only took a little over four months in office before Obama fully installed his Chicago machine into the Executive branch. It looks like the cronyism is taking effect quite efficiently. This steady drip drop of corruption and scandal will continue… stay tuned! Dr. George Tiller is defined by those who he helped
Tiller’s clinic in Wichita after he was slain. Barbara Shelly’s Opinion piece in the Wichita Eagle : “Phillip Wood and his wife were joyfully preparing for the births of twin boys when, midway through the pregnancy, everything went wrong. An amniocentesis revealed a disease of the placenta. Both twins were dying. With his wife prone on a cot in the back of a van, Wood drove from their home in Columbia, Mo., to a hospital in Florida for a surgical procedure that might save one of the boys. Doctors at the Catholic-affiliated hospital told them neither twin would survive, and his wife was at risk of a ruptured uterus. That would make her infertile and could threaten her life. “They had no information as to where we should go. They just said, ‘Find an abortion,’” said Wood, a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri. Wood and his wife drove to a clinic in Illinois, but doctors there elected not to abort the fetuses, saying the size of one twin’s head was larger than the clinic’s guidelines allowed. With his wife in physical and emotional distress, Wood drove to Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita.
They ran the gantlet of protesters, who pleaded with Wood’s wife not to end her pregnancy. Inside, they signed forms required by the state informing them, among other things, that their sons looked human and could feel pain. After all that, they met George Tiller. “I wasn’t prepared for this active, energetic, very vocal guy,” Wood said. “He took time to listen to us. He was very appropriate and involved me in all steps of the abortion.” After the twins had been aborted, Tiller gave the parents time with them. They performed a brief baptismal ceremony. “While I held the bodies of my sons he stood to the side and wept, very quietly and very briefly,” Wood said. Tiller, the physician slain May 31 in Wichita, was too often defined by his adversaries. On Web sites, TV and radio talk shows, and in legislative hearings, they portrayed him as the reckless “abortionist,” willing to euthanize babies close to birth just so the mother could fit into a prom dress or attend a rock concert. That portrayal always defied logic. Would someone in the third trimester of pregnancy really travel to the heart of Kansas and pay a $6,000 medical fee just to fit into a size 6 party dress? “There has been a very deliberate strategy by the most extreme opponents of abortion to demonize Dr. Tiller and the kind of service he provided, and by extension to demonize women and their motives,” said Peter Brownlie, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. It’s a cruel deception. The overwhelming majority of the 250 to 300 women a year who sought late-term abortions from Tiller had planned their pregnancies. They came to him heartbroken and afraid, carrying fetuses with malfunctioning kidneys, missing organs and syndromes certain to cause death in the womb or soon after birth. A much smaller number of late-term patients were rape and incest victims, sometimes very young girls. Some were directed to Tiller by prosecutors. Contrary to the false portrayal of him by anti-abortion activists and politicians, Tiller didn’t automatically consent to perform an abortion for any patient who requested one. He understood the constraints of Kansas law, and he knew he was being watched. But even in those instances, he tried to help. Over the years, Tiller arranged dozens of adoptions, Brownlie said. Inside Tiller’s fortressed clinic, Phillip Wood and his wife met two other couples who, like them, were in the throes of crisis pregnancies. The walls of the clinic, Wood noted, were papered with hundreds of cards and letters from patients expressing gratitude. Wood and his wife later added one of their own. Wood wrote another letter last week. It was to the congregation of Reformation Lutheran Church, the sanctuary where Tiller was shot while handing out bulletins before the May 31 service. “I believe you have lost a selfless and dedicated health care professional and someone who did the best he knew how to serve others,” Wood wrote. The prom queen who talked her way into a late-term abortion doesn’t exist. She’s a creation of Tiller’s enemies. Wood and his wife are real people, and so are the thousands of patients who wrote the “thank you” notes that now serve as a memorial wall to a fallen physician. They are the ones who should define his memory.” Barbara Shelly is a member of the Kansas City Star editorial board ———————– Bumpersticker seen in Kansas: Choose life or we’ll kill you.The rest of Miguel Pulido’s “State of the City Speech”Video Courtesy of the OC Weekly’s Navel Gazing Blog I did not pay $75 to hear corrupt and inept Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido’s “State of the City” speech this week. Luckily the O.C. Register sent a reporter to cover this. We already wrote about Pulido’s wacky plan to use federal funds to move County offices to developer Mike Harrah’s proposed “One Broadway Plaza” tower. Here are the rest of Pulido’s latest crazed ideas, courtesy of the O.C. Register:
Wow. Where do I start? How about the first point. Is he planning to hold the Federal Secretary of Education for ransom? The SAUSD already got a bunch of stimulus money - and Pulido’s buddies on the SAUSD School Board still fired a bunch of teachers and classified employees, while the SAUSD continues to hire six figure administrators left and right. I love that Pulido is naming Reuben Martinez the city’s “reading ambassador,” but couldn’t Pulido have intervened when Martinez was forced out of his bookstore this year by his landlord, into a much smaller space? You’re a little late to the party Miguelito! And then there are the anteaters. Just as I predicted, the Santa Ana Zoo raised their rates as soon as these creatures showed up. Eventually I suspect that most of Santa Ana’s young people will be priced out of their own zoo as their board continues to focus on gentrification with endless expansions that someone has to pay for. How about Pulido’s idea to use federal money to put solar panels on city buildings? Why don’t they just recycle Santa Ana City Manager Dave Ream and his overpaid administrative cronies? Better yet, why don’t Ream and company take a pay cut? They have been ripping off Santa Ana’s residents for years. Why not give us a break now? And of course Pulido has plans for the Willowick Golf Course. That is why he wants to blow millions of dollars to build a street car to take people there. But what exactly will he be building?: He says it will be some kind of soccer stadium. Where are you getting the money Miguel? Federal stimulus money again? Interestingly, Pulido did NOT talk about our rising water rates or the violent crime in this city. He never does talk about anything that really matters in these paid speeches. What a joke he is! |
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