by dog’s 2-day-old S*** is better than this.

is this what we have to argue about? F-ing pathetic.

Art, do something, you have it!

B-man is not for the politic forum (yes we ALL know this…you want him running the city!?!)he needs to go back to the day job…had enough.

i havent seen anything from bra-man.

PUBLIC SERVANTS SERVE THE PUBLIC, IF YOU DONT THEN GO BACK TO BEING A THE PUBLIC.

The figure sounds like a lot, but it could’ve been done. It’s a moot point since I no longer live in the city.

It doesn’t take $400K to realistically run for Council…more like $50K.

Art would nail Walters for not doing his job. Art would vote to fire Dave Ream and hire someone competent. Art would propose new libraries for the city.

In fact, if Art were to be elected, he’d be the only member of the council who would have an openly cordial relationship with the local Supervisor. I hear everyone on council publicly bashes her and is disappointed she didn’t vote for Walters for Sheriff.

Say what you will, but if Art were to file papers, raise a little bit of money, walk a few precincts, and surprise people by getting elected — I think he wouldn’t be bad on council. Granted, there’d be a lot of people who would have issues with Art but like I said, he would be THE ONLY council member who would actually care about the city. And really, you can’t fault him for that.

Besides, If Art WERE to run and end up somehow splitting the vote with Carlos allowing Rocco to win — I would say that the city of Santa Ana would deserve it.

One, it would make the council meetings much more interesting, but also, I think it would be an improvement over Carlos.

Granted, Rocco is nuts, but he’s not a County Administrator who creates hostile work environments by making sexist and uncomfortable remarks about other county employees and electeds.

Someone, like, say, Art Pedroza?

I felt the fortunate thing about moving to Laguna Niguel was my own personal justification of living the American Dream — moving up in the world by moving south in the county.

The unfortunate part of moving away was leaving all of my good-natured and friendly neighbors in Fairhaven, and seeing them live in a city where every single one of the city’s elected officials believe that crime isn’t an issue… that gangs are non-existent… that the school system just has a couple of “monetary kinks” to work out of the system… I could go on.

In Laguna Niguel, we don’t face those issues. In Santa Ana, I believe people in the city unfortunately live in a town — with so much potential — that’s being squandered because elected officials can lead with blinders on just so any one of them can get elected to higher office.

It has to be the saddest state of affairs of any municipality in Southern California, and for that, I feel bad having moved away. I would’ve challenged Carlos. I would’ve easily raised upwards of $200,000 due to my personal and business contacts, not to mention my own personal addition of $200,000 to the campaign.

Carlos is an easy one to defeat. It just takes that one person with the tenacity and determination to file the paperwork and campaign for the seat. It is NOT difficult.