Miguel Pulido poses with Republican SAUSD School Board Member Rob Richardson
There are no Republicans running for Mayor of Santa Ana, but given how few Republicans are left in Orange County’s downtown, why bother?
Besides, the Republicans have Mayor Miguel Pulido on their side. They always have. He supported Prop. 187, even though he is himself a Mexican immigrant. And last year he supported several Republicans for local office, including Santa Ana Councilman Carlos Bustamante and Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education Member Rob Richardson.
Pulido has supported quite a few other Republicans over the years, including SAUSD Board of Education Member Rosie Avila and disgraced ex-Sheriff Mike Carona.
Will Red County Republican blogger Thomas Gordon aim his ire at Amezcua?
Now the Republicans are returning the favor. Red County editor Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham has already gone after Pulido’s Democratic competitor, Alfredo Amezcua. Rumor has it that Jerbal’s fellow Red County blogger Thomas Gordon will also be taking aim at Amezcua this year.
Gordon is allied with the fading Usual Suspects, the racist neighborhood busybodies who support Pulido year in and year out. You can bet that the Usual Suspects will be backing Pulido again in the next election.
This strategy is shaky given that when the Democrats find out that the Republicans in town are hackiing for Pulido they just might think twice before supporting the incumbent.
Amezcua has already hired a successful progressive campaign consultant – Parke Skelton. Pulido’s consultant, Dennis De Snoo, gave a huge donation to Republican Senator John McCain in 2007, according to the Huffington Post.
Amezcua has also been the main force behind a group of residents who are advocating for affordable housing. Pulido and the Usual Suspects don’t support affordable housing.
I saw Amezcua at this year’s Labor Day event at the Santa Ana Zoo. Pulido? Missing in action.
In every way that matters, Amezcua is the candidate who best deserves support from his fellow Democrats. Pulido? The guy might as well be a Republican.
Matt Cunningham outed sex-abuse victims.
If Miguel is smart he will hire a real campaign consultant rather than Dennis DeSnoo. Whenever DeSnoo has had to face a moderately funded campaign with some sort of organization he has had trouble.
With Amezcua having Parke Skelton on board it is going to expose the inadequacies of DeSnoo. During a recent conversation I had with a local elected official they told me about a well known Sacramento power broker scoffing at DeSnoo running anybodies campaign. He said if DeSnoo was any good why is he still running small time campaigns in the minor leagues after nearly 40 years in the business? He opined it’s because DeSnoo is a JOKE!
Gordon is allied with the fading Usual Suspects, the racist neighborhood busybodies who support Pulido year in and year out. You can bet that the Usual Suspects will be backing Pulido again in the next election.
I think Mr. Pulido is Hispanic. So are you saying the “usual suspects”, tolerate only wise hispanic’s and are racist aganist wacko hispanics and wacko whites too?
If Rob R. has been on the SAUSD board for a period of time, no matter his republican title. HE SUCKS BIG TIME!
Something a speaker mentioned at the Democratic Potluck last night (while introducing Alfredo’s mini-barnburner of a speech):
PULIDO USED TO ENDORSE BOB DORNAN. B-2 BOB! Red-faced, immigrant-bashing, war-mongering, gay-hating, paranoid schizophrenic DORNAN. Over Loretta!
If DINOS walk the earth, and they certainly do, Pulido is our Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Vern,
LOL! I think Pulido might be a bit more diminutive than a T-Rex. But he is indeed a giant of a DINO.
Pulido would not do well in Los Angeles, where Dems stand tall against their Red counterparts…
Sean…you seem like a nice fellow…Get your facts straight please. DeSnoo has kicked tail on countless “big shot” Sacra-tomato consultants over the years. I remember Loretta Sanchez’s chief of staff guy…can’t remember his name…who had some barrio boys consultants running his campaign and he got his culo handed to him. Rob Richardson hasn’t done anything but send out a little mail (due to health issues he can’t walk door to door anymore but he doesn’t have to so that’s ok) for three election cycles. He’s a gringo Republican and he still dominates the outside viva la raza political forces. Last election he opened a can of whup-ass on Planned Parenthood who spent $50,000 with a national consultant to try to defeat Richardson and force the school board to kill more unborn Mexican babies. What did they get for their trouble? Richardson re-elected again as top vote getter. Just like the great sports teams , DeSnoo wins and makes it look easy and it frustrates failed candidates like Sean and Art.
Is Amezcua going to indorse Pulido like he has in prior elections?
In the last election, I think the Republicans mostly voted for Collins, so if there is a “Blame” to be applied, it must be those pesky Democrats.
Now that the incumbent council members get three more terms a piece thanks to Santa Ana’s measure “D”, maybe the best way to mix things up will be to redraw the ward boundaries in such a way that 2 new wards have 3 of the current council members each and the other 4 are up for grabs.
And maybe ward specific elections. And at least fix the broken campaign finance ordnances that restricts challengers to 249 per donation and lets incumbents receive an almost unlimited amount.
Great ideas Cook! Why don’t you ask your councilmember to put it on the Council agenda as an 85A item next meeting.
Looks like Amezcua is picking up a lot of labor support. Pulido will definitely have Fire supporting him. Question is: Who will Police support?