Comments on: Anaheim, Where are Your Progressive Latino Candidates?

By: Brian Chuchua

Brian Chuchua — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:38:30 +0000

1/2 Russian, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Scottish descent, 100% American, Born in Bell, California.

By: gabriel san roman

gabriel san roman — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:35:36 +0000

What about yourself?

By: Brian Chuchua

Brian Chuchua — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:58:46 +0000

My two sons Brian Jr. and Christopher are both Latnios born in Brazil.

By: Vern Nelson

Vern Nelson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:50:15 +0000

Duane would be great! Maybe whatever publicity he gets from his Senate run would help him with something actually concrete like that in ’012.

By: gabriel san roman

gabriel san roman — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:07:34 +0000

Hey deadwhitemale: If Duane Roberts ran for city council in Anaheim, i’d back him 100% He’s white and progressive (in the truest meaning of the term) and comes out of community organizing. He’d be great for the job.

I’d like to see a multiethnic slate of progressive Latinos, Arabs, Whites (and whoever else) shake up things in Anaheim!

By: gabriel san roman

gabriel san roman — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:04:17 +0000

HAHA! “Jose Mejia” doesn’t realize how stupid and contradictory his own statement is!

By: deadwhitemale

deadwhitemale — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:27:37 +0000

gotta love the posts here talking about their race and being the same people calling whitey racist u guys are clowns

By: Vern Nelson

Vern Nelson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:49:51 +0000

That’s so true, Jose! They don’t vote because they are illegal, which has never stopped them from voting, and that’s why everything sucks!

By: Jose Mejia

Jose Mejia — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:43:06 +0000

One of the big reasons you wont see “progressive” (read Liberal, tax-and-spend, follow the Democrat play book blindly), is because so many of the Anaheim Hispanics are either apathetic, or too illegal to vote. Of course, that never stopped them from voting…

By: gabriel san roman

gabriel san roman — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:21:10 +0000

Vern — Very true…

Art — Haha, yes! I am also an Al-Varez!

Luke — Then why did you bother running?

Jose — you pose important points and of course progressive representation comes from grassroots community organizing. On that point, Santa Ana seems to draw Latino activism from Anaheim because of its long established organizations HQ’d there — El Centro Cultural de Mexico, etc. (That and it’s only a five minute drive, haha) However, even in that city’s context, there arises no real Raza candidate of note either. The city council may be all-Latino, but certainly not progressive in my view in terms of being beholden to developers and supporting foolish redevelopment projects with no real support.

The dynamic of community organizations & proper political representation is still in its infancy. Los Angeles is light years ahead of us — although not without its problems — and OC is an entirely different historical-political context. We are in a moment of flux and it will be interesting to see how the future plays out for the county and its every increasing minority residents…

By: the great one

the great one — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:01:05 +0000

gloria molina used 6 million $ of tax payer money to build a hispanic center . karen big mouth bass is nothing but a big tax n spend liberal = aka progressive . are these the example of progressives you really want .

By: Jose Lara

Jose Lara — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:06:26 +0000

If you look at the foundation of the East Los political machine it started with strong community organizations who pushed for change in the community. Gloria Molina came from the mothers of East LA. Karen Bass came from Community Coalition. LAUSD School Board Member Monica Garcia came from Inner City Struggle.

There will never be a progressive Raza Candidate without the community base. So I think the real and more important question is, where are the progressive, freedom fighting organizations in Anaheim?