Curt Pringle, the Mayor of Anaheim, thinks he is the cat’s meow because his city hosts Disneyland and the Angels baseball club – but it looks like his neighbor to the south, Garden Grove, is now going to have their own amusement park. Expect this to make the Mayor of Garden Grove a big player in central Orange County – on a par with Pringle, Irvine Mayor Beth Krom, and Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido.
Now we know why the Garden Grove council went on a recent junket to an amusement park conference in Atlanta.
Here is the latest news on the Garden Grove park, from the Times OC Edition:
Garden Grove OKs plan for amusement park
After years of failed efforts to land some sort of tourist attraction, the Garden Grove City Council has agreed to let an investment firm move forward with plans to construct a $4-billion amusement park in a city best known for its annual strawberry festival.
The park, which would include three resort-style hotels, would be built on a 150-acre site on Harbor Boulevard, three miles down the road from Disneyland.
The plan’s backers also told the council that they wanted to invest an additional $4 billion to build a nearby retail and entertainment complex.
Though details were sketchy and the source of the investor’s money is murky, council members enthusiastically embraced the theme-park plan, voting 5-0 Tuesday night to begin a 90-day negotiating period with the Los Angeles-based investment firm, TL Properties.
As part of the agreement, the company
Art:
Why do you hate Curt so much? Your comments about him are becoming petty and childish.
I wouldn’t start recalibrating the Mayor of Garden Grove’s popularity index just yet. Let’s see — in a city known for its hapless redevelopment schemes, a group of shadowy investors comes out of nowhere promising $8 billion, and this time, everything’s going to be different than before — how could this possibly go wrong?
Is any part of the Willowick course actually in Garden Grove?
And I love the description of Chris Yang as “a Los Angeles building inspector who has a doctorate in quantum physics” — he’s a real-life Buckaroo Bonzai!
Jubal/Matt,
I hold all politicians who are self-serving in low regard. Don’t you work for him? Is he paying you to provide cover for him in the blogosphere? If he is, you ought to note that every time you stand up for him. Something like, “this message brought to you by Pringle & Co.”
Have you already forgotten Curt’s partnership with Pulido and Agran a few years ago? What were they called, the “Three Amigos,” or something like that? Birds of a corrupt feather, IMHO.
Don’t feel too bad – I rarely have anything good to say about most politicians. I don’t hold any more animus for Pringle than I do for most of his ilk.
Art:
While you claim your disdain for politicans, you seem to gush about Janet Nguyen every chance you get. Why do you always contradict yourself.
That’s because even though Janet was attached at the hip with Pro Union HACK Ken Maddox for years ( and Art claims Project Labor Agreements mean something to him) Janet is using Art as her Mexican to try to get votes in Santa Ana. He may be a volunteer, or maybe she is paying him, or maybe he thinks if she gets elected she will do something nice for him, but the bottom line is when Janet says Jump, Art Pedroza says, “SI SENORA…”
Grow up, Art. It’s public knowledge I have a small retainer from Curt’s campaign to help with campaign and political stuff. But I stand up for Curt because he is a friend of many years, and it’s galling to read your petty rants against him considering he’s done more to advance liberty than you likely will accomplish in your lifetime. I would respond to your nastiness regardless — my friendship with Curt far predates the work I’m doing for his campaign.
But continue writing as if you have the slightest clue as to what the motivations and thoughts of other people are. After all, if you stopped jumping to conclusions, your blog posts would shrink by at least 50 percent.
It is common knowledge that Janet Nguyen opposed a PLA when she was working for the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce. Clearly she learned from Maddox’ mistake.
BTW, it was Pringle who connived Maddox and Coad into backing the OC PLA in the first place. That BTW was what set me off re Pringle in the first place.
Pringle backed the OC PLA in order to kiss butt to the unions so they would back the El Toro Airport. Nice. That is all you need to know about Pringle…
You’re amazing, Art.
Can we set the personal attacks aside and focus on the Garden Grove story?
Although it’s early in the process, and until we witness a valid groundbreaking of a new amusement park in Garden Grove, I need to remind readers that competition is healthy. That explains why there are so many huge hotel/casino’s in “Lost Wages.”
Me seems to think that the Anaheim convention center, Disneyland and the “Anaheim” Angels predate Mayor Pringle. He just happens to occupy that seat today.
There is no doubt that the mayor of Anaheim has an agenda similar to that of any other mayor in this county.
Having been re-elected tells me that the voters in Anaheim support his policy decisions.
We will be monitoring the Garden Grove dream from a different prospective called “eminent domain.” We arrived at their city council meeting last week to wish outgoing (four term) councilman Mark Leyes well only to arrive when their head of their redevelopment agency rattled off a list of redevelopment projects in their city.
Caution: Please don’t take any property owner’s home, business or farm against their will or we will be back in your council chambers.
Larry Gilbert, Orange county Co-director, Californians United for Redevelopment Education (CURE).
Curt Pringle will be gone in 4 years and all he’ll have to show is a Platinum Triangle that turned to Lead.
Jubal,
“considering he’s done more to advance liberty than you likely will accomplish in your lifetime”
History 1988 poll guards incident
This single incident of thwarting the liberties of Hispanic American voters will remain a foot note of Curt Pringle legacy.