The news media went nuts today as we found out that L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was having an affair with Telemundo T.V. reporter Mirthala Salinas. He essentially chose her over his wife; perhaps to the detriment of his political career.
(As an aside, the L.A. Observer is reporting that Salinas was a hand me down from Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, who dated her before Villaraigosa. “The Speaker
Art,
The Council Chambers will miss you.
P.s. Hang out in front of my house this weekend around 12am. I have a surprise for you.
Sincerely,
P. David Benevides
Hey Art,
Weren’t you running Lupe’s Senate campaign just one year ago?
Someone ask SEAN M. again why he would want all of us to post our names again?
Sincerely,
“Anon”
Poster 2,
Where have you been? I ran her against Lynn Daucher, in my last act as a right wing Reep. I then ended up befriending the Dauchers and this year I quit the GOP altogether.
I was never comfortable with Moreno’s stance re immigrants. But I had been brainwashed by OC Reeps into believing that Daucher was a bad person. It turns out she wasn’t.
That realization opened up my eyes, big time, and I began to see that I had been lied to for years by my fellow Reeps.
Unlike Pulido, I saw the light re Moreno and her allies. I have been working ever since to bring a progressive agenda to Santa Ana.
If I could see the light, so can you. Just start thinking for yourself…
Brainwashed? Is that your excuse now?
You are soooo weak, Pedroza.
# 1-What does the P stand for?
Oh thats right-Puppet
Salinas is a hot babe…Tony V
is undeserving! Loved his comment:
“My private life has no bearing
on my public work!”
Judge Klein probably said that too!
Tony V will need better PR if he
is going to run for Governor in
2010 against Tom Selleck!
Art—Can’t you get 4 members to tell the mayor to pound sand?
10:34,
Sure…and nobody reads this blog.
Bladerunner,
We have the votes to get rid of her…but Pulido is threatening to retaliate by getting rid of me…and possibly others on the commissions.
Here is my advice to my friends on the Council…get rid of Lupe. If that means that Pulido will turn around and get rid of me, so be it. It is more important to get rid of her than it is to keep me on a commission.
She is an insult to the majority of our residents. Pulido ought to know better. That he doesn’t is fairly damning. If this doesn’t wake up the Democrats as to the problem that is Pulido, nothing will.
#3,
Ironically the very same people that slither out of the sewer to cowardly attack Sal, Michele, Art, myself and others anonymously, are also the ones who are lobbying the Mayor and his cronies like Bustamante to remove Art and myself from our commissions.
They have no good reason for wanting us removed other than they hate us.
So I stick to my position that only cowardly slime comes in and attacks anonymously.
Sean,
I think a lot of people are afraid to use their names because of Pulido and his machine.
But yes, it is annoying when anon posters attack us and then scurry back under their rocks.
On the balance, I think we have more good anon posters versus bad ones.
Let’s face it – we set the standard when our team decided not to be anon from day one. Because of us, other local blogs had to follow suit.
Because we use our names, we get ripped – but we also garner respect for standing up for what we believe in.
And I do believe that we are starting to turn the tide here in Santa Ana. The winds of change are blowing and the Reamers and Pulido hacks know it. Their time is drawing to an end…
Say it ain’t so. Commissioners Julie and Glen Stroud and others are lobbying the mayor to remove fellow Commissioners Mill and Pedroza?
This end round reads like the antics Alvarez & Bist took on when they lobbied to oust Tom Lutz.
One thing Art seems to forget is that it was Mayor Pulido and former city councilmembers that appointed and re-appointed him to city commissions. I believe it was former Councilmember Lisa Mills who first nominated him.
Poster 15,
Brett Franklin put me on the library board many years ago. I served out my term and then Pulido asked the Council not to reinstate me as I was calling for new libraries.
Pulido does not want new libraries. He does not want to serve the poor people in our community, because many of them are immigrants. This is why he put Moreno on the library board.
Libraries are a way up – but too many people who are in power in our city want to keep certain people down. It is an injustice.
Sounds to me that Pulido (Mayor No Berries) is the new NATIVO LOPEZ! Keep your contituents uninformed and take their access to knowledge (no libraries) and they will follow you. Wake up Pulido, remember history and you will see you are on the same path as Nativo. Should we all send you a new voter registration card so you can join the Green Party?
Art:
I’m a little suprised that you claim to have been an exemplary Redevelopment Commissioner. I’ve reviewed the past few months agendas for the Commission and there hasn’t been much going on. So, to claim your exemplary is an empty comment at best.
Being puncutual is expected. You don’t get brownie points for that.
I will wait to hold judgment on your appointment until such time as the commission faces some challenging issues.
And, I do agree that Lup should go. The fact that you are willing to hit the road for the sake of removing her definitely deserves brownie points.
Thank You Dale Ward for the idea,
Perhaps I should instead send him a voter registration card so he can finally register Republican’t.
Pulido has not been a good Democrat since he first ran for council the first time. When is the last time you have seen Pulido support a real Democrat? I thought so.
Since being elected he has done a complete 180 and never looked back and in the process has become a millionaire on the SA citizens’ taxpayer money.
He’s been a traitor to his roots and constituents that first helped get him elected. Soooo typically Republican’t!
Does Moreno do her job as library commissioner?
The LA mayors sex life has nothing to do with Santa Ana’s library, does it?
Happy 4th of July.
Cook,
Congratulations! You have just earned this week’s “Missed the Point” Award!
Moreno slurred thousands of our fellow residents by calling them “sub-human pod people.” She ought to resign – but barring that Pulido ought to bid her adieu.
As for the issue of Villaraigosa’s sex life, yes his situation is not exactly analogous to Pulido’s. But it does make for a jarring contrast of visuals – which is what I was shooting for.
Happy 4th to you as well…
Anon #14
It ain’t so.
Poster 14,
Glen and I get along quite well actually. And I don’t have any particular issues with his better half either.
That said, someone has it out for me and Mill. C’est la vie. I have done the best job I am capable of as a commissioner. If that is not enough for the Council, what can I do? I certainly won’t stop calling it like it is, on this blog.
Lupe does a good job as library commissioner. She is making the best of the grim resources the city allocates to the libraries.
The Moreno family is responsible for being involved with almost all of the outside fundraising efforts like the used book sales that the library does. (Did any of this blog’s authors show up to help at that important fundraiser?)
You don’t like Lupe’s politics? Tough!
Agree to disagree, and quit whining about things she may not even have said and let her continue to be a commissioner.
If she must go for her politics, then yes, the lot of you should also go for your repeated unnecessary attacks on the city and certain city staff.
Poster 24,
I don’t care. She has insulted and denigrates a huge swath of our population – our residents – our taxpayers.
This has nothing to do with her politics. She is a RACIST – that is different from being a conservative or being anti-immigration. She called Latino immigrants “sub-human pod-people.” That is a RACIST statement and you know it.
My attacks on the “city and certain city staff” are grounded in ISSUES not in their respective racial composition. If you cannot discern the difference between what I do and what Lupe says then you have a problem I cannot help you with.
Stay tuned…she sent me one of her speeches and I will be publishing it today.
I read the speech and watched the video Art. Thanks for that.
Are you ready to admit that maybe the OC Weekly was wrong and Lupe didn’t actually make those statements?
Poster 26,
Not quite. I just emailed the reporter at the OC Weekly and asked him to explain the discrepancy.
I will post his response as soon as I get it.
However, she has made enough other statements to deserve the boot. That much is very clear.
Come clean Art and Claudio.
She never said “sub human pod people” did she.It’s not on the video.You threw a rock through the wall of your glass house and wonder who broke your window.
#22
‘Tis so.
You’ve been carping about the Mill/Pedroza/Gallegos appointments for months. You seize every opportunity to slam these commissioners. Secrets are few in the inner circle of the usual suspects.
The council should take measures to ensure term limites for commissioners. Husband and wife teams should not be allowed to concurrently serve as commissioners under any circumstances!
Salinas is not the hand me down. It is these macho male Hispanic politicans that are her food chain, making them the hand me downs! She must be having a ball!