The Santa Ana City Council slipped off the hook tonight, as the director of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, Mike Metzler, asked them to remove item 4A from the Council’s Redevelopment Agency agenda. That item was a request by Metzler for $82,000 in taxpayer money.
Metzler wanted the money so he could continue to publish his self-serving newsletter, the CityLine. However, we publicized the fact that the CityLine includes endorsements of the Chamber’s preferred City Council and School Board candidates. It is absolutely egregious to waste taxpayer’s money on such propaganda!
I can only hope that this issue will now go away forever. As my co-blogger Sean Mill pointed out, you can now read the CityLine online, on the Chamber’s website. If Metzler wants to play publisher, he ought to sell ads and raise the money to print the CityLine. Santa Ana’s taxpayers should not be stuck with the bill!
By the way, the Santa Ana City Council did not throw me or any of my co-bloggers off our city commissions tonight. That was probably a wise idea, now that the AP has picked up the story that L.A. Times reporter Jennifer Delson broke today. For now, we will continue to serve the public both as city commissioners and as local political bloggers.
Congratulations Art and the entire O.J. team! What you are seeing are the last death throes of a dieing Anglo power structure. Like the final days of the British in India, a few of the old guard haven
Yes! Indeed!
“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”.
– Margaret Mead
Interesting, now “the-powers-that-be” have pressured Michele Martinez and Sal Tinajero, and David Benavides to turn on you.
Not to long ago they were new hopeful city council members promising a brighter future.
Unfortunately, perhaps they have now sold out too.
Bloggers, please remember, these attempts to shut you down is a sign of your power.
All you are asking for is more transparency and clean government.
Keep up the good work bloggers!
You spanked Metzler so hard the sound could be heard at Dave Reems house in Cota de Caza!
Sorry….I mean Cota de Caucasian!!!
Michele Martinez and David Benavides are not the brighter future for Santa Ana that they once appeared to be. They are only in it to enrich themselves like so many councilmembers before them.
Im confused…So the council members are turning on Art? or who is turning on who?
I wonder why Metzler pulled it off…