I am trying to figure out what the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce is up to. For some reason, when you visit their website, their “things to do” page includes South Coast Plaza…which is in Costa Mesa. And it also includes the Doubletree Hotel…in Orange.
And another question…why doesn’t the Chamber include Calle 4 on its “things to do” page? In fact they don’t seem to highlight the City’s Latino businesses at all. No wonder there is a Hispanic Chamber of Orange County. But shouldn’t the Santa Ana Chamber 0f Commerce represent ALL businesses in the city?
Here is the real kicker…if you go to their “Business Connection” page, you will find that the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce will host its “Fall Business Expo and Technology Pavilion” at the Doubletree Hotel, in Orange! What, there are NO facilities in Santa Ana that want to host this function? Are you kidding me? Did the Chamber even BOTHER to look?
Couldn’t they use the Santa Ana Elks Lodge? It is huge and has a ton of parking. What about Santa Ana College? Surely they have a hall or two available. Are there no hotels in Santa Ana that can host such a function? What about some of the City halls, such as the Southwest Senior Center?
I cannot imagine their members are very happy about all this.
And so I sent them a note today, directly from their website, to ask how much it costs to join the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce. My intentions are to show up to their meetings and talk to the other businesses about what is REALLY going in the City of Santa Ana, and at the Chamber.
I have a feeling we won’t be hearing from the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce anytime soon…
Could it be that Mayor Pulido is attempting to expand his fiefdom beyond the City of Santa Ana? Or maybe Pulido is practicing his French on people who may know the language and how he can get a gratis weekend at the French Inn in Orange?!
http://www.thefrenchestate.com/
Say it isnt so. Is Art quilty of censorship? Who is he pandering to? Why are you censoring my comments Art?
I believe the event had grown too large for any venue that was available in Santa Ana. Otherwise they try to have it in Santa Ana.
Poster 3,
Well, there is the challenge then. I will put this to my readers…do you know of any locations in Santa Ana that could host the Chamber’s Fall Expo?
here are some suggestions: the doubletree on macArthur, the community college, the embassy suites off of dyer, the first american courtyard down near macarthur, the bowers museum conference room where they had the state of the city. Hope that helps.
#5- if the mike metzlers good old boy club chamber holds a meeting in santa ana, all those who tricks into attending will see the deplorable conditions in santa ana and never return. metzler needs those white folk to show up or his master pulido will toss his butt and replace him.
The Syndicate is gravely unhappy about your role to quash 85K chamber’s request, Art.
Art and anon#3,
That lame excuse for not having a venue big enough has been around since “Desert Storm”.
I’m sure that 85K could have been better spent coming up with a new and better excuse.
I’m surprised you got hooked into that one Art.