The Santa Ana City Council voted this week to give themselves another four years in office, for a total of 12 years, by placing a fraudulent term limits measure on February’s ballot. And of course they removed mayoral term limits from the measure. But do these people deserve another four years in office?
Let’s take a look at their priorities this year:
- Pushing to build a downtown streetcar system for over $15 million per mile!
- Stopping medicinal marijuana
- Stopping massage parlors
- Stopping human signs
- Stopping handbill delivery to homes
- Blowing Measure M money on a Maglev train that will never be built
- Blowing a million dollars on repainting a water tower with a new slogan
- Voting themselves longer term limits – and wasting $150K to put the measure on the ballot
- Raising our already too high water rates
- Voting against the OCTA Quiet Zones
- Supporting an ethically questionable business bank
- Spending a quarter million taxpayer dollars on ten televisions
- Voting to approve a housing development despite a flawed traffic study
And what is going on in the city during their watch?
- The City Council is spending thousands of dollars to take pictures of graffiti, while not arresting taggers and not covering graffiti up quickly
- Thieves stole a dozen historical markers in the downtown area, right under the noses of the local police
- A stretch of Harbor was closed when a water main broke – more evidence that the city has ignored our utility infrastructure, while overspending on administration
- Allowed a crooked developer to cut a historic home in half, and leave it to rot in the elements
- Council said nothing while the local school district blew another $3 million on fraud and corruption
- Council said nothing while the local community college district blew $30 million on the Carona sheriff training center, while ignoring the needs of the students at Santa Ana College
- Allowed a developer to displace hundreds of poor people from their apartments
And what about our illustrious Mayor, Miguel “Porfirio” Pulido?
- He allowed both Council meetings to be televised again
- Then changed his mind and hid the second monthly meetings in a small conference room
- Did not show up to a town hall meeting about gangs
- Appointed a Minuteman to the Library Board
- Did nothing to curtail the OCTA bus driver’s strike
- Endorsed Hillary Clinton in the hope that she will appoint him as ambassador to Mexico
- Voted NOT to silence the train crossings in Santa Ana
- Lied to residents about his support for Quiet Zones
- Said nothing as a school board member he endorsed, Rosie Avila, ripped Latinos again
- Endorsed disgraced O.C. Sheriff Mike Carona
And these people want FOUR MORE YEARS in office? And NO TERM LIMITS on our Mayor?
Good grief! Thank God the Orange Juice is here to catalog their woeful record.
Be sure to tell all your neighbors, family and friends in the city to vote no on the fraudulent term limits measure in February. And vote no on the bogus “Code of Conduct,” which will do nothing to stop the City Council and our Mayor from continuing to destroy our city, but will in fact be used to try to silence some of the writers on this blog, including me.
As a new resident of Santa Ana, watching the Santa Ana city council meeting on television this week demonstrated the weak fabric they are cut from; to the point that they can’t even communicate effectively in English. I think Clownia was the most astoundingly illiterate. Can anyone tell me if she’s more conversantly fluent in Spanish? Also, Pulido doesn’t really want to DO anything. Phrases like “we don’t have any control over the school district” are cheap lazy work-dodging statements. You are the Mayor, you have some pull, city government is about bringing together disparate organizations to make Santa Ana comprehensively BETTER not avoid engaging your school district peers. Specifically this was in regards to the traffic impact for the Manning homes development on Alton. They all talked in circles and kissed ass to the developers but didn’t really lift a finger. Get the SAUSD there, explore alternatives. SANTA ANA CITY COUNCIL IS APATHETIC AND UNIMPORTANT. CHANGE YOUR COUNCIL; CHANGE YOUR CITY.
Another classic Pulido commentary was regarding term limits and how it doesn’t work for the Mexican government and they can’t get things done in 36 months. Santa Ana is in the UNITED STATES and we have a much different resource structure than Mexico, your comments are IRRELEVANT to the context Mr. Pulido!!
Art,
Mr. Ben Gabriel (not sure if I got his name right) did an awesome job fighting the tax in the mid-town they tried to pass in Santa Ana. Maybe he would help you and others fight this extention of terms for the city council. We need signs going up now and build a grass roots campaign BEFORE they start spending money on direct mail to get it passed! Art, Please take the lead on fighting this!!!
When will Michelle Martinez put a very simple measure before the voters that ONLY addresses Mayoral Term Limit? Nothing else attached! No BS codes of conduct or anything! Just Mayoral Term Limits!!!
I call out Martinez because Art is so supportive of her, but I am not seeing any results, and all I am hearing are excuses why she is not accomplishing anything.
Please Council woman Martinez, prove me, and the many others who feel this way, wrong and stand up to the Mayor!
Why should Pulido be afraid?
Nobody on the City Council speaks against him, including Martinez.
Nobody credible has ran against him in years.
Reverse those two things or else deal with this garbage!
ART, et al! What’s the landscape of qualified competitors look like to get rid of these people? Let’s get these people out there NOW.
I challenge anybody that reads this to state who they think would be a truly credible challenger to Mayor Pulido.