Is obesity the biggest problem in Santa Ana? Our City Clowncil appears to think so. On Monday night, at their Clowncil meeting, they spent half an hour talking about obesity, according to several pajaritos, but they utterly IGNORED the gang war that recently took the life of a 39 year old father and business owner, as he was killed in his front yard, in front of his kids, after getting caught in a gang crossfire.
How can this be? How can our City Clowncil be so completely asleep at the wheel? And lack so much compassion that they are unable to even recognize the tragedy and honor the murdered father with a few words?
Instead they are crying about obesity? Are you kidding me? Did we elect this Clowncil to look after our public health? Don’t we have a County public health department to do that? Didn’t we elect the Clowncil to go after crime, to fix our streets, etc.? It would appear that, in an election year, they don’t want to talk about the real problems in our city. Instead they want to talk about obesity.
Considering some of the people who sit on our Clowncil, you would think the last thing they would want to talk about is their eating habits. But they rather do that than fess up to the REAL problems in our city.
Besides, if this Clowncil would build more parks, perhaps kids would exercise more? Instead they keep on approving more construction, including a 33 story luxury condo tower that is going to the Planning Commission soon. But no parks.
Obesity may indeed be a problem in this town, but it is NOT the biggest problem we are facing, not by a long shot. It is a red herring that the Clowncil wants us to focus on so we won’t think about the REAL problems in our city. Shame on the Clowncil for purposefully missing the point while evading the gang war in our city.
“Besides, if this Clowncil would build more parks, perhaps kids would exercise more?”
In your folowing article you are bitching that Pulido wants to make parks:
Pulido promised the County that the parcel would be used to house people with disabilities, however, “the project came to a halt in February when Pulido announced during a city development committee meeting that he wanted to explore the possibility of leaving the parcel as open space.
I wonder about your mental health Pedroza. You just complain to complain.
So is crimefighter Clowncilmember Martinez going to lead the fight against obesity?
Art….the latest study shows that Mexico is now #2 behind the U.S. in obesity and our Mexican residents are backing up those facts. Drive by any school in S.A. during recess and check out the weight of most of the kids! Too much time playing video games and watching el telavisor and eating fast food and not enough time chasing around that soccer ball. Why don’t they outlaw Masa and refried beans in Santa Ana? I say it’s about time the council gets serious about this issue.
I think Wonder Woman has been eating too many truckloads of Wonder Bread….Didn’t she work for a bakery once? It shows with all that dough.
Looks like Home Girl suffers from the “Muffin Top” disease. A larger sized outfit might solve that problem. Sure she squeezed into a size 18 but a size 20 might have been more flattering.
Dear Anon’s 4 & 5,
It’s people like you that cause our young girls to create unrealistic body images which leads to Bulimia. Don’t you know that Plus Sized models are now becoming popular world wide? I applaud Ms. Martinez for not caving in to pressure to be thin in our current culture. By the way, the Aztec and Mayan women were large and considered to be more fertile and attractive then their skinny counterparts.
#4. She’s been eating truckload of flour tortillas.
#5. She appears to be a size 22.
#6. Don’t blame society for her weight issues. I blame her parents for not feeding her a proper diet.
Being fat is something that someone has a choice to be. So she doesn’t care about what people think. That’s fine. But will she care about her health when she dies of a heart attack? I think thats more important here. Obesity is the number 1 killer of people in this world. Sure, I love her oversized jugs, but I still think she needs to lose a few.
Art Lomeli
Muffin Top Martinez will not care about being fat when she dies of a heart attack because she’ll be dead.