MICHELE MARTINEZ
For Mayor of Santa Ana
www.friendsofmmformayor.webs.com
councilwomanmartinez@gmail.com
August 8, 2008
My opposition has spread misinformation and lies about by past through the media, phone calls to influential entities, and the Orange Juice Blog.
The incumbent is only concerned with personal attacks upon challengers and not in addressing solutions to the city’s problems.
I take this opportunity to assure you the attacks by the incumbent’s Campaign Team are pure propaganda. There is absolutely no truth to their claims.
My focus in my campaign is not to attack my opposition. My focus is to defend and protect the best interests of my city’s residents.
Santa Ana, however, still faces crucial challenges that require a fundamental change in leadership. Our city is currently struggling with a combative political culture that has impeded progress. We need a mayor who can foster a new spirit of cooperation in our government and empower our citizens. To accomplish this, I will take a proactive approach that has been sorely lacking. Far too often our government has settled for the status quo and forgone the city’s interests. I will bring the energy and skills necessary to break our government’s complacency and guide the public’s interest through tough hurdles.
Furthermore, I understand that competent leadership includes empowering our citizens. Our residents, business community, and city employees are frustrated with the quality of service and lack of support they receive. These are areas that could be readily addressed by promoting a more inclusive environment.
Only by breaking out of the current gridlock can we begin to reinvest in our community. I would begin by bolstering public safety through investment in community policing, which has proven to be one of the most effective ways to deter crime. Developing relationships with neighbors and identifying hot-spot areas allow officers to cultivate strategies that can address crime at its source.
As an issue very close to me, education will be a top priority. I want to partner with schools to ensure that they are fully modernized, safe, and educationally appropriate for the future. I support the vision of a rigorous academic curriculum with qualified teachers for all children. Our programs must raise academic achievement levels and prepare our students for the high skill careers of our labor market.
I look forward to debate the future progress of Santa Ana when the Incumbent agrees to it.
In conclusion, contrary to rumors spread citywide by the incumbent’s campaign team, I am not resigning as candidate for Mayor of Santa Ana.
I will not let my supporters down by pulling out of the race as a result of intimidation from my opposition. With you support on election night and the implementation of my objectives, I will lead you to realizing the potential this city is capable of.
Michele Martinez
Candidate for Mayor of Santa Ana
‘My opposition has spread misinformation and lies about by past through the media, phone calls to influential entities, and the Orange Juice Blog.‘
Ouch. Did she mean it the way it sounds?
SMS
Sarah,
I don’t think so. We never said that Team Pulido’s chismes were true. They were out there and we presented them to our readers – but we pointed out the problems and inconsistencies and the fact that at least one of the chismes had once been applied to Pulido himself.
Now Team Pulido can’t use this B.S. approach in October…
ay guey…
#3,
No doubt. Probably best to let sleeping dogs lie…
Art –
I mean that she listed us separately from ‘the media’ and ‘influential entities,’ as if to imply that we’re neither. I kind of take that personally. Maybe you didn’t read it that way, but I don’t see how you couldn’t.
Michele should be helping you and Lisann boot the Pulido cabal, not taking shots at the blog.
SMS
I think she singled you guys out to imply something worse
Sarah,
“I mean that she listed us separately from ‘the media’ and ‘influential entities,’ as if to imply that we’re neither.”
Sarah, you are neither. you have an inflated image of your position in the world. You are nothing more than a shrieking banshi on the web with no real base of fans or those who can influence.
And you are in no way a form of media in my opinion. Unless you consider the tabloids a legitimate from of media which I do not. To be media you would have to provide some sort of information service to the benefit of the community at large. You and Art provide nothing but shrill screeds and a sucking sound on janet Nguyen’s buttocks.
#7 –
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
We don’t intend to turn this campaign into a circus, but we’re certainly prepared for the possibility that it may become one, especially when we get comments from ‘The Cabal’ like yours.
The voters deserve better than this slanderous filth.
SMS
Sarah, you’re reading too much into it. If Michele didn’t think we were “influential” she wouldn’t mention us.
Sarah,
Whether or not a slight was meant is immaterial, I think. Let’s move on. We have bigger pescados to fry!
Its not immaterial to SMS, Art, this could replace the Commie Girl feud. Fight, fight, fight! (Kidding!)
I have to commend Michele for not not withdrawling like Mike Garcia. Mike embarassed himself in his short lived campaign for mayor. Perhaps Michele has enough self-respect to stick by her committments.
Art P.,
The wording in question could be interpreted negatively if that is the intention.
The intent of the wording was to catagorize where the attacks were sent to.
Various media outlets were given the misinformation and lies.
The “”influential inteties” catagory was to include community leaders,school adminitrators and business leaders. The definition was considering their direct influence on voters and fund raising through personal relationtions.
There was no intention whatsoever to to minimize anyone.
The campaign apologizes for not choosing less subjective wording.
Actually, I think her mention of this blog is indicative of the shallowness of her ability to discern what is important from what is not.
I find more amusing the page on her webiste called, “The Facts.” I am still looking for one beyond “Candidate for Mayor of Santa Ana.”
Proactive approach? A more inclusive environment? Bolstering public safety through investment in community policing? Empower our citizens? These buzz words that lack any foundation, much less definition, serve to support the image of Ms. Martinez as a dilettante in government. Where does she get them?
Oh wait . . looking at her “Personal Profile” I see she has been a businesswoman since 2008, her firm being Michelle Martinez and Associates, “Consulting Services for a new era . . .” Whatever the hell that means.
All I’m here to say is that, Michele Martinez is a HOT LADY.
Thick and vuluptious!!!
Esta bien buena como la Qbuena.
Quemamucho el sol.
Michele cares so much to become Santa Ana’s mayor that she showed uo \40\ minutes late during that last debate and didn’t care to apologize for her tardiness. What a good example!!!
Jose,
There is a big difference between being late and leaving early. When Pulido and his Council cabal got up and walked out last night after the candidate’s introductions at the NAACP candidates forum, they showed a major lack of respect for the NAACP and for everyone else at the forum. Martinez might be tardy once in awhile, but Pulido and company are without class.