SAUSD School Board candidate Gregory Barraza and his wife were caught red-handed today affixing the handmade sign seen in the picture above to a fence, next to Irene Ibarra’s campaign sign. Ibarra herself caught them when she saw a woman putting the sign up while a man slouched in a nearby Honda SUV. It was Mr. and Mrs. Barraza.
“I recognized her from the picture on Gregory Barraza’s Facebook page,” said Ibarra when she called me to report this activity, late this afternoon. I am reproducing that picture below.
Barraza said at a recent candidate’s forum that he was one of the only SAUSD School Board candidates with a college degree. Well, he might have an advanced degree, but Barraza clearly has no common sense. Why is he attacking candidates without degrees when most of Santa Ana’s residents also don’t have college degrees? And why was he doing this in mid-day sunlight?
The handmade signs were put up all over town next to Ibarra’s signs, and the signs of SAUSD School Board candidates Mike Gonzalez and Cecilia Aguinaga.
I discovered recently that Barraza, whose sign sits on Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido’s fence, is also Pulido’s tennis partner. It is obvious that Barraza was recruited as a candidate by Pulido for one reason – to undermine the Latino candidates vying to replace failed SAUSD Trustee Rob Richardson.
Shame on Barraza!
This shows that a college degree does not necessarily indicate that one has common decency.
I have met Irene Ibarra, she is a wonderful brilliant woman – a real class lady.
Vote for class, vote for enthusiasm, vote for common sense, vote for brilliance – vote for Irene Ibarra !!
Well to be honest Art it is not illegal what they are doing so why hide? They are not removing nor defacing her signs, just putting up their own. Not that I agree with it, but no crime is being committed.
# 2
Honest?? Please tell me you are not serious!
Barraza must be very intimidated by his opponents.
I agree with Mr. Tardiff,Irene is an extremely intelligent woman and a class act.
As far as I am concerned Barraza has shown the voters of Santa Ana his true colors!
I am encouraging all citizens to vote for Irene.
Flowerszzz says: “.. but no crime is being committed.” No one said it was a crime Flowerszzz – it is just an indication of stupidity.
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.
Vote for Irene Ibarra
So a scrawny little boy goes to college, gets two degrees and teaches at a junior college. Now he is a scrawny little man, with two degrees and no common sense.
Mr. Barraza has shown us all that if elected, he plans to teach our children how to be petty and envious. It is apparent to us all that Mr. Barraza is just another political hack with nothing constructive to say.
You can take the boy out of the barrio, but the barrio will always creep out and infect all those around him, including his wife.
What was this guy thinking? His two degrees lowered his common sense to below zero.
Let me be the first to say, “Mr. & Mrs. Barraza are Santa Ana’s third rate Bonnie & Clyde”.
a degree doesnt EARN YOU CLASS
I think that whether or not a candidate for SAUSD values education enough to seek and obtain a college degree is HIGHLY relevant. No one can teach a single class without a degree, why should board members be any less qualified?
The criticism of Barraza here is pretty pathetic. So now we want people running the SAUSD who do not value education, but have “class”? Please! No wonder SAUSD is a pit – education is the lowest priority!!
Does anyone know the e-mail addresses to Greg’s college president and board members? They need to be made aware of the less than stellar behavior of their faculty members.
If these two knuckleheads are friends of Pulido, then he needs new friends.
VOTE FOR IRENE IBARRA.
A college diploma is not a prerequisite to running for a School Board seat. #8’s (Rob) argument is pathetic and he/she should remember that all the college degrees on the School Board now are responsible for the District’s failure to educate our children. A School Board Member does not teach. School Board members provide policy and direction to the District. Remember, those who can’t do teach.
Ms. Ibarra has done something right in educating her children. They are college educated and two are currently working on their graduate degrees.
Don’t Mr. and Mrs. Barraza have anything better to do than to pick on a grandmother? My vote is for Irene Ibarra. I am going to forward this story to all my friends and let them read for themselves that Greg Barraza is a pathetic school board candidate.
VOTE FOR IRENE IBARRA-VOTE FOR IRENE IBARRA-VOTE FOR IRENE IBARRA
Irene Ibarra is a class act – and a very smart and successful business owner. Barraza, on the other hand, couldn’t even come up with the money to buy a candidate’s statement. Ibarra spent thousands of dollars of her own money on her race. Barraza? He responded with home made signs and he made his wife do the dirty work. Nice. What a creep!
Go Irene!
As Mr. Rogers would say “….can you say SCUMBAG, can you”? How pathetic. Just to think as a long shot: someone so desperate, dispicable…he should have run the last time around and he would have been so comfortable with the way-out losers that will be kicked out on this historical November 4th.
I think this his hilarious. You can not deny that the Santa Ana School District is horrible. I have been a resident of Santa Ana my whole life. I sent my kids to private school to give them a better chance. It is time for change in the Santa Ana School District and I’m glad they are shaking things up. My vote is for Gregory Barraza!
Tod Burnett is the President of Saddleback College where Barraza is currently instructing; his email address is easily accessible on Saddleback College’s website, but here it is: tburnett@saddleback.edu. South County Community College District’s Board of Directors has their email addreses not so easily accessible, but their website is SOCCCD.EDU if you want to take a stab at it.
Minnie: I hope you are hillariously laughing as this school district is literally pissing away your families’ hard earned money. I don’t see anything funny about that…my husband work his ass off too much to have several jerk-offs get away with governing a board that has mismanaged our money several consecutive years.
Laugh on that one…..
I see Minnie is cut from the same cloth as Barraza and his wife. This is not the kind of behavior I would have expected from them. How unfortunate for us who know this couple to find they lack character and common sense. Only God knows what morals and values they are teaching their children.
I cast my vote this morning for Ms. Ibarra.
Vote for Valerie and Roman too
VOTE FOR CECILIA AGUINAGA !
You don’t need a college degree to run a business and be successful. Although I’m sure a lot of people who could not afford to attend college at the time would have like to but times were also different. People married younger and had families to raise (with morals and good values) this does not make them any less qualified to be on the school board it should actually make them more if not over qualified to know what their children deserve. I have lived in Santa Ana my whole life and you can bet your bottom dollar hell would freeze over before I let my daughter attend one of the schools here. It would have saved me alot of gas money and tuition money if the city that I live in and love had better schools.
We don’t abandon the our city and schools because they are run by schmucks we try and get the schmucks out and make it better Vote Irene Ibarra, Art Pedroza, George Collins, Jim Walker, Art L. lets take our city back!!!
#18
Are you serious? Cecilia is part of the problem!
Professor ousted after tearing down McCain yard signs
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1108/Professor_ousted_after_tearing_down_McCain_yard_signs.html
“The St. Olaf College administration first learned of Phil Busse’s self-admitted theft and destruction of campaign signs on the morning of Oct. 31 as a result of his posting on the Internet.
“The St. Olaf administration immediately referred the matter to local law enforcement authorities and commenced an investigation of its own.
“Mr. Busse has tendered his resignation and is no longer affiliated with St. Olaf College.
Ms. Ibarra…I live outside the voting territory, but I vote for YOU!
I have been teaching over three decades. Teaching is a wonderful profession. But, my “hat-is-off” to any independent business owners or stay-at-home spouses! They TRULY understand what hard work is all about. Yes, there are many “pieces of academic paper” that we “professionals” must obtain, but all too often, they are just that…paper.
Ms. Ibarra, do not lower yourself to even respond to these insecure thugs. They deserve even worse than the defamatory words on this blog. They are abusers of the “papers/degrees” they claim to possess. You are better than them.
I have always let my students know that not everyone is “college-bound” or even should be since we all have our own specific talents that may or not be strengthened through a collegiate experience. God bless the hard-working souls/entrepeneurs who can wade through all the state and federal bull cracky to create and build a viable business. I would never want to even attempt it.
Ms. Ibarra, SAUSD needs someone like you on the board who understands the value of education AND the values that shape us as contributing members of society.
#13 (Minnie)
You said you sent your kids to private schools to give them a better chance? Did they get that “better chance?” Are they successful? I hope so because I hate to see any child fail. A lot of successful people, like Irene Ibarra, are a product of Santa Ana PUBLIC schools. I went to Santa Ana Unified schools and all my teachers were great. I, however, wasn’t the best student. Like the old saying goes, “If I knew then what I know now” I probably would have taken my education serious. My children went to both private and public schools. What’s sad is that both my kids told me that they were learning from the same books (at their new private school) that they had at their old public school the previous year. I was pretty upset because I was now paying tuition for my kids to learn the same things over again. Don’t get me wrong their school was great. They both received a good education and had wonderful teachers and I decided to keep them there until they graduated from the 8th grade. When they did graduate, I gave gave them a choice of what high school they wanted to attend, Mater Dei or public high school. I explained to them the pros and cons of going to a public school and I told them about all the mistakes I made. I had heard a lot of good things about present day Santa Ana High and was happy to hear that the 9th and 10th graders were going to get a Fundamental education. They both decided they wanted to try it. Yes it saves me tuition and gas money, but I also wanted my kids to be happy, and happy children succeed for themselves, not for everybody else. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I heard it all: “They aren’t going to get a good education,” They are going to get shot.” Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. One parent from my daughter’s old school even told her, “Aren’t your parents afraid of sending you to a school with a lot of gangs? Are you kidding me? Do these people think that all the gangs in Orange County only go to Santa Ana schools. Every city in Orange County has gangs, even San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano has them. Even South County schools have issues. I know quite a few people that came from private schools, even Mater Dei, and aren’t doing well. In fact, one of them is in jail. Their parents sent them to private school for the same thinking as #19, but it didn’t do them any good. Most people are worried about what type of kids (“mexicans, gangbangers,” etc.) they think go to SA Unified schools. They don’t see the other wonderful kids that go there and the type of teachers that teach at these schools: Intelligent, well-educated and hardworking. And this goes for the adminstration and rest of the staff as well. Those poor parents could have saved their money on gas and tuition. I’m giving SAHS a chance and I hope it doesn’t let my children down. So far so good. Do you, #19, think you are the only parent that worries about their children’s education? SA Unified parents do too. As with any child, good parenting and support will help your child succeed in any school, and my kids are determined to succeed. I just hope the new School Board members can just do something to make believers out of the non-believers.
As to Irene Ibarra. “You go girl!” I support you 100%. A Santa High School graduate and you’ve gotten as far as you did without a college degree? Wow.
It’s amazing to see what any person would do dishonestly to crete drama in the life of another person who wants to better themselves. i personally know of Irene ibara and Mr. barraza. I work with Irene on a former capaign. She is an honest forthwright person. Onthe other hand Mr. barraza has faced troubles and chanllenges. I recall Mr. Barraza needed a book for college and seeked me out and When I asked tfor the book back that of Business law he refused to give it back. I think after taking abusiness law class he would have done the right thing. But it seems that people learn the law to do wrong, is this human nature of an educated person. I can only say that they both meant to do right! I guess given the opportunity every one would do wrong to get to the top. However a healthy person would not. Better yet Merry Christmas and may God bless you.