Former Republican State Assemblyman Mike Duvall was forced out of office this year when his conversation with a fellow legislator, about supposed sex with two lobbyists, got out. Now a blog post has surfaced accusing Democratic Congresswoman of having relations with two lobbyists in D.C. But Sanchez appears to be getting a free pass.
The man allegedly pictured above is John Saylor, the Director of Federal Programs, Maritime Sector for Halcrow, Inc. Reportedly, Saylor has become romantically involved with Congresswoman Sanchez in recent months. Saylor chaired a conference on “Global Competitiveness and the Impact on US Exports” last month at the Department of Commerce in DC, and the Congresswoman was a scheduled speaker for this same conference,” according to the Latino Politics blog.
The Latino Politics blog post also indicated that Saylor has allegedly “been going around claiming to have slept with Loretta Sanchez and that he vacationed with her in Italy earlier in the year.”
The photo above was supposedly taken in Italy. According to the Latino Politics blog, that “should come as no surprise, as she was just there with the Semester at Sea program during the summer. Another source close to Sanchez had also revealed to me in the past that the Congresswoman had hopes of becoming the ambassador to Italy had Hillary Clinton won the presidential election last year.”
You can see Sanchez talking about her time in the Semester at Sea program in the YouTube video below:
Remember that there were also allegations in the past year about another lobbyist named Jack Einwechter, who also was rumored to have had a relationship with Sanchez. He too ad business before the Congresswoman’s committees.
“John Saylor has aldo, like Jack (John) Einwechter did in the past, contributed to Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez’s re-election campaign fund, dropping $300 back in July of this year,” according to the Latino Politics blog.
Is this the ghost of Loretta Sanchez’ Christmas future?
All of this is happening even as Sanchez is being opposed by two Vietnamese Repbulicans and an independent Latina candidate named Ceci Iglesias. One of the two Republicans, businessman Quang X. Pham, is a moderate who served in the U.S. Marines. The other is the corrupt Mexican hater Van Tran. Predictably, Sanchez’ allies at the Liberal OC blogs are ignoring Tran and attacking Pham.
If Pham wins the primary he will give Sanchez a real run for her money. And Iglesisas will definitely have an affect on this race.
Sanchez may be digging herself quite a hole. She is also holding a fundraiser in Santa Ana today, where she is asking the working families in town to give her at least $240. To do this just before Christmas, in a city beset by foreclosures, is heartless at best…
“Also, Loretta Sanchez takes photos w/ hundreds of people.”
I’m sure this photo was just another standard meet and greet…Sanchez style. I believe the type and location of the photo you got at this Fund Raiser depended on the amount you gave to the campaign. I think this level is called a “Pac Host”!
#51,
How much do they have to give to get the “Dirty Sanchez” pose?
LOL 🙂 Coffee Time!
these Loretta intermissions are the best!!!
if we move & keep this at the top as the latest story for 1 more day I’m gonna bet we’ll get 150 comments!
and maybe we can get more comments from Adriana and Gus Arellano from Ask a Mexican.
“How much do they have to give to get the “Dirty Sanchez” pose?”
I think you are on to something Art. How much money could the Sanchez sisters raise for political purposes doing naughty photos with supporters in foreign countries? Why don’t you buy http://www.dirtysanchezsisterpics.com and sell it back to them?
Re: “So, just to be clear, you are OK with members of Congress dating lobbyists with whom they have conflicts of interest?”
There is no evidence that she has dated this man, and if she has, there is no evidence that it poses a conflict of interest.
With California cutting the education budget, I can see that some of you do not understand what facts are, or what an analogy is. And if you think that Adriana at Latino Politcs practices journalism, you’re nuts. She bans anybody who can respond to her bogus, fact-free allegations in complete sentences.
And of course, this smacks of good old fashioned sexism. Many of you sem to hate that Sanchez is a single woman in her mid-40s who dates. I guess in your world, she should be a great-grandmother by now.
There is also the crabs-in-the-bucket thing going on here too.
SIGH…This state is going to be like Alabama before long.
“And if you think that Adriana at Latino Politcs practices journalism, you’re nuts. She bans anybody who can respond to her bogus, fact-free allegations in complete sentences.”
Hmm…This is Adriana, and I have banned very few people from LatinoPoliticsBlog. Mostly, I have banned people who post links without commentary or those who have attempted to spam the site. Furthermore, I have never sold myself as a journalist.
But I imagine that if Art and I were to compare IP addresses, we would find that Bubbles, Anna, and maybe Sunny have a lot in common.
“Many of you seem to hate that Sanchez is a single woman in her mid-40s who dates”
-Sunny, O.J. poster
Not at all. We the people, just don’t like seeing a single elected Congresswoman who seems to have a weakness for men dating lobbyists and perhaps being susceptible to espionage. Imagine what could happen if some hunky insurgent guy sallies up to Lorreta at a bar …and one thing leads to another…next thing you know our National interests could be compromised! I believe it’s called Sexpionage.
http://www.spymuseum.org/programs/calendar_pages/2009/q3/2009_07_29_prog.php
The truth is I think it scares me more that she is cozy with the Lobbyists!
“God gave me both a brain and a body, and I shall use them both…”
—Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Confederate Spy
Could this be a case of the proverbial biological time clock causing our representive leader to do things she might not otherwise? As Rosie O’Donnel has shown us, we don’t need to let that be the driving force in our lives. And there is also the Brad and Angelina way to create a family as well. There are lots of kids who need a parent.
If Loretta or any of her people are reading this?
Sign on to the DREAM Act finally, and about half of these folks will shut up. And I’ll feel better about supporting you as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act
Vern: HEAR, HEAR!
You guys will attack Sanchez no matter what. That’s how sexists are.
Why can’t somebody from another district sponsor The Dream Act? Somebody like Lucille Royball-Allard? It’s stupid to expect somebody from Orance county to sponsor it. Duh. Funny, how nobody will address that.
Anyway, Congressman Luis Gutierrez is introducing his Immigration Reform Bill today and it has the Dream Act in it. But I doubt it will pass.
“So, just to be clear, you are OK with members of Congress dating lobbyists with whom they have conflicts of interest?”
Yes everyone should have a problem with this. No one here is arguing this point.
The problem with this statement is that there is no poof of any conflict of interest with any relationship mentioned here.
This is all about politics and nothing more. No one on this blog would respond to allegations(no proof) of conflict of interest based on a relationship.
So, Why expect Loretta to respond or criticice her for something you would not do?
Sunny aka Bubbles: You keep turning into more and more of an idiot with each comment. Roybal-Allard ALREADY SPONSORED THE BILL. Even Linda Sanchez did–and you don’t see OJ or others criticize her as much. Real sexist there, eh?
Loretta is HOT !
You guys will attack Sanchez no matter what. That’s how sexists are.
Sunny, I said “about half of these folks.” Plus I personally haven’t been attacking her, just standing back and watching with amusement. I was tempted yesterday to respond to Art’s question “What has Loretta done for her constituents lately?” but held my tongue.
You’re wrong, she could easily support this worthy bill whether she represents OC or not. She’s taken lots of progressive positions when she wanted to, and suffered no consequences at all. Adriana and Gustavo are among the Latino voices in OC that have been urging her to do so; supporting it could help neutralize Ceci’s appeal to disaffected Latinos; and what are Hugh and Van gonna do, go anti-Latino next year?
I could answer Art’s question with a list of good things she has done for her constituents over the years, but I think she could do more. Make her EARN that poontang!
“You guys will attack Sanchez no matter what. That’s how sexists are.
Why can’t somebody from another district sponsor The Dream Act? Somebody like Lucille Royball-Allard? It’s stupid to expect somebody from Orance county to sponsor it. Duh. Funny, how nobody will address that.”
Anna (or Bubbles) would make similar arguments on LatinoPoliticsBlog. It is as if someone from Orange County can’t have a spine or is not allowed to advocate for undocumented students. Why should only people from Boyle Heights (Lucille Roybal-Allard’s district) or wherever co-sponsor the DREAM Act? The DREAM Act would benefit undocumented students from any ethnic group, it isn’t the Mexican DREAM Act or the East LA DREAM Act. There are undocumented people in some of the whitest, most affluent areas.
In the Senate, Richard Lugar from Indiana, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, among others have signed onto this DREAM Act bill. Loretta’s district has plenty of undocumented Latino and Asian students who could benefit from becoming fully contributing members of society, ready to pay taxes, take out loans, work better jobs, etc. Loretta’s own parents were immigrants…she of all people should understand the circumstances that these students face. Finally, these students would probably end up becoming Loretta Sanchez supporters in the end, so it could be a win-win for her. Why should only white men from “whiter areas” be the only ones who stand with the undocumented? Oh no, maybe I’m being “sexist” for singling out the white guys.
I’ll bet that guy is Loretta’s uncle or something harmless like that. Maybe a family vacation in Europe?
Re: “You’re wrong, she could easily support this worthy bill whether she represents OC or not.”
Why should she risk her seat, and a Democratic seat, over illegal immigration, especially, if what Gustavo says is true, that Lucille Roybal-Allard and Linda Sanchez have already sponsored the bill? Do you think it’s suddenly going to pass if Loretta Sanchez sponsors it too? Get real.
All that will do is lose the seat to a Republican. There are other issues besides illegal immigration. Not everything revolves around that. There are others of us who don’t want to lose what our Mexican-American ancestors have worked so hard for during the 20th century–political representation.
Sunny Bubbles, the rest of my paragraph please. Supporting the bill won’t hurt her, it could help her, and it would help the bill. If Van or Hugh – whoever wins the GOP primary – starts attacking her for coddling immigrants, that would only galvanize the Latino community, don’t you think? I do.
Political fearfulness hasn’t stopped her from backing single-payer, a public option in health care, cutting off funding to the war in Iraq, and many other good things that I can’t finish typing right now because I have to get off the bus.
Sunny: Can all you do is offer excuses? Also, nice evasion of me calling you out on your idiocy!
Those things are supported by the majority of the voters in her district. Illegal immigration and bills to give them rights here are not supported by the majority of the voters in her district. Sorry, but that’s a fact. She already said that she would vote for the bill, and coming from Orange County that should be enough.
Why should the rest of us lose our representation over this issue, an issue that will probably never go away, as there will always be people slipping past the border.
“There are other issues besides illegal immigration.”
Not for those of us who are suffering and who were promised support by Loretta.
Incumbent members of Congress win 98% of the time. She can’t lose so why won’t Sanchez do the right thing? It makes me so sad. I see her in parades and on Spanish T.V. and she seems to have changed over the years. Like Dornan before her, she has lost her way. I hope she reads these posts and changes. I liked the old Lorretta.
She is supporting you. She just isn’t going to risk her seat and leave the rest of us without representation to do it. Do you even care about that at all?
You guys are behaving irrationally. You act like immigration reform hinges on Loretta Sanchez, which is ridiculous. You should be thankful that she is even willing to vote for the Dream Act if, and when, it comes up, and you should be thankful that the Democrats are willing to tackle this issue at all.
“You should be thankful that she is even willing to vote for the Dream Act if, and when, it comes up, and you should be thankful that the Democrats are willing to tackle this issue at all.”
We should be thankful? Wow.
This is exactly the arrogant attitude that troubles me about Ms. Sanchez and her staff. This is what happened to Dornan as well. Pride cometh before the fall. I hope I’m wrong and I hope she changes her ways
I’m not on her staff, and I’m not arrogant. I’m just somebody who doesn’t want to lose representation over this issue. I support legalizing undocumented immigrants, but I’m not going to lose the political represenation that Mexican-Americans have fought so hard to obtain. You obviously don’t care about that. You just want what you want and you don’t care who gets trampled in the process.
Excuse my interuption to this food fight but I need to correct Vern on something. It is Quang Pham that is challenging Van Tran in the GOP primary and not Hugh Nguyen.
Now back to your food fight.
Loretta is a coward, plain and simple, who has feasted on the votes of immigrants and their descendants for far too long. The arrogance of Sunny, who cares only that a Democrat represent them, only proves this truism. Time for some scheming…
Feasted on the votes of immigrants? You mean American citizens. Illegal immigrants cannot vote.
And I’m not arrogant. Why should people like me have to risk our representation over this issue? Hmmm? You never seem to answer that question.
Gustavo,
Remember… she did take one for the team by unseating that nut, B-1 Bob Dornan way back when!
Red,
Dornan was a character. But he was fun in his own way, and he actually was very pro-Latino.
Dornan’s mistake was losing touch with his district. Now Loretta appears to be following in his footsteps…
Will she suffer the same fate?
Art,
I just remember him getting into fights on airplanes and doing all sorts of things that were, frankly, wack.
Maybe the shelf life of that particular seat is very limited and new folks need to be rotated in regularly? Donno. Loretta has taken progressive stances on many items, so I’d think she’s going to have financial support from organizations like MoveOn etc…
How did her fundraiser go? Successful?
Re: “But he [Dornan] was fun in his own way, and he actually was very pro-Latino.”
Are you kidding me? Dornan was a racist crackpot.
#84,
Ask the Pulidos. Dornan helped save their muffler shop when the City of Santa Ana wanted to tear it down.
As for Loretta, why is it she only dates white guys?
Helping one family save their muffler shop makes him pro-Latino? Get real. That doesn’t erase all of the racist rhetoric or his racist voting record.
As for Loretta, I don’t care who she dates. All of you sexist Loretta haters are obsessed with her private life.
Sunny,
You forget that Loretta ran for the Anaheim City Council as a Republican named “Loretta Brixey.”. After she lost she switched parties, dropped the “Brixey” and ran for Congress – as a carpetbagger from Palos Verdes.
Ahe later dumped Brixey altogether and apparently started dating lobbyists.
She is only a Latina when it is convenient.
Art: Don’t bother with logic on Sunny, who can only respond to Loretta’s critics with accusations of sexism and idiocy. Oh, and Sunny, the so-called proud Mexican-American: many immigrants vote once they become a citizen. Hell, most of Little Saigon’s voting power comes from refugees and immigrants who bothered to register. WHAT A BUFFOON HAHA.
Re: “She is only a Latina when it is convenient.”
Oh brother. Now there is an ethnic litmus test. I guess if she were a poor, 45 year old fat great-grandmother from Santa Ana she would be ethnic enough for you.
Sunny,
“I guess if she were a poor, 45 year old fat great-grandmother from Santa Ana she would be ethnic enough for you.”
If that were the case my guess is that those white lobbyists wouldn’t be tapping her….
re: “many immigrants vote once they become a citizen.”
Yes, but today’s illegal immigrants won’t be citizens by 2010, and those of us whose ancestors have worked to secure poltical representation and rights do not want to lose this seat over illegal immigration. There are represenatives from districts who can sponsor this bill without losing the next election to a Republican.
You can’t think long term. You just get emotional and react.
Gustavo,
Good point! Little known fact – Santa Ana now has a lot more Vietnamese voters than just a few years ago. If Sanchez has to face off against Pham or Tran, it could end up in a loss for her, particularly with Ceci Iglesias in the mix. Sanchez might well end up on unemployment – or on the talk radio circuit like B-1 Bob…
Re: “If that were the case my guess is that those white lobbyists wouldn’t be tapping her….”
What do you care who she allegedly does it with? It’s none of your business.
Sunny,
Are you on Loretta’s payroll? Are we the taxpayers paying you to watch this blog 24/7? That would be par for the course…
Re: “particularly with Ceci Iglesias in the mix. ”
is that what it’s going to be like in the future? Crabs in the bucket idiots who will cause us to lose what little political representation we have? Numbers don’t equal power by any means. If you are a slave, or a peon at home, you will be a slave here too. Wherever you go there you are.
There is a certain type of Mexican-American who gets jealous of Mexican-Americans who do well in life and who do not fit the mold. They are vendidos.
Sanchez doesn’t fit the mold. She’s single, over 40 and financially well off. For a Mexican-American woman that’s a no no. She shoud be a fat, married mother taking orders from her husband. She should be ‘done.’ The fact that she dates, and that she dates white men, makes men like Art and Gustavo go nuts.
Sunny, don’t confuse me with Art. I am rooting for Loretta to do the right thing on the DREAM Act, and win re-election and continue to represent us.
You’re wrong when you say the progressive stands she has taken in the past are only ones that are popular in her district. (That’s how I know you don’t work for her.) She voted (correctly) against going to war in Iraq, back when most Americans – certainly in OC – believed Saddam was behind the 9-11 attacks. And she’s been a backer of Conyer’s single payer health care bill since last year – also something that, sadly, a majority of Americans still don’t seem to be ready for. And she keeps coasting to re-election nonetheless.
I’m saying it won’t endanger her chances to back the DREAM Act, which she knows is right; and it will show she still has guts and a conscience.
over 40!, that must be her waist size you are referring to.
She is more like over 50.
“Sanchez doesn’t fit the mold. She’s single, over 40 and financially well off. For a Mexican-American woman that’s a no no. She shoud be a fat, married mother taking orders from her husband. She should be ‘done.’ The fact that she dates, and that she dates white men, makes men like Art.”
and Gustavo go nuts.
1) what mold! is this what you think is the norm for a Mex-Amer. woman?
2)financially well off—so did she obtain her so called “well off” status before entering office?, or is there something funny going on here???
3)she SHOULD be a fat mexican-american woman– look again,Sunny– this woman has no curves– FAT SHE IS
4)Art and Gustavo going nuts over that—sorry Sunny I don’t think they care.
5) who told you Adriana plays journalist- she obviously does her job well- she says the truth, she has enough brains and good judgment to know and spread awareness that Sanchez needs to GO, and she is brave enough to take the lead on speaking out for the majority of Latino/a s that have had enough embarrassment with Loretta representing us!
Sunny,
Not just white men. White federal lobbyists who have business with Sanchez’ congressional committee. Big difference.
So why should Latinos support Sanchez when she won’t support the Dream Act?
“What do you care who she allegedly does it with?”
Who she beds down does matter when they can show her some luvin and then get the $$$ they want through her votes.
Great Tits!