A few of my readers have been ripping me of late, because I have been intimating that Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido has changed. Some folks don’t think he has. And some think he is faking it. Is he?
There are in fact many reasons to believe that Pulido has in fact turned a corner – and he isn’t looking back. Pulido is a lot of things, but stupid isn’t one of them. He has seen the City of Santa Ana changing. And he has at last realized that he doesn’t need the support of Santa Ana’s “Usual Suspects.”
We saw the pathetic Usual Suspects come out in full force this Monday night, and fail, as the Santa Ana City Council voted unanimously for progress and for our working families. And Pulido did something I had never seen him do before – he lit into one of his own.
Councilman David Benavides angered Pulido and all of his peers on the City Council when he honored a pile of Minutemen on Monday. Benavides was then excoriated by Pulido and company.
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Art I believe we need to be careful at first but I do believe people can change for the better. Pulido has helped my Tio with getting a job and I know others who he has helped with problems in thier Santa Ana neighborhood. We need to hold his feet to the fire and make sure he stays on track but I for one, am OK with giving him the chance to reform and grow with the job. I think the key is having others like Sal and Claudia there to push him as well.
“Grow with the job?” I have no idea if the guy’s sincerely changing or not, but I wouldn’t use the expression “grow with the job” when he’s been in the position half his adult life.
” …met with Alfredo Amezcua when he first launched his campaign for Mayor. It has been all downhill for him since. He has scooped up the Usual Suspects”
Word on the street is that Benavides, Amezqua, and Gordon (BAG) are all working together at this point and having regular meetings to decide how to proceed with the campaign. The Strouds are helping them organize the ground game and connecting them with thier friends who have worked together on previous campaigns. It will be interesting to see how team BAG (Benavides, Amezqua, Gordon) raises money and generates support with grassroots organizations.
Nothing but election year window dressing. How very gullible you are.
Oh well. We don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the times you’ve been wrong before.
anon,
Really? As I recall I was 2-2 on Monday night. I cannot recall enjoying a Council meeting more than I did that one.
The problem with calling it window dressing is that you forget the obvious in doing so. The Council will still be there next year. They will keep this City going in the right direction. And Pulido appears to be enjoying working with these peers. He has been reinvigorated. This cannot come at a better time given the challenges we are facing right now.
I would venture to say that the only ones who are being gullible are those blindly following Amezcua when he has yet to give us any concrete reasons to do so.
Well since you appear ready to give Pulido a second chance, we’ll remember that you’ve done this the next time some politician comes along deserving a second chance and you refuse to do so. The opportunities to expose your hypocrisy is really the gift that keeps on giving.
But seriously, anon, to take that principle as far as equating forgiving what Pulido did in previous years to forgiving what Benavides did THIS WEEK and still embraces… is probably not the best way to make your case.
Vern, it’s sad to see that you’ve bought into the logical fallacy that because Benavides honored a few folks for organizing a community event, it means that he endorses their personal viewpoints on an array of issues.
Sean and Art are really that craven…I didn’t expect it of you.
Maybe it’s just because I’m still in pain from watching Lupe Moreno, Anita Hynds and Barbara Coe in action just last week in Westminster…
anon,
Craven? No, Sean and I are not craven. But anyone who sides with the Minutemen certainly deserves that descriptor.
Benavides knew better – but he still did it. When will he learn that he doesn’t need the Usual Suspects anymore?
Craven?
This from a guy who comments anonymously. Oh the irony!
anon,
Whatever. You clearly have little of substance to contribute to this debate. As I have pointed out time and again the Council is not going to change. Pulido will continue on the right track because Martinez, Tinajero and Sarmiento, as well as Alvarez, will make sure he does. And I truly think he is enjoying this new opportunity to serve our residents. He is a far better Mayor now that your pals, the Usual Suspects, have gotten the boot.
I called up Amezqua’s campaign to get more information on how he stands on some Santa Ana issues and I was told I should give money to his campaign. That was the response to my questions. It was really a hard sell and it turned me off. He may be a nice fellow but he has some people who are working for him who are really rough around the edges.
Valley Falcon 67,
Sean and I have both been attacked by Amezcua supporters in the past few months. They appear to be a surly bunch. Not a good way to run a campaign if you ask me!
This is reminiscent of the Miguel Pulido I remember supporting when he first ran in 1986. I think that folks like Sal, Claudia, Michele and Vince have helped bring the mayor back to his roots. His strong stance against David honoring “haters” and his vote to remove Glen Stroud from the Housing Redevelopment Commission signal to me that his alliance with the “usual suspects” is over.
This is a welcome change.
Well folks you will always get what you deserve. Pulido, Benavides nor usual suspects have anything to do with that.
The economy rules!
It is no brainier to look around and see who in the world prospers and who doesn’t. So if you will be surrounded by the people with low prosperity coefficient or leftists who want to take everything you own than your life will be miserable.
Without moron Bush we would not have communist Obama and without Obama we will not have someone who will set the America on the right way……. probably WASP.
I don’t see as many Amezqua supporters commenting on blogs these days. I wonder if some have quit supporting him?
who is included in the “usual suspects”? This group is constantly mentioned yet I am unclear on who is involved. -TY-
Salzburg2013,
Watch the video of Monday night’s City Council meeting and you will see a parade of Usual Suspects. There were quite a few in the audience too. These were the folks showing up to speak out against OBP. You can rent a DVD of the Council meeting at the Main Library on Civic Center. The meeting periodically streams online too. Google “Santa Ana Channel 3” to watch it online.
“These were the folks showing up to speak out against OBP.”…… Hmmmm
So since 2004 to 2010 you have spoke out against OBP until recent flip/flop you too are “usual suspect”?….. I remember you to be very friendly with SantaAnaCitizen list morons which only I have been fighting.
O’ I got it you are “flipped flopped unusual suspect”.
Fiala,
LOL! I was a Pulido supporter back in the day. Now he has come around and here we are. As for the Usual Suspects, no – I was never one of them. And now they matter not at all…
“I don’t see as many Amezqua supporters commenting on blogs these days. I wonder if some have quit supporting him?”
I think some of them now realize he has no chance because of his past dealings.
I do see virtually no body is commenting on blogs these days.
Can anyone say “Corboba Corporation?”
Tony,
You know that Pulido’s opponent Amezcua, is a former business partner of George Pla, the owner of Cordoba?
That’s Amezcua — what about Pulido? (who Bushala is getting at — and of course, I doubt Bushala is pro-Amezcua!)