Picture Courtesy of the Amezcua Facts Blog
Alfredo Amezcua is finally sending out mail this week, but the timing is a bit off given the allegations that have come up regarding his driving violations.
Amezcua’s mailers talk a lot about honesty, integrity and public safety, but the reality is that Amezcua has been caught red-handed lying about his name, presumably in order to avoid damaging his driving record.
The problem for Amezcua is that anyone can peruse the Orange County court criminal records and pull up his multitude of driving violations. Once you do so, it is easy to spot how he has gone about altering his name, from one case to the next, as has been pointed out in the new Amezcua Facts blog.
Call this what you will, but in the end it is fraud. That is bad enough but what are we to make of a guy who can’t seem to figure out how to drive without getting moving violations?
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You have got to be kidding me! This guy is as crooked as a dogs hind leg! Who in their right mind for vote for a crook for Mayor?
“Who in their right mind for vote for a crook for Mayor?”……… I!
At leas you know what you getting.
I learned my lesson with Schwarzenegger, I believed I was getting conservative and I got crooked European communist.
personal relationships and traffic tickets…yeah, real meat and potatoes issues over there at the new blog that possibly may have a shelf life of what? a couple weeks?
give me more policy, not tmz politics.
gabriel,
As you may know, Santa Ana leads the county in traffic accidents involving pedestrians. Amezcua’s driving record indicates he is a real danger to the people of our city, at least when he gets behind the wheel.
I know of the pedestrian problems with traffic accidents in Santa Ana…you tie in Amezcua’s traffic tickets. Ok.
But the more substantive exploration (outside of bashing one candidates traffic record or praising another) is grinding out viable policies/solutions aimed at reducing traffic accidents involving pedestrians.
I remember Gustavo Arellano writing about the pendejadas of Pulido y los Dinos’ re-renaissance plans while witnessing a teen get smashed by an accident into critical condition:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/notes-from-the-banana-republic/can-santa-ana-residents-succes/
gabriel,
Did you bother to LOOK at Amezcua’s violations? The man is a danger to our residents, period. He should have lost his license a long time ago. If he does not care to obey our traffic laws, what about our other laws? If Pulido was the one caught making up names over a slew of tickets you would be crucifying him!
Never mind finding new ways to reduce accidents, just getting Amezcua off the streets will make us safer! He is loaded – he ought to just use a limo service to get around.
Yes, I did. No DUI’s, speeding tickets, or red light violations that I saw. If Pulido had a driving record akin to Amezcua’s, I wouldn’t waste time blogging about it. If someone raised it, I’d probably post the same OC Weekly link that I did here to raise a policy matter of greater significance.
Aside from the names issue, this reminds me too much of the Neo-Liberal OC’s dig at Sean Nelson…
“the new blog that possibly may have a shelf life of what? a couple weeks?”
Gabriel,
The election is in 13 days so after that nobody is gonna care anything about Alfredo Amezcua because he will just be another failed candidate. So the shelf life of a couple of weeks just might do the trick.
That may very well be, but it will also ensure another tenure for a proven failure…the Mayor.
Anyway, an anti-Amezcua website is fine. It’s politics. But to have “facts” as part of the website URL and to have a post about his supposed relationships based on a “Rumores” (Rumors) article ad with a sentence following “it has been said by some” doesn’t stack the pancakes maing.
Santa Ana is bleached by the effects of the Great Recession. There is a great deal of real talk to be had. To resort to TMZ politics is a denigration of democratic dialogue.
You’re complaining about semantics? How silly. Where were you when Michele Martinez ran in 2008? I was right there with her.
But this year’s crops of mayoral challengers just plain sucks. And now Martinez has joined with other progressives on the Council to pull Pulido to the left. It is now a very functional Council and they are doing good things.
In two years lets see who else jumps in. Hopefully it won’t be a tarnished fool like Amezcua.
I’m not complaining about semantics. It’s discourse. Big difference between the two.
You can argue your political points like you did in the last two paragraphs (ps, progressives are left of neoliberals and there ain’t no majority of that on the SACC!). That’s a viable discussion/debate. I just don’t see how posting a link to a website with rumor mills calling out for alleged Amezcua affairs to surface really helps in the end though.
Was it really not so long ago that you had written things like this? http://newsantaana.com/2010/04/05/pulido-ally-alex-vega-organizes-protest-at-alfredo-amezcuas-law-office/
What is the point Gabriel? I think you have agreed that Amezcua is not a worthy candidate. I have explained, again and again, how I met with him last year and gave him a chance. He failed to come up with any concrete plans for change, and then he got in bed with the same Usual Suspects that the Pulido faction tossed out of City Hall. Why would I work with Amezcua after all that?
I am glad he is getting hit and I hope he loses.
By the way, you are very wrong about the SACC. Martinez, Tinajero and Sarmiento are very progressive. They are the heart of the Council majority. They support affordable housing, immigrant rights and gay rights. And they are tight with labor. What is your beef with them?
Yes, I have agreed that Amezcua is an unworthy candidate. I have disagreed with you in thinking that Pulido is a Mayor worthy of another term. Clearly he is not.
I also don’t see an ad in Rumores to be a relevant talking point of Amezcua criticism, especially on a blog that portends to be about the facts. I probably won’t get you to agree on that, but oh well. I think it speaks for itself.
Through other discussions on OJ, you and I also have different takes on progressivism and what makes a politician progressive. The Liberal Class is dead. It is capable of speaking the language, from time to time, of some sense of populism, but it is largely unable to carry out with any kind of real meaning policy wise. This is true, with the exception of a few, and I mean a few, Progressive Democrats (usually affiliated with the PDA like Marcy Winograd for instance) And they usually go nowhere within their own ranks.
And then there are left-progressives who see the forest for the trees and have left the Democratic Party altogether…
You don’t get it. You have to have four votes to get anything done on the Council. The progressive Council majority rules that roost. And they are doing a good job. Why change if the change is worse than what we have now?
As for leaving parties, I did that awhile ago. I am neither red nor blue. I vote for whomever I think will serve the people best.
Why don’t you post your election picks?
‘personal relationships and traffic tickets…yeah, real meat and potatoes issues over there at the new blog that possibly may have a shelf life of what? a couple weeks?’
Yes Gabe, Believe it or not, some voters still care about a candidates criminal record.Al has one and it’s a mile long. Most cops I know think it’s a joke that this guy is even thinking about running for Mayor. Just because a guy is a Lawyer, like Amezqua, does not mean he is above the law or that we should make him our Mayor! He’s dirty (that’s SUCIO for those of you who are Bi-cultural)
Lo Siento Mucho Al….
P.S. I’m impressed by this blog:
http://amezcuafacts.com/
It’s the first honest look at a candidate and his baggage that I have seen in a long time. I believe all voters owe it to themselves to read it and tell a friend as well.
This election is for our ninos and our ninos don’t need un viajito sucio for Mayor!
Is it my imagination or does Amezqua look a lot like Cro Magnon Man?
http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2008/08/24/1_3.jpg
Compare this to the photo on the new Amezqua blog. I think you need to add another interesting fact about him. I think he’s a lock on the caveman vote!
http://amezcuafacts.com/
My Bad. Cro-Magnon man has six-pack abs!
So when the mayor parks at the zoo in an area for emergency vehicles only, that is not a public safety issue? Balance the stories paid Pulido consultant you.
Joe,
Not sure what you meant there as your grammar tailed off at the end. But I checked Pulido’s record. Two tickets. He didn’t play games with his name.
Amezcua is a damn menace and what he did constitutes FRAUD. He could face disbarment over this.
There’s too much of this here, and also on the Liberal OC and the Red-faced Blog. And Fullerton too:
A blogger decides they support one candidate, and then they spend all their time finding the pettiest complaints against that candidate’s opponent, and totally blowing them up.
Also, I can’t figure out why there’s so much attention being paid to Al Amezcua. Does he really have a chance of winning?
Is it just the overwhelming importance of a feud with some silly people who DO support Amezcua?
Vern,
Fraud is not petty. Amezcua willfully played games with his name, on the court records, and did so as his own lawyer. These are serious crimes and he might well pay the price for this.
I have seen the poll numbers. Amezcua will lose but he is the top vote-getter from amongst the sad pile of challengers. That isn’t the point. He is lying to the public and we need to make sure he loses and loses big.
what up homie Art……Looks to me that you got handled by the homie Gabriel San Roman….jajajaja
You should let him help you write some better articles……even ghetto homies like me understand the politics you are playing……my Raza is waking up, so stop living in Ignorance and just Listen to those that have no VOice in this country
http://www.myspace.com/1STGEN714
The sleeping GIANT is waking up!!!!!
1st Gen,
I am also a first generation American. My parents both came here from Mexico, for the record.
I am very happy that Gabriel blogs here. One of the reasons our blog is so dominant is that we don’t all agree on everything. You will not find a more diverse blog anywhere in the county.
I hope you are right about our people. If we don’t vote in November it will be awful all around.
The position of Mayor of Santa Ana pays $200 a month. Recent disclosures and discoveries have come to light that exposes the current 8 term Mayor as making more than that.
City of Santa Ana paid him over
$36,000.00
Orange County Transportation Authority paid him over
$22,000.00
South Coast Air Quality Management District paid him over
$21,000.00
The Orange County Great Park paid him over
$11,000.00
No wonder he wants to be the Mayor for life in Santa Ana.
Santa Ana needs change now!
ALFREDO AMEZCUA FOR MAYOR