There are a few whacked out bloggers at Red County and the Liberal OC who have been attacking Anaheim City Council candidate Thomas “Hoagy” Holguin on flimsy grounds, at best. They clearly don’t know Hoagy, who enjoys broad support in Anaheim.
I suspect that the real reason they are attacking Hoagy is to preserve the boondoggle that is Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle’s high speed rail scheme. Don’t forget that Red County editor Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham also supported the Measure M tax increase, and he has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in Prop. 10 proceeds that should have been spent on Orange County’s needy children.
Hoagy has been on the Anaheim Union High School District’s Board of Education for several years. He built a successful business from the ground up. In these troubled times, Hoagy’s experience in creating jobs will be a real positive on the Anaheim City Council.
What really cracks me up is the unhinged comments by Claudio Gallegos, over at the Lib OC. Did Gallegos not notice when his editor, Chris Prevatt, defended Lupe Moreno, the notorious Minuteman, on their own blog? Gallegos himself is allied with Santa Ana’s Usual Suspects, who in years past have erected illegal barricades in French Park to keep Latinos out.
Hoagy has a lot of support in Orange County’s Latino community – which is something Gallegos completely lacks. But, like Gallegos, Hoagy is married to a Mexican immigrant, and neither Hoagy nor Gallegos speak Spanish.
Hoagy’s Latino endorsers include:
- Hon Manny Ontriveros, Trustee, North Orange County Community College
- Hon Rick Ledesma, Trustee, Orange Unified School District
- Hon John Ortega, Board President, Orange Unified School District
- Hon Barbara Quintana, Trustee, Magnolia School District
- Hon John Acosta, Former Councilman, City of Santa Ana
- Fank Garcia, Owner La Casa Garcia
- John “J Mac” Machiaverna, Business Owner
- Audrey Cherep, President, AUHSD Personnel Commissioner
- Speed Castillo, AUHSD Personnel Commissioner
- Pat Pina, Community Leader
Yes, Hoagy is a Republican, but he is one of the good ones. He is one of three Anaheim City Council candidates I am supporting, including Bill Dalati and John Santoianni.
One thing I do know about Hoagy is that he will stand up to union corruption and pension abuse. I cannot say that about John Leos, the fake Republican endorsed by the Lib OC and the OCEA. Leos is himself a government worker and a union shill. His hand is most definitely stuck in the cookie jar.
There are a few other Republican candidates being backed by outgoing Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle. Know this – he handpicked candidates who would advance his ridiculous high speed rail tax boondoggle. Voters beware!
Hoagy has taken some grief from folks, including myself, for a vote he made several years ago, to replace an AUHSD Trustee who died with a former Trustee named Harald Martin. We all know that Martin is as unhinged on immigration as Lupe Moreno herself, but the only other choice Hoagy had was to vote for a young man named Jordan Brandman, who was single, with no kids, and really had no business running for the AUHSD School Board.
Brandman has since disgraced himself in his Democratic Party by disavowing the move to add gay rights to our history books. He also did not pursue the ECCO PAC endorsement this year. But Brandman did pursue the endorsement of a slew of Prop. 8 supporters, including Matt Cunningham and his wife Laura, who was paid to hate, as the Hispanic Outreach Director for Prop. 8. And Brandman also ripped a health care reform sticker off his shirt, at the 2009 OC Labor Day event, as I was trying to take his picture. In hindsight, Brandman has been a giant disappointment to local progressives.
As President of the Board of Trustees for the Anaheim Union High School District, Thomas “Hoagy” Holguin also led the investigation of the Measure Z Anaheim Union High School District Construction Bond due to staff mismanagement, and saved the city of Anaheim’s schools and taxpayers millions of dollars.
Anaheim has become an increasingly diverse city, but you would not know that by looking at Pringle’s endorsements. I hope Hoagy wins. He will be a great role model and leader for the growing Latino community in Anaheim, and his fiscal conservatism and experience in job creation will serve all the Anaheim residents well. Click here to read more about that.
“Hoagy has taken some grief from folks, including myself, for a vote he made several years ago, to replace an AUHSD Trustee who died with a former Trustee named Harald Martin. We all know that Martin is as unhinged on immigration as Lupe Moreno herself, but the only other choice Hoagy had was to vote for a young man named Jordan Brandman, who was single, with no kids, and really had no business running for the AUHSD School Board.”
Wacala. Gimmie a break, Art. Especially with that celebratory ‘mesa redonda!’ How many takes did it take to get everyone’s part down?
Here are some other “Viva La Raza” endorsements for Hoagy:
Janet Nguyen, Harry “El Sidhu Loco”, and Ed Royce!
Don’t let the blog wars cloud your political analysis. Yes, Anaheim is a diverse city, but as my OJ post noted, we need progressive Latinos, not regressive “juans.”
We need progressive Latinos, not regressive “Juan’s.”
MQ says:
You are not a liberal hah?
You are so full of it and it has nothing to do with your brown skin!
Viva La Raza”
MQ says:
Viva La Raza in English mean’s: Long live the race!
You must LOVE the kkk! You truly are a text book racist! Everyone should really know what a racist is and you are it! I would NEVER indorse anyone because of their race including my own!
Trustee named Harald Martin
MQ says:
Anaheim is the second worst school district in Orange County. Middle Class Americans lost their schools to foreigners (third world people) who sent their children speaking spanish and then became absentee parents in their children’s education!
And of course you lie when you state that he is unhinged by immigration; no he is unhinged by illegal aliens who have completely destroyed the school district and cost the tax payers a fortune!
We don’t need any JUANS thank you MARGARET (known also as Gabriel) we need loyal Americans not swayed by race or any other corrupt element!
Holguin is a successful “Hispanic” businessman. Gallegos is a loser. Holguin’s wife immigrates to the U.S. legally. Gallegos wife is an illegal alien. Holguin’s wife is deeply in love with him. Gallegos wife hates him and divorced him.
So Holguin voted for Martin years ago. BFD. Two votes aren’t a majority. Brandman is a joke who is self hating and soon we will hear more about his sexuality.
Let’s remember some other elected Hispanic votes. Solorio voted to sell the O.C. Fairgrounds. Correa voted for plush union pensions.
Ankle biter: If you’re a “Hispanic” and drawing distinctions between marrying a “legal” and an “illegal” immigrant wife in defense of Hoagy…
Well…
CCIR’s (a hate group) Harald Martin compared undocumented immigrants to Osama Bin Laden. Now there is the rhetoric that likens immigrants to ‘criminals’ and then there is the rhetoric that likens them to terrorists!
How any self-respecting Mexican can be part of a 3-1 vote to bring a pendejo like that back is all I need to know. BFD indeed.
Harald Martin compared undocumented immigrants to Osama Bin Laden.
MQ says:
Destructive force!
rhetoric that likens them to terrorists!
MQ says:
Did you hear about the illegal Alien that decapitated his room mate?…Sounds very like what the terrorist love to do or Ramos who killed the dad and his two son’s in cold blood! HMMMMMMM sounds like terrorist’s to me!
Infiltrate and destroy communities, schools, social structure!
Actually let me clarify that…Martin said such immigrants were worse than Bin Laden!
And then there is this passage from Nick Schou’s 2001 article:
“According to Martin, Section 133 of the federal immigration code has allowed local police to deport illegal immigrants since 1996, but Janet Reno had never signed the “administrative regulations that would have allowed officers to do it.” Martin has tried for the past year to persuade the Anaheim City Council to enforce Section 133, but—as per his “loser” joke—to no avail.”
Isn’t that nice. ‘Viva La Raza’ Holguin frontin’ for someone advocating for basically the same anti-spirit Sheriff Joe Arpayaso embodies…
ankle biter,
I don’t believe she divorced the loser. Sadly she felt it was better to remain married to him than face depotation. What a dilema for her.
So Correa gets a pass for his 3% at 50 vote and Solorio gets a pass for voting to sell the OC Fairgrounds and that’s ok. There are worse stories in Sacramento about Correa even voting against his own legislation! Well both of these Democrat knuckleheads have a history of endorsing Republicans and that’s seems to be ok too. I could go on but what’s the point. We already know they’re knuckleheads.
Legal versus Illegal. I am only stating the facts.
Only stating the facts? Yeah right…there’s no need. Unless you hate “illegals” as much as Harald Martin does.
There is a difference is hating someone and not wanting to pay for them. I the case of illegal Immigrants mostly from Mexico… I don’t hate them and I want them to stop being so needy!
I believe in a guest worker program but I sure don’t want to be an ATM!
I think that is what most Amercians feel!
Mrs. Fraudio has no self-respect. Is she driving Fraudio and his buddy Count Chocula to the Quill too?
Hoagy’s performance on the AUHSD the past few years has been abysmal. Between his personal support of Harold Martin and his oversight (lack thereof) of bond funded improvements that spiraled out of control, he showed no leadership. This was not a Latino issue, it was a lack of leadership issue. I have attended key meetings for several years of AUHSD and the next time Hoagy speaks out for the improvement of the district and not for his self interests will be the first!
But maybe thats the kind of leadership Anaheim is looking for? …just asking?
> just asking?
> Hoagy’s performance on the AUHSD the past few years has been
> abysmal. Between his personal support of Harold Martin and his
> oversight (lack thereof) of bond funded improvements that spiraled
> out of control, he showed no leadership.
In my opinion, the reason why Thomas “Hoagy” Holguin wanted to be on the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees is that he is using it as a stepping stone to get himself elected to the Anaheim City Council.
Many people who have served on that body don’t have the foggiest clue as to what the AUHSD does and could care less about education. All that is important to them is that they milk the Trustee title to its maximum potential.
The Trustee title enables them to get their foot in the door to private social networks where they can mingle with wealthy businessmen who have boatloads of cash that they can tap to finance their aspirations of running for higher public office.
The thing that is pathetic is that often a Trustee’s aspirations of running for a higher public office come in direct conflict with the business of running the AUHSD, hampering the ability of that body to educate thousands of students.
In 1997, I learned Harald Martin contacted people at the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce and told them he was planning to run for Anaheim City Council in the future. I found that out from a person who was on the ACC Board.
So what does Martin do to generate name recognition for himself? He uses his position as AUHSD Trustee to scapegoat the children of undocumented workers for classroom overcrowding and suggests Mexico should be billed for it.
I’m of the belief Martin pulled this political stunt to use anti-immigrant sentiment get himself elected to a seat on the Anaheim City Council in 2000 and join then-ally Lucille Kring, who got elected to that body in 1998.
The only good thing that came out of this is that it backfired on Martin and made him a pariah. Nevertheless this political stunt created all sorts of acrimony within the AUHSD and interfered with its ability to educate students.
Understand Martin isn’t the only person who has milked the Trustee title for his own selfish reasons. Tom Daly, before he was elected to the Anaheim City Council, previously served on the AUHSD Board of Trustees for a couple of years.
In 2002, AUHSD Trustee Katherine Smith quietly pulls papers to run for State Superintendent of Public Instruction and then, out of the blue, her friend Martin announces he’s thinking about getting immigration agents to check the ID’s of students.
This latest political stunt generates a million dollars worth of free publicity for Smith because newspapers up and down the state report she voted against Martin’s proposal even though school attorneys told them flat out in advance the proposal was illegal.
I was at that AUHSD meeting, by the way. I spoke during public comments and said this was all a political stunt orchestrated by Martin to help generate name recognition for Smith so she can get elected to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Neither Martin or Smith ever denied it …
I think trustee positions should have some requirement of experience in education so it can stop being the said ‘stepping stone.’
So what does Martin do to generate name recognition for himself? He uses his position as AUHSD Trustee to scapegoat the children of undocumented workers for classroom overcrowding and suggests Mexico should be billed for it.
MQ says:
Fab idea! Except I hate to break the news…Mexico is sending its people over here to get rid of them.. They sure are not going to pay for them!
It’s both. Speaking of Latinos and leadership, I wonder if Hoagy stands with his ‘gente’ who have worked without a contract for over two years at Disney Resort Area hotels…
Gabriel! Are you going to ask that of Hoagy, Leos, Bill and John? That’s your beat, we’re waiting for that story!
I already spoke with who I needed to speak to. I know who is down and who isn’t…
Gabriel,
As you know, I endorsed Dalati and Santoianni, and I even allowed the latter to blog here. I have also written about them.
There are Republicans in Anaheim who will only vote for GOP candidates. I would prefer they vote for Hoagy and not the Pringle clones.
Well then, add in brackets in the title:
…offers [Republican] Latinos…
and down further
…enjoys a lot of support from Orange County’s [Republican] Latino Community…
I don’t know what to do about the sentence “I hope he wins.” What kind of bracket would go there? I hope he wins [the majority of Republican votes away from the Pringle King Making Machine but not enough overall to actually a council seat]
???
Tell us then? Or did I miss a post?
Just Asking: I agree with you. Those Latinos like Correa and Solorio lack leadership.
Gabriel San Roman: Holguin is a true role model. You should aspire to be as successful as him. Not everyone has to clean toilets and make up beds forever.
Again your dichotomy is pathetic. If this is the contour of the pro-Holguin supporters, double my opposition to my candidacy!
I’d rather be a happy service worker than a loathing sell-out.
typo: I mean double my opposition to his candidacy. I’m not running for anything…haha
I forgot to add Loretta Sanchez to the lack of leadership group.
Hoagy is a moron, and I can’t believe you wrote this, Art!
Gustavo,
He just hasn’t recovered from the illness that is Republicanism.
I would rather see Hoagy win instead of a Pringle clone or that bogus Leos character.
That said, I have also endorsed the two progressive candidates. In an ideal world they would prevail. Sadly it appears that the Pringlistas have a lead in this race.
What shall Art do? Stick with Hoagy out of racial solidarity? Or backpedal because Art’s pals Gustavo and Grabriel are giving him flak? Looks to me like Art is backpedaling.
anon,
Not at all. My position has been the same for weeks. I endorsed Hoagy, Dalati and Santoianni awhile ago.
If anyone is backpedaling it is Jordan Brandman, who is running as fast as he can away from his previous positions regarding LGBT rights.
And they picked you as a Speaker!
Poor Students..Four years busting their balls and they got a racist!
Hoagy was the top vote getter the last two elections.
He appeals to many voters, despite the “Martin” appointment.
Luis,
Good point! Hoagy got 22,027 votes in 2006. Brandman came in fourth with 18,194 votes.
It is pretty obvious that the Brandmanistas are trying to make him the next “great white hope” of the Central County Democrats. So of course they need to destroy Hoagy. Good luck with that!
Art Pedroza wrote:
> It is pretty obvious that the Brandmanistas are trying to make him the
> next “great white hope” of the Central County Democrats.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on this point.
Jordan Brandman is a right-wing, pro-corporate “New Democrat” who is merely using his seat on the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees as a stepping stone to get himself elected to the Anaheim City Council.
Shortly before becoming a legislative aide to former Democratic State Assemblyman Tom Umberg, he used to be a policy wonk for both former Governor Gray Davis and current Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He’s received “bi-partisan” support from the local political and business elites and has gotten a warm welcome from the crowd of boosters that blindly supports everything the Walt Disney Company does in Anaheim.
Early last year, he had a fundraiser at the home of a person who is one of the “leaders” of the “Save Our Anaheim Resort” (SOAR) a grassroots group that received $2 million in funding from the Walt Disney Company.
SOAR was created by the Walt Disney Company to fight efforts by a developer called SunCal to build a upscale housing project within the Anaheim Resort Area that allocated at least 20% of it’s units for low-income people.
They didn’t want SunCal to build its housing project because it would have been near a former strawberry field that the Walt Disney Company owns and wants to use to build yet another theme park when economic conditions improve.
Many of the same people who were active participants or strong supporters of SOAR’s efforts to stop SunCal’s project backed Brandman’s bid for the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees.
Besides being an AUHSD Trustee, Brandman also serves on the Anaheim Public Utilities Commission. He’s being “groomed” like Tom Daly was for a future Anaheim City Council bid.
> “Save Our Anaheim Resort” (SOAR) a grassroots group
I meant to put “grassroots group” in quotes.
Haha!
Mrs. Hoagy is muy caliente!
Gabriel San Roman is too funny. Gabriel may be very content or “happy” as a service worker, but my aspirations are greater than minimum wage. I can see the only future for a high school drop-out is cleaning toilets and making up beds. If I lacked an education, I guess I would be “happy” just to have a job.
I like all Hispanic successful business owners and find them all to be role models for the little brown children of America. But honestly, we should all encourage children to get an education and become more than a “service worker”.
Post under your real name.
Excuse me?
Don’t feel so supreme! If he is a service worker, it’s a job and for all we know you
might clean horse shit for a living! Not too say, “horse shit cleaning” is not a good job!
Good night!
Reading all these hispanic posts makes you wish that a big space ship would ascend and take your asses to hispanic Utopia. And save the rest of us from your constant moaning!
Really? Really!