Underscoring the importance of an Orange County congressional seat in the battle for control of the House of Representatives, former President Clinton urged Democrats at a Santa Ana rally Friday afternoon to get out the vote for Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), according to the L.A. Times.
Other speakers at the Clinton event included state Senator Lou Correa, Santa Ana state Assemblyman Jose Solorio, Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido and Orange County Democratic Party Chairman Frank Barbaro, according to the OC Weekly. Santa Ana Council Members Claudia Alvarez, Michele Martinez and Vincent Sarmiento were also there.
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Stop the presses! You must have photoshoped this photo to remove lawyer Al Amezqua who planned this event! Al must have been standing next to Clinton. How dare you remove the man who made the whole thing possible!
Just checked out the the Register photos of this event. I looked and looked but I could not find even one photo of Al Amezqua, the future Mayor of Santa Ana! How could this be? There are several nice pics of Pulido and Clintion but none of Don Al. Que tristreza!
P.S. Can someone please give the ex-President a tube of Blistex. He’s sporting a major cold sore! Doesn’t that Presidential Doctor carry a little something for that?
And now a little night music dedicated to Al and his supporters. A message to Rudy…I mean Al…
Sorry folks. I went through this with Sean already. I guess it is Pedroza’s turn now.
Pedroza wrote:
“If Alfredo Amezcua was there, he was buried in the crowd. He tried to fool everyone with a few emails this week suggesting he was involved in the event. Nope. That was a big lie. This was a Pulido event, period.”
The facts:
-Sanchez and Correa approved the Amezcua email.
-Sanchez’ spokesperson Caroline Hogan cleared things up first saying; “President Clinton is coming to Santa Ana to participate in a rally specifically for Rep. Sanchez. This is not a DPOC event. Santa Ana Miguel Pulido was invited to speak because the event is taking place in his city.”
DPOC Executive Director Gerrie Schipske reiterated the same message; “DPOC sent out a notice, Loretta arranged the rally. Pulido is there as Mayor.”
The message below was sent out This past Thursday:
Apparently the Council and the Mayor want to deceive the public by stating President Clinton is here to support Pulido. Art Pedroza continues this lie, has no problem with this deception and out right lie Pedroza has lost the little credibility he had left.
Councilman Vincent Sarmiento
Please join us at President Bill Clinton’s rally to support
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Mayor Miguel Pulido.
on
Friday, October 15th, 2010
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Old Orange County Courthouse in Downtown Santa Ana
211 W. Santa Ana Blvd.
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Lomeli,
Are you serious? Did you not see the videos and pictures from the event? I did. No Amezcua in sight, but there was Pulido, right next to Clinton and Sanchez. And Pulido is the one who pulled the permits and arranged for the sound equipment and security.
This was not a DPOC event, period. They sponsored it and promoted it. Sanchez worked WITH Pulido to make this happen.
I have not in fact seen any pictures yet with Amezcua at this event. Was he even there?
Just wondering – I got no dog in this fight – did Clinton talk about Pulido at all?
I saw Amezcua there, and I thought that Clinton did talk about the mayor, but maybe it was Barbaro. I can even pick myself out in the picture in the OCR.
I saw Amezcua there. He was hanging out quietly in the back, over toward Sycamore St. And no, he wasn’t with the Van Tran people over there. He wasn’t that far back.
It was inspiring to be part of the crowd of over 1,000 who came to hear the democratic positions and candidates. President Clinton effectively spoke. He clearly and succinctly stated the choices voters have with facts, analogies and humor. He quoted the accomplishments Loretta Sanchez has achieved for central orange county in her tenure as our Congresswoman. I specifically appreciate the federal funds for infrastructure and assistance to our schools.
Vern,
No Clinton did not mention Pulido. Those that mentioned him where the other elected officials invited and Frank Barbaro.
The elected officials commented on the Mayor as they should acknowledging his role as Mayor in the city hosting the event.
Barbaro mentioned Pulido as a candidate as he supports him and took the stage to do so. Possibly Pulido took out the permit to enable him this action.
Lomeli,
You are full of it. Clinton, on video, clearly mentioned the City Council. Pulido supported his wife in 2008, so you bet they are close.
Face it, this event was huge for Pulido. It did nada for Amezcua. I have seen the poll numbers. He is done.
Pedroza,
So what is your point? I understand Pulido took out the Permits and sound and worked to organize. So what. I guess any one of us could of done that. I am sure this happened with work through Barbaro to get Clinton here and Pulido was given the job of promoter.
He now is Mayor, Board member of various groups with benefits, Muffler repair business owner, CONSULTANT and now also EVENTS PROMOTER.
SO PEDROZA AS THE PROMOTER OF THE EVENT I GUESS YOU ARE RIGHT, IT WAS PULIDO’S EVENT. WONDERFUL……BE PROUD.
Lomeli,
The point is that your guy Amezcua is a damn mentiroso!
I was in the rally .I’m very sure that there was ONE MILLION PEOPLE(1000000) no 1000,please be more precise in your numbers!!!!!!.Almost as Beck’s rally at Washington D.C.
Rosary,
The figure of 1,000 was reported by Public Radio news reports.
So you never verified somebody else lies?. That make you double liar! Blaming on somebody else missinformation.
Rosary,
I did verify the facts, by looking at what the media was reporting. I am sorry you think the media is lying. Take it up with them.
Art Pedroza
Posted October 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM
Lomeli,
The point is that your guy Amezcua is a damn mentiroso!
How so? This is your guy:
Councilman Vincent Sarmiento
Please join us at President Bill Clinton’s rally to support
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Mayor Miguel Pulido.
A BLATANT LIE!
AMEZCUA CAN’T WAIT TILL YOU CHANGE THE CITY.
YOU GOT MY VOTE.
PULIDO FOR LUNCH TRUCKS!!!!!!!!
KEEP THEM COMING PULIDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!