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Bustamante almost ended up on the state civil rights commission…

Posted on by Posted in Carlos Bustamante, Civic Affairs, Courts, Crime, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Santa Ana 5 Comments

Twin devils of deception

Everyone in Santa Ana is talking about the arrest of Santa Ana Councilman Carlos Bustamante, on multiple felony counts of various sex crimes, but most folks have forgotten that former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger once appointed Bustamante to the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, back in January of 2008.

When I found out about the appointment I could not believe it.  Even then we knew Bustamante had some issues with women, but when I first wrote about the appointment, over at my old Orange Juice blog, I tackled the issue from a different standpoint – pointing out the fact that Santa Ana was a leader in home foreclosures – and Bustamante had done nothing at all about that. Continue reading→

Janet Nguyen is two-faced when it comes to dealing with homosexuality

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Janet Nguyen, LGBTQ, Orange County, Republican Party, Santa Ana 4 Comments

Activists, for the second year, asked Orange County supervisors Tuesday to recognize Harvey Milk’s birthday with a proclamation, but the board declined the opportunity, as it did last year, according to the L.A. Times.

This happened last year too, but Supervisor Janet Nguyen fled the dais that time, before the activists and residents who came to the Board of Supervisors’s meeting had a chance to speak.  This time, according to the L.A. Times, she stuck around but fled the room before her colleagues and County staff could speak.

Nguyen likes to pretend that she is a moderate but in the end she is just as much a knuckle-dragging Republican as are her colleagues.  They are all anti-gay and that is pretty much how their party rolls – although they have just as many closted homosexuals in politics as their local Democratic counterparts do. Continue reading→