As the stumbling “Santa Ana Spring” movement continues to unimpress, it is becoming obvious that David Benavides, the bogus revolution’s candidate for Mayor of Santa Ana, is going to lose on Nov. 6. He is barely campaigning. He is using recycled signs and he has yet to send out any campaign mailers. His campaign appears to be centered on Facebook ads and ubiquitous blog comments by his number one supporter, Art Lomeli, a resident of Orange Park Acres.
Benavides, and his number one Council ally, Michele Martinez, were born here. Benavides hails from East Los Angeles, according to his bio. Martinez was raised here in Santa Ana, but apparently wasn’t born here as that information is absent from her own bio. But she most certainly was born somewhere in the U.S.
By contrast several of the current Council Members are Mexican immigrants – chief among them Mayor Miguel Pulido and Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez. This is one of the reasons they have so much support in Santa Ana – a city dominated by Mexican immigrants and their families. Many of these immigrants have, like Pulido and Alvarez, become citizens but they continue to value their culture and heritage.
Pulido and Alvarez speak excellent Spanish to this day. Benavides and Martinez, on the other hand, speak Pocho Spanish.
What about the other Council Members? Vince Sarmiento was born in Bolivia. His family came to Santa Ana in 1965, according to his bio. Why did they leave Bolivia? Well, the CIA was very active in Bolivia circa 1965, according to online reports, due to a leftist insurgency. Ironically Sarmiento is now part of Benavides’ leftist insurgency.
Leftist? You bet. Benavides, Sarmiento and the rest of their “Team” have all endorsed every single tax increase on the November ballot. Hang on to your wallets if these guys take over our City Council. You can bet that it won’t be long before they try to pass a citywide tax increase to pay for a new police contract, since the cop union endorsed Benavides. Payback will be a b*itch, but we the taxpayers will be paying the bill.
Sarmiento put up Benavides as a mayoral candidate this year knowing he would lose – with the thought that Benavides would be his trial balloon and that he would hopefully weaken Pulido so that Sarmiento can run for Mayor in 2014. That is not going to happen, instead Benavides is going to lose badly and his entire cartel is going to be tarred in the process.
As for the other Council Members and Council Candidates in the Benavides cabal, Sal Tinajero was born and raised in Santa Ana, according to his bio. And Council Candidate Eric Alderete was born in East Los Angeles, like Benavides. Council Candidate Roman Reyna lists Santa Ana as his hometown, on his Facebook page. I have not heard Alderete speak Spanish but I would imagine that Reyna, like Benavides and Martinez, is fluent in Pocho Spanish.
Alderete seems a bad fit for this motley crew. He is polished while Benavides, Reyna and Martinez are very rough around the edges. In fact we caught Reyna wearing what appears to be a clip on tie on his sole campaign mailer.
So how did Alderete end up on Team Benavides? Simple. He was blackmailed by Benavides’ political consultant, John Palacio, an SAUSD Trustee, since 1998, who now fashions himself to be a political guru.
Palacio threatened to run for Ward 3 unless the City Council majority got behind Benavides for Mayor – and Valerie Amezcua for the SAUSD School Board. Alderete should have called his bluff, but he wimped out. A deal was cut and just like that the Council majority was stuck in a leaky boat with Palacio and the Amezcuas. What a revolting development!
Are Benavides, Reyna and Amezcua the best that Santa Ana has to offer? Really? An unsuccessful realtor, a guy who has setup volleyball games throughout his adult life, and a probation officer whose father works to free the criminals she works with, as a defense lawyer? No thanks! We can do better.
We must reject the East Los Angeles style politics of Team Benavides. We have an opportunity to choose a different path on Nov. 6. I urge you to vote for Mayor Pulido, and for Karina Onofre – in Ward 5. And vote for anyone for the SAUSD School Board but please don’t vote for Amezcua.
Do you really want to see our city go in the direction of Vernon, Bell, Compton and Cudahay? Really? If yes then by all means vote for Team Benavides. You’ll get the local government you deserve.
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The comedy is getting better.
-The CIA drove the Sarmiento family out of Bolivia.
-Pulido likes Mexicans......he campaigned when he was first elected Mayor to eliminate Mexican immigrants from Santa Ana if they elected him Mayor. States publicly and in press interviews to not associate him as a Hispanic Mayor.
-You should elect candidates, at least in Santa Ana, as suggested by Editor only if you were born in Mexico and speak Spanish fluently as native Mexicans.
ALL THIS NONSENSE BACKED UP WITH THE STARTEGY TO DEVIDE AND CONQUER ALONG WITH THROW ENOUGH LIES AND SOME WILL STICK. OH..... SORRY THROW ENOUGH FALSE OPINIONS AND SOME WILL STICK.
Comedy is right - that is a good descriptor for the Benavides Apple Dumpling Gang.
I did not say that the CIA drove the Sarmiento family out of Bolivia, but they did leave that country during a time of leftist unrest, when the CIA was meddling in Bolivia. I can't blame them for leaving. But were they well to do? Did they come here with bags of ill-gotten loot? Very curious.
This rumor you have posted about Pulido is laughable when you consider that the Benavides cartel is full of Usual Suspects who voted for Prop. 187. In fact one of them was recently caught trying to match him up with Charles Hart in one campaign office! Laughable!
And no, I didn't say that you have to have been born in Mexico and speak fluent Spanish to win in Santa Ana, but it sure as heck doesn't hurt, does it?
So who then is the one with "false opinions?" When you point a finger at someone Dr. Lomeli don't forget there are four more pointing back at you!
First of all, i don't know how your hand works but if you were to have 4 fingers pointing back at you that is impossible not unless you have some sort of freaky hand. if you point it would be 3 finger pointing right back at you. plus you have four fingers and a thumb, again not unless you have some sort of freaky hand.
who cares if they speak "pocho" spanish what matters if they are going to do the job! obviouisly you have never worked in recreation its a lot more than just setting up a "volleyball game" we need more recreation programs so that we can give our kids something else to do than just sitting around and getting into trouble!!!
you need to stop pointing that extra finger you have around and start focusing on what the city and district needs!! what we need is change and a NEW Vision for our wonderful city! i have always been involved with the city of Santa Ana and i have seen it go through so many changes but recently we are stuck in a rut, there is no where for our kids to go there is nothing for them and thats what we need.
I want someone like Reyna Benavides and Amezcua because they are involved! they want CHANGE! they want to see our city SUCCEED!! and even better yet they want to see our YOUTH succeed and we should all be involved in making that happen!!
Unlike the single Reyna I have four kids. My wife and I volunteer as board members of our Little League, NESALL and we run the local Cub Scouts pack. And we do that as volunteers. Reyna was no volunteer. He was paid to play.
What we don't need is guys like Reyna and Benavides who want to take over City Hall so they can stuff their pockets and hand out contracts to their pals. That is East LA politics and that is NOT what we need in Santa Ana.
My kids are succeeding just fine and not because of Reyna, Benavides or Amezcua. My daughter graduated from FIDM with a degree in fashion design. She now works at the Gap as a designer. My oldest son got the highest GPA in the entire SAUSD when he graduated and is now at UCLA. And my other two boys are doing great in fundamental schools too.
We don't need fake leftist leaders. We need classy educated leaders and that does not apply to the Benavides cartel!
Just a friendly reminder Art, "volunteering for your kids" is called parenting.
A concept the single Reyna is utterly unfamiliar with.
What four fingers are pointing back at me? just curious.
"This rumor you have posted about Pulido is laughable when you consider that the Benavides cartel is full of Usual Suspects who voted for Prop. 187. In fact one of them was recently caught trying to match him up with Charles Hart in one campaign office! Laughable!"
There are several campaign pieces where he campaigns on this. he describes Mexican immigrants as vermin the reason for all the negatives of Santa Ana.
These usual suspects were Pulido's target audience along with the racists and bigots of the city at a time when these Immigrants and their families could not or wuld not vote
Can send you these campaign pieces for you to post....OK??
You are talking about the Usual Suspects - and as I referenced they are with Benavides this time around.
Now rather than wallow in the distant past, and in unfounded rumors, why don't you ask the Benavides campaign to send me their press releases and Op-Eds? I would be happy to post them, verbatim, with no editorial commentary.
You call what I said rumors. I say I have Pulido's campaign literature for you to post.
You post all kinds of rumors and false opinions associated with the past of individuals you care to misrepresent.....so this is relevant or everything you post of individuals you care to misrepresent dealing with the past is irrelevant.
I have offered to post any candidate's press releases or op-eds and that offer holds true for Benavides. If he does not want to send me that info then that is too bad for him.
I do not in fact post rumours and "False opinions." If I don't have a source I say so. You often hold me accountable for what my readers write in comments and that is not fair. If you have a specific instance of this rumor-mongering then let's have it. Otherwise please stop libeling me on my own blog. I have told you before that I will not tolerate this.
Now this use of the "false opinion" phrase is intereting. What is that? My opinions are just that, my opinions. If you disagree with them, good for you, but that doesn't make them false. You are prone to using your dictionary when you comment, please look up "false opinions" and let us know what in the world you are talking about.
I think they don't send you information is both because they don't trust you to be fair (you are known to be a very biased blogger to say the least), and because they don't want to be associated with you (even your favored candidates say that). So don't expect to be a player in this election. You have burnt your bridges and no one is coming back to hear your side. Sad....
Biased blogger? Isn't that the point of blogging? These are my opinions.
The rest of your comment is hilarious as I am working with five campaigns.
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
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false opinions are formed in this manner:
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Sometimes known as the use of hyperbolic (extreme) doubt, or Cartesian doubt. This is the method of investigating the extent of knowledge and its basis in reason or experience used by Descartes in the first two Meditations. It attempts to put knowledge upon a secure foundation by first inviting us to suspend judgement on any proposition whose truth can be doubted, even as a bare possibility. The standards of acceptance are gradually raised as we are asked to doubt the deliverance of memory, the senses, and even reason, all of which are in principle capable of letting us down. The process is eventually dramatized in the figure of the evil demon, or malin génie, whose aim is to deceive us, so that our senses, memories, and reasonings lead us astray. The task then becomes one of finding a demon-proof point of certainty, and Descartes produces this in the famous ‘Cogito ergo sum’: I think therefore I am. It is on this slender basis that the correct use of our faculties has to be re-established, but it seems as though Descartes has denied himself any materials to use in reconstructing the edifice of knowledge. He has a basis, but no way of building on it without invoking principles that will not be demon-proof, and so will not meet the standards he has apparently set himself. It is possible to interpret him as using ‘clear and distinct ideas' to prove the existence of God, whose benevolence then justifies our use of clear and distinct ideas (‘God is no deceiver’): this is the notorious Cartesian circle. Descartes's own attitude to this problem is not quite clear: at times he seems more concerned with providing a stable body of knowledge that our natural faculties will endorse, rather than one that meets the more severe standards with which he starts out. For example, in the second set of Replies he shrugs off the possibility of ‘absolute falsity’ of our natural system of belief, in favour of our right to retain ‘any conviction so firm that it is quite incapable of being destroyed’. The need to add such natural belief to anything certified by reason is eventually the cornerstone of Hume's philosophy, and the basis of most 20th-century reactions to the method of doubt. See also naturalized
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That was a terrible waste of far too many words. Look if you disagree with me on something that is fine. I love nothing better than to debate the issues but this "false opinion" nonsense is exactly that - nonsense. Kindly refrain from this BS and stick to the issues please.
BTW, it is high comedy that you are crying about Prop. 187 while you remain a registered Republican.
A opinion false or other wise spoken away from a media source is just that an opinion.
When the opinion is presented as a false opinion via media to influence it is propaganda.
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Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.
As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political or religious agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.
You sir are acting as the main Benavides propagandist and you dare finger me for this? Amazing.
Blogs are about opinion. Newspapers handle news. I try to cite sources when I can but look at my record over the years. You will find that 99% of the time I am spot on.
I was right about Carlos Bustamante and I am right about his pal David Benavides...
Art, Someone with the time may be able to connect the dots.
",,,and ordered expansion of the initial proceedings against Ernesto Morant Lijeron, Pedro Perey González Monasterio, Elías Moreno Caballero, Juan Antonio Elio Rivero and Justo Sarmiento Alanes on charges of murder, under Article 252 of the Criminal Code, to include the cases of Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas and his father José Luis Ibsen Peña."
http://www.wfrt.org/humanrts/cases/46-05.html
Sarmiento is not a common name. Good catch...
Editor wrote:
"You are prone to using your dictionary when you comment, please look up “false opinions” and let us know what in the world you are talking about."
I DID WHAT YOU ASKED ME TO DO.
I am not crying about Prop 187. I stated Pulido's position on Mexican Immigrants to answer your position......as you wrote it aboe.
" Many of these immigrants have, like Pulido and Alvarez, become citizens but they continue to value their culture and heritage.
Benavides, on the other hand, and his number one Council ally, Michele Martinez, were born here."
LOL! I did ask for it didn't I? Who knew your dictionary was so abstruse?
Pulido joined his colleages last year in condemning the racist anti-immigrant SB 1070 law advanced by YOUR political party, the Republicans. He is solid on immigration.
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Sorry Dr. Lomeli. I already told you that I will post Benavides' press releases and op-eds. I will not however play host to his propaganda. You can either a) post that somewhere else, or b) start your own blog. If the latter I suggest you start with YouTube and search for "Wordpress Blogs." There are many free video tutorials to be found there.
What you deleted is not propaganda it is XXXXX.
Good for you Dr. Now are you going to ask Benavides to send me his press releases? Sarmiento's campaign just did and I am posting it right away.
I would be happy to post Benavides' op-eds too, if he has any, which I doubt.
Holy Moly.
The dentist is on a rampage trying to drill everyone's head with his point of view when he should be drilling teeth instead.
He's been on this blog so much this afternoon it appears he doesn't have any clients left.