Irv Chase’s promoter blames the “dirty Mexicans” in Downtown Santa Ana

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• "Read between the lines for me and tell me what the Mexican cultural community is asking for the 4th street area that was called Fiesta Marketplace?"...... Hmmmmm

  Cook,

  Have you ever read my candidate statements 2004, 2006, 2008? published in OCregister?

  In nutshell, it should be what consumers will patronize without any interference from the city. This controversy is based on City involvement in the business and tipping scales.

  It never worked and it never will.

  You will see how Pulido will screw up with his chupacabra dream.

• Who knew all you had to do to shut up The Liberal OC's Shill Greg Diamond was call out Dan's blatant hypocrisy and ask him to comment on it.

  HELLO ANYBODY THERE????

  So I guess it is OK for Dan to make jokes about Ham Sandwiches, Free Food and others. Funny the double standard that exists with the Liberal OC crowd.

  It reminds me of another blogger who used to talk about "small government" but was secretly taking cash from a sham commission on the side.

  So I'll make it simple for you Diamond:

  Do you think it's OK for dan to make Ham Sandwich, Pork Carnitias jokes, but not for a poster to call beth Krom a JEW?

  I'll take your answer here please.

• The Chases built Fiesta Market Place with State and Federal bonds and grants on a Hispanic immigrant stereotypical model.

  Now his new direction is based on a need to change the Hispanic immigrant stereotypical Fiesta Market Place he produced.

  The Chases Fiesta Market Place agreement with the city required him to produce a quality shopping center to compete with closed air malls providing the surrounding community with quality services and infrastructure.......he has largely failed to produce it.

  Now his marketing director states....." ”It’s no different than the Irvine Company or any other retailer in a mall saying hey, if your stores are not clean, you’re out,” said Altstaetter."

  The fact is that it is the Chase's responsibility according to the Development agreement to provide a clean quality Fiesta Market Place. Ironic that what he has failed to provide he argues the reason to evict tenants.

  In addition if "if your stores are not clean, your out " is an argument for elimination then Mr. Altstaetter should be out as his store is just that "not clean" and the Chases should be out as they have failed to provide quality shopping center with quality infrastructure as required by the city of Santa Ana and Fiesta Marketplace Developement Agreement.

• "Chases should be out as they have failed to provide quality shopping center"...... Hmmmmmm

  It ain't gone happen under any circumstance because Alvarez is not so smart as they claim she is.

  Now, every attempt to criticize Chases would be rejected as an anti-Semitsm.

  Alvarez will never be able to accomplish anything in Fiesta Market Place any more.

  We must put ban in Santa Ana to use anti-Semitism as form of untouchable.

  Zionists and homosexuals Santa Ana down town is a problem. (Hispanic North Hollywood)

  I can guarantee you that SAPD will not go after homosexual prostitution as they go after hetero one.

• There are examples of artists and gays as gentrifiers of blighted communities. There has been successes where the issue was blight.

  The Hispanic downtown shopping business district is not blighted economically. It has historically been a close second to the Main Place Mall in sales tax.

  The concept as presented in Santa Ana as artists and gays as gentrifiers to solve a blight issue will fail as there is no economic blight but rather infrastructure blight.That is, the existing residents will not leave for them to take over. At best, in the plan, they will be part of the existing fabric.

  There is an appearance of blight due to infrastructure neglect by the city most probably due to Police and Fire taking 80% of the budget leaving very little for infrastructure repair and to upgrade.The very little that is available is almost entirely applied to the exclusive neighborhoods exacerbating the blight appearance in the lower income neighborhoods and so enforcing the argument for artists and gays as the gentrifying saviors.

  The appearance is the argument for the gay and artist recruitment by Santa Ana as gentrifiers into Downtown and other Santa Ana residential communities.

  From Wiipidia:

  Gay and lesbian people

  Manuel Castells's seminal work about gay men as "gentrifiers" in San Francisco, California, shows that "many gays were single men, did not have to raise a family, were young, and connected to a relatively prosperous service economy" is a pattern replicated in other North American cities.[40] An illustration of this sociologic phenomenon is the film Quinceañera (2006), directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, containing a thematic sub-plot about the gentrification of the protagonists' inner-city neighborhood, Echo Park in Los Angeles, CA.

  The documentary Flag Wars (2003), directed by Linda Goode Bryant,[41] shows the social, class, and gender tensions in the Old Towne East neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, between an urban African-American community and the mostly white gays and lesbians moving in to the neighborhood, whom the original residents accused of gentrification and racism. In turn, the new residents accused the community of homophobia.

  In 2006, in Washington, D.C., a religious congregation in the black Shaw neighborhood opposed the granting of a liquor license to a gay bar that was to open across the street from the church.[42] The bar was successfully opened and has since been replaced by another gay bar at the same location.

  Gay people are not always the gentrifiers: real estate valuation trends can push out poor gay people, as in the Polk District in San Francisco: radical gay activists saw the value of a poor neighborhood as refuge for the economically and socially marginal.[43]

• Agran is Jewish. Deborah Gavallo is Jewish. Jeff Lalloway is Jewish. The fact they didn't RSVP says something about what they must think of Clownis

• Good thing Claudia is termed out. She is an embarrassment to the city

• So admin, what kind of candy are you passing out tonight?

  • We bought two bags of a Tootsie Roll assortment.

• I must agree with Dr. Amalgam.

  Latinos should be concern about Zionist and Homosexual influence in Santa Ana.

• art lomeli says: "It has historically been a close second to the Main Place Mall in sales tax."

  dr. lomeli,

  Please explain what you mean by "historically a close second" - historically over what period of time?

  How does downtown SA compare to Main Place Mall in sales tax revenue over the past 3 years?