Irv Chase’s promoter, Archer Altstaetter, told NBC yesterday that the Chase family is “upgrading and investing in their buildings, without any malice toward anyone.” ”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.
Excuse me? Did Archer just blame the “dirty Mexicans?” You can see his commenting about this in the video provided above.
The reality is that it is Archer who is running a less than pristine business. He recently opened a store called Outrageous Costumes and Couture. I wrote about it here. The store featured a paper sign, in the window, and embarrassing merchandising.
In stunning contrast, a new Latina-owned business, called Elegante Formals, looked great when it opened up, on the same weekend that Archer’s store celebrated its grand opening.
To make matters worse, Archer got busted by the City of Santa Ana for opening a business without a business license.
Archer isn’t the only PBID beneficiary who has been mouthing off about Latino-owned businesses in the Downtown Santa Ana area.
Tim O’Connor, one of the owners of Downtown Santa Ana’s Chapter One: the Modern Local restaurant, recently opined at a Santa Ana City Council meeting that there are too many quinciniera shops in the area. Here is how he was quoted in the pages of the OC Weekly:
“This is specifically for most of the stuff on Fourth Street,” O’Conner remarked, even though he was addressing the City Council and not a Chamber of Commerce meeting. “You can’t have the same shop, the same stores, the same exact same quinceanera shop across from the exact same quinceañera shop…exact same thing over and over again and expect to be successful. Times have changed. Fourth Street should change with those times.”
It is bad enough that these guys are ripping off Latino business owners in the Downtown area, with a PBID that was only passed because former Santa Ana City Manager gamed the vote. But to have them rip Latino business owners incessantly is simply insulting. It borders on hate speech. Why are they allowed to get away with these comments?
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Junior has one thing to be happy about:
With the OCCUPY OC event centered in Irvine, most people are going over there to pig up thier weed, making in lonley is his part of town!
That was a joke- Get it, All of the Occupy OC guys are dopers and the the legitimate business' are destroying the neighborhood.
Yeah ken - I AM happy that the pot shops are packing up and moving out of the neighborhood - I guess that I have BHO to thank for that - not that I will vote for him.
I (we) also have BHO to "thank" for "Fast and Furious" and the murder of a US Border Patrol agent and God knows how many others. That SOB knew about F&F and sanctioned it - in order to make legitimate gun dealers look bad.
Greg, What an interesting and well thought out response. I guess you are a man of many words (judging by your posts).
NOT!
So the fastest way to shut down a left wing ding bat was to call out the posers at the LOC for the hypocrisy.
Five days and NO word from old Greg Diamond on why it's OK for Dan Chmiliwienski to make jokes about pork.
What a shill.
Hitler hated Pork.
That's funny. Usually Germans love pork. But of course he was Austrian. Perhaps they don't like it as much.
ummmmm. Carnitas.
Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez‘s “Hitler” and “ethnic cleansing” remarks are very offensive to me and my Jewish family and ancestors. Enough is enough!! Alvarez already Amended her TERM LIMITS by adding on another term -at exactly the same time she was on her way OUT! She pushed for MEASURE D -read it everyone!!! This Measure D allowed her to stay for an additional four years back in 2008! and NOW she wants to stay longer???? What exactly is she in it for? What is she self appointing to her paycheck that she doesn’t wanna let go of??? It makes you wonder, why she wants to claw on to an overheated seat…. What is she GETTING out of it? Now, she is using the tax payer’s money to file a law suit to get permission to run for fourth term. What kind of joke is this??? I hope that she loses to the new girl Karina Onofre who seems fresh and ethical