It is time to Save our City Manager, Paul Walters!

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• Let him by himself. he is a lawyer making over $300K and couple other perks> But, if he transferred money from other funds. he is guilty as the former City manger of violating prop. 218> the people of Santa Ana wants the truth and their money back too. Let's show who is in charge taxpayers

  • Why didn't the Council do something about that six years ago when most of them were first elected?

  • As long as we're on the subject of Paul Walters and the tax payers, check out this 1994 LA Times article about Walters' SAPD operation to manufacture crack cocaine in SAPD labs using tax payer money and sell it to kids just a block away from Willard Intermediate. (why not Mater Dei?)

    Is the Walters/Martinez fight just a turf war between rival drug dealers?

    LAW ENFORCEMENT
    November 1994

    Santa Ana Police Make Crack to Use in Busts

    The Santa Ana, California Police Department is defending its practice of manufacturing crack cocaine in police labs for use in drug sting operations, a practice that until recently has been kept a secret (Lee Romney and Kevin Johnson, "Police Crime Lab Making Cocaine for Drug Busts," Los Angeles Times, Oct. 21, 1994, p. 1).

    Defense attorneys in Orange County are attempting to stop these operations, which they and other law enforcement experts say are dangerous. Police are using the manufactured crack in "reverse sting" operations in which officers pose as drug dealers and arrest those that purchase drugs from them. The display of drugs by undercover police officers is a common tactic in reverse stings. However, departments rarely manufacture the drugs and introduce them into communities. Reverse stings typically use drugs seized in raids.

    A similar operation was halted in Broward County, Florida after the state Supreme Court upheld a ruling that found the reverse stings there illegal. Hundreds of cases were reversed. "It is incredible that law enforcement's manufacture of an inherently dangerous controlled substance, like crack cocaine, can ever be for the public's safety," the court said.

    Santa Ana police take cocaine that has been seized in busts and cook it into crack cocaine. Lab technicians add a coating that rubs off on the skin of any person who touches the drug. That coating shows up only under a black light and helps police nab suspects who drop or swallow the drug.

    Over the course of the operation, police have arrested about 350 people, a large portion of those within a few blocks of Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana. "We're not playing games here," Police Chief Paul M. Walters said. "We're trying to give the streets back to the residents and we're making progress."

    Public Defender Dean Allen said that he knows of two juveniles who were arrested in the stings. "If they want to keep kinds away from drugs, I think there are probably a lot of better ways to do it than just to sell them the drugs," he said.

    Some police officials agree, and warn that the practice can be dangerous. "I'd hate to be the department that permits this to happen, and it turns out that somebody overdoses or has a heart attack," said Gerald Arenberg, executive director of the National Association of Chiefs of Police in Washington, DC.

    According to Santa Ana police officials, no one has been injured in the sting operations, but some buyers have taken the drugs before they were arrested.

• Thank You Mr. Pedroza. I'll be loading up my car with neighbors and heading up to that meeting. If anyone needs transportation please let us know through the F.B. page. We have about half a dozen drivers and Mini-Bus standing by.

• Also, get their early and fill up the front rows first (So you can be seen on camera with your signs)
  I've heard the Gang of 5 is trying to pay people from outside of Santa Ana to come down and speak against Paul! (I bet if you do a background check you will find that many of them are people Paul or his men arrested in the past or they have family members who ar ex-cons) That's who Martinez and her Gang of 5 runs with.

  They think no one will come two weeks in a row! Let's show them how wrong they are! let's pack the house on Monday and show them that the People have the Powere and we won't let them fire our Top Cop and City Manager!

  • You heard correctly! They'll be resorting to the usual dirty tricks.

• Monday Jan 21 right?

  • Wait - I just found out that the meeting is on Tuesday, the 22nd, due to the Martin Luther King Day holiday on the 21st.

• Also, it’s important that you bring your whole family to the meeting on January 21st to thank Paul. If you are thankful that Paul and his men and women have stood up to the criminal element in Santa Ana over the last 30 years and you want him to keep making us safe then this is the meeting to attend. We are working on Save Paul Walters t-shirts and will have them available in front of City Hall.
  If you kids are involved in a Sports team, Folklorico Dance group, Karate studio, drama club, debate club, or any other youth group then bring your whole group down and allow your kids to dance, sing, spar, or in some way express their thankfulness to Paul Walters and show the love for a man who is being unfairly run out of town by this Gang of 5 who care only about their own selfish political desires. Our kids are our future leaders and as such have a right to be there and voice their support for Paul.

  This last meeting I cried when I saw children from our community dancing bailes folkloricos as a tribute to Paul. It really warmed my heart and I can’t wait to see hundreds more kids just like them there on the 21st to do the same.
  I was downtown shopping today and everywhere I went I heard people talking about saving Paul and making sure that crazy gang of 5 knows that the people are watching and we will not be silent any more!

  The Gang of 5 want to put one of their buddies in as City Manager and City Attorney and they have not background in Police work to keep us safe. With your help and that of your kids we can keep Paul on the job protecting us for another 10 years.

• -------- Original Message --------
  Subject: Stanislav Fiala is asking: Can catfight Cherie Kerr vs. Michele Martinez save Paul Walters?
  Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:39:34 -0800
  From: Standa standa@merlin4x.com
  To: Pulido Miguel mpulido@santa-ana.org, Walters Paul pwalters@santa-ana.org, Sarmiento Vincent vsarmiento@santa-ana.org, Benavides David dbenavides@santa-ana.org, Martinez Michele mimartinez@santa-ana.org, Tinajero Sal stinajero@santa-ana.org, Reyna Roman rreyna@santa-ana.org, Amezcua Angelica aamezcua@santa-ana.org

  Hi Folks,

  So they want to recall you Michele to save Paul?... Hmmmmmm

  Excellent!... This may be your opportunity to become a Mayor of the Santa Ana Michele.

  Apparently, Kerr is gone move against you, singularly, excluding the rest of the Springsters..... and that is the good news, Michele!

  Every sword has double edge!

  As the Kerr's community starts rallying against Michele Martinez the voters will start asking: What about the rest of the Springsters Benavides, Tinajero, Sarmiento and Reyna?

  Any reasonable voter will smell Kerr's rat and you will look instantly very powerful in the public eye Michele. People root for an underdog.

  In contrast, Paul and Miguel will look like little rascals hiding behind the mom Kerr's skirt..... and that is a political momentum which money can't buy.
  See Sun Tzu's Art of War!

  You will get large exposure and your name recognition in the media as the recall gets on the way. You will become instant Santa Ana hero taking it against the corrupt establishment. Same like Miguel 25 years ago which he already forgotten.

  You must be ready to answer reporters questions clearly and truthfully. Remember Claudia Alvarez, she always had her hands full papers with facts, waving them in front of defenders faces, forcing them to mollify.

  However, knowing you Michele, you can screw the above shown opportunity grandiosely by your youthful indiscretion tantrums like leaving the council meeting before it is adjourned.

  That was stupid!

  In the end, when asked to comment, all remaining Springsters uttered "no comment" and that was even stupider.

  It was your grate opportunity to turn Cherie Kerr's crapola into a compost.

  Folks, if something is unclear here please do not hesitate to contact me.

  -Stan

• Let's watch Dr. Lomeli and his puppet wife and kids put their money where there mouth is and defend Michele.

  Dr. Lomeli can't vote. He is driven by GREED. He doesn't live in Santa Ana, he practices denistry on Fourth Street. Who do you think his paitents are and how do they pay?????

  Art and his wife are so frightened that they'll be kicked off the state pay gravy train, that they have hitched thier wagon to benavide's cabal.

  I am disgusted by the practice of taking advantage of: Imigrants, Taxpayers and Residents. But, ask your self, this:

  Art Lomeli barely is visible on the radar where he lives, votes and rides his horses. but he posted nearly 1,000 internet posts in favor of benavide's last year.

  Somebody should call state investigators. Maybe take a look at the adult children too. I think there is some MAJOR manipulation going on by the Orange Park Millionare.

• yes, let's get everyone behind this city manger. This guy cares about the City. He has been in the ranks and now, he is at the helm of power and as a decision maker. Let's get a mariachi, a folklorico dance group. Also, some pobrecitos from the Santa Ana many(poverty level) in the thousands and show support to keep our cops(high paid and driving the City finances and the general fund to cero). Great idea.... maybe, we can have the City manger and council dance (El son de la negra)too..... this is funny

• Don't make mockery of our community Alex. Our dances, our music, our language are important to us.
  Paul has been there for us and now it's time for us to stand up for him.

• So lets give him another 100k and keep him and we got to make sure he doesn't live in Santa Ana .....

  • He is already under contract and is not looking to change the terms.