Mayor Miguel Pulido should join those asking Bustamante to resign now

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• Maybe he is waiting to see if Carlos's wife Adriana is going to ask him to resign. If it's all true, you have to wonder why a smart lady like Adriana would stand by her man. Maybe there is lots of smoke but no fire. Perhaps Mayor Pulido and Mrs. Bustamante know something we don't in terms of guilt or innocence. I'm sure if he is convicted Mayor Pulido will ask him to step down. He's old school, he believes a man is innocent until proven guilty. Also, maybe he knows that if Bustamante steps down there will be pressure from some Councilmembers to appoint Mr. Alderete. Art, do you feel the Council should appoint someone if Carlos steps down or do you believe that being so close to an election, the voters should decide in November? What does Mr. Mill think about appointing? Thank you for the updates on this important issue.

• Hey I know. Let hims resign and then hold a special election costing MILLIONS of dollars so the seat can stay worm for a week or two!

  That's how we roll in "small government OC"

  • No news for that. Someone could be appointed to replace him.

• Freedom Fighter,

  I do believe that someone should be appointed to the seat should Bustamante resign. We need someone in that seat in order to do the people's business.

  As we saw on Monday regarding the PBID the council was unable to move forward due to a lack of quorom. Because the Mayor, Vince and Michele are all conflicted out we need someone in that Ward 3 seat so we can move forward.

  No need for a "special election".

• So Bustamante should step aside so Alderete can be appointed? How soon could that happen if say Bustamante resigns this weekend? Is Alderete prepared to step in? Does he already have his 4 votes lined up? Tinajero, Martinez. Sarmiento, and......who is his 4th vote?

  • We'll soon find out, hopefully.

• I respect Mr. Mill and his opinions and believe the city would be in a LOT better shape today had Dave Ream listen to Mr Mill back in the day.

• As a resident of a city bordering Santa Ana, I can tell Mayor Pulido that we look upon his city with disdain, disgust and disrespect -- and even more so when we see him dither on doing the right thing. We also fear your people, but that's another post.

  Pulido needs to lead and get this animal out of office, but he also needs to go a big step further and get his new City Manager and his police department to investigate if Bustamante assaulted or harassed any city employees. This turd would not have limited his activities to just the young Mexican girls at the County. It's time to start asking questions, Mayor, and you better offer to protect these girls -- your people.

  Remember, pal -- the coverup's always worse than the deed. Plenty of people at the County are kissing their political careers good bye today. Take heed.

• We fellow crockers, no relation to the Fockers, live in our own little bubble with glass houses. We yearn for yesteryear, when you folks knew your place. Now you get elected and start running things. Getting into trouble
  reserved for our people.

• Dave Ream hired mostly women to serve as department heads in Santa Ana, and this type of activity would never, ever, happen there

• I was being sarcastic with the special election quip.

  They should appoint an interm replacement maybe somebody who promises not to run in Novemeber.

  Where does Barragan live? While everyone may not agree with him, there's a guy we could trust to simply keep the seat warm. He's got what has been sorely lacking in the ward: INTEGRITY.

• -------- Original Message --------
  Subject: Stanislav Fiala is asking: Should Carlos Bustamante be impeached?
  Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:46:12 -0700
  From: Standa standa@merlin4x.com
  To: Walters Paul, PWalters@santa-ana.org, Pulido Miguel, MPulido@santa-ana.org, Alvarez Claudia, calvarez@santa-ana.org, Sarmiento Vincent, vsarmiento@santa-ana.org, Benavides David, DBenavides@santa-ana.org, Martinez Michele, mimartinez@santa-ana.org, Bustamante Carlos, cbustamante@santa-ana.org, Tinajero Sal, stinajero@santa-ana.org, Harrelson Anthony, THARRELSON@santa-ana.org, McGeachy Douglas, DMcGeachy@santa-ana.org

  Dear Miguel,

  In oppose to Sean Mill's e-mail, in which he is praising your performance on the city council, I must strongly disagree with your puppet and an apologist Mill.

  The Carlos Bustamante's incident is direct result of your incompetence and cover up for Carlos' libido of which I have indirectly warn you and the council on July 16, 2007 meting in which I have satirically presented you with herein attached CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION outlining an embarrassment which comes with such behavior.

  Notwithstanding Carlos innocents, it was he who put himself in a bad spotlight and by doing so he embarrassed the City of Santa Ana which you Miguel are condoning by your refusal to impeach Carlos.

  The same goes for the Police Chief and City Manager Paul Walters!

  Based on the prior incident in which SAPD13 murdered a mother Susie Young Kim in front of her crying 18 month old daughter, you and Paul put yourselves in morally bad spotlight too, by not publicly condemning such brutal Syrian style crime against the humanity, which clearly indicates that both of you have serious moral problems which may be psychopathically laced.

  Whether or not you and Paul will join Councilmembers Tinajero, Sarmiento and Martinez in calling for Bustamante’s resignation will further solidify your incompetency or competency respectively, to lead this city into a prosperity.

  During my election campaign against you Miguel, I have introduced the Red Light District in Santa Ana to avoid these kind of sandals. Carlos was the first laughing moralist to reject such idea because it would, allegedly, made Santa Ana look bad.

  So here you have it!

  I am sure that he is not laughing now!

  The Fullerton recall may happen in Santa Ana too.

  Published

  -Stan