Poll: Should any of our Council members be recalled over the Walters flap?

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• I thought you went to your sweet little Nighty-Night.
  huh?
  Can't stop obsessing about your corrupt Santa Ana?

  What is wrong with you?
  I told you that you would be welcome at Occupy G.A.
  A little hazing never hurt nobody silly Propaganda Minister.
  You are such a passive agressive BULLY!
  You need some intervention from a STATE DOCTOR!
  They are short on Revenue and need more excuses to lock up Sick-O s like your sick-O SELF. Ypu SiCK SiCk mentally regressed Propaganda RE-tread.

• By the Way, I voted for Angelica Amescua as the best Re-Call candidate.
  She breaks my heart every time she acts like a big pussy and does not show up to her job as an elected council person.
  Good night to you! silly SANTANA.

• This appears to be a personalization of a process issue.

  WHY was the original City Manager search suspended?

  WHO suspended it? Why wasn't the search re-opened as was announced at the time of suspension??

  Why can't the search be re-started and Walters put his hat in the ring?

  If he is the best candidate for Santa Ana then his submitting to a fair and open City Manager search would prove it once and for all. Then we could all move forward without any doubt that Chief Walters is the best person for the job.

  These motions for recall seem to distract from the real issue that a legitamate Hiring Process was NOT undertaken.

  Chief Walters = Great Guy, Honored Officer of the Law & Dedicated Public Servant

  City Manager = The Best Fit for Santa Ana based on experience in managing similar size communities & demographics as well as having a winning Vision for Santa Ana's future.

  Remember that the City Manager represents our City not only at the County, Regional and State level, but at the National one as well.

  Does Mr Walters have the vision and connections to take Santa Ana to the next level?

  Is he ready to discourse & fully engage our community about: sustainable development, new technologies, civic branding, educational opportunities, food insecurity, public art, homeless issues, zoning & business stimulation, cultural tourism and green space concerns? These are issues that matter to Santa Ana residents.

  Do Mr Walter's years of focusing on crime, policing and penal issues limit his perspective when addressing our increasingly cosmopolitan issues?

  Does his Law Enforcement background bias his approach in dealing with Santa Ana's social & civic challenges?

  Until we can all ask these questions in a calm and civil way without demonizing the discussion, there will be no peace in our city.

  Does anyone know who or why the original City Manager search was called off???

  Instead of focusing on the histrionic & misleading "Save Paul Walters" rally call, we should focus instead on coming together to "Save Santa Ana!"

  Together we can answer the above questions.

  United we can best serve Santa Ana!!

  • The Council voted unanimously to hire Walters and no one has presented any evidence that he is not doing a great job. He saved us from a massive budget crisis that was created by the Council. And now they are coming after him as part of their campaign against our popular Mayor.

    When will this Council get back to doing what we elected them to do? They certainly aren't working for the people of our city at this point.

  • Nice speech, No Mas Drama.

    I bet you voted for Obama for president, he was a community organizer who was elected to the senate and had no experience or education at running a country. But an election is a nationwide search.

    Now tell me about the nice swampland in Florida.

• Today Carlos has a Motion on the calendar:

  01/16/2013 08:30 AM Motion - C48

  You should go get a scoop.

• Why dont you add Miguel Pulido to this Poll? oh wait he pays you to write all of this thats why. If you are trully fair and the NSA Blog holds to what it was founded on you will add it to the recall list.

• Weak attempt at dodging questions Mr Editor.

  WHY was the City Manager search called off?

  WHO called the search off?

  Your personalization of this issue seems to indicate, you don't want the people of Santa Ana to find out the real answers.

  ++ ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ++

  • The search was called off unanimously by the city council because they had the best man for the job in place! Now for some unknown reason, they have changed their minds and put City Manager Walter's in their cross hairs for reasons they have yet to explain.

• Why didn’t Santa Ana have a fair and open City Manager search?

  A 9-month search was started, but abruptly ended after a month. WHY??

  Below is a link to a story about the City of Newton’s City Manager search. Notice how a Law Enforcement official made it to the top 3 finalists:

  http://www.newtoncitizen.com/news/2013/jan/15/top-three-city-manager-finalists-announced/

  Like Santa Ana, Newton respects it’s police, yet doesn’t subvert a democratic process to find the best City Manager candidate.

  We can do the same. Santa Ana deserves no less.

  Lets prove once and for all WHO is the best choice for our City Manager.

  RE-OPEN the NATIONAL SEARCH or at least file an OPEN RECORDS REQUEST to see what happened with our City’s previous attempts to find a successor to our beloved David Ream.

  • Bad example No Mas.

    Newton has 100,000 people; Santa Ana qudruple that. Newtons population is 97% native speakers. ours <5%.

    Santa Ana is the size of St. Louis, MO or Tampa, FL.

    Get real.

    YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

• "subvert a democratic process to find the best City Manager candidate."

  What democratic process are you talking about? The council are the ones who get to make the choice and the council were the ones who made the choice. (The voters do not vote on the choice of city manager or city employees)

  • "The council are the ones who get to make the choice"....... Hmmmmm

    Wrong!

    In the representative Republic the council member represents its constituency on the council.

    They must echo its constituency choice for each ward.

    That is why we cal it council members and not seven kings.

    Are you sure that you know your constitution cook.

    Only Benavides meats regularly with his constituency between the council meetings.

    • My understanding of a republic is that we elect people who are responsible for making the choice.

      I don't recall any requirement of council members to "poll" their constituency prior to any vote they make.

      And as voters, if we don't like those choices, we can vote for another in the next election or have a recall.

      • True Robin,

        But don't elected officials have a responsibility to act in good faith in representing constituents?

        Not the police unions?

        • Yes.

          But it is still their vote to make, their choice and their responibility.

• Don't be fooled by No Mas Drama and others of his/her ilk. A "National Search" is a way to get rid of Paul and put the Recreation Dept guy Moet in place on an "interim" basis. Money will be wasted on "national " search and what do you know, Gerado the Rec leader who grew up in T.J. gets the job!

  Nice try "new majority". That's the oldest one in the book and our residents are not buying it.

  • Does he have a college degree?

    He has been quite evasive about it in the past.

    This is a reasonable question.

• "Our Beloved David Ream"
  Didn't he steal the Yost from the Olivos family and give it to the Chase Family for a "handshake".