The so-called “Santa Ana Coalition for Better Government” ripped the Santa Ana City Council and Santa Ana Police Department Chief Paul Walters today, in a mass email that questioned how much Walters will get paid as interim Santa Ana City Manager (see the graphic above or click here).
The Santa Ana Coalition for Better Government is registered as a Political Action Committee. It is run by two Republicans, John Acosta and Art Lomeli, who do not live in Santa Ana.
Walters’ team responded to the mass email thusly:
Double-dipping: Paul is not double-dipping. About 6 years ago, he actually did retire and the city asked him to come back temporarily on a contract basis to groom one of the deputy chiefs to take over his position. During the process, the deputy chief, Dan McCoy, was diagnosed with a brain tumor and subsequently died. The next in line was Bruce Carlson, who was eventually diagnosed with and succumbed to liver cancer. Since there was no one else the city felt comfortable with as chief, they asked Paul to un-retire, which he did.
Actually, it will cost the City of Santa Ana less money for Walters to serve as both Interim City Manager and Chief of the SAPD. It would cost quite a bit more to pay two people to do those jobs.
The truth is that the Santa Ana Coalition for Better Government is just a mouthpiece for failed Santa Ana Mayoral candidate Al Amezcua. He dislikes Walters because Amezcua makes a living defending drug dealers and gang bangers in court – while Walters and his department do their best to arrest these people.
I also found it interesting that the Santa Ana Coalition for Better Government’s latest email also focused on Code Enforcement – a tool often used in the past by Santa Ana’s dwindling white minority to make life tough for their Latino neighbors.
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Man, its getting stuffy in this city. Defcon three or something. But I only have a business in Santa Ana so I better shut up.
Lomeli,
What your coalition is doing is not about free speech but rather about Republicans who don't live here raising money so they can circumvent the will of the voters.
Who else is on your Board? Why won't you publish their names? Where is YOUR transparency?
Admin
Posted May 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Lomeli,
What your coalition is doing is not about free speech but rather about Republicans who don’t live here raising money so they can circumvent the will of the voters.
Who else is on your Board? Why won’t you publish their names? Where is YOUR transparency?
Admin,
Go to the website I have made sure it has been updated.
The coalitions Board are all Santa Ana residents except for three. The board is growing and will be added with Santa Ana residents. The majority supporters of the coalition are Santa Ana residents.
So in reality the Coalition is an organization made up of Santa Ana residents interested in the city's residents best interests.
YOUR SPIN IS FAULTY AND CHILDISH.
"so they can circumvent the will of the voters."........ Hmmmmmm
Zorro, you are so full of it!
Every election SAPD union, FD union and City union will circumvent the will of the voters.
Did you forgot your candidacy?... and your numerous drives against the various city propositions?
I did not!
I must agree with Dr. Lomeli.
Lomeli,
I checked our your website last night. It had not been updated then. I am glad you have finally come clean.
How many of your board members are Republicans?
"I checked our your website last night. It had not been updated then."....... Hmmmm
Zorro that my change soon!
In contrast your site is updated hourly and no one cares!
Admin
Posted May 17, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Lomeli,
I checked our your website last night. It had not been updated then. I am glad you have finally come clean.
How many of your board members are Republicans?
If you would of checked the website adequately you would of noticed that the Coalition welcomes members and supporters from all neighborhoods, socio-economic levels and all political affiliations.
So I can not tell you how many are Republicans as we do not ask for this label nor care for an individual to be part of the Coalition.
Fiala,
You can look at our readership data here:
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s26newsantaana&r=0
We average over one thousand page views daily.
Lomeli,
Your publicist says your board has several people on it. Why won't you post their names? What are you hiding?
Republicans are generally anti-Latino, so we need to know if your board is dominated by Republicans.
Admin
Posted May 17, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Lomeli,
Your publicist says your board has several people on it. Why won’t you post their names? What are you hiding?
Republicans are generally anti-Latino, so we need to know if your board is dominated by Republicans.
I have told you earlier we are posting our Board. I directed our publicist to do so this morning.
You are generalizing. The GOP as an institution can be argued to be anti-Latino. Individual Republicans can be some are not.
I , John Acosta, and all of my Republican friends are not anti-Latino. We are interested in the Republican philosophy and not with manipulation of issues for political positioning that are irrelevant to the Republican philosophy .