When Santa Ana “Neighborhood Hero” Thomas Gordon tried to run for the Santa Ana City Council, he claimed he would “wipe the floor” with incumbent Sal Tinajero, who is also a very successful public school teacher. But when the filing deadline came, Gordon failed to collect enough verified signatures – and even his own signature was thrown out by the City Clerk. We later caught Gordon texting answers to another Council candidate, Helen Martinez. She lost badly and hasn’t been seen since.
What is Gordon up to now, you ask? Well check out this comment – which he posted on a Voice of OC blog post about the proposed move of the Chivas USA soccer team to Santa Ana:
Regarding neighborhood impact and the loss of the golf course, Tinajero said he understands that some residents would be opposed to the move, but when compared to the number of residents in favor, opponents will seem a small minority.
The opposition “would be outnumbered, in my opinion, nine to one,” Tinajero said.
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Kids want candy or soda or junk food 9 times more than adults do, but as adults we are able to see the cost associated with these things, not just monetarily but the long term impacts such as tooth decay or diabetes.
Los Angeles Unified School Board just voted to ban chocolate and strawberry flavored milk in schools. I’ll bet the kids are against that 99 to 1 as well, but as adults the Board made a decision based on health and long term results.
Guess we elected children to the Santa Ana City Council……..
Not only did Gordon insult all the Latino residents of Santa Ana who would support a pro soccer team – he also insulted our Santa Ana City Council as well – comparing both the residents and the Council to ignorant schoolkids who don’t know what is good for them.
The irony is that Gordon has no college degree – but the Council Members include two attorneys, an engineer, an overpaid Orange County middle manager, a Realtor/Mortfafe banker, a non profit executive, a schoolteacher/award-winning debate team coach. They all have college degrees, unlike Gordon.
Maybe Gordon dislikes them because they are all Democrats – except for the overpaid County middle manager. Gordon is an elected member of the OC GOP Central Committee.
The double-irony is that Gordon works for the L.A. Unified School District, where he is an astoundingly overpaid asbestos inspector. He clearly looks down on the schoolkids whose parents pay his ridiculous union salary.
And this guy is getting a “Neighborhood Hero” award at the Com-Link meeting this week. He ought to be getting a Turkey award!
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I guess the 90,000+ people that went to the Rose Bowl Saturday offer ZERO economic benefit to Santa Ana. The Ususal suspects are well......Old and in the way!
http://www.ocregister.com/news/police-305973-santa-colon.html
Where exactly did he mention race? It really looks like your making something out of nothing just to suit your personal vendetta.
Gordon's comments made it very clear that he believes soccer fans in Santa Ana are unable to make decisions for themselves. That is paternalistic, condescending, and yes - it can certainly be construed to be racist.
Maybe this is why the "ususal suspects" are so opposed to soccer:
http://www.denverpost.com/rapids/ci_18362299
It's one of those leftist sports. That still doesn't explain the Voice of OC(ea) or Liberal OC's opposition although in the case of the latter: anything newsantaana is for, count on them being against. Even if it flies in the face of thier so called mission.
Did you see the latest comment from Jerbal's bitch Danny Boy?
He claims that he is getting overwhelmed by emails voicing support for Thomas Gordon. He is so full of it. We all know you can count on one hand the number of people that comment in support of them on the blogs.
What Jerb's bitch meant to say is if you want to libel Pedroza, Mill, Tinajero or anyone they support use our $hithole blog to do it.
What a pussy!
Guys, I want Chivas here too but Gordon didn't say or imply what you said he did. All you guys want to do is call anyone who opposes you racist and that's wrong. If you want this to be a community blog, be fair
Chivasfan,
Finally a civil comment. Tell me then, what did he say? What did he mean? Please elaborate.
Thomas Gordon is a great guy. You guys should put this all behind you.
Whether or not he is a "good guy" is beside the point. He wrote a screed over at the Voice of OC that clearly intimated that Santa Ana's soccer fans are unable to make good decisions without "adult" help. We are most capable of reading between the lines.
He also has been involved with a group of bitter, white Republicans who are trying to stop the Chivas USA team from moving to Santa Ana. As I have previously reported, their lies about diapers and trash being strewn all over at the Chivas USA games turned out to be a lie. We visited a Chivas USA game in Carson and found it to be clean, orderly and great fun for all.
I would dearly love to see Gordon defend his own words. So far all he has done is attack me personally. You wrote this BS Gordon - why won't you defend it?
OC Register reporter Andrew Galvin attended the meeting and said no such statement about trash and diapers was made. Gordon attended the meeting and did not speak. You reported he was the source of this statement yet an uninterested third party says this is not the case. The city is broke. It has a huge budget deficit which makes it unable to fund parks, libraries, full tree trimming and street paving. Sure, soccer fans may want a team but what about taxpayers who will be on the hook for millions in bonds to pay for it. It's up to the city council to be responsible about how it spends taxpayer money. Gordon is not anti-Chivas but is making an effort to educate himself on the issue. Why don't you go to one of these meetings admin? Gordon did not make any racist comment but you did in calling whites gabachos Gordon's friends are commenting on the LiberalOC that you are deleting and editing comments. What do you say about that?
Chivasfan,
Did he attend their second meeting? A contact of mine did and that is what got back to me.
I will tell you that in the past Gordon has made such comments to me so none of this is new at all.
I don't recall seeing the bond issue in the early reports about the Usual Suspects anti-Chivas effort. Even the Register reported that their concerns were about trash and noise.
As for investigating the issue, I did. I went to a Chivas USA game, took a lot of pictures and reported about it here. Has Gordon gone to any of their games? Doubt it!
I am not likely to be invited to the Usual Suspects' gatherings. I doubt I would make it through Lutz' front door.
As for Gordon's comments, as I have stated again and again, he intimated that Santa Ana's soccer fans cannot make good decisions of their own volition. He said that adults have to tell them what to do, like schoolchildren who have had their chocolate milk taken away from them. That is pretty condescending and if it isn't racist it is at least borderline. We know what he meant. And no one has been able to explain his comments or has even tried to defend them, including Gordon.
Why by the way was Gordon at the celebration of Mexico's victory over the US soccer team, at 10:30 pm? What does that have to do with bonds?
As for the editing and deletion of comments, I saved them all, including a number of threats that were made against me. Gordon also filed a complaint with my employer, after I asked him to stop making threats, and after we identified that some of the threats were made by an ATT user in Denver who has an Iphone. Yes, Gordon has an ATT Iphone and he has a second home in Denver.
All I am asking is for Gordon to explain himself. I guess that may never happen.
"It has a huge budget deficit which makes it unable to fund parks, libraries, full tree trimming and street paving."
This city council, led by our current great council majority, has managed to do more with less than the other councils did with more in the past. More miles of streets have been repaired and paved under this council than were in the past. Your talking point is just a falsehood being put forth by those against the current leadership.
Ironically the coalition opposing Chivas USA is headed up by former Councilman Tom Lutz. Please tell me what Mr. Lutz and the councils he served on did to fund parks, libraries and pave streets. Rather than investing our tax dollars back into projects that benefitted our community as a whole Lutz and his council cohorts threw millions upon millions of dollars into the so-called Artist Village which has yet to become the economic boom that the taxpayers were promised even after almost 20 years.
And who headed up that push for the Artists Village? None other than another anti-Chivas USA activist Don Cribb.
Please spare me this fiscal responsibility argument on behalf of the anti-Chivas crowd. Where was this type of talk when Lutz was on the council and Cribb had pull at city hall?
Despite our tough economic climate this council majority is doing a great job. Mr. Lutz served on the council during great economic times and yet he and his allies frittered it all away and did nothing to expand our libraries or parks. If you want to place blame on anyone, start with Lutz and company.
Be careful Mill! Sounds like you are expressing your opinion and according to Mike Tardif, I mean junior, that violates the Code of Ethics. I sense a flood of emails will be sent to the council.
Galvin was at Both meetings. Your source is completely wrong. No one said anything about diapers or trash. Many of us have been to Galaxy games at Home Depot Center. Gordon told me he's been to Chivas and Galaxy games. Gordon did not speak at either meeting admin.
As far as defending Gordon's statement, how will the city pay for a relocation admin? All we are asking for is information. If the council places brings a pro soccer team to Santa Ana ahead of public safety and balanced budgets, then they a not making good decisions for the city. Please come to the next meeting admin and see for yourself the questions being asked.
SOS,
Galvin ought to find a better use for his time. The Usual Suspects are DONE in Santa Ana. They can kick and scream all they want but at the end of the day they have no power at all, which is good for everyone.
And if Gordon did go to the Chivas it is not surprising that he never mentioned it. He didn't see anything negative to report about, did he?
No one in the Usual Suspects by the way raised the fiscal issues initially. All they did was yell about trash and noise. Keep trying but in the end you will lose. You have only two votes on the Council.