Santa Ana City Council tosses Tish Leon
The Santa Ana City Council voted 6-1 to remove Tish Leon from the city's Recreation and Parks Board. Only Ward 4 Councilmember David Benavides voted against the motion brought forth…
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Amezcua campaign mimes, then retreats, at the Yost Theater
Debbie McEwen practices her free speech, at tonight's Council meeting The Alfredo Amezcua campaign spent a week screaming on Facebook about free speech, but at tonight's Santa Ana City Council…
Rogue bully commissioner set to be removed for terrorizing 16 year old student rep
The Santa Ana City Council looks to be ready to take swift and decisive action Monday night against one of the two Park's and Recreation Commission members responsible for bullying the…
Benavides Hatergate: Records request shows councilman privately honored haters
Councilman Benavides chats with hate group member Lupe Moreno As I reported back on August 3rd the Orange Juice made an official records request from the City of Santa Ana to…
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Mayor Miguel Pulido may have already won
In a stunner, four challengers qualified today to run for Mayor of Santa Ana, perhaps dooming the campaign of Alfredo Amezcua, the former Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustee who was the…
Benavides Hatergate: Councilman panders to gay community while allied with anti-gay activists
Federal Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker's ruling that Proposition 8 which banned same sex marriage is unconstitutional was truly grounds for celebration. Such a celebration took place right here in…
Benavides Hatergate: Dem colleagues shun fundraiser
Lupe Moreno supporter Anne Menaldo(center) and David Benavides(right) The fallout from Councilmember David Benavides' decision to honor hate group member Lupe Moreno and her supporters continues. Last night the Ward…
Rogue bully commissioners amongst Benavides supporters
First Councilman David Benavides chose to go through with honoring a member of a recognized hate group and her supporters from the council dais and now it appears that the…
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Sal Tinajero
Santa Ana
Vince Sarmiento
Benavides goes after Mayor Pro Tem Alvarez while defending Moreno and the Minutemen again
Tonight's Santa Ana City Council meeting blew up again as a few of the haters that Councilman David Benavides honored at the last meeting showed up to cry about the…
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The Lighthouse Community Center hosts the Grand Opening of a Sports Field and Community Garden
By Sophin Zoe Pruong-McCreery July 31, 2010 Santa Ana, CA—Judging from the huge smile on Nubia’s face, one could not imagine that this 6 year-old girl once lacked a safe,…
An open letter to Santa Ana’s Mayor and City Council
The following is an actual letter emailed to Mayor Pulido and the City Council this morning: Mayor Pulido and City Council, Once again this morning I awoke to news that…
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Santa Ana Parks and Rec Commission to honor Minuteman Lupe Moreno again on Wednesday
Time to let Santa Ana Parks and Rec Chair Tish Leon know how we feel about her bullying If you are as upset as I am at the bullying behavior…
When Mexican kindergarten students punked the Minutemen, in Santa Ana
Naui Huitzilopochtli is famous today for his video showing Lupe Moreno and her Minutemen taking over this year's Independence Day event. But my favorite Naui video is the one above.…
Santa Ana City Commissioners terrorized a student so badly that he resigned
Santa Ana Parks and Recreation Commission Chair Tish Leon Another scandal is erupting - and like the Benavides Hatergate fiasco it involves Councilman David Benavides. I found out this week…
Can Councilman David Benavides survive the Hatergate scandal?
Councilman David Benavides has been desperately trying to quell the firestorm that erupted when we broke the story that he honored a group of Minutemen and extremist Republicans who were recruited by…