The Council is paying Walters over $700K and O’Rourke is getting $22K a month

” The City of Santa Ana will pay out more than $700,000 under the severance agreement struck with former city manager Paul M. Walters,” according to the O.C. Register.

The Voice of OC asked Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Sal Tinajero if the council majority miscalculated? “A miscalculation is the car’s running at 50 miles per hour and you think you can get across before you get hit,” Tinajero said. “But if the car speeds to 110 miles per hour, that’s not a miscalculation, someone just changed the rules on you.”

Tinajero’s lame answer says it all.  The Council blew this one big time.  And once you figure in the cost of a national search for a new City Manager and the cost to pay our current temporary City Manager, Kevin O’Rourke, the total cost of the Council’s petty vendetta against Walters and Mayor Miguel Pulido could be over one and a half million dollars!

The Register also reported that O’Rourke “will receive a $22,083 monthly salary. He will also receive travel expenses of up to $4,000 a month for the first 60 days, and up to $2,700 a month afterward. He would also be allowed to use a city car for personal and city business.”

The Santa Ana City Council is spending money our City simply doesn’t have.  And the State of California is still looking for the City to pay back over fifty million dollars in redevelopment dollars.

Walters by the way wanted to return to the SAPD but instead the Council blew him out and now has had to pay him a mint – which he deserves.  But this mess was entirely avoidable.  The Council created this disaster and now they have to sleep in it.

This Santa Ana Spring, a term Tinajero coined, is starting to look just like the disastrous Arab Spring.  And with Walters out you can expect the bodies to start piling up in our city, just like in the Middle East…

Art Pedroza Editor
Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.
Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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  • Stanley, who is Villasenor?

    I know about Micheles brother from reading it here, as for Romans brother, this was an issue when he wanted to work with young boys at the YMCA?

    But, I don't know about Villasenor or understand who that is.

  • "Stanley, who is Villasenor?"....... Hmmmmmm

    Same person you knew very well in following comment!

    http://newsantaana.com/2012/10/29/outside-interests-launch-cowardly-attack-on-mayor-pulidos-family/comment-page-1/#comment-36209 at October 30, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    Please notice that you have made the above comment before Art approved (actually deleted) my comment at http://newsantaana.com/2012/10/29/outside-interests-launch-cowardly-attack-on-mayor-pulidos-family/comment-page-1/#comment-36205 at October 30, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    So you are liar carpetbagger!

    Here is email from Art:
    -----------------------
    Nope. I'm not Carpetbagger.
    On Oct 30, 2012 7:00 PM, "WordPress" wrote:

    A new comment on the post "Outside interests launch cowardly attack on Mayor Pulido's family" is waiting for your approval
    http://newsantaana.com/2012/10/29/outside-interests-launch-cowardly-attack-on-mayor-pulidos-family/

    Author : Stanley Fiala (IP: 75.79.171.110 , netblock-75-79-171-110.dslextreme.com)
    E-mail : editor@ocsatire.com
    URL : http://orangejuice.ocsatire.com/images/Golem00.jpg
    Whois : http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/75.79.171.110
    Comment:
    I do!

    The only Carpetbagger would comment on Villasenor’s brother which Carpetbagger removed from my prior comment:

    "Do you recall in 2004 attacking Vla Senor, running for the ward 6, by publising that her brother is in jail for rape?"

    You are not really intelligent Pedroza.

    Approve it: http://newsantaana.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=approve&c=36215
    Trash it: http://newsantaana.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=trash&c=36215
    Spam it: http://newsantaana.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=spam&c=36215
    Currently 1 comment is waiting for approval. Please visit the moderation panel:
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    Sent at Oct 30, 2012 7:00 PM

    With my second comment which he also did not approved til today.

    But he retroactively approved my prior comment where I am mentioning Villasenor's brother to cover up his ass.

    Actually carpetbagger, your comment above was made by you when my comment above was deleted by Art.

    So now you claim that you do mot know who Villasenore is and then you knew, even though there was no reason for you to make that comment because my comment was not visible until Art responded by email at 7:00 PM about 20 min after you did made your comment.

    Clearly, Art Pedroza is carpetbagger as shown by my prima facie evidence.

      • OK, you can plead insanity Art in your defense.

        However you do admit that the statement made bay carpetbagger at February 23, 2013 at 9:00 am

        “Stanley, who is Villasenor?”

        is a lie if he stated at October 30, 2012 at 6:39 pm

        "I wonder if Villasenor’s brother is out on Parole, he’d be the typical Benavide’s supporter: Reformed Jesus Freak felon."

        Liars do not remember their lies.

        That is enough to prove that you are carpetbagger and others!

          • Please answer the question!

            As sown in above comments dated February 23, 2013 at 9:00 am; and October 30, 2012 at 6:39 pm; Is carpetbagger liar or not?

            Yes or No!

          • Apparently he is a tad forgetful. So is Martinez though, right? Didn't she just tell us at the last Council Meeting that she doesn't remember the details about Walter's ouster and that we should ask staff?

  • "Apparently he is a tad forgetful"....... Hmmmmmmm

    That is because he is liar and he cat remember even when he is Carpetbagger or Pedroza or Henrygattis or Beelzebub.

    I am done hear!

    Unfortunately Dr. Amalgam is correct in this one.

    • I have been a leading blogger in Orange County for years and have NEVER resorted to doing so under any names other than my own, and "editor." I literally spend hours, every day, posting on my blogs. Why would I resort to anon comments when I can post whatever I want, whenever I want to? It makes no sense if you stop to think about it.

      I don't know who Carpetbagger is or who any of those other commenters are and I don't care. I cannot blame them for not using their names, not as long as the litigious Liberal OC bloggers are still lurking.

      Your continued insistence that I am using fake names to comment is libel. It is baseless and you should know better. When am I ever dishonest Fiala? I have been putting my neck on the line for years, for the people of this city, and I will keep doing so regardless of what the haters have to say.

  • Based on foregoing prima facie evidence you have no credibility about what ever you say.

    You have never answer my questions honestly, have been zig-zaging and playing stupid.

    In addition, virtually every anonymous comment has same stile, same anger, and same substance.

    You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time

    And gave me a break with the "libel" crapola.

    • You're right. Many of the comments appear to be written by the same person. What you are forgetting to mention is that they don't sound at all like my own writing.

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