Why should Santa Ana Occupy care about affordable housing?
Their leader is a wealthy lawyer who lives in Brea!
About 40 members of Santa Ana Occupy showed up at Santa Ana’s City Council last night. Thanks to them the meeting went on until midnight. In the end the City Council rejected their demand to camp out at night on city property.
That much you know by now – but did you know that the Occupy members also completely failed last night – when they were given an opportunity to help the “99%?”
That’s right. The City Council finally voted on an ordinance that would force developers to include affordable housing in their residential developments.
My friend Sean Mill was asked by the Santa Ana Planning Agency to speak on behalf of the affordable housing measure. Unlike the Occupiers, who sat on their hands, Mill got up and gave an impassioned speech – pointing out how far the City Council has come since the old days, when Republicans dominated the Council and you weren’t allowed to say “affordable housing” at City Hall.
Mill then pointed out the obvious – that the building industry must be OK with the measure since no one from the BIA – the Building Industry Association – was there to oppose the proposed ordinance.
At NO TIME did the Occupiers speak up even when Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez went nuts and denounced the ordinance, saying that since the BIA was not there, the Council could not proceed. Luckily Council Members Vince Sarmiento, David Benavides and Sal Tinajero, as well as Michele Martinez, all pounced on Alvarez. Sarmiento in particular completely destroyed her lame argument.
In the end the only ding dong who voted against the ordinance was disgraced Councilman Carlos Bustamante – who apparently will continue to stick to his Republican playbook as he finishes what will surely be his final term on the City Council.
The Occupiers had a chance to stand up for working families. They had a chance to say that they too support affordable housing. They had a chance to rip the developers. Instead they sat on their hands and SAID NOTHING.
As I have said from the start, these folks might have their hearts in the right place, but they don’t know the issues in my city, they have no clue about much of anything, and their revolution is actually pretty lame.
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First of all, what do you define as wealthy?
And second of all, I don't see how it's a lose lose. Obviously this LAWYER spends huges amounts of time doing pro bono and political work that he believes in, which would explain why he is not as wealthy as he could be if he wanted.
Wikipedia has a good article on this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States.
Yes, it does appear that while your boy Diamond lives in Brea he is not in fact wealthy after all. I have edited the photo caption accordingly.
He should maybe waste less time on Occupy as that movement is going nowhere fast...
"this LAWYER spends huges amounts of time doing pro bono"...... Hmmmmm
pro bono?
He got your blog, allegedly valued at $250K tax free or did reported it to IRS?
Was this article written by a child? 'ding dong'? Really? I haven't heard that word used since the fifth grade. Perhaps the author should have been concerned with keeping their ignorance to themselves rather than posting it online for everyone to see.
And yet another surly Occupier. Why are all of you always in such an awful mood?
You guys blew it on Monday night - and yet NONE of you have apologized.
Oh well, there may be other opportunities for you to matter in the future...
I would still like to know why the mayor pro tem had a problem with it.
The planning comm Mill spoke for it and voted for it in his capacity. The council did vote for it 6 to 1 right?
The taxable income or personnel wealth of the Brea resident has nothing to do with the housing ord.
Did not blow it there. blew it else where, and in a very good mood. Haaa haaa. Occupy or else!
So let the record show: Art says that he has me in a lose-lose situation -- and then he resents that I won't play his game. Art is odd.
You didn't "share" your annual household income, Art, you just said that it is under $150,000. That doesn't say whether you're at $149,999/year or on the verge of bankruptcy.
And that's fine: unless it's part of a public record, it's not the public's business. You don't seem to understand how offensive it is to demand private information from a private citizen just because you're interested -- and, in this case, to cover the fact that you recklessly and irresponsibly screwed up.
I would think that your friends would set you straight.
So I should have called you before I wrote about you - like you called me when you ripped me on the Orange Juice? Oh wait, you didn't bother calling me did you? You are as big a hypocrite as your pals at the Lib OC.
Sorry however that your law practice has not been more successful.
"Art is odd."
Congratulations Greg - that makes you qualified for the "Understatement of the Year" award! If you are the final winner you receive a certificate and a ham sandwich.
Actually the "Understatement of the Year" would be to say Mike Tardif is a f*cking prick
"Sorry however that your law practice has not been more successful"....... Hmmmmm
What law practice?
Admin, same as there is veterinary medicine there is also veterinary law whose clients are horses, dogs, chickens and liberals.
They do not make as much as real lawyers.
Art, you gay-baited someone. No discussion necessary. Unlike asking me about my income, do you think I should have called you up and said: "hey, about this gay-baiting, is this gay-baiting or what?"
Do you have any basis at all on which to judge the success of my law practice? Or are you just making this up too? You may have talked to someone about it -- but how would they know?
You might want to talk to some wise friend about the meaning and implications of the following phrase: "with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not."
So what is it? Are you successful or not? You complain when I write that you're wealthy then you freak out when I feel bad that your law practice is not successful. So which is it Greg?
The guy I wrote about voted against including gay history in school textbooks. Did you know that? And he solicited endorsements from Prop. 8 supporters. But he is unmarried and doesn't appear to have a girlfriend. What's up with that Greg? Can you explain that?