East L.A. Calling
East L.A. is calling one of its native sons, who meandered his way into Santa Ana. How? By qualifying for a home thanks to his wife, who is or was a Santa Ana Unified School District teacher. The city used to have home-buying incentives for SAUSD teachers.
The city council members have failed to comprehend the people’s voice and vote. Our elected leader is Miguel Pulido and instead of getting to city business, they decide to politick and do whatever they can to “weaken” Pulido’s influence in city hall.
Benavides and his ilk complain about “deference” to the mayor and willfully and conveniently ignore that Pulido is the people’s choice. Pulido was elected to lead and city staff comprehends this. So Benavides and his ilk have a strategy of not allowing an elected mayor be a mayor. Incredible.
What’s more incredible is the disregard of the voice of Santa Ana voters on the part of the council. The city attorney threatened to leave over this, they say, fine. The city has budgeting issues to deal with involving Sacramento and needs the continuity of a city manager and they say, fine.
The voice of the people in City Hall on Tuesday night, January 22 was heavily in favor of Paul Walters and not “deeply divided” as the “Voice of OC” would like for you to believe. The message to the council could not have been louder and they still decided to act against reason.
The council was told that they’d be recalled and thought that they’d take their chances with a recall election. They think Santa Ana voters are bluffing.
East L.A. is calling and its time for the Benavides ilk to pack its bags.
Well Said.
The Benavide’s cabal frightens me.
I read that his wife and kids don’t even live with him, which is no big deal except for he promotes himself as a “family man”.
They don’t frighten me as much as they amuse me. But I am concerned about the city’s well being. I’m concerned that they haven’t discussed publicly what their vision is for the city, that vision that they wanted Paul Walters to align with. They didn’t campaign on any concrete specifics. All they wanted was to “change the culture of city hall.” That’s it. Where are the proposals, the ideas?
They have someone close to them whose idea of progress is to relax liquor license requirements for permits. This is who they’re listening to. Benavides spends time and money drinking at chapter one, as does michelle martinez. I’ve seen benavides there more often than martinez, but I do recall martinez hitting on a bartender there asking him where the after party was. True story. This is our elected councilwoman, and representative of the downtown, a girl walking around in daisy dukes?
Benavides and Martinez are malleable and downtown inc and their “consultant” phil bacerra know this and that is why they supported benavides in the last mayoral race, and that is why bacerra poses as such a sycophant around Benavides.
Great post. Well said.