Remember when racist Harald Martin was appointed to the Anaheim Union High School District’s Board of Education a couple of years ago? Local Latino activists rightfully had a cow – and a petition drive resulted in Martin’s resignation and replacement by Democrat Jordan Brandman.
What folks may not know is that former college board trustee Alfredo Amezcua was instrumental in helping to gather the petitions. In the Red County video above, Amezcua is seen talking at a Los Amigos meeting about the petition drive.
Amezcua is now running against Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido. But there is another wrinkle to the tale.
Pulido’s consultant, Dennis DeSnoo, worked with Los Amigos in helping to take out Martin. You can see him in the video above. Now a scandal has erupted in the wake of the revelation, on this blog, that Desnoo and Pulido don’t own Pulido’s campaign URL, www.miguelpulido.com.
DeSnoo hired a failed Republican Assembly candidate, Ryan Trabuco, to develop and manage websites for his clients. Trabuco manages Pulido’s URL through a proxy named Ice Flare. Click here to see the ownership record. Now Pulido’s team is fearful that Trabuco may turn around and sell Pulido’s URL to Amezcua.
As for DeSnoo, it is apparent that he knows and has worked with Amezcua. Can Pulido trust him at this point?
As for Trabuco, would he do this? He already did this last week when he sold a client’s URL to his political enemies at the Liberal OC Blog.
And new evidence has arisen that indicates that Trabuco may not be all there.
Trabuco’s MySpace page indicates that he is a Latino. The truth however is that he is not remotely Latino. He changed his last name after he lost his Assembly race, from Williams to Trabuco.
And Trabuco’s deleted Facebook page (which you can see here via Google cache) indicates that he is a fan of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Pope Benedict XVI, and the Republican Party. But he is also a fan of No on Prop. 8. How can you be a fan of nutters like Palin and Beck while also being against the effort to ban gay marriage? That sounds schizophrenic!
Can Pulido trust DeSnoo and Trabuco? Hard to say. But Amezcua clearly has a history with DeSnoo…
And to make matters worse Pulido and DeSnoo have lost control of www.mayormiguelpulido.com. Is DeSnoo even aware that the Internet is a big part of politics now? Isn’t it time for Pulido to upgrade to a real consultant now that he is dealing with a real opponent?
Art, it seems like you are trying to start a fight between DeSnoo and Pulido so that Pulido will not have a consultant. I thought you are a Peacemaker? Who is doing Amezqua’s campaign? I hear that Michele Martinez is doing it. Is she ready for a Mayoral campaign? Why did Al quit the college board?