Bad news came today from the O.C. Register, which reported that “Mayor Miguel Pulido said he intends to appoint council members Sal Tinajero, Vincent Sarmiento and Claudia Alvarez to the new television task force. Not one of them supported an earlier attempt to put all council meetings back on television.”
Wow. This just goes to prove that nothing will be done before the Feb. 5 election. Clearly all of these Council members need to go. We can speed this along by voting No on Measure D. That will retire Alvarez, at the end of the year, due to term limits. It will also prevent the rest of them from running for a third term.
Until then, rest assured that we, and our ally George Collins, will continue to scrutinize every move made by the Santa Ana City Council. They can run from us, but they can’t hide.
Does it matter if all of the City Council meetings are televised? Here’s another excerpt from the O.C. Register article about the last Council meeting, “The television debate began in September, when the council decided to start using the second meeting of every month as a study session on big issues. Since then, council members have talked about a sweeping plan to redevelop the downtown core, and a plan to install a streetcar system
When does the recall begin?
My GOOD?
OJ3 are back!
Sarmiento requested that Michelle Martinez be a part of the ad hoc committee, and other council members seemed receptive to the idea. Someone apparently amended the motion to make it so the mayor got to choose the makeup of the committee.
Also, Claudia Alvarez asked that the second meeting in January be cancelled, so no one would think they were doing anything wrong at an untelevised meeting. How childish!
I guess it didn’t occur to her to just ask that the next meeting be televised while they sort out whatever they need to sort out to return the second meetings to TV.
Apparently, the task force wasn’t going to be able to do anything right away? What do you suppose is a reasonable length of time to simply direct staff to do what they were already doing a few months ago?
Puldio & cabal are hoping this nasty business about televising city council meetings goes away.
The creation of the ad hoc committee was merely a diversionary tactic to placate.
VOTE NO ON MEASURE D
Dump Claudia Alvarez Feb 5
Art, you walked by me once at a City Council meeting and you smelled pretty bad.
#1 is right! When will the recall begin?
Poster 5,
Wow! Not good. I may have to borrow some of Pulido’s favorite French perfume, Chanel No. 5.
#5,
A pleasant smell to a human is offensive to a skunk.
Stay on the subject matter.
#8
“Stay on the subject matter.”
Thank you for pointing that out. But I believe that this blog should also “stay on the subject matter” when putting up posts. If you guys want me to show you some examples of how some of the bloggers fail to “stay on the subject matter” just let me know. Thanks for the advice.