Will Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido and his cronies on the City Council succeed in lying to the people of Santa Ana? Today’s mail included another mailer that was chock full of lies from Team Pulido. This time it was sent by a campaign committee called the “Citizens Anti-Crime Committee.” It also noted that the “Santa Ana Police Officers” want us to vote for Team Pulido, and it featured the firefighters too, so I guess this was funded by the fire and cop unions. I will remember this when I get elected.
What a bunch of liars! How does it feel to know that your police and firemen are liars and they are trying to pull the wool over our eyes? Check out these whoppers:
- Team Pulido has lowered our crime rate by 32% since 2006. LIE! The FBI just rated us #1 in violent crime in all of Orange County! This summer our city was awash in gang shootings and carjackings. And we are to believe that crime is going down? Give me a break!
- Team Pulido claims that they have made Santa Ana one of the safest cities in the entire U.S. Are they crazy? Most people DO NOT feel safe in this town!
- They tout their street improvements – but remember that they decided to overlook the worst streets and fix the least damaged ones first. And just this past week a water pipe blew up under Dyer St. – that was the second such incident in the past year!
Will the people of Santa Ana believe these lies? We’ll find out on Nov. 4. Shame on Pulido, Carlos Bustamante, Vince Sarmiento and Claudia Alvarez for propagating these mentiras!
Art, Take it easy on the police and firemen. I’m in a union also, but when the union endorses a political candidate it’s from a vote with generally fewer than 50 reps present, and usually with 30 or so voting aye, out of 3,000 members. No rep that I know of, including me, canvasses his/her worksite for political views. I always abstain from this vote, because quite a few teachers at my site let me know they oppose such endorsements. I’m going to guess that it’s similar with the police and firemen. The endorsement reflects the views of the union board, not necessarily the majority of members. Nevertheless, we’re tolerant of such small annoyances because we need a union to protect us from managerial abuse, and attacks on our salaries and working conditions.
SAHS Teacher,
I probably have not mentioned this but I am a union member too. I belong to the teacher’s union over at Cerritos College. We are affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO.
I met with the fire fighter’s union board. Nice guys. I am very disappointed by their deceitful mailer, to say the least.
The Santa Ana City Council gave raises this year to both the cops and the firefighters – and to the city managers and most of the other city staffers. Can you say quid pro quo?
Unions tend to back incumbents. I understand that. But the incumbents on our City Council might be the worst ones in the entire County of Orange.
If I win I will do my job and be fair with the unions, but I won’t suck up to them and I won’t dole out raises when the city has a massive debt, as we do now.
Crime Down?
Sure…….some of it is…….
But many more are up……….way up.
According to SAPD’s own crime statistics, There is a 64.29% increase in the number of Homicides (Murders) from last year alone.
Arsons are up 12.22 %
Robbery is up 3.57%
Burglary is up 12.10%
And so as to not be fooled by stats…….mine or theirs……
Since 2000 there have been 192 murders in Santa Ana.
And SAPD is starting a gang homicide cold case unit to tackle the more than 200 gang homicide cold cases………