When Santa Ana Councilman Sal Tinajero agreed to speak at tonight’s Com Link meeting I figured he would be in for a rough night with Santa Ana’s “Usual Suspects.” Boy was I right. Thomas Gordon, who is a resident of Santa Ana and an elected member of the OC GOP Central Committee, accosted him at the meeting and asked him why Sean Mill was still blogging.
What set Gordon off? That is hard to say. Mill wrote a very innocuous post this week about Tinajero’s appearance at Com Link. And that set Gordon off.
Gordon by the way made the AP wire a couple years ago when he got booted from Santa Ana’s EPIC/Gang Commission by Tinajero. At the time there was a lot of controversy in Santa Ana because several of us bloggers were on city commissions. In fact I quit the Redevelopment Commission in solidarity with Gordon after he got the boot from EPIC.
Back then Gordon was really into free speech…now he isn’t apparently. The rub is that he blogs for both Red Klownty and Sunny D. And he used to blog for me before he quit in a huff while participating in the ill-fated blog coup that our former webmaster, Sarah Spinosa, initiated.
And guess what? Gordon is also a commissioner – in Denver, Colorado, where he maintains a second home. There he goes by “Tom Gordon,” and he serves on the Denver Graffiti Task Force. Click here to see his name on their membership roster.
And just this week Gordon tried to get onto the SAUSD Measure G Bond Oversight Commission, but his nomination failed to garner a second.
So what’s it going to be Gordon? Do you support free speech or not? If you really believe that Commissioners cannot be bloggers, does that mean you intend to quit the Denver Graffiti Task Force? And can OC GOP Central Committee Members be bloggers?
Lastly, I had to call the Santa Ana police and file a report a few weeks ago when Gordon called and threatened my life. Say what you will about Sean Mill – but he sure doesn’t run around bullying people. In fact Gordon also accosted Democrat activist Paul Lucas this week, while they were at the anti Prop. 8 rally in downtown Santa Ana. Lucas told me later that he was afraid Gordon was going to beat him up. Is that how OC GOP Central Committee members should be behaving in public? I don’t think so.
I support Sean Mill’s right to blog. Gordon needs to get over himself. If he is going to be this thin-skinned then perhaps he is the one who needs to stop blogging – and get out of politics altogether.
Thomas Gordon is a bully. I had to transfer to
Saddleback High School because wouldn’t stop trying to beat me up.
How can he be a commissioner in Denver when he lives in Santa Ana? He can’t have two abodes and he can’t be registered to vote in two locations. That is against the law!!!!!!
Mr. Pedroza,
Do you know if Gordon manned up and shared the rumors he has been spreading about Tinajero’s deceased father with the councilmember?
Art,
You should really stop exposing me and my man Thommy Boy for what we are Ok! we were at that rally becuase we didnt takethe opportunity to get married in the eight month window when w could have.
Thomas’ place on the Denver Graffitti commission is very important to him. And it allows me the opprtunity to spread my influence around a new city on case me and Thomas have to leave town. I can get in with the Dems out there who dont know what I am alla about. Instead of exzposing us you can just follow us on my twitter page at the following link.
http://www.twitter.com/countchoculabot
or
http://www.twitter.com/elgordobot
This guy Thomas and his sidekick Phil Becerra are stalkers. They have been harrassing me and others for a long time. Phils MO is to get others to do his dirty work such as Marc Sussman and Claudio Gallegos.
Thomas is less intelligent and goes straight at you at the city council meetings. Anyway, thse two are public menaces and should be sat down foa good talking to and then tagged and released so their movements can be monitored.
Well if Gordon wants Mill out as a Commissioner, he’d actually be smarter to ENCOURAGE Mill to blog…ya know, share more of that “truth” about fellow Commissioners and City officials.
Art,
if Thomas is a resident of santa ana and on the oc gop central committe, and a resident of denver and I assume he is registered and votes there too, didnt he break the law?
How do we figure out if he is regsotered and double voted? Can he be prosecutued for that? I wonder if the LAUSD has a code of conduct that applies here.
Art,
You and I know that this has nothing to do with blogging. This is purely intimidation and bullying.
I will not concern myself with these never ending attacks. I just feel sorry for the councilmembers and staff whose time is wasted dealing with these rants.
To hear them tell it I am everything that is wrong with this city and if I get removed from the Planning Commission all will be well and it’s free ice cream sundaes for everyone. Remember these are the same folks that said removing Nativo Lopez would be the cure for all the problems of the SAUSD. How’s that worked out?
In a way a feel sorry for these people. Anger and hate has consumed them and they need someone to lash out at. I guess I am that someone.
I have not blogged much lately because I have been busy working, traveling and focussing on the Planning Commission. My fellow commissioners and I have had some very important projects come before us in recent months and I feel that should be my primary focus. However I will not be bullied into silence by Mr. Gordon or anyone else.
I would have never that people would take politics so personally that they would do and say whatever they felt could hurt someone. As you know people recently began saying some pretty hateful things about our families, Sal Tinajero’s deceased father and other folks in the community. Is it any wonder that our community has the problems we do with the people focusing so much of their time on hate.
OMG
I laughed so hard milk came out my nose.
Sean you have a future in standup comedy. Unless you are so deluded that you think any one believes that drivel, if that’s the case we’ll come visit you in the home.
Sean —
This blog is dedicated to bullying and intimidation. You bitching out it here is hypocritical. Someone ought to find Art’s mortgage information and post it online so he can scream like a stuck pig.
Art, when will you realize the voters of Santa Ana don’t read this silly blog and even if they did, they have thoroughly rejected you and don’t agree with your positions on Santa Ana.
You don’t nearly have the respect in the city you think you do.
You are a joke
#9,
Bullying? Thomas Gordon has a police report with his name on it because he is a bully.
What we do is expose creepy politicians and their supporters.
You sound like a “Usual Suspect. No wonder you are anon. Afraid to get juiced?
#9 Apple,
“Art, when will you realize the voters of Santa Ana don’t read this silly blog and even if they did, they have thoroughly rejected you and don’t agree with your positions on Santa Ana. You don’t nearly have the respect in the city you think you do.”
Well, thanks for stopping by and letting everyone know that no one reads Art’s blog! It IS ironic that you seem to be so obsessed with reading here that you come to the defense of blogger, Thomas Gordon, who is probably even more capable than YOU to defend himself.
But thanks, really, AGAIN, for the public service announcement. You may go now 😉
Thomas Gordon says that bloggers who violate the city of SA code of ethics can’t be bloggers.
Anon #12
does that include Thomas himself?
Apple.
The only people squealing like pigs are Philis Bacerra and Tommy Boy who have been outed as Pedrozabot by Philis himself who can’t keep his big mouth shut. Thank you Philis for those loose lips.
A note to the Ususal Suspects. Wait until you hear what Philis has been saying about you! HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa