One of our pajaritos is reporting that Ed Roski, the millionaire land developer and realtor from Los Angeles, has filed paperwork with the Orange County Voter Registrar’s office indicating that he is going to spend $25,000 on an independent expenditure – presumably against Supervisor Chris Norby, who is running for the 72nd Assembly District.
It should not surprise us that Roski is siding with Linda Ackerman, Norby’s Repbulican opponent. Her husband Dick served for years in the State Legislature and has connections with creeps like Roski.
Roski is currently working on building an NFL Stadium in the City of Industry – and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this week signed a bill that will allow Roski to proceed without environmental impact studies, called CEQA. Norby has spoken out against this so now Roski gets his revenge.
Ed Roski standing where his stadium will be built (AP)
Roski is a prominent backer of some of the worst Democrats in Los Angeles, including the slimy Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. My advice to Republican voters in the 72nd, don’t let this rich bastard from Los Angeles tell you how to vote! He has spent thousands of dollars supporting awful Democrats – and Dick Ackerman cut deals with many of those Democrats over the years, while raising our taxes and growing our state government into the bankrupt behemoth it is today.
Roski has also backed some pretty lame Republicans, including George W. Bush and John McCain. Click here to see who he has given money to.
Norby is by no means perfect, but we know where he stands on taxes and government waste. As for Linda Ackerman, her husband recently told a reporter that he “speaks for Linda.” That is of course an end-run against term limits as Dick himself cannot run for the state legislature anymore.
Art, The IE is listed as for Ackerman, not anti Norby. So presumably the mailers will be fluffers for Ackerman. We’ll see.
You have incorrectly labeled Ed Roski in your photo. That is actually John Semcken of Majestic Realty.
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Actually, the picture is not labeled. But yes we know that is not Roski. Roski prefers staying in the shadows…
As to my first comment above – that was incorrect. Roski and the Indian casino dumped $40K in to the IE. Some is going pro Ackerwoman some has already gone into a hit piece against Norby.
I just want Rosky to allow me to continue doing business at Gilman rd. My family lives of this business we have no where to go its our main source of income if you shut us down its the end of the world for us. I have been reading a lot of bad comments about you and maybe doing some small good changes will make people start like you.