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Late last night someone called “Zao Art” posted on Facebook:
Last month Faces of Santa Ana gets a call on a Wednesday to meet with city counsel. We’re in a meeting on a Friday, they tell us about a Homless shelter being built and would love a mural. Final artwork needs to be completed by Monday and start painting Tuesday. 3500 sq.ft. mural needs to be complete by Friday so flooring can go in. No problem we got this. Little lunch meeting with Brian and some prayer and we started thinking of how to honor U.S. District Judge David O. Carter. A 200-bed temporary homeless shelter opened Thursday as part of an ongoing legal dispute launched by homeless advocates against several Orange County cities.
The Link will house homeless men, women and families and provide various support services to connect them with permanent housing.
Faces of Santa Ana and I are so freakin grateful and thankful that the city of Santa Ana would call on us to get this mural done. Thank you Santa Ana and Judge Carter for your amazing hearts for the poor and the broken-hearted. #mercyhouse #santaana #facesofsantaana #zaoone #isaiah61 #mtncolors #mtn94 @ Santa Ana, California
Here’s a video where you can see the whole piece of work:
Well, what can we say? We love it, and we think Judge Carter has done a great job on this issue this year. Also kudos to Mayor Pulido for getting this one shelter done so quickly – I remember him boasting about it at a Carterpalooza a couple of months ago, daring any other cities to get one done as quick as he could – and he kept his word!
Still, you know us, we’re going to have a little quibble or more, and that’s with what’s called “The Great Man Theory of History” – Judge Carter played his role admirably, but there would have been no cases for him to preside over, and there would have been a lot more of our homeless population dead by now, if it weren’t for the 2 or 3 dozen grass-roots ADVOCATES pushing for justice and humanity these last four or five years. Some of them are in the picture below, although notably it doesn’t include a few of the biggest heroes: Lou Noble, R Joshua Collins, Tim Houchen, Mohammad Aly. [more coming on the homelessness and shelter issue…]
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This is weird.
I think it’s sort of…well, never mind.
I think that it’s great — especially in this location. It’s good for people to have heroes who aren’t long dead, and what Carter has done on this issue is heroic — by which I mean difficult, significant, and brave.
*There needs to be a National Homeless Register. Using Face Recognition Technology,
getting names and fingerprints of every Homeless person. We need to true and honest
accounting of the real number of Homeless, in the county, state and nation. Any criminal
can hide behind a grocery cart filled with old clothes. Any Terrorist can do the same thing.
Mayors around the country export their Homeless populations and therefore we need to
keep a current accounting, at all times!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, Ronandanna. Did you get that idea off of another website, or may we refer to it as “The Winship Proposal”?
*Anna….can be blamed without question!
P.S. Happy Pumpkin Pie with real whip cream! May ever bite be delicious!
It has long been easy for critics of Mayor Pulido to take shots, mostly from those who don’t live in Santa Ana or rely on city services. I have at times been a vocal critic as a lifelong resident.
It is hard to argue, however, his advocacy on big ticket items: Public Safety, Saving the court of appeals from Sen. Dunn’s theft, the streetcar and now this. He said recently with the backing of outgoing Governor Brown and Incoming Governor Newsom “I am not done yet”.
What’s the saying? you can please some of the people some of the time…….
The Mayor deserves credit for taking a leadership position, as much if not more than the judge, he actually did something! Check out the back story on the REI site and you’ll see how big this was.
The problem with Miguel Pulido has always been corruption: he’s so self-serving that he has run a consulting practice to help get things done in Santa Ana (named something like “Forge” or “Force”) WHILE SERVING AS MAYOR.
I don’t have to live in Santa Ana to “take shots” at that, just like I don’t have to live in Massachusetts to criticize the similar sleaze among Democratic officeholders that has led one of the bluest states at the federal to elect Republicans in six of its last eight Gubernatorial elections, or to live in Russia to criticize its corrupt oligarchs.
He’s good at bringing in money to the city and, from what I’ve heard from its residents, even better at keeping his share of it. It’s to the DPOC’s credit that it hasn’t endorsed him in any of the last four or so cycles (although he’s recently stopped even trying.) If you think that he just has a bad reputation then you and I agree that there is cause for investigation. Too bad that that has been impossible while he has been in office.
*Now don’t be picking on our buddy Miguel. When we wrote to him about the Tennis Shoes on the Telephone line on the way to the BOS…..he actually
responded and made corrective action. That was impressive. Of course when we went to see his position of the Fire Ring issue in Huntington Beach…..he suddenly – came late and left early. Guess he didn’t want to hear about the dirty diapers in the fire rings or the broken neighborhood fence that were being burned by chilly surfers along with plastic bottles and old clothes. Oh well, next time! Anyway, Miguel has been a consistently able leader for SA….eh?