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Fabian,
You are the face of Proposition 93. It is a deceitful, hungry, greedy and
needy face.
Who are you? What have you become? Power is indeed intoxicating for you.
Enjoy your trips to the wine country of France, your lavish shopping trips to
Louis Vuitton shops in Paris on other people's dimes. Enjoy all that while you
can.
We understand that power has its privileges, these are powers granted to
you more by your good timing and back-room politics than by any real skills
you possess. So, enjoy the power, but don't over do it. All the millions of
dollars you collect from special interests, like gaming, banking, oh, and
especially AT&T, we understand that Quid-Pro-Quo for you is public policy in
the making.
Maybe there is a benefit for you to continue in power a few more years.
Except that you have failed to explain it in simple terms that a citizen, blue
collar, immigrant, your constituent, can understand. All that constituent sees
is Mexican PRI style politics warmed over again. What an awful shame.
It doesn't help when you personally take the time to support local politicos
like Huntington Park's John Noguez, who twice ran for public office with
convicted felons for campaign managers. You supported and called a "Man
of Honor" the other Huntington Park councilman Edward Escareno, who was
unemployed, was a Republican, was Noguez's 2003 campaign manager and
was convicted of "Grand Theft" of public funds, a felony. You supported
these folks. Why would you support criminally connected local officials?
More egregious and disturbing, Fabian, you have hand-picked Huntington
Park's John Noguez as the successor to your Assembly seat. Noguez is the
guy who asked for $50,000 in shake-down money from Aspire Charter
Schools/Pacific Charter Schools in exchange for approval of construction
permits. The city attorney, Francisco Leal was at the meeting. He is your
closest friend. Your name was invoked to legitimize the illegal campaign
contribution. If only the FBI had wiretapped this.
Your Assembly District here in Huntington Park, the local political foundation
and base of support on which your whole Assembly career rests on, is a fetid
cauldron of corruption with FBI, DA's office and other local law enforcement
agencies kept on their toes, hovering always on the edge of a political
corruption scandal. You and the California Latino Caucus in Sacramento
support and in fact, harbor those that show the most links to criminal
activity, like the California Senate staffer Mario Beltran and his brushes with
law enforcement, cutting illegal contracts with tow truck companies worth
Millions of dollars, being caught with his pants down in a downtown L.A.
hotel, your district, with a cocaine-addicted prostitute. The Latino Caucus,
including your compadre Don Perata, Senate Pro-Tem, came out swinging for
the poor boy gone bad. We understand about second chances, but not 3rd,
4th, 5th, or more chances. Maybe Perata himself believes in multiple
chances since he is also under FBI investigation for alleged corruption in his
Bay area district office.
You do not deserve to extend your stay in the California Assembly or the
Senate. My suggestion, go on into private practice and earn your money,
like the rest of us. We are not on welfare, political or otherwise.
You, Fabian, have become a political "Welferero", a colloquial Spanglish
term denoting the worst kind of welfare abuser, those that drive nice cars
and live in nice houses but still ask for welfare handouts.
We thought the Clinton Administration would have gotten rid of those kind.
Fabian, you had a chance to really make a difference for the little people
here back home. But you blew it.
Redemption is always possible, but not through extending your term limits.
Hope that you loose this, but wish that you win back a sense of who you are,
where you came from and whom you affect.
One more item, WatchOurCity.com has high regard for presidential
candidates, Clinton, Obama and McCain.
Since you are on Hillary's team as California Co-Chair, and should Hillary
Clinton win the White House, you and Antonio Villaraigosa will get sweet
positions with her administration. How you run you campaigns here, who you
support and associate with here locally and California-wide will only be
magnified to a grander scale in Washington D.C. There is no trust in you or
Villaraigosa, and I can extrapolate that the dirty and corrupt back room
deals you support locally will only be magnified on a grander scale there.
Sorry, Hillary, your dependence on corrupt California Latino politicians may
cost you, sooner or later, in scandals, or who knows what. You should have
done some deeper background checks on Fabian and Antonio, not just
depend solely on their reputations for dazzling fundraising (and womanizing
the same woman). For now, it just cost you my vote. To Senator Hillary
Clinton's people, just enter this website to see what I mean about who
Fabian really is and who surrounds him locally. All politics is local; Tip O'Neill
sure knew what he was talking about.
The Editor endorses Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.
Best of luck.
The Editor,
WatchOurCity.com
You are the face of Proposition 93. It is a deceitful, hungry, greedy and
needy face.
Who are you? What have you become? Power is indeed intoxicating for you.
Enjoy your trips to the wine country of France, your lavish shopping trips to
Louis Vuitton shops in Paris on other people's dimes. Enjoy all that while you
can.
We understand that power has its privileges, these are powers granted to
you more by your good timing and back-room politics than by any real skills
you possess. So, enjoy the power, but don't over do it. All the millions of
dollars you collect from special interests, like gaming, banking, oh, and
especially AT&T, we understand that Quid-Pro-Quo for you is public policy in
the making.
Maybe there is a benefit for you to continue in power a few more years.
Except that you have failed to explain it in simple terms that a citizen, blue
collar, immigrant, your constituent, can understand. All that constituent sees
is Mexican PRI style politics warmed over again. What an awful shame.
It doesn't help when you personally take the time to support local politicos
like Huntington Park's John Noguez, who twice ran for public office with
convicted felons for campaign managers. You supported and called a "Man
of Honor" the other Huntington Park councilman Edward Escareno, who was
unemployed, was a Republican, was Noguez's 2003 campaign manager and
was convicted of "Grand Theft" of public funds, a felony. You supported
these folks. Why would you support criminally connected local officials?
More egregious and disturbing, Fabian, you have hand-picked Huntington
Park's John Noguez as the successor to your Assembly seat. Noguez is the
guy who asked for $50,000 in shake-down money from Aspire Charter
Schools/Pacific Charter Schools in exchange for approval of construction
permits. The city attorney, Francisco Leal was at the meeting. He is your
closest friend. Your name was invoked to legitimize the illegal campaign
contribution. If only the FBI had wiretapped this.
Your Assembly District here in Huntington Park, the local political foundation
and base of support on which your whole Assembly career rests on, is a fetid
cauldron of corruption with FBI, DA's office and other local law enforcement
agencies kept on their toes, hovering always on the edge of a political
corruption scandal. You and the California Latino Caucus in Sacramento
support and in fact, harbor those that show the most links to criminal
activity, like the California Senate staffer Mario Beltran and his brushes with
law enforcement, cutting illegal contracts with tow truck companies worth
Millions of dollars, being caught with his pants down in a downtown L.A.
hotel, your district, with a cocaine-addicted prostitute. The Latino Caucus,
including your compadre Don Perata, Senate Pro-Tem, came out swinging for
the poor boy gone bad. We understand about second chances, but not 3rd,
4th, 5th, or more chances. Maybe Perata himself believes in multiple
chances since he is also under FBI investigation for alleged corruption in his
Bay area district office.
You do not deserve to extend your stay in the California Assembly or the
Senate. My suggestion, go on into private practice and earn your money,
like the rest of us. We are not on welfare, political or otherwise.
You, Fabian, have become a political "Welferero", a colloquial Spanglish
term denoting the worst kind of welfare abuser, those that drive nice cars
and live in nice houses but still ask for welfare handouts.
We thought the Clinton Administration would have gotten rid of those kind.
Fabian, you had a chance to really make a difference for the little people
here back home. But you blew it.
Redemption is always possible, but not through extending your term limits.
Hope that you loose this, but wish that you win back a sense of who you are,
where you came from and whom you affect.
One more item, WatchOurCity.com has high regard for presidential
candidates, Clinton, Obama and McCain.
Since you are on Hillary's team as California Co-Chair, and should Hillary
Clinton win the White House, you and Antonio Villaraigosa will get sweet
positions with her administration. How you run you campaigns here, who you
support and associate with here locally and California-wide will only be
magnified to a grander scale in Washington D.C. There is no trust in you or
Villaraigosa, and I can extrapolate that the dirty and corrupt back room
deals you support locally will only be magnified on a grander scale there.
Sorry, Hillary, your dependence on corrupt California Latino politicians may
cost you, sooner or later, in scandals, or who knows what. You should have
done some deeper background checks on Fabian and Antonio, not just
depend solely on their reputations for dazzling fundraising (and womanizing
the same woman). For now, it just cost you my vote. To Senator Hillary
Clinton's people, just enter this website to see what I mean about who
Fabian really is and who surrounds him locally. All politics is local; Tip O'Neill
sure knew what he was talking about.
The Editor endorses Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.
Best of luck.
The Editor,
WatchOurCity.com
Feb. 4, 2008
The Editor, WatchOurCity.com
A Note to Fabian Nunez,
Assembly Rep. for Huntington Park, Maywood and
current Speaker of the Assembly:
The Editor, WatchOurCity.com
A Note to Fabian Nunez,
Assembly Rep. for Huntington Park, Maywood and
current Speaker of the Assembly:
| Fabian Watch |
Copyright © 2008 WatchOurCity.com
February 14, 2008, updated
The Editor, WatchOurCity.com
Why Fabian and Antonio Failed
Hillary in California
Patti Solis-Doyle, Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign
manager, highest ranking Mexican-American woman
in any presidential campaign, was fired days after
disappointing Super Tuesday California results.
Huntington Park, CA - The Latino vote during California's
Super Tuesday Primaries was supposed to give Hillary the
lion's share of Democratic delegates; it was taken for granted,
what with the two most powerful political Latino leaders given
starring roles in the Senator's campaign here in California and
Nationally. But something went terribly wrong on that Tuesday.
Instead, the good Senator from New York ended up splitting
the spoils with Senator Barack Obama. Then the shake up of
Hillary's team was announced this past weekend with the
"resignation" of Patti Solis-Doyle. In reality, Patti was fired,
plain and simple, on the heels of her boss's less than
spectacular results, and blames the immigrant for her
troubles. Patti Solis-Doyle, a high achieving Mexican-American
woman with immigrant parents, was Hillary's campaign
manager.
So while Hillary courts Latinos, she fires her highest ranking
Latina, Solis-Doyle, sending mixed messages. Hillary was
counting on Patti to guarantee a landslide win in California.
Solis-Doyle's job was to forge alliances with Latinos in power
such as Antonio Villaraigosa and Fabian Nunez, appointing
them as the campaign's National and State co-chairs. Things
didn't go as planned. Making matters worse, one of those
pillars of Latino political support, Fabian, lost his perch with the
loosing Prop 93, which effectively ended his political career and
power base in one fell swoop.
In a perverse way, Hillary seems justified in letting Solis go. It
seems that Solis miscalculated in trusting too much in the
Sacramento-L.A. City Hall Latino power axis. On Super
Tuesday, Fabian Nunez, the lame-duck California Speaker of
the Assembly, and the State's second most powerful elected
official, was fighting his own doomed battle to cling to power,
and by extension, control of the state's Democratic Party. It is
evident that Fabian did not lend much help to the Clinton
campaign since he, Antonio, and the state Democratic party,
were too preoccupied with their own survival with Prop 93 to
deliver the goods. This proposition would have extended the
term limits for several current lame duck Democrats in control
of the party machinery. Solis-Doyle was more a victim of bad
timing and bath faith, making her Hillary's perfect sacrificial
lamb. Already two Democratic congressmen from New York are
crying foul against Hillary with accusations of a racial thing.
These guys should instead point their cross-hairs on Fabian
and Antonio for over-promising this rich-delegate state.
Did Solis-Doyle honestly believe that her alliances with Fabian
and Antonio would pave the way for Clinton to clench an
avalanche of delegates in California? Evidently she did, and
she paid dearly for it. In all fairness to Patti, so did everyone
else, except for the editor here at WatchOurCity.com. See the
editor’s comments below, “A note to Fabian Nunez”, posted
one day before Super Tuesday about why Fabian and Antonio
bode ill for Senator Clinton's campaign. Hillary must have
realized that it was not the Latino vote she needs, but rather
the Black vote. The Clinton campaign wasted no time in
quickly replacing the Latina for a Black campaign manager,
Maggie Williams, a trusted, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is
former Chief of Staff to Hillary during her First Lady years in
the White House.
What better way to beat a black man than to have a black
woman do him in. This may just do it for Clinton, or it may be
too little, too late.
A note to the Obama camp: Patti Solis-Doyle would be an
excellent addition to your campaign;she's learned her lesson;
just take no riders like Fabian and Antonio who may try to
hitch to your wagon since Hillary lost the best wheel she had.
See L.A. Weekly's Mark Cooper obituary column on Fabian and
Antonio's political careers (L.A. Weekly, Feb. 12, '08, "Fabian
Rolls Snake Eyes"). These were high stakes for Hillary and this
country, and our boys dropped the ball.
California
Assembly
Speaker
Fabian
Nunez
Assembly
Speaker
Fabian
Nunez
Sen.
Hillary
Clinton
Hillary
Clinton
Patti Solis-Doyle,
tied her political fate
to the misfortunes of
Fabian and Antonio.
tied her political fate
to the misfortunes of
Fabian and Antonio.
Antonio
Villaraigosa
Villaraigosa
California Democratic
Party: the ass they
were trying to save
was their own with
Proposition 93 and it
backfired on them.
Antonio was too
busy duping the
voters with his
Telecom tax.
Party: the ass they
were trying to save
was their own with
Proposition 93 and it
backfired on them.
Antonio was too
busy duping the
voters with his
Telecom tax.
| Maggie Williams |
