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A new collection of original short
stories from the editor of
WatchOurCity.com that revives the
Noir Pulp Fiction genre, with a Latino
twist, based on real-life shenanigans at
small-time local city halls where the
public record is stranger than fiction.

The intrigue, the corruption, the
comedy, the incompetence and every
policeman's ultimate fantasy of sex in a
donut shop.

CUT ME IN is a series of riveting stories
of bumbling and deeply flawed
characters - mobsters, fringe players,
petty thieves turned politicians turned
petty thieves - with dark agendas who
betray their honor, and the public's
trust, on a dime's turn; at times
humorous and tragic; redemption is
always around the corner but flees
when tempted by small ambition; rare
moments of truth are discarded like
chump change, all played out over the
background both bleak and colorfully
gritty of a blue-collar immigrant town
in the shadows of the big city, a town
of second chancers, forgotten and
abused, but aching for a comeback...
tales with no moral lessons to
uncover, only everyday political dirty
dealings with the help of one lone
hero, Chucho* and his beloved
low-rider.

The Editor presents:

Hasta Los Gatos Quieren Zapatos
L.A. Eastside.com
L.A. Observed Blog
Latino Politics Blog
Think Progress
TPM Muckcracker
Politico

Links

In The Public Interest .punto com

A gay
  Latino
   Mayor

with a lust

A convicted

for money,

cop,

and a hot

Latina

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

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George Cole gets hands dirty
George Cole &
his Gay Issue

Monday March 2, 2009, The Editor, WatchOurCity.com

Bell, CA - For the editor at WatchOurCity.com, it is a
no-brainer to endorse Nestor Valencia and Mario
Rivas for Bell city council. Both have a strong
ethical base and are challenging Bell's corruption.

Perhaps that's why George Cole wants to see
Nestor fail in his bid for public office.

You see, George Cole is the de facto mafioso Don of Southeast politics, what with
getting multi-million dollar contracts, in rigged bidding conditions, when he wasn't
even the lowest bidder, by his buddy Juan Noguez in Huntington Park, and by his
friends at the Central Basin Water District. Millions of dollars, folks. Millions.

Nestor is a family man and wants to see corruption disappear from Bell.

Perhaps that's why George Cole called Nestor on Sunday afternoon, just two days
before the March 3 elections, threatening with menacingly false but damaging
accusations that Nestor should come out of the closet. Say what?

George must be a very nervous man to take campaign matters into his own dirty
fat hands, leaving his dirty fingerprints at the scene of the crime. In years past,
when George was still an elected official, he left all the grunt dirty work to his
employees at city hall or at his Oldtimers Foundation. George was clean as a
whistle. If any bungling happened at all, any fingerprints led to his lieutenants,
never to Cole, and there were plenty a dirty mark at many scenes of many political
crime scenes.

It's curious that George seems to be loosing his touch, and directly accusing
Nestor of being a closeted gay. It gets better, George even accused Nestor of
having gay sex with a campaign volunteer of Nestor's. Such is the desperation of
George Cole. Nestor was enjoying a late lunch with his wife while listening to the
master of intimidation and political dirty dealings on the phone.

George, all of a sudden takes to homophobia as a campaign tool, threatening to
cower, intimidate and harass.

George's sudden use of homophobia as a blunt political tool is curious for two
very big reasons.

First, Valencia is a married man....with a wife.....and two daughters. But that's not
even the main issue.

More importantly, George Cole's favorite councilman, a partner in crime in the
highest order, is John Noguez, Huntington Park's first out-of-the closet elected
official.

John is as gay as gay can be and is the female part of the equation. John is a
standing member of the Victory Fund, a politically active and progressive
organization that is well funded, has its very own Political Action Committee to fund
the campaigns of honorable progressive gay elected officials.....I'm referring to the
Victory Fund, not John Noguez.

John Noguez is the kind of guy who's own mother sued him in L.A. Superior Court.
George and Noguez are linked by an incredible web of corruption and have so
many political dealings in common, you'd think they were a perfect couple
themselves....in fact, they are.

John Noguez is the kind of guy who asked a charter school operator in Huntington
Park for a $50,000 campaign donation in exchange for planning department
approval. This is not rumor or innuendo. It's a fact; Blagojavitch style Pay for Play.

George and Noguez shared the same political fundraising consultant, Conrado
Terrazas, according to public record filings. Conrado is also gay and wrote a
glowing article on John Noguez's coming out party in Adelante Magazine, a Latino
Gay/Lesbian publication. Conrado also worked for George Cole's Oldtimers
Foundation.

So being gay is O.K. for George as long you are gay and corrupt. As John Noguez
is. Noguez gives honorable gay elected officials a bad name.

As long as George Cole can get a multi-million transportation contract from you, a
gay out of the closet council member, it's alright. And if you just happen to not be
gay, well, heck, he'll make you into one, the political version of dropping a bar of
soap in a prison shower stall.

If you even think of opposing George Cole, being gay all of sudden becomes a tool
of derogatory insult, a political and character assassination tool.

George Cole's message is clear: don't mess with him or he'll screw you real well.
So much for his Southeast Democratic Club which he runs.

Such a sloppy and dirty old man you've become in your old age George, and such
desperation leads to mistakes. But then again, you've always been politically dirty,
you've played dirty and continue to do so.

The question is, why is George taking so direct a hand in this campaign? Why is
George afraid of Nestor? What can Nestor do to such a powerhouse as George is
in Southeast L.A. County politics?

Maybe Nestor stands a chance to beat the two candidates Cole is puppetering.

Nestor could be the beginning of the end for George Cole, the Southeast political
machine, and his multi-million dollar contracts.

Ironically, George Cole's sudden homophobia is so disturbing because one of the
L.A. County funded contracts run by George Cole is for AIDS/HIV clinic located in
Cole's own Oldtimers Foundation on Gage Avenue in Huntington Park. Patients
served are not only the local Latino population in general, but also the Latino gay
community.

Did County officials know of George Cole's homophobia when they awarded Cole
the AIDS/HIV contract?

George has issues with being gay. Who goes to bed with whom is more of an
issue with George Cole than anyone else.

If you are a city of Bell resident, your vote for Nestor Valencia and Mario Rivas is a
vote against George Cole and his machinery of corruption.

Nestor Valencia is by now a veteran council candidate, having campaigned for Bell
city council back 2007 for the first time, but lost to Cole's team. Valencia was so
green a candidate that he actually approached George Cole to inform of his intent
for a run at city council, naively believing that George gave a damn, or would help
him out. And Cole obliged, feigning interest in mentoring.

Back then, Cole had some seemingly well-intended words of advice for Valencia.
First, Valencia has never managed a campaign. Secondly, Valencia needed a
campaign manager.

So magnanimous was Cole with Valencia that Cole even offered to recommend
the highly regarded Mario Beltran, a Bell Gardens councilman, as Velencia's
campaign manager. Why, even Juan Noguez in Huntington Park was also using
Mario Beltran as his campaign manager during the 2007 election. Valencia is no
dummy. He rejected the seedy offer by Beltran for campaign services which were
not for free. Good thing Valencia rejected Beltran. Exactly one week after the March
2007 elections, Mario Beltran was indicted by the D.A. then convicted in Norwalk
Superior Court.

Turns out, Mario Beltran has a long rap sheet of a criminal history as confirmed by
several area police departments and several media reports including the L.A.
Times. Beltran is a convicted felon two times over, and is under investigation by
the FBI for giving out sham multi-million dollar contracts to owners of a towing
business, one of whom is a confirmed felon himself. Such are the folks George
Cole trusts to be his political confidants.

Last week Nestor was singled out in a political mailer hit piece sent to voters in
Bell. The negative campaign mailer stated "Stop a corrupt politician", implying that
Nestor was a corrupt politician. Nestor has never held elected office before. Next,
the mailer stated "Who is paying for Nestor Valencia?" and "Nestor Valencia is
supported by big money" of developers.

The curious thing, exactly the same mailer was sent to voters in Cudahy, same
color scheme, same accusations, even the same pictures of a bulldozer moving
earth, but with candidate pictures swapped out to show pictures instead of Daniel
Cota and Luis Garcia, both council candidates opposing incubents with shady
histories. Cota and Garcia have had death threats against them, including
published reports in the L.A. Times about harassment and intimidation against
Cota and Garcia by gangsters and thugs, literally, and Molotov cocktails thrown
through windows. Both pieces end with the same quote: "You can't trust Nestor
Valencia" and "You can't trust Cota and Garcia".

The reasonable conclusion is that the same campaign manager used the same
graphic design template to produce both hit pieces in Bell and Cudahy. And
everyone knows what's going on in Cudahy, what with all the L.A. Weekly reports
by Jeffrey Anderson and the Warren Olny broadcast last Friday focusing on
Cudahy' City Hall's criminal connections and political operatives recruited from
local gangs. Who would of thought that politicians would recruit bona fide gang
members to wage terror campaigns? So George Cole is now in league with
Cudahy.

The hit pieces are mailed by a group called "Better Southeast Coalition". Funny,
George Cole has a group called "Southeast Cities Schools Coalition". A mere
coincidence? The address listed for the group is 1212 S. Victory Blvd., Burbank,
CA, 91502. There is no such entity known as Better Southeast Coalition. Durkee
and Associates operates from this address and create fake coaltion entities for
the sole purpose providing cover and legitimizing dirty political campaigns.

Nestor also sent some campaign mailers which were scheduled for delivery by
the city of Bell branch of the U.S. Post Office. Inexplicably, Nestor's mailers never
made it for Saturday delivery. This happened in Huntington Park during the 2003
and 2007 elections. Local U.S. Post Office officials were seemingly in league with
city council to delay processing and delivery of time sensitive material. Curiously,
these unexplained delays only happen to candidates who oppose the incumbent
team. Just some tricks of the trade which the FBI may be curious to look into.

On March 13, 2009, WatchOurCity.com will turn five years old. This site has been
documenting and reporting on George Cole and John Noguez, Huntington Park's
first gay elected official, their associations and networks, all their millions of
dollars in sham contracts and the dirtier than dirt elections they run.
________________________________________________________________

February 10, 2009
City of Bell and
Huntington Park:
How Elections are
won
Political
Transvestites
And Democratic
Cross-Dressers
The Comings and
Goings of George
Cole and John Noguez

For the first time in
decades, Huntington
Park has cancelled
elections. The March
2009 elections are
called off. One
incumbent, Elba
Guerrero, runs
unopposed and the
other, Elba Romo, a
Stanford grad and
the smartest,
honorable of them
all, is fed up with the
outright corruption of
the John
Noguez-Rosario
Marin city council.
Elba Romo decided
not to seek
re-election. Romo is
out of her league
anyway, what with
fellow council
members without
even a high school
diploma, or basic
English skills.

(see complete report)

February 10, 2009

WatchOurCity.com
Central Basin Water
District:

Part II: And you
thought your
water was clean
The Tap Flows
For George Cole
at Central
Basin Water
District

This report is a follow up
of a previous
WatchOurCity.com post
titled "And You Thought
Your Water Was Clean"
first posted on January 4,
2007.

Curious pattern with
George Cole. He
resigns from the
Central Basin Water
District, yet still
maintains control of
the millions of dollars
flowing to his
Oldtimers Foundation
by appointing an
employee of his
working at the
Oldtimers Foundation
to replace him on the
board. George
resigns from Bell city
council, yet still
maintains control of
the millions of dollars
and elections in city
hall.

___________________

IF YOU'RE
CORRUPT
AND GAY,
YOU'RE O.K.

IF NOT,
YOU'RE
SCREWED
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Wednesday March 4, 2009
George in Control, still
Bell Election
Results
Bell, CA - George Cole has
done it, again. His dirty
campaigns have yielded a
win for his slate of two new
council members for Bell
city hall.

Voting was won by
absentee ballots. Most
were issued and collected
by a uniformed city official
with a gun.

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