Bell Scandal: it's All-Democratic!

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-09-2010, 07:15 PM

Continued.

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Bell's city council is made up of five elected members: Mayor Oscar Hernandez, Vice Mayor Teresa Jacobo, and council members Luis Artiga, George Mirabal and Lorenzo Velez. According to our review of voter registration records, Ms. Jacobo, Mr. Artiga, Mr. Mirabal and Mr. Velez are registered Democrats. There are multiple voter registration records for the name Oscar Hernandez, but Mayor Hernandez has endorsed a number of Democratic candidates, including most recently Hector De La Torre for Insurance Commissioner in the June 8 Democratic Primary and Luiz Marquez, a candidate for the 50th Assembly District Democratic Primary.

From the Orange County Register: More Bell Vibrations.

Lamplighter · 08-09-2010, 08:09 PM

Wow, UG you really nailed 'em that time... especially the part about all the Democratic office holders in that community which has only 7:1 majority of Dem to Repub registered voters. I'm impressed.

That must be the general public is up in arms over those salaries.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-09-2010, 09:13 PM

Lamplighter, dear boy. Did you happen somehow to miss the parenthetical remark inserted into the second para I quoted? I've gone back and italicized and expanded a bit -- shoulda done that the first time, really. Mea culpa.

And they sure as hell are up in arms -- aren't those pictures something? The latest is the officials are knocking their pay down by 90% annually out of sheer embarrassment. Two have ceased to draw their pay entirely, though it doesn't look like they're going to miss a mortgage payment in so doing, either.

This crops up from time to time. It is the weakness in a democracy: these guys voted themselves the treasury. Something that was more a weakness of character than of a democracy was they used voter fraud to do it -- check out how many votes there were in the election that voted these guys the treasury, and what happened with the absentee ballots cast therein. Quite a tale. One of stuffing.

The majority is nearer five to one, there being about seventeen hundred Decline To State voters registered in Bell. Still decisive, to be sure -- for now.

Lamplighter · 08-09-2010, 11:10 PM

OK, I was reacting more to your title and the link than to what was in the quote boxes. I guess I over-reacted... Sorry.

And I agree more with your follow up post

08-09-2010, 09:13 PM	#3
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Lamplighter, dear boy. Did you happen somehow to miss the parenthetical remark inserted into the second para I quoted? I've gone back and italicized and expanded a bit -- shoulda done that the first time, really. Mea culpa. And they sure as hell are up in arms -- aren't those pictures something? The latest is the officials are knocking their pay down by 90% annually out of sheer embarrassment. Two have ceased to draw their pay entirely, though it doesn't look like they're going to miss a mortgage payment in so doing, either. This crops up from time to time. It is the weakness in a democracy: these guys voted themselves the treasury. Something that was more a weakness of character than of a democracy was they used voter fraud to do it -- check out how many votes there were in the election that voted these guys the treasury, and what happened with the absentee ballots cast therein. Quite a tale. One of stuffing. The majority is nearer five to one, there being about seventeen hundred Decline To State voters registered in Bell. Still decisive, to be sure -- for now. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

08-09-2010, 08:09 PM	#2
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Wow, UG you really nailed 'em that time... especially the part about all the Democratic office holders in that community which has only 7:1 majority of Dem to Repub registered voters. I'm impressed. That must be the general public is up in arms over those salaries.

08-09-2010, 11:10 PM	#4
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	OK, I was reacting more to your title and the link than to what was in the quote boxes. I guess I over-reacted... Sorry. And I agree more with your follow up post

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