Your John Hancock Please?
Team Pacheco forwards us the following announcement:Dear Friends,
Starting this Friday, July 22nd we will be collecting signatures to place my name on the ballot. I would be truly honored if you could help in the collection of these signatures.
Our goal is to collect 2,000 signatures and ensure that I qualify for the ballot. I will be walking most of Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday gathering signatures.
The walk schedule is as follows:
Friday, July 22nd starting at 12pm
Saturday, July 23rd starting at 10am
Sunday, July 24th starting at 10am
If you can help me this weekend, please call (323) 259-5354 or respond by e-mail to teampacheco14@sbcglobal.net. Our campaign office is located at 4414 York Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90041 (x-Eagle Rock Blvd.).
Refreshments will be provided and be sure to bring comfortable shoes.
Sincerely,
Nick Pacheco
Posted by Anonymous @ 7/21/2005 07:49:00 AM
82 Comments:
Have La Collectiva gather the signatures.
Do I have to live in the 14th to help with the collection of signatures. I dont really like Pacheco but I also dont like Huizar. I dont think we should bring a problem from the school district over to the City Council. So I guess I am supporting Pacheco but I am not enthusiastic about it either. The less of two evils I guess. So, do I have to live in the 14th to help gather signatures?
Mr. Pacheco,
Where do I sign? Can I go to your office and take my entire family?
Best Wishes
CD14 Taxpayer Resident
We can go back to Tricky Nick, reinforce factionalism, and extend a destructive political feud indefinitely. Or we can move on.
Let's move on.
- Another CD14 Taxpayer Resident
Let's see, our choices are between a former councilman who was never able to find gainful employment after leaving office and has friends like Ricardo Torres who slimed are now current mayor and a school board member who presided over the board at a time when Roosevelt High had one of the highest drop out rates in the district and supported construction of bath rooms at the district headquarters at the tune of $100,000 each.
I say we return them both to private life.
9:06 AM
That is your perspective. My input here is we can take on a new inept, incompetent failure as Huizar who managed to put LAUSD in a crisis, or vote for Nick who we know can handle this job efficiently and professionaly.
The problems at LAUSD existed well before Jose got there. The question is whether he made things better or exacerbated the problems. I think he exacerbated them.
Nick, is simply unethical and is not someone I would want representing me and my family. Try as he might, Nick keeps poor company and in my view was only a slight improvement over Alatorre.
Isn't there a third candiate that we can vote for?
You do have to live in the district to collect the signatures - if you want to be strict and play by the rules. You can "supervise" but have folks who are not in the district sign on too but you have to be w/ them.
Wrong. Any one can collect signatures. However, those providing signatures (the signers) must live in CD 14.
Let's bring back Tricky Nick and his henchmen! They'll know how to stick it to MAV! We need guys who know how to play hardball. You can bet that they will be better at it now.
There is another guy who is going to announce he is running.
His name is Art Ruiz and he lives in Eagle Rock. He started a plumbing company in Texas back in the 60s (used to do TV commercials that were classic) and sold it about ten years ago, moved to LA. He is active with various community associations and is going to spend up to $2 million of his own money to get elected.
"Tricky Nick" was a fabrication of Truthless Tony's team -- not beginning to get caught up in their own lies. There WAS no serious factionalism, until ADV decided he would carpet bag in to settle an old vendetta against Pacheco AND have a "fake" job as CM while running for mayor.
LINE UP ALL 80 of those fake NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES you FAKE counted in CD14 to help you elect Huizar as CM of CD14, Chief Faker...
Where were they located again???
Oh yeah, NO WHERE. Which is exactly where Huizey's support is coming from -- NO WHERE!
Nixon finally had to give up the tapes, Chief Faker. When will you release the lists of CM AV's crowning (only) achievement for 2 years of salary in CD14 -- those fake NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES.
Mayor Sam somone is biased, right? You deleted a couple of posts here, or atleast someone with the power of the DELETE button does not like Nick.
Post how "Nick is simply unethical" and back it up with facts -- or shut up.
Don't take your talking points from Villaraiogosa's goons, they also made up his list of CD14 Accomplishments 2003-05 (no truth to be found ANYwhere!)
Explain the "unethical" with proof, (and prepare to be shot down, POINT-BY-POINT, with links and fact-based articles), or find another batch of lies to tell. I'm sure now that AV's hired slime-masters are worked with Huizar, they'll have new batches of dirts.
Remember -- in 2003, the SLIME against AV (uncomfotable, but mostly true) did NOT come from Pacheco's campaign people.... BUT, the SLIME against PACHECO (all NOT true) DID come from AV's hired guns -- EVERY word!
It's plain and simple...
I am not voting for Huizar
I am not voting for Pacheco
So the third candidate, whoever he/she is will get my vote. That simple.
What has Huizar done to improve LAUSD in 4 years??
Aren't they WAY over budget, and graduating LESS of the city's students every year?
Huizar endorsed Pacheco in 2003 against Villaraigosa.
Huh??
For the one who is bashing the AV haters...AV one on a empathy vote. Empathy for minorities and collective rants.
The people who hated AV did not bother to vote, many just watched the damn circus unfold, and still unfolding. Personally I do not think that all AV bashers are CD14 residents, some may surprise you as AV's ex closes friends, people he burned, and lied to. Revenge, I think is the right word.
The facts that were given here before about AV were true, but the media did not pick up on it entirely, they could not afford backlash from the Democratic Party or lawsuits. Av won on the case that only or majority of his supporters voted, the remainder did not see anything better. For example, why vote if you are going to get either way a corrupt new politician or keep the old corrupt politician. hey, even illegal aliens were voting last time around and I find that unethical.
There's always a third candidate -- just like in '03, and you're welcome to add your wasted vote to the 200-300 or his/her friends, family members, and habitual contrarians.
Or, you can just sit in the corner and jerk off alone. That might be more satisfying in the long run.
Pacheco you have my vote. How can I help you during this campaign?
AV's begging for pennies in Washington this week, from a Republican-controlled government that he's bashed and slimed at every step of his career.
YEAH, that's gonna work!!!
Save the airfare next time, AV. You think Bush's appointees are gonna do you any favors?
Is Pacheco a Republican or Democrat?
12:35 You are absolutely right! The other poster should not waste their vote on the third candidate, if any, there is no hope.
My advice, if you dislike Huizar, that is fine, he is a liar and incompetent politician. However, you should consider visiting the offices of Pacheco and find out for yourself if the vote will go to him or not.
This advice is from a Taxpayer that cares.
Are you kidding??? What Republican would run for city office on teh Eastside (that wasn't just released from a mental hospital??)
There should be a Republican candidate running for local office. Most of the democrats in North East Los Angeles are closet Republicans.
They were born and bread into the Democratic Party, once they get an education, pay taxes, own homes, and care about the country they become productive republicans. How many Republicans do you know or closet republicans in Los Angeles, INFINITI...
Hey 12:30 - Tricky Nick's ethical lapses are a matter of public record. Why don't you back up your charge of the alleged sleaze that he was supposedly victim of (which you kid yourself into thinking cost him reelection)?
Could you indulge us and show the public record of Pacheco's ethical lapses? Not just rumor or what AV and his friends perpetuate, but facts. City Ethics reports or DA reports will do. Many thanks.
Los Angeles Times, Sunday
February 23, 2003
EDITORIAL
Perfectly Forgetful Pacheco
Los Angeles City Councilman Nick Pacheco has skirted the bounds of propriety before, but this time he's outdone himself. He gave tens of thousands of public dollars to a nonprofit group with the same address as a political committee that reported spending an equivalent amount to campaign for his reelection. Instead of thoroughly explaining this doesn't-pass-the-smell-test coincidence, he and his supporters are on the attack against challenger Antonio Villaraigosa, whose campaign first unearthed the questionable funding reported in Friday's Times.
While the county district attorney's office launches yet another investigation into the councilman's campaign practices, Pacheco claims he did not even know of the connection between the nonprofit group and the campaign committee. Let's review the connections and decide whether Pacheco's claim makes sense. You may need a white board to keep track:
Between Dec. 30 and Jan. 21, Pacheco gave $36,500 -- on top of $30,000 in recent years -- to Madres del Este de Los Angeles-Santa Isabel, an Eastside nonprofit organization headed by Juana Gutierrez. Mothers for Nick, the political committee that shares Gutierrez's Boyle Heights address, reported to the City Ethics Commission in late January that it was spending $36,085 to campaign independently for Pacheco. According to the California secretary of state's Web site, Mothers for Nick took over the name La Colectiva, a now-disbanded group that was run by Gutierrez's son, Martin GutieRuiz, a college friend of Pacheco's. La Colectiva's claim to shame was its role in the 2001 mayoral race, in which Pacheco backed James K. Hahn over Villaraigosa. A woman impersonating county Supervisor Gloria Molina placed recorded phone calls to voters slamming Villaraigosa. The district attorney's office investigated and found that La Colectiva used a phone bank owned by CAL Inc., a nonprofit group formed by Pacheco -- who said he knew nothing about the calls.
In November, when Villaraigosa announced that he would run against Pacheco, district voters received particularly nasty mailers attacking him. La Colectiva's former attorney, Ricardo Torres, another college pal of Pacheco's, claimed responsibility. Pacheco -- you guessed it -- said he knew nothing about the mailers. These tactics are one reason The Times endorsed Villaraigosa over Pacheco in the City Council race.
Taxpayers deserve better than these insults to their common sense. They also deserve an explanation of the $250,000 "discretionary" account that Pacheco tapped for the Madres -- in $5,000 dribs and drabs so as not to have to follow city contracting guidelines.
City Controller Laura Chick, who adamantly denies Pacheco's contention that she authorized his expenditures, needs to audit how the city clerk oversees these slush funds. The City Council, in turn, has Pacheco to thank for this suspicion-fueled attention.
If you want other stories on this topic, search the Archives at latimes.com/archives.
I do not know if Pacheco or Huizar have any ethical lapses but I know Antonio does with that Florida fundraising scandal.This is the only one that can be directly attributed to any of the three.
Nick:
What have you been doing since you were voted out of office?
Ok, I heard your ran for DA. I know you worked for some fifth-rate law firm and tried getting the special counsel counsel job at LAUSD and the city attorney job in Inglewood.
Have you been gainfully employed?
Hey, yeah. Is Tricky Nick on leave from a job, or just his senses?
You guys got it wrong. Tricky Nick isn't running out of spite or to get revenge. He wants to reestablish his "good name."
Trouble is, it rhymes with CHUECO.
And Gutie rhymes with Cootie!
So, no public record just opinion from a newspaper. Pathetic.
How did Pacheco make the expenditures if Chick didn't authorize them?
"Dribs & drabs."
That's an idea. NICK PATHETICO!!
Looks like Tricky Nick is going to wear that LAT editorial around his neck for a long time.
So, of course, Pacheco is running for office from jail, right? Because REAL ethical violations get you charged, sent to jail, your lawyering license yanked, etc.
Made up ones (on the eve of a run against Villariagosa), just get the other guy elected.
LOT of good that wasted two years did CD14. Now that Villaraigosa is gone, NO ON IN CD14 knows the difference.
We gotta elected a new councilmember?? You mean we HAD one for the past two years.
PROVE it!
Isn't it time for another CLEAN UP!!!
(Yeah, AV, start with your old campaign team, SHIT!)
EDITORIAL -- read the words, bozos.
EDITORIAL, opinion, conjecture, "feelings," suspicions, where there's SMOKE, there's SMOKE!
When was the last time a newspaper EDITORIAL got someone indicted, charged, or even investigated.
Never!
I'll bet 130 years ago the TIMES' editorials said women shouldn't get to vote, either...
Heeee's Baaaaack!
Nick "EL CHUECO PACHECO"
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Thems facts, dude! Read 'em and weep.
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When Pacheco announced he was thinking about running, the community activists in CD14 lined up AROUND the block. These are the same people who couldn't get Villaraigosa's staff to tell them the time of day (if they were standing under a clock).
Now CD14 has the least "caring" caretaker in the history of the republic. From negligent "daddy" to abusive "step-mom" -- Damn, it doesn't get any worse than this.
CD14 is the Rodney Dangerfield of L.A. politics.
First CM in 30 years knows how to get a project through City Hall in under 4 years gets bounced out for a lying pretty boy who's going to "fix" everything.
Now EVERYTHING needs fixing.
If "thems facts" you punctuation-challenged boob, then the contest is over.
Have Pacheco locked up, throw away the key, and Sleazy Huizy runs unopposed (he'll rpobably still waste contributor's money running ads with no challenger - like earlier this year).
OH, you didn't mean PROVEN facts!
Sorry, I misunderstood. Take your facts to court, or to the ethics commission, or shut the fuck up.
Previous poste: it's contributors' money....watch your use of the lowly apostrophe.
ETHICS VIOLATION! Shit all of you guys must be morons, Villaraigosa pulled a nice Ethics violation using Florida dinero and it was swept under the carpet, just like all his little dirty secrets.
Who is protecting this piece of shit AV? The democratic Party.
They need a sob story to tell and he is their Peon.
Ay mis chuequitos! Gracias, gracias por defenderme. No les fallaré. Vamos a ganar! Ya verán. Creeanme!
Hey, I live in Eagle Rock, and I know you vatos may not give a shit, but I don't see how anybody I know can vote for Pacheco after they read that Times piece. It's devastating in my book.
look at ethics.lacity.org under enforcement.
Pacheco was fined in 2001 for violations.
That was just one instance. My guess is there's more.
If you believe that one, then I got a bridge to sell you – Oakland of course.
I want to see if Nick can really pull off his goal of 2000 signatures this weekend. It can be done, with the right machine.
Whoever can get these many first, will surely prove they are force to take seriously.
Will Monica be able to pull it off? Will young Robert show that he has the right stuff? Tune in next Monday to read all the press releases.
-El Sereno
I'll bet you a box of a dozen glazed donuts, that Monica will not prevail.
The Times article is a beautiful hit piece and I would use it the last week of the campaign.
The mailer would read:
"LA TIMES QUESTIONS PACHECO'S ETHICS"
and just reprint the piece.
It's a no-brainer and in perfect chronology. You couldn’t of dreamed of such a great hit.
-El Sereno
2:53 PM
made me laugh...
2:57 PM
I would do more research, that was an opinion piece. I do not take anyone's opinion as the sacred truth. I would rather see court documents and decisions made by judges. For example, Villaraigosa had many wild up saying he is a womanizer, drug pusher, and land broker, but if I do not see the evidence I won't believe it...show me evidence, not opinions.
Thanks 3:03 I will check that site out and see what skeletons our politicians are hiding in their closets....oooohHHHHHH
Wait a minuto 3:03! I just went to the site, clicked on enforcement and it takes me to a page where I need to call, how did you get that information?
I'm not into politics so educate me, what happens if one of the candidates do not gather the signatures?
In the Matter of Councilman Nick Pacheco, Pacheco for City Council Committee, Pacheco for City Council G99 Committee, Nick Pacheco Officeholder Committee, Treasurer Lilian Pacheco, and Treasurer Stephen J. Kaufman Excess contributions-City Charter section 470(c)(3)
Receipt of excess matching funds-LAMC section 49.7.20
Failure to obtain contributor information-LAMC section 49.7.11
Prohibited expenditure from officeholder account-LAMC section 49.7.12
go to this link and you'll find the actual decision in pdf format.
http://www.lacity.org/eth/Enforcement/enforcement.htm
Ah Man, I used to like this guy, he was cool, but now I know he is a crook, that is so sad. I found the following.
Xavier Becerra
Failure to Return Surplus Public Matching Funds:
[LAAC Section 24.5 ( r )]
Ineligible Public Matching Funds Requests:
[LAAC Section 24.5 (1)]
Failure to Provide Copies of Mailings:
[LAMC Section 49.7.11 ( c )]
$18,179.98
04/12/05
http://www.lacity.org/eth/PDF/enf_stipulation_pacheco.pdf
Thanks 4:05
Appreciate it.
Xavier is a joke. 6% Xavier. What a slime ball.
since Nick is an attorney, I figured he should know how to interpret statutes and follow them. No wonder no law firm will hire him.
Well that attorney cheap shot you made to Nick was irrelevant. In todays society we have Mayors that do not even pass the BAR and come from communist colleges-Peoples College of Law (or something like that) and still become mayor. You have a current mayor that did a big scheme with employees and employers in Florida, still he is elected...what else do you want.
"ETHICS VIOLATION! Shit all of you guys must be morons, Villaraigosa pulled a nice Ethics violation using Florida dinero and it was swept under the carpet, just like all his little dirty secrets.
Who is protecting this piece of shit AV? The democratic Party.
They need a sob story to tell and he is their Peon."
No kidding, Former COuncilman Ludlow, violated Ethics (nicely swept under the rug during the run-off election by both the Times and Daily News, because Ludlow is AV's fag friend) and now he's head of the Labor.
1:57, 2:24, 2:36, 2:57 -- the Times piece is factual. Everything highlighted is undisputed and in the public record -- that's why the Pachuecos don't try to refute it.
Adios Mio...
Antonio Villaraigosa, 2001 Political Committees, and Stephen Kaufman
Excess Contributions:
[City Charter Section 470(c)(4)]
$5,100.00 12/9/03
Laura Chick; Laura Chick for Controller; Cary Davidson, Treasurer
Excess Contributions:
[City Charter Section 470(c)(4)] $4,000.00 10/15/04
OH SHIT, LOOK AT MR. PADILLA!
Councilman Alex Padilla
Receipt of excess contributions:
[City Charter Section 470(c)(3)]
Exceeded voluntary expenditure limit:
[LAMC Section 49.7.13.A]
$79,321.33 01/10/02
WHO IS THIS GUY FERMIN CUZA?
Fermin Cuza
Money Laundering:
[City Charter Section 470(k)]
Excess Contributions:
[City Charter Sections 470(c)(3)(4)&(6)]
$110,000.00 12/17/02
RICHARD ALATORRE was once fined for ABUSE OF AUTHORITY? WHAT A JERK.
Richard Alatorre
Abuse of authority:
[LAMC Section 49.5.5]
A QUESTION:
Did the Los Angeles Police Protective League get fined due to payback for a favor done to Villaraigosa Police friend Haters?
Wow! Richard Meruelo again...
Independent Expenditures
Richard Meruelo
Los Angeles, CA 90021
(Independent Expenditure
Antonio Villaraigosa
Mayor
Villaraigosa for Mayor 2005 - General (1275257)
[Election: 05/17/05
05/11/05 05/10/05 Radio Advertising $103,800.00
Do you guys remember that Spanish commercial on Television?
"Para mi seria un honor tener tu voto"
Well, he just shit on all of us that believed in that message. He did do an about face on LAUSD. I agree with 3:11PM...it is a shame that he is a puppet for the biggest beauracracy in Los Angeles.
Villaraigosa will not fight LAUSD, you see he needs to pay back in FAVORS...
California Teachers Association gave Antonio Villaraigosa masked off as Independent Expenditures
$500,000 05/03/05
$39,415 05/06/05
$26,488 04/28/05
$2,887 04/28/05
$70,930 04/28/05
Also, who heads the organization called, "Citizens for Dependable and Reliable Leadership" in Burbank, CA 91502
They gave AV 60k for Independent Expenditures
"Citizens for Dependable and Reliable Leadership" in Burbank, CA 91502 is the Alex Padilla + Tony Cardenas 'kiss ass, let me align myself with a winner" I.E.
They dropped a mailer in the valley with themselves all over it, apparently approving of AV
DO THE PEOPLE FROM MEXICO KNOW THAT THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICIANS ARE PIMIPING THEM OUT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER (OR LOWEST), IS MEXICO A SLAVE TRADING NATION?
Mexico, Spain struggle to reach guest worker deal
Mexico, struggling to convince the U.S. Congress to grant millions of undocumented workers legal status in the United States, is also having trouble reaching an immigration agreement with Spain.
Spain and Mexico said on Thursday they were still negotiating a treaty that would allow some 40,000 Mexicans a year to take part in a guest worker program there, an idea that was first agreed to in principle in 2003.
Government ministers from the two countries failed to reach a final deal after two days of meetings in the Mexican capital, despite Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez’s announcement this week that an agreement was “about to be reached.” Read the story here.
I heard Huizar is having trouble gathering volunteers except CD14 staff.
Good luck with the signatures Jose. I guess you will need to pay people to walk.
Any day of the week you can read in the newspapers the problems at LAUSD. As the prez Little Josito has done not one thing to help the situtation. In fact he and his cronies have spent millions of our tax dollars on themselves. Jose has NO EXPERIENCE AND NO ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO SPEAK OF. Why don't the Jose supporters list somee of the things Little Jose has done since prez??? They can't cause there's none.
Nick on the other has a record. He knows city hall like the back of his hand and constituents who voted for Antonio want him back. Little Jose is counting on the support of AV. Good luck!! That will hurt him more then help cause Antonio left CD14 in a mess. His moron staffers are hated throughout the district. All anyone has to do is go to a community meeting and hear the remarks about them.
I just got a letter from Sleazy Huizy stating that he's opening his campaign office on 1st Street on August 20th. That he's humble to ask for our support. The funny thing is he states that ERIC ROBLES is a volunteer. Bullshit!!!! Eric took a leave of absence from Congresswoman Roybal Allard to work for Jose. I want to know who's paying him. And what ever happened to BIG O on Jose's campaign?
Is this the same office where Villaraigosa had his staff?
I think the location is the blue house where Buenestar was at.
What about Big O on Jose Campaign?
I heard he's just a volunteer and not getting paid.
Big O is just that a Big Hole! He has no brains either. Just another political bitch who has a price. Right Rolanda?
Call Congresswoman Roybal Allard to see if Robles is still on payroll.
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