Ed Reyes lays off Ruby de Vera
Martini Republic posts this morning that Council District 14 candidate and third-place finisher Ruby de Vera has been laid off of her day job as Office Manager for Jose Huizar ally Ed Reyes in Council District 1.
Payback perhaps?
+++UPDATE+++CONFLICTING REPORT PER MARTINI REPUBLIC
(9:17 a.m.): Reyes Press Officer Monica Valencia reports Ruby de Vera is at work, and is unaware of any termination, yet she is NOT at her desk. Hmmm...
We are leaving this thread up however, as we aren't so sure we are off on this one. We'll have to see how the conflicing reports works out
+++UPDATE 2 +++CONFIRMATION FROM MARTINI REPUBLIC
(10:16 a.m.): Ruby de Vera confirms termination; says “When one door closes, another opens”; last day in office will be November 28.
Posted by Anonymous @ 11/15/2005 08:15:00 AM
79 Comments:
???? ODD.
Another reason why Ed is not held in high esteem by his colleagues.
Question for politicos in the know:
When I went to vote I was not asked for ID. Is this the normal?
How can I check if my deceased mother's vote was casted?
Poor Ruby. Ed Reyes has lost so much crediabilty he's nothing on council. Pacheco helped get him elected and he turns his back. Ruby kept his office organized and was loyal to him and look what he does? Sue his butt Ruby!!!
Depends. Often, tradition determines the protocol for voting. For example, in many Southern states, it's traditional to permit white people vote without requesting id and to demand it from black or latino voters.
The law neither prohibits nor requires identification to be presented.
Ruby works at the discretion of the elected official. It is a non-exempt job. Clearly there are political ramifications that Ruby must have anticipated in the event that either Huizar or Pacheco would have won, and yet she still chose to enter the race.
Ruby should organize the Fillipino community that supported her and storm city council. These council members are the worst this city has ever had. They are a bunch of "do nothings" who take their orders from Antonio cause they have no back bone to go against his wishes. This city has no leadership. I have never seen such a pathetic group of politicans. They can't even state their own opinions any longer unless its agrees with Antonio.
Ruby should run for Huizar's school board seat with a coalition of Latinos, conservative Democrats, Republicans, pissed off parents, etc. Then, she can run against Ed when he comes up for re-election.
8:41 Are these rural towns?
Where everybody knows your name?
Cheers!
Ruby worked for Huizar (inside job). Fake lay off, seems to show you Ed laid her off. Gimee some skin!
Mayor samuel
When is voting day for CD 14 city council?
It's dying out in here.
I went today and it was closed.
I think Anon 9:14 am deserves the "Dee Dee Dee" Award for most likely to missing at their own funeral.
Conflicting report: Press officer Monica Valencia says that Ruby is in office this morning; she (Monica) is unaware of any termination.
Not much said about Universal Preschool. This program will be good for society.
8:50 - If everyone listens to Antonio, as you say, then clearly the City does have leadership.
9:07 - Take some civics classes. Ed Reyes was just reelected earlier this year. He's prohibited from running for City Council again.
When did the law change? Now the votes are counted at the polling place? Why do we have sealed boxes, when they are sealed after they go through the votes at the polling place. Is this legal? Is it legal only for Boyle Heights?
I love it. Ed taking orders from the Junior councilmember.
925 ??? to planet earth pronto...what are you saying? In plain clear English porfavor.
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Anon posted-
Anonymous said...
My uncle was asked for his resident card (legal papers). He speaks no English.
November 15, 2005 9:42 AM
Mabye Ed's people saw this blog and quickly retracted knowing they would get hell for laying off Ruby. Keep us posted Mayor.
These idiots have to be kidding.
Los Angeles Times
$132-Million Belmont Pact Sought
The L.A. Unified chief will ask a divided board to OK a contract to finish the high school.
I was going to vote for Pacheco but I saw a donut and voted for Huizar.
I was going to vote for De Vera but I saw the light and voted for Huizar.
Are you on drugs?
Listening to Antonio for fear of ending their political career, are follower that we voted at the time they were inpersonating a leader. Is this breach of contract.
Don't blame Antonio, blame the people we voted for. They would folow Al Capon too.
Que miras wey! U see. LAUSD got Y BILLIONS...LAUSD wants Belmont Millinos.
I say, take em' to jailo.
Points to ponder...
Ruby said if she lost, she was probably going to retire soon, anyway. . .
Ruby may have been spending too much time on the campaign (and not enough on council office work?) Only AV can get away with that on a council district's $150K per year (no others need apply).
In candidate forums, Ruby, who professed to be the one with the most recent "inside" status in the race, showed the absolute least understanding of the communities in CD14 (she works for CD1), and was off base on her comments and suggestions on how to proceed with things about 96.7 percent of the time (that's an estimate). Her basic banter was quoting famous Americans and offering "feel good" slogans (homelessness - BAD; open space - GOOD)
If the rumors are true, maybe Reyes is doing his own district a favor?
Ruby may have been spending too much time on the campaign (and not enough on council office work?)
Do I recall Ed Reyes working for the City before his election?
Never had I seen Villaraigosa in my neighborhood until he ran for Mayor.
from,
NELA ----I drank the koolaid political junkie
UPDATE II: Ruby de Vera confirms termination; says “When one door closes, another opens”; last day in office will be November 28.
Yea right! Mailander my bets are on Ruby next door is Huizar's office. She did him a favor by getting Filipino votes away from Pacheco. Favors
From
Drunk on Villaraigosa koolaid
Ruby
It worked!
DHIMMI WATCH WEBSITE
Afghan girl, given as bride at 9, fights for divorce
This is the fruit of the example of the Prophet and Qur'an 4:34. From the Arizona Daily Star via Afgha.com, with thanks to Twostellas:
...Once again, her memories take control. Her father's selling her in marriage to a man five times her age to pay the rent; the beatings and sodomy that followed. She was 9 years old....
Pekay is 13 now, one of thousands of girls and women who are trapped in forced marriages, caught between the rural, tribal and Islamic customs that ruled the country for centuries and the promise of a new Afghanistan ruled by laws that apply equally to everyone.
Domestic violence is widespread, but most cases never go to court. The laws are weak, and women stay silent out of fear or shame: Divorce disgraces the family and the tribe. Each year, scores of Afghan women escape bad marriages by setting themselves on fire or other forms of suicide....
...Under Afghanistan's civil law, it's illegal for girls younger than 16 to marry. But the Supreme Court, led by conservative clerics and Islamic law, ruled that she can't get divorced, even from a violent child molester.
Her last hope is that Fazal Hadi Shinwari, the ultra-conservative chief justice of the Supreme Court, will reverse the decision.
"If he doesn't, I'll kill myself," said Pekay, who like many Afghans uses one name. "And I'll leave it up to God to punish the judges in the next world."
"Pay or give me your daughter"
Pekay is less than 5 feet tall and slight. Her nose is puffy and crooked from a thrashing. Her left cheekbone is higher than her right, as if a bone is out of place. Her lower lip is split.
She was smaller when she met Malik Muhammad four years ago. At 48, he was old enough to be her grandfather. He offered to rent a room in his house to Pekay's family.
Four months passed, and Muhammad never asked for the rent. Pekay's father, Muhammad Omar, was too poor to remind him. One day, Muhammad demanded the rent money: $80, a princely sum.
When Omar asked if he could pay in installments, Muhammad said, "You must pay me now or give me your daughter," Omar recalled. Four days later, Muhammad started planning a wedding.
"We had no choice," said Omar. "He was a Taliban intelligence agent. He was very powerful. He said if I didn't allow the marriage, he would take us to the Taliban central office and do the wedding there."
I'm sentisive to the plight of afgan women, but back to Ruby.
I feel for her, but you have to know... as one politcal staffer to another... you never undermine the boss's endorsements or positions. NEVER! You are a hired gun to make him look good, even in a field office.
12:14 Exactly. As long as THE BOSS doesn't think in the following manner...
"When asked if he believed that women and men have equal rights, as Afghanistan's constitution states, Munib replied: "It's impossible. We are Muslims, and God has given a place for men and a place for women. We can't change that. Women don't have the same brains like men. They are very forgetful. They can't make big decisions. You should ask your own Western doctors about this. It has been proven that women are not like men."...
Above piece extracted from same article -Dhimmi Watch-.
This just goes to prove what everybody already knows that Ed Reyes and Jose G., his Chief of Staff, are the biggest pussies at City Hall. These guys know nothing about loyalty. Nick got pussy Ed in - do you think you really had a shot against Polanco Ed if Nick didn't pull his cards - and Nick and Lloyd got Jose appointed chief of staff - he sure as hell wasn't and still isn't qualified. Jose used to work for Nick after Hernandez gave him the boot. And Hernandez fired Ed for running against his compadre Polanco. But I guess this is where these guys learned loyalty - Ed was chief of staff to Hernandez when Mike was busted buying cocaine - on camera - and Ed covered for Mike and his "record" porno collection in his office, this was uncoevered by the raid on Mike's office. What goes around comes around - do you know that you only need 5,000 votes to win in CD1? Recall, recall, recall!
If Reyes wants to be loyal to the individual who got him elected to the City Council, its not Nick. He should never offend the opposition researcher for the CCPOA.
Why did Ruby run?
Not to take away votes from Nick or Jose...far from!!
She ran b/c she was tired of getting demoted from position to position because of term limits. There was no happier time in ER when she was Senior Field Deputy. She later moved to the 13th where she covered Mt. Washington and Atwater Village. Then to an Office Manager?? 10 Years in City Politics speaks for itself-and she is FAR from retirement as many of you are thinking. A good candidate doesn't abandon the community simply b/c they did not win the council seat... She's vested in Northeast LA and regardless of what her boss does to her, she will NEVER abandon her community.
The Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council formed an offshoot Ad-Hoc Skatepark Committee and
(See SKATE PARK p.7)
Skatepark continued
coalition to involve itself in and monitor progress of the project. Heinrich Kiefer (inadvertently misidentified last issue) stepped in as president of the new committee.
At their last meeting, which included Council District 14's Lisa Sarno, Monica Garcia, and engineer Roger Gutierrez, tensions arose. Neighbors were, and still are, concerned about lack of funds, and the possibility of funds being diverted from the actual skating area.
Hey Ruby, Ruby, Ruby,
I own a strip joint. I'll hire you pretty lady.
Ha, did we really expect anything better from Ed. NOT! He's termed out and not electable to another office. So what's he going to do next? Become a lobbyist?! Just like Mike? And he has to start getting on the good side of the Mayor and Council. And the developers. Hasn't his actions, I mean lack of actions, on development projects in his area changed recently? Here I am thinking issues like the ICO for example. All I got to say is we will miss Ruby. Maybe Jose will pick her up. I hope so.
Anon 11/15 8:33a.m.
The law prohibits asking for ID except in limited situations under Hava, not present in this election (non-federal election).
Other states have ID requirements. Not Cali. Tradition has no place in determining ID requirements in at a polling place.
Do you suppose, in the end, we'll just find out Ruby Baxter-de Vera was canned because SHE WOULDN'T RETURN ED REYES' PHONE CALLS!
Ha!
(That was funny, Ed P., you got to admit)
Ed, this is Antonio V. I told you to get her a job at the Port, you menso. This is bad PR for our family. In the future, please check with me regarding all hiring/firing and any policy decisions you make.
Why did Ed wait until after the election to fire her? He should have just fired her when she announced.
(And Ed won't take Antonio's calls... AV has to leave messages for him here?)
NAH, Huizar told him not to let her go before the end of the CD14 contest. The sympathy factor for her could have been enough extra points to throw him into a runoff last week.
OK, first, just look at the picture of Ruby that was posted on Mayor Sam, anyone who saw it knew she didn't have a chance at being elected.
Second, she was unremarkable at each of the debates. She didn't stand out, or have anything visonary to say.
Third, she bad mouthed Nick for not hiring her when he won, bad idea. Everyone knows these jobs are at the will of the elected councilmember, and Richard was leaving office. She applied with AV when he won and he didn't hire her either.
Fourth, her skill level and knowledge is below what constituents would like to see.
Fifth, Richard didn't even endorse her.
Lastly, the people of the 14th don't want anyone who' s going to be a racist elected. AND she only went after the Filipino vote...
Who is running for ose Huizar's school board seat?
Who is running for Jose Huizar's school board seat?
QUOTING: OK, first, just look at the picture of Ruby that was posted on Mayor Sam, anyone who saw it knew she didn't have a chance at being elected.
Second, she was unremarkable at each of the debates. She didn't stand out, or have anything visonary to say.
Third, she bad mouthed Nick for not hiring her when he won, bad idea. Everyone knows these jobs are at the will of the elected councilmember, and Richard was leaving office. She applied with AV when he won and he didn't hire her either.
Fourth, her skill level and knowledge is below what constituents would like to see.
Fifth, Richard didn't even endorse her.
Lastly, the people of the 14th don't want anyone who' s going to be a racist elected. AND she only went after the Filipino vote...
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First, we'd like to see your photo, to compare.
Second, her message at the debates was drowned by louder, but not especially more sensible, voices.
Third, everybody in the City has badmouthed Nick except for me. Nothing special there.
Fourth, now you're just guessing when you say Ruby has no skills. She's founded a dozen organizations that are still up and running, and she happens to be one of the hottest civil service commodities between Eagle Rock Boulevard and Avenida Cesar Chavez.
Fifth---and this is most important---she knew she had not much of a chance, but she did it anyway, because the Filipino community in LA needs to be mobilized. It's a sleeping giant. Not everyone runs to win, but everyone should run to accomplish something, and she did. If you're calling her a racist for helping to mobilizing a community that needs it, then I suppose you'd call Antonio one too.
What an inane, disgraceful, misguided post you made. Try again.
7:16
Touche
How can I check if my deceased mother's vote was casted?
November 15, 2005 8:35 AM
The county has the election rosters available for public viewing - at the elections department on the 2nd floor at the County Building/Registrar's on Imperial Highway in Norwalk. These rosters have original signatures, thus a serious crime if she did vote.
If you'd like to make some money while looking your deceased relative up, Political Data from Burbank usually hires data intake workers around this time to scan all the signatures. They have a nice little monopoly going because they then packagage the data to political campaigns and the millions row in.
In the 2003 Pacheco/Villaraigosa campaign, there were 1735 unconfirmed signatures. They voted at the end of election day when the "ghost voters" were certain they wouldn't vote. Ever wonder why the voting turnout in Boyle Heights jumps dramatically from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Kind of strange for a voting populace that doesn't normally work an 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM shift.
SUE RUBY...go after Ed. I heard Ed is going to run for the Assembly seat. Ed Reyes is against community policing and that has a lot of people pissed in CD1.
Anon 6:58 pm:
Rumor has it that Pacheco's campaign manager (Urteaga) will be running for the seat that Pacheco's opponent (Huizar) must give up now that he beat Pacheco. Talk about a conflict of interest for Urteaga during the campaign!
Odds Urteaga jumps in the race: 3 to 1.
Odds Urteaga wins: 1000 to 1.
Having him, plus John Edwards and the rest of Pacheco's incompetent, self-interested 2005 campaign staffers to kick around here:
PRICELESS.
Ed Reyes is a BIG???????????????
8:50 AM
You must be very young. Although there are definitely councilmembers who don't deserve to be there and are barely competent, let me just tell you about some of the old scenarios around the horseshoe. This council is awesome compared to some I've seen there.
Oh 12:14, that is so fucking sad. I know it's true, but it's makes electeds seem so weak and pathetic.
Sometimes it's hard to get family members to vote your way; I can't imagine having to vote your bosses way. Or pretend to vote.
It's insane to pretend that you would always support the same person or issue.
Can any of you staffers get away with just not saying a thing about any of the candidates? Ever. In public at least?
Duh, who didn't know that women's brains were not the same as men? They're whinier, they're hormonal. It doesn't take some whacko Taliban to tell us that here in the U.S.
We doctors and politicians know this. We're still not sure letting them vote was a good thing.
I once heard this and I HAVE to know if it's true.
When Mike Hernandez was busted with the coke and they found stuff in his office, was there really a drawer full of women's clothing there? Women's clothing in very, very (Lane Bryant kind) large sizes?
How many signatures needed to RECALL Ed "Piccachu" Reyes? Assemblyman? Que funny !
If I see one more moronic "priceless" parody on this blog, I'm reporting the dead mayors to the FCC for cruel and inhumane punishment. Dogs at the shelter get better treatment.
Giving a milked-out credit card gag a fucking rest if what will be PRICELESS!
What many outside the Eastside don't realize is that CD1 is the "ghost" Latino district, a stepchild to the more powerful 14th, and as such, Reyes needs the ongoing support of whoever runs the adjoining council district (in this case, AV, through Huizar). Voter and constituent participation in CD1 pales in comparison to 14, and the fates of the two districts are tied at the hips.
Plus, if Reyes ever wants to work in anything like local politics after his term ends, he has to stick to the script, and genuflect to the currents Dons.
Study his moves, and you'll see he's basically just trying to get a job done, but begin bogged down by bigger egos and a more powerful political machine than he'll ever be able to sit at the "big" table with. He allied himself with what he thought would be the winning camp earlier this year, picked better this time, but still has penance to pay.
He says the firing was "personal" -- but that's just an easier way to avoid having to go on record for the real reasons.
"Personal" could have waited a few more weeks after the election. The timing tells you that lessons had to be taught and messages needed to be sent to any other subordinates and back-benchers that they need to know their place.
When Villaragosa ran against Pacheco 2 years ago Reyes staff worked for Villaragosa-he didn't fire them then...Ruby was one of them.
Yes anyone who goes after a particular cultural vote is racist in my opinion. Stating you just wanted to mobilize that group is a cover up.
CD1 only needs 5,000 votes for a RECALL. I hope someone gets rid of Reyes and teaches him a lesson. IN today's paper it states Ruby was FIRED. She should sue for wrong termination and retailation.
11:43pm your full of crap. This is by far the worst council members in the history of LA. Even the print media makes fun of them. Remember the LA Weekly article? They think more about silling string, lap dancing, wasting tax dollars on studies, wasting timee on presentations, and are so immature and arrogant they are never in chambers on time. Lameboy Padilla can't straighten them out.
Ed Reyes is a good council. Stop hating your own and move on.
Interesting point, 8:32 a.m. As one of the last remaining conservative Republicans in L.A. I've been enjoying watching the liberals and "progressives" make great "progress" in eating all their "young" - no wonder you people can't control anything past the local level in most states. Seems like the "big tent" is more like a mess tent for cannibals.
Yes previous anon and all you Republicans love George Bush. Give me a break more than half the country want us out of IRAQ and you guys keep making excuses for Bush.
925 The ballots are counted and checked at the polling place after 8:00 p.m. Nov 8, 2005.
They dump all ballots on a table to check each ballot and count them, then they are dumpt in a black box, sealed, locked, and sent to Norwalk.
I don't think this would pass check and balance system.
Another interesting thing, we had various type of ballots on Nov. 8, for D14, besides screen touch votes, we had ink mark ballots, and punch card ballots.
12:11
Versus what, covering up for AV's daily (hourly?) lies?
Reyes may be "good council" 8:32 a.m., but he don't know shit about public image and perception. Lays off a candidate who opposed his choice 4 working days after an election?
Money's so tight he couldn't hold onto here for a couple more weeks until people forgot? Let her get into the holiday season where it wouldn't even warrant a brief in the Times?
Plant pot in her desk drawer. . . anything?
That's just dead stoopid.
3:01 Your post made no sense.
You ramble, are you on Viagra and speed?
Let me 'splain, 4:16.
Councilmmember Reyes was not showing a good grasp of how the public would perceive this kind of termination immediately following the election.
He laid off one of the candidates who ran in opposition to the candidate he endorsed, just four business says after the end of the election, leaving people to suspect (dare I say), foul play?
Would it not have been better for his long-term public relations overview to wait a tad longer?
Is his budget so tight that it was not even possible to hold onto this employee for several more weeks until people had started to forget her role in opposition to his endorsement (e.g., when it might have been taken as something other than a political payback?)
Could he have not held off on this "layoff" until the height of the holiday season, when people are thinking of many things other than November elections -- when they have visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads?
At that time, no one at the Los Angeles Times would have even bothered to write up the story, methinks?
At the very least, knowing the timing would appear suspect, shouldn't a good, news-savvy politician have had some kind of reason to give for her dismissal, if/when asked?
His moves were poorly planned and showed little understanding of how the masses would view this - as they have - as some kind of petty revenge.
Yea, verily...drug-free since the polio vaccine was invented.
7:55 AM
I am not full of crap.
I do believe that the lap dancing is the dumbest issue EVER taken up by Council. It's none of their business and I thought that was Miscikowski's baby that Zine jumped on and now I hear that Praise Jesus Cardenes is pushing for it to come back.
The silly string is equal in stupidity to the lap dancing.
Every single council forever has done the stupid presentations. You act like this council made it up.
Every single other council before them had just as much media bashing and there is no way that you can say that this council is different in a worse way. No way.
The worst thing about this council, but also includes all local, state and national politics is the amount of money it takes to get there.
One must wonder why anyone would spend millions to get a job as a councilperson unless they are the most power-trippy person in the Council district and obviously we have about 15 of them.
But before you claim this particular council is worse, I'd like to hear what your ideal council was? Who were your favorite former council members that were so much better?
4:16 PM
Just out of curiousity, is there something special about the combination of Viagra and speed that makes you ramble? I get the speed part, but what does the Viagra contribute to a rambler?
Just wondering?
He should have let her go when she decided to run for office. She served at his pleasure, she could have been asked to leave then. Unless there was a deal made that she would run and give her votes to Jose after the primary, we all knew she wouldn't win. Everyone knew, including Ruby herself who was an Antonio supporter when he ran for councilmember two years ago.
So unless she has a job with Jose or Antonio it just shows how truly small Ed is. It's just about as good as his reason not to support Nick, "because he didn't return his phone calls.' " What calls? What a bunch of horse shit.
Firing her after the election, well, it doesn't pass the smell test. She could have a possible law suit.
The technical matters dealing with Ruby's firing have already been mentioned. Ruby works (like every other staff member for any political office) at the discretion of the elected official. That's why a staff member has any disagreements with the elected's position on issues, they deal with it behind the scenes and then are in line with what the office's message when out in the community.
That's just the way it is with most offices, and it's now obvious that it applies to Councilmember Reyes' office too.
6:12 Hey Parke, do u wanna go out on a date?
What I can't figure out is how the other Latino candidates knew before Ruby knew...
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