The Small Town Rocky Delgadillo
I think most of you remember Arnold Alvarez-Glassman (What's up with the hyphenated names? It's bad enough when women do it but even sillier when men do. Let's all stick with our birth names.) the silly City Attorney from Pomona who thought he could shut down a blog.Alvarez-Glassman-araigosa-Rodham-Clinton is at it again. The Mayor Sam of the East, the Foothill Cities blog reports the following about the City Attorney who is almost as fun as Rocky Delgadillo:
- In addition to Pomona, Arnold serves as the City Attorney for the cities of Pico Rivera, Bell Gardens (yea that Bell Gardens where they found a passed out City Clowncilman in a hooker hotel in Downtown LA) and West Covina.
- Pico Rivera changed the date of its Clowncil meetings to accomdate Arnold's schedule.
- Alvarez-Glassman and his wife Lydia have donated several thousand dollars to City Council member's campaigns; City Councils who hired Arnold's firm to provide legal services.
- According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribube, the City of Montebello fired Arnold for being too cozy with local developers.
Labels: arnold alvarez glassman, foothill cities blog, pomona, rocky delgadillo
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/22/2007 03:58:00 PM
5 Comments:
Good Evening Mayor Sam,
I will give three more names.
Francisco Leal
Armando Beltran
Eduardo Olivos
Leal and Beltran were featured in a big Times article discribing how they use the threat of Recall to obtain City Attorney contracts. Big Polanco guys.
Olivos was the former special legal council to Albert Robles in South Gate. Was a key figure in the Vernon Corruption Probe. Now is the City Attorney in Commerce. He was installed a "SPECIAL MEETING" by the Argumedo/Chacon Machine who have ties to the remnants of the "ROBLES MACHINE".
Wow! You live in L.A. and you don't know that the spiceroos ALL have many, many "last" names that they interchange whenever they are trying to pull some con on somebody and evade identification? Even their peones do that ... they start hyphenating when they want to appear Spanish and classy! They only start with the indian/aztec/aztlan thing when they want to whoop up their brainless masses to suit the globalists agenda! Ha ha ha! They bring political corruption to a whole new low, just take a look at Mexico ...
"Small Town Delgadillo" was installed in a special meeting in P R less then 48 hours after his former colleague, and long time Pico attorney was rumored to have been forced to quit.
The Mayor in Pico also failed to disclose prior to the vote to rehire Glassman's firm he had been represented by him in one of his personal criminal matters years earlier.
Antonio Villaraigosa-LA's Mayoral Soap Opera
Last week, I wrote about the ongoing circus that is LA politics (Crime and Punishment on the Left Coast). One of the more interesting and entertaining aspects of that story is the ongoing saga of LA Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa AKA Tony Villar. During the past month, Villaraigosa held a press conference to announce the separation from his wife. (The next day, Ms Raigosa filed for divorce.) During that conference, a female reporter from one of LA's top radio stations asked in a round-about way if the mayor was involved in any relationships, to which the mayor replied that his personal life was private, pleading for the press to "respect the privacy of him and his family during this difficult time." By the way the reporter phrased the question, it could be inferred that she had the name of a particular person in mind, especially since rumors were flying that Villaraigosa was in fact having an affair with a Spanish-radio news personality.
Well, yesterday (July 3), the mayor finally came clean and admitted that he was involved in a relationship with Mirthala Salinas, a beautiful news reporter and substitute anchor with Telemundo, a Spanish language TV station in LA. The press conference only came about when it was learned that the LA Daily News, a small local newspaper, was about to break the story. In his conference, the mayor reiterated in both English and Spanish that his personal life should be considered private, and that it had no impact on his duties as mayor. "Courageously", the mayor took "full personal responsibility for his actions", quite admirable since there was no way the coverup could continue.
Coincidentally enough, Salinas had herself made the announcement to Telemundo's audience that the Villaraigosas were separating in the wake of the mayor's initial press conference. (Our favorite TV soap operas couldn't think up better plots than this one.)
Salinas herself was not immediately available for comment on July 3, but her boss, Manuel Abud, confirmed that Salinas had informed her superiors at Telemundo months previous of the relationship, whereupon she was assigned to other duties not related to political coverage. No harm, no foul according to Telemundo.
At this point, the local radio talk shows are full of callers demanding that Mr Villaraigosa resign. However, local politicians are remaining silent, probably thinking about their own hidden skeletons. The Spanish media, while having to report the story, have not as yet come out editorially condemning the mayor or demanding resignation. It remains to be seen how that aspect of the saga will play out.
Aside from the question of the mayor's conduct, there is a side issue, which is no less important. It appears that the LA news media was pretty much aware of the mayor's relationship with Salinas. Rumors had been swirling for some time. Yet, where was LA's prestigious newspaper, the LA Times, a paper known not only for its liberal leanings, but also for a long tradition of investigative reporting? How was it that their smaller competitor, the Daily News, was able to grab the scoop over the Times? What about the local radio news stations? Why were they not pursuing the story? (KFI's shock jocks, John and Ken excepted) What about the Spanish news media? Telemundo already knew that one of their reporters (who had been covering the mayor until she revealed the relationship to her bosses) was romantically involved with the married mayor. Why were all these mainstream news outlets silent until the Daily News was about to break the story?
The only conclusion one could reasonably draw is that the mainstream media, as has been long charged by conservative talk radio, reports or gives top play to what they want to publish and will ignore or downplay stories that do not fit into their agenda, especially when one of their own is involved in the scandal. In the case of Villaraigosa, we have a liberal minority mayor, touted as a comer in state and national politics, a person in whom liberals and certainly Spanish media have invested much in his success. The other player, Salinas, was herself a prominent member of the local Spanish news media. This is a damning indictment on our mainstream news outlets.
So the poor residents of LA debate whether Villaraigosa's personal life should count against his (lackluster) performance as mayor, and they wait for the next shoe to drop. Will Villaraigosa resign? Don't bet on it.
gary fouse
fousesquawk
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