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Monday, July 13, 2009

Councilman Jose Huizar's $75,000 Reward Sparks Speculation

" Councilman Huizar's True Motives ??"
Speculation is running rampant in CD-14 on the reasoning behind Councilman Jose Huizar issuing of this $75,000 reward, as stated in "Jose's Blog".
Lots of things have happened since my last blog post.
Most urgently, I want to encourage anyone with information regarding the brutal murders of Felipe Villareal (42) and Rafael Padilla (57) to please come forward and talk to the Hollenbeck Police.
These two hard working family men were gruesomely shot and killed in the community of Boyle Heights on June 15th at 3:00am on the 3400 block of 1st St.
We need the public to come forward and help.
I introduced a motion in Council this past week for a $75,000 reward for any information that can help detectives solve this double homicide.Your identity can be kept anonymous.
We need to protect our community, the health and safety of local residents; and we need to make sure our communities are not terrorized by random acts of violence that separate families.
Please do the right thing if you have any information.Contact: Detective A. Negrete (323) 526-3679 or Officer R. Chavarria (323) 526-3006 or the Hollenbeck Watch Commander (323)266-5964.
Our prayers go out to the families of the murder victims.
But our collective eye brows were raised here with this comment.
Here is another bullshit move from Huizar. Several weeks ago there were two homicides on the eastside and a $75,000 reward was initiated at City Council by Jose Huizar for one of the victims who happened to be the boyfriend of Huizar's mother?
Now all of this is only speculation, but enough people within "the know" in CD-14 have lend credence to this. They go on further to describe the "Cantina Culture" in CD-14 in which this double murder took place. This culture can be equated to the drunken culture in the movie "Bar Fly" starring Faye Dunaway and Mickey Rourke and when you add machismo to alcohol, tragedy can result.
The questions that Councilman Jose Huizar should answer are,
First, in the spirit of openness and transparency, did anyone in Councilman Huizar's Family have any relationship with either victims in this double murder ??
Second, explain the haste in securing approval for this reward and how this case is different from other murders in CD-14 that do not qualify for rewards ??
Third, if the first question is yes, how can Councilman Huizar defend himself from critics who will attack him for using public money for a personal, family reason ??
Once again we pray for the families in this tragedy and in all other tragic murders that have taken place recently in CD-14
But we call upon Councilman Huizar to answer the questions above in the spirit of openness.
Your thoughts..............

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53 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

This is nothing compared to the corruption going on all over CD 14. Too bad we can't rely on our reporters to do any stories on this stuff and thanks for sites like this and others for pointing them out. Huizar is beyond arrogant but very stupid. I say its only a matter of time it all catches up to him. Too many of his ex staffers are so fed up with him they're now spilling their guts

July 13, 2009 11:15 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Yea, Re Spt, le me kno whn yu here bak fom Hose abowt thiz. I doubl yi wil.

July 13, 2009 11:21 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

If Huizar's staff if so corrupt, maybe this is just his way of giving THEM a bonus.

One of them must know, or be related to, the guilty party, and a $75,000 reward could save him some severence pay.

July 13, 2009 11:23 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

How often is one of these rewards ever claimed? Aree there any stats on that anywhere?

I'm guessing the last time was teh 12th of Never.

Isn't it mostly just posturing for the benefit of the bereaved family, and 98 percent of all "rewards" just stay in the general fund?

With some of the badder elements out there, you'd have to be an idiot to risk getting whacked back for ratting someone out who'd then be looking to kill you, and all for a year's household income. nd, just maybe you you get to meet a real Marshall Mary from "In Plain Sight" as your whole world gets disrupted and you have to start over working as a school crossing guard somewhere in New Mexico.

July 13, 2009 12:05 PM  

Anonymous matt dowd said:

there's no 'anonymous' if you want to collect the 75000.
that's a mistake or a decetion right there. he says 'reward', then anonymous. but you can only remain anonymous without the reward.

July 13, 2009 12:06 PM  

Anonymous Area Resident said:

For what it's worth. These killings do NOT appear on http://lapdcrimemaps.org/

Try to look it up.

July 13, 2009 12:12 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

red spot and the five "rampant cd-14ers" have sunk to a new low.

July 13, 2009 12:37 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

While I think Huizar is sadly a case of the affirmative action Latino who goes to an Ivy league school on full scholarship because his parents were illegal immigrants so it's PC, it IS a new low to suggest his staffers may be cashing in on the award from some sort of inside information!!!


What next, accusing his staffers of setting up a hit to collect? Or paying gangbangers who are going to hit someone for info so they can get the reward money?

And so what if one of the victims is his mother's boyfriend, why is that less worthy of being solved? What surprised me though is that his mother has a boyfriend at all, just hope he wasn't involved in something shady.

If these victims were illegals who spent their days hanging at Home Depot and getting into barfights and not ordinary "hard working" guys as he claims there would be a lot less public sentiment to offer this reward, is he lying? But anyway few rewards are collected. A study published in Daily News showed a very small percent are.

Unless of course Spot is right and his staff are now rigging it to get the rewards themselves. Dumb.

July 13, 2009 1:13 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Alls I know is Huizar's field staff is KILLING the concept of "constituent SERVICE" (unless by that you mean rolling residents up in little balls and HITTING them across the net with a tennis racket).

I know the SCORE, and buddy that ain't "LOVE" !!

July 13, 2009 3:16 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Wait a minute. Before any reward is offered, it has to come from the police dept. at their request. A city councilmember cannot offer a reward simply because he chooses to.
What you are alleging here is that the Hollenbeck Division, along with Detective A. Negrete and Officer R. Chavarria are part of some kind of coerced agreement with Huizar? Do you realize how stupid that sounds?
I went to the blog, why didn’t you post the “More Info” link that took the readers to the LAPD site?
Aside from your readers rampant disregard for public safety and their racist viewpoints comparing these victims as “illegal”, I’m really hard pressed to think that you blog really cares about the families of these victims, or that RedSpot really cares about the safety of the people living in Boyle Heights.

July 13, 2009 5:37 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

5:37 don't know SQUAT.

A-M-A-T-U-E-R Hour is upon us!

All these rewards come from the CMs.

In FACT, 5:37 is SO clueless as to how the City really works, I DO believe he/she is a CD14 staffer!

Class of 2009-1/2 (I believe). Someone smell the cork to be sure. It should have the odor of baby power and rash ointment.

July 13, 2009 6:39 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I am extremely offended by this post. As a person who has lost a loving grandfather to a petty carjacking this post is beyond offensive. My grandfather was a hard working man and and was gunned down by a pathetic excuse for a human being when I was seven years old simply because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Moreover, my older sister and I were inside the car when it happened and watched him die.

Do you really believe these men in their late years of 42 and 57 were out looking for trouble? A reward was offerred to apprehend the killer of my grandfather since there were no leads. That's why rewards are offerred in the first place.

Whoever decided to post this disgusting piece of garbage is a worthless human being in my book. And those who are attempting to label these men as "illegals who get into bar fights" are the scum of the earth. Please remove this post or change it so that you do not further add insult to injury. I cannot articulate how infuriated I am with the lack of human decency observed in the last few minutes. May you or your loved ones NEVER! have to go through the pain that my family has endured. Or else, you would probably be on here slamming the LAPD for offering a reward that was too low.

Despicable.

July 13, 2009 9:25 PM  

Blogger mary whoopee said:

"...hard working family men..." = sleazy illegal alien cholos. These creeps were gunned down because they'd been associating w/ criminals and probably partaking in criminal activity themselves. Their families most likely condonned their nefarious behavior, thinking there's nothing wrong w/ taking a few under-handed short-cuts to "The American Dream."

July 14, 2009 12:51 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

9:25 = huizar or rick or francine.

we all know it was his mothers boyfriend.

July 14, 2009 2:33 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Fact is LAPD does not offer the rewards. Its not in their budgets, its in the council members budgets and THEY DECIDE who to offer an award to. LAPD has absolutely nothing to do with this. Amazing how rumors get out

July 14, 2009 7:30 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Do you really believe these men in their late years of 42 and 57 were out looking for trouble? "

What were they doing out at 3:00am in the morning? The bars should have been closed by then. Only they know why and dead men cant tell.

July 14, 2009 8:17 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Rita,

A few underhanded shortcuts?!!!

What, like bilking millions of acres of Mexican owned land through outright deception and fraud condoned by the courts at the time?

Or maybe the occasional lynching of a Mexican or Chinese to get your hands on a particularly attractive piece of land.

Rita, you got your American Dream in California through some form of deception perpetrated by one of your white ancestors - probably the ones that put those covenants in trust deeds to keep mexicans and blacks out of certain neighborhoods.

Don't throw stones Rita until you look at your own history.

July 14, 2009 8:28 AM  

Blogger mary whoopee said:

Your assumptions are erroneous, 8:28, but funny as heck, nevertheless! You must be one of these "Aztlan'-sympathizers, who believe all would be hunky-dory w/ the Hispanic world if only Mexico hadn't been swindled out of Calif.! (Mexico can't even maximize the many resources it already has in its holdings, so how would the acquisition of its old stomping grounds HERE make
any difference?) Now I'm quite aware that the value of Calif. real estate has skyrocketed
since those halcyon days of the rancheros, but it was purchased fair and square. In order to assertain my little "piece of the rock" here in Sunland I bought it myself--it was NOT acquired thru any ancient impropriety or usury on the part of my ancestors. That being said--I will share w/ you a snipet of my ancestral history out of which you might get a kick. Excerpt from: "Philip, Duke of Wharton(1698-1731)author: Lewis Melville,1913:"The Duke's name became a byword for all that was reckless and dissapated, he was looked at askance by respectable people even in those days when ample allowance was made for the high spirits and consequent excesses of young men in great positions..." And what were YOUR ancestors up to back in the 18th century?

July 14, 2009 10:46 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Purchased fair and square?!! You should familiarize yourself with California history as much as you have with your "Enlgish Noble" ancestry. Fact of the matter is that you still live in land that is not your ancestral own. As for my past, I am 7th generation in this land, my family has been here way before the U.S. borders. If I were as vain as you I might even mention the Spanish royal land grants that my ancestors received. But being part Native American I know that it is all part of the same hypocrisy as yours - so what's the point?

Take a gander at some California history - and don't leave out the lynchings or bounties on dead indians - it is not your history. But yet you are here, in a paradise that you have no birth right to.

And, just so you know that those who do not study hisotry are destined to repeat the same events - the Mexican American War was fought after gold was discovered in California nad it wasn't at Sumter's Mill. Very much like the Iraq war was fought after oil was recognized for the taking.

California gold and immigration (even your familiy's) built this nation, imagine what it could have done for Mexico and it's future.

July 14, 2009 11:43 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

9:25 PM

If you are so upset at this post, why did you read it. Mmmmm... Maybe you where asked to do so? Mmmmm... Maybe you blog and you spin stories.... Hence the "Please remove this post or change it so that you do not further add insult to injury." Or maybe, just maybe its your job to protect your JEFE.

Let me tell you something i am sure you have heard in your short time in CD 14 and i mean short, because the longest staffer in that office has only been there just under 4 years (and i mean only 1 person).

If you are really concerned about what the blogs are saying or posting, man you are in serious trouble. This is only the beginning and you are already heading for the hills. Not a good sign, anyways have fun...

July 14, 2009 12:49 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

This goes out to all the CD14 Community leaders. Huizar is having a community leaders luncheon..... Have you been invited? No? Maybe its becuase you make to many waves. I guess this REALLY wont be a community leaders luncheon and more of the same that we are use to. Huizar talks about all the shit he is doing taking credit for others work and no one gets say anything unless its to priase the king.

Feel free to call the Boyle Heights office to get on the guest list for the community event.

323-526-3059 or 213-473-7014

Ask Huizar to open it up to the public. What is he scared of?

July 14, 2009 6:21 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

This reward was for his mothers boyfriend. I dont mind the reward but he has to be fair about it. If he puts one out for his family he should do the same for others.

July 14, 2009 6:23 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

12:49
Who would that be? Let me guess, could it be the very one they have dubbed the "penis promotion" Francine Godoy? Well there you have it, the raod map to success in the CD-14 office.

July 14, 2009 6:47 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

9:25
That sure sounds like Rick Coca.

July 14, 2009 6:59 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

A story I heard sometime back from a now ex-CD14 employee:

Im a young woman sitting in my living room talking to my boss (soon to be Councilmember. I get up to get a drink of water, upon my return i am meet with a disgusting and very much disturbing picture. Its my boss (soon to be Councilmember)sitting on my couch, with his pants pulled down to the ground and his little man tool standing at attention. "As if i would stoop so low!" I can honestly our relationship was never the same.

I just wonder how many more of these stories are out, only time will tell. You fill in the blanks on who you think the main characters are.

July 15, 2009 2:30 AM  

Blogger mary whoopee said:

Message to my Indian friend (aka Anon 11:43 am) How. Heap big smoke signal: You speak truth, O 7th generational Red Man-- White Man kick Red Man keester. Take land. Rape squaw. Shoot eagle. White Devil make Red Man do sacred rain dance at supermarket opening. Ugh.

July 15, 2009 2:30 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Thanks for the tip poster. We'll be sure to call the media on this one so they can attend and hear the bullshit Huizar will be telling. If this is being paid for by tax dollars of residents who live in the community then it should be open and transparent. Anyone who attends this for sure are just as corrupt as Huizar and have no cred with anyone. They are all a joke.

July 15, 2009 8:29 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Rita,

Thanks for showing your true colors. You just proved my point by your racist rant.

Let's try some native language on you since you are merely a visitor on our land: Oc ye nechca mexica tiahui!

There is a prophecy and I didn't believe it until I saw it's fruition with my own eyes. Have fun back in beautiful sunny England.

July 15, 2009 9:22 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I called Huizar's office the other day to complain about some kids being thrown out of a recreation center because they ran out of lunches. Running out of lunches is a perfect excuse to stop but being rude while kicking the kids out is another thing - especially when no more than five feet away those fortunate few that got lunches were eating in plain sight.

I don't have kids of my own but felt for these kids who just stayed and watched the other kids eat their lunches.

I called Huizar's office in downtown and they referred me to a district office. Upon getting no answer at the district office I called downtown again and was informed by one Pauline that they didn't take complaints at the downtown office.

My intent was to have Huizar's office call the parks and rec office and have them show a little courtesy. But how is this possible when Huizar's staffers seem to be lacking these same courtesy skills.

Is it any wonder there isn't any public sympathy for the upcoming city employee layoffs? Say what you will about Pacheco but this never happened under his tenure.

Do you have any clue Jose Huizar?

July 15, 2009 9:32 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

9:32, is this a real story? You did not give any coorborating details, like when this happened or at which exact recreation center.

July 15, 2009 9:49 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

9:32 is bloggin' 5150.

July 15, 2009 9:51 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

9:49

The receration center was Eagle Rock Rec. Center.

The time was 11:50 - well within the 11:30 to 12:30 timeline.

The person I spoke to at Huizar's downtown office was Eva Camacho who said they didn't take complaints at that office and transferred me to the Norhteast District office where no one answered, perhaps because they were busy eating their lunch.

The park directors name was Angela Bagmanian.

Enough details to corraborate this story?

July 15, 2009 10:19 AM  

Blogger mary whoopee said:

Been reading those fortune-telling feathers again, Angry Red/Brown Brave? Think I know the "prophecy" you've tapped into: "...Parakeet Nation will return, will return, will return, WILL RETUUUUURRNNN!!" Right? Now don't go losing all yer wampum at the Indian Gamey Casino, and better steer clear of the White Man's fire water, stick to Tequila and quit coveting this white squaw's land! (Who cares if it's not exactly incestral land anyway?) Hi-how-are-ya-Hi-how-are-ya-How-high-are-ya-How-high-are-ya....

July 15, 2009 1:31 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

No Rita, no fortune telling. Just looking out my window at all those beautiful indigenous faces. If you can't see them from your window, just look take a look at your nearest maternity ward or perhaps look at the L.A., Riversdie or San Berardino COunty registrars office.

I don't need any feathers to tell me the people of the sun have arrived.

July 15, 2009 7:53 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

9:32
Pauline is related to Huizar by marriage and she is very nice, nothing like the rest of them

July 16, 2009 12:52 AM  

Blogger mary whoopee said:

Well, whaddaya know, 7:53-- you're talking about the ILLEGAL ALIENS!! We've got a reoccuring problem here in S-T; evidently some of the day laborers w/ "those beautiful indigenous faces" have been hanging their beautiful indigenous asses off of trucks and defecating right there on the bare asphalt! Must be a quaint indigenous ritual perpetrated by a proud people with a RICH cultural heritage....

July 16, 2009 4:25 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Being nice and being effective are two different things. Huizar also has his nice moments but as his staff has exemplified, he is utterly ineffective.

July 16, 2009 8:28 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Rita,

Omce again, study your history. The most appalling thing about the Europeans when they came in contact with the indigenous population was their stench. What was the average bath rate at the time in Europe, once a year ( and judging by my last trip to Europe this rate probably still stands). It is no wonder the bubonic plague practically wiped European population off the planet.

By contrast Tenochtitlan was a very clean city, Aztecs traditionally bathed every day and they even had steam baths to get rid of that deep down filth. While Europeans were drenching themselves in perfume to cover their smell, the civilizations in the new world were perfecting indoor plumbing, even going as far as inveting tooth brushes and tooth paste.

So if Mexico leaves a bad taste to you now, thank your European ancestors for tainting this paradise.

July 16, 2009 11:59 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Rita and her responder = CD14 spin team: jose, richelle, francine, ana and cocca.

stop trying to change the subject!

July 16, 2009 8:11 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Rita and her responder = CD14 spin team: jose, richelle, francine, ana and cocca.

stop trying to change the subject!

July 16, 2009 8:12 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

former cd 14 staffers have too much time on their hands. get a job already. that's if you can. maybe you were fired for a reason?

July 16, 2009 10:09 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

10:09 Hmmmmmm........
Maybe become a reporter? Thanks for the idea

July 17, 2009 12:33 AM  

Blogger mary whoopee said:

Now you're just being silly-- and WAY off topic. Here's your assignment for the weekend: stop leaving wads of used toilet paper NEXT to the toilet.

July 17, 2009 1:09 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

- July 16, 2009 10:09 PM

Let me see here.... Former CD 14 Staffers fired or pushed out?

Frank Torres - Political Director for SEIU
Eric Robles - Deputy for BOE Member
Henry Casas - ?
Patricia Soto - MTA Government Affairs
Joe Avila - DWP Number 2 Person
Peter Hidalgo - ?
Samantha Yu- DWP Number 3 Person
Amy Yeager - Political Person for LACCD

10:09 PM - AKA Ana "cuba libre" (drunk) Cubas.... Should i keep going. Because i can do this all day.

So to answer your question. Former staffers have jobs and nobody, nobody, nobody has ever been fired for a valid reason....

Somebody, somebody ask me why?

So if you want to Spin.... Be ready for a Slap in the Face.

Word of advice to CD 14 Spinners...

DONT TRY TO SPIN OR VALIDATE, THERE IS TO MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE WITH INFORMATION THAT WILL MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE IDIOTS.

July 18, 2009 3:30 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Dear Ms Foxy, is not only Mr Hunt that has been slam at City Council. Look at the record. Items that are approved with the excuse they have been heard at another hearing. People are not allow to speak on agendas or non agendas, and is not about Mr. Hunt, He is just trying to send a message, that our LA City Council is getting an "F" no more no less than the Mayor. Is a sad situation for LA.

July 22, 2009 10:57 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Councilman Jose Huizar, needs to clean up his act. People from CD14 are already putting up the wanted ads for new councilman. I have never liked him for good reason, give his employees a break, they work for Jose Huizar, have you ever worked for a person that you dislike but needed the job, in times of high unemployment. also take into consideration that so many of his staff have quit... Interesting that Huizar identifies those individuals killed as family men, so why was his mother dating one of them? Huizar is no different than AV, just not as smart.

July 22, 2009 11:06 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Hi Rita, Indigenous people in California had already been pushed out to Indian reservations by the Spanish (Spanish are also Europeans), although some Europeans came through Mexico, they were still Europeans. Many Germans, Russians, an Asian also came through Mexico and travel North. This European spoke Spanish too, and when the Land Grants were due to the USA government in California, all notice were written in English, and as you can imagine the people in California spoke Spanish only at that time. Unknown to the Spanish Land Owner in California lost their land. Only those afluent families that Spain had awarded the land to them had documentation to prove ownership. However, had no boundaries on the documents.

July 22, 2009 11:33 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

The Family men Shot in Boyle Heights, which a $75,000 award has been offered by Huizar. Where frequent visitors at this bars, and also El Mercado. The community seem to have no idea why they were killed.
Oscar's Bar has history of problems, under age drinking and probably many other problems, it had been shut down for violations, maybe they need to look at the owner of the bar.

July 22, 2009 11:42 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Rita, you just insulted 65% of the population in California. You are racist, you are probably not from California. Native Californians normally are not racist. Most of LA is multicultural, there is no way that if you grew up in LA would you say the things you have posted. I feel sorry for you.
Most racist people are either stupid, or from a rural little town in the back hills of some state that has never interacted with people from outside their town.

July 22, 2009 11:59 PM  

Blogger mary whoopee said:

AGAINST ILLEGAL ALIENS AND GANG MEMBERS= RACIST. Right? That's what you "LaRaza"-types always resort to-- the "R" word. And you're wrong on all accounts about me, by the way. I was born right here at St. John's hospital in Santa Monica. But don't call me a "native"-- I hate that term; it sounds too "jungle-y" somehow....

July 23, 2009 12:56 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

3:30: hey, henry casas, you forgot to include yourself: fired for being a wife beater.

July 29, 2009 10:04 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

3:30: you seem to know a lot, did you too get fired? you sound frustrated.

July 29, 2009 10:07 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I want this guy out!

I've spent the last year living with Huizar's lies, corruption, and, his disgusting manipulation of the LAPD and City Attorney's Office. This man can pull strings clear across town.

From reading these blogs, I know that many of you feel the same way.
(Several Councilmembers have already shared their views)

So here is an invitation to EVERYONE who has an axe to grind with this criminal.

Send your stories to huizarsucks@gmail.com

I will do EVERYTHING I can to send this joker packing. It will be no loss to CD14, they haven't had real represetation for a long time.

And Francine, I have never met a council staff member as rude as you...who did you blow to get that job.

go home.

Johnny Justice

September 09, 2009 6:59 PM  

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