Are Wal Mart Money and an Anti-Semetic Politico part of Ana Cubas CD 9 Campaign?

Memo to former CD 14 Councilman Jose Huizar Chief of Staff and aspiring CD 9 City Council Candidate Ana Cubas, is this how you plan to campaign for the open CD 9 City Council seat being vacated by African-American (and Jewish) City Councilwoman Jan Perry? Lets consider these early facts.

** First Candidate Cubas, this shout out to your targeted voters. Attention pro labor CD 9 voters!! Ana Cubas has accepted two $700.00 donations from Wal-Mart employee Javier Angulo as noted in her first campaign fundraising report. As LA Weekly Writer and Native Angelino Blogger Hillel Aron blogs, this should not help keep Cubas in the good graces of Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Leader maria Elena Durazo.

06/12/12	Javier Angulo   (Retail, Walmart) Los Angeles, CA 90031	Ana Cubas  Council Member - District 9 1347814 - Ana Cubas for Los Angeles City Council District 9	A - Monetary Contribution Received  (IND - Individual)  [Period: 01/01/12 to 06/30/12]	$700.00 [Election: 03/05/13]
06/30/12	Javier Angulo   (Retail, Walmart) Los Angeles, CA 90031	Ana Cubas  Council Member - District 9 1347814 - Ana Cubas for Los Angeles City Council District 9	A - Monetary Contribution Received  (IND - Individual)  [Period: 01/01/12 to 06/30/12]	($700.00) [Election: 03/05/13]

** We should also highlight that Wal-Mart hosted an 85th Anniversary event for the LA Times owned LA Opinion Newspaper which was attended by her former boss CD 14 City Councilman Jose Huizar during her tenure as Chief of Staff. 

Walmart had the pleasure of sponsoring and participating in La Opinión, the nation’s largest Spanish language daily newspaper, 85th anniversary celebration. The event entailed a guest list of LA Councilman Jose Huizar, LA County Supervisor Gloria Molina, community leaders, corporate leaders, elected officials and the entire Lozano family. ImpreMedia president and CEO, Monica Lozano was presented by Walmart Executive Vice President, People, Gisel Ruiz and Walmart Director of Community Affairs Javier Angulo. Guests were treated by an evening of live entertainment and salsa dancing.

Nice to see that Ana, like her former boss, places money before political principles.

** Second Candidate Cubas, there is this small controversy about one of your female co-hosts for your upcoming fundraiser.

Is the "Hon. Claudia Alvarez" the same Anti-Semetic Santa Ana City Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez who was under fire for making this comment at a recent Santa Ana City Council Meeting, that prompted her later censuring by council colleagues?

From a media report.

Discontent over the taxes that fund the two-year-old PBID has becomefused in many minds with another, related controversy. The otherconcerns efforts by the Chases to diversify what has been for decadesan almost an entirely working class, Latino shopping street byattracting new merchants and shoppers. The effort has led to fears that some longtime tenants of the Chases could be displaced.
“Ryan and Irv Chase … are very much interested in continuing the ethnic cleansing that is going on downtown,” Alvarez said as she began her comments on the PBID, setting the tone for what was to come.
Dave Hoen speaks to the Council as Sal Tinajero, David Benavides and Claudia Alvarez listen.
Alvarez, who works as a prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office,made an effective argument for why the PBID should be disestablished. In the eyes of at least two of her council colleagues, however, she debased the evening by drawing a comparison between  Irv Chase, who is Jewish, and Hitler.
Alvarez said she had inquired about why Downtown Inc. has its offices in one of the Chases’ buildings and was told it was because the organization got “a great deal” on the rent.  “So if Hitler rents you a place, gives you a great deal, you take it??,” she said. (Correction: Based on video of the meeting, what Alvarez said was: “So if Hitler rents you a place, he’s giving us a great deal, so who cares what he stands for?”)

Candidate Cubas, considering that out-going CD 9 City Councilwoman Jan Perry is Jewish, does the inclusion of someone who made a vile, anti-semetic comment such as your perspective fundraiser co-host Councilwoman Alvarez , reflect a lack of respect for the diversity of the council district you wish to represent? Since your last employment was in a council district that prides its Jewish Roots, we think you will do the right thing in disassociating yourself from the likes of Councilwoman Alvarez.

Your thoughts ..............
Scott Johnson in CD 14