Subject: Miguel A. Pulido

• Bizarro World (Immigrant Beatdown Edition)

  Last year, I wrote a piece comparing the different responses that OC and LA law enforcement officials took with the pro-amnesty marches. My, how the times have changed. Now it's the LAPD putting the beatdown on activists, just like their OC counterparts last year, while OC's finest just looked on. Now it's the LA mayor skipping town so he doesn't have to address the immigrant masses, just like SanTana mayor Miguel Pulido did last year, while OC's own Howard Hughes actually spoke to the small ral

  May 3, 2007

• Fat in SanTana and Loving It!

  As everyone knows, many Mexicans are fat and nowhere is this more evident than SanTana, which according to the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, has some of the most obese people in the state. Fighting the good fight against fat is the bad-ass non-profit, Latino Health Access, but they've finally gone too far. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the SanTana City Council is expected to pass an ordinance requiring city vending machines to stock healthy snacks. Behind the push

  August 17, 2006

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward

  What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according to the latest allegations discovered by E. Scott Reckard and Kim Christensen, two Los Angeles Times reporters who dug up court documents containing the dirt. Last week, newspapers disclosed FBI interes

  July 18, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Register Slams Sheriff

  A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More than 1,120 days ago, Rohrabacher complained bitterly about “nit-picking” Americans who were then questioning the brilliance of Bush's Iraq War strategy. “I say, thank God that we have a preside

  July 19, 2007

• Orange Juice Makes Weekly Look Smart

  A couple of weeks ago, this paper named the SanTana-leaning Orange Juice the county's best blog because it represents the best qualities of the blogosphere: scoops, jocularity, personality, with a bit of libel and bad graphics thrown in. And some paranoid arrogance, we thought, after bloggers Sean Mill and Art Pedroza began insinuating that SanTana City Hall forces were conspiring to throw them off the Planning and Housing and Redevelopment Commissions, respectively, because of their hell-raisin

  October 1, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Carona Camp Says FBI Case "Trash"

  Hookers take cash too, Mikey: Dana Parsons writes today that “the good news for [indicted OC Sheriff Mike] Carona is that the government doesn’t always win.” But Parsons says the “bad news” for Calamity Mike is that the feds take their “sweet time putting public corruption cases together.” He interviewed former assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Greenberg who says his old office is cautious and thorough “in cases like this where you’re trying to take down the county sheriff.” The

  November 8, 2007

• Register, Times Slam Santa Ana Good--And a Challenge

  If there's one thing that Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut hates more than Sheriff Mike Carona, it's city-controlled urban planning, and he ripped SanTana officials a new one and then some yesterday in a piece blasting the city's much-ballyhooed Renaissance Specific Plan. Proponents say the Renaissance Plan will transform the city's downtown; opponents say the same, except use the word "gentrification." Greenhut, in one of his increasing moves to the Left, sides with the o

  December 24, 2007

• The Renaissance Blob in Santa Ana's Redevelopment Plan

  Today, a chingo of SanTana residents met at State Senator Lou Correa's office to discuss the Renaissance Specific Plan, which seeks to transform the city's downtown in a good (according to proponents) or gentrifying-Mexicans-outta-there (says opponents) way. I'm sure the other SanTana blogs--specifically Sean Mill at The Liberal OC and the Orange Juice! gang--will have something to say, but here's something for everyone to ponder in the meanwhile: what's with the weird blob in the bottom middle

  December 28, 2007

• Renaissance Blob Didn't Always Exist

  Earlier today, we wrote about the Renaissance Blob, the strange drawing of boundaries in SanTana's Renaissance redevelopment plan that weaved around properties operated by the families of Mayor Miguel Pulido and councilmember Vince Sarmiento. In a comment, Liberal OC blogger/SanTana planning commissioner Sean Mill wrote he was told by city staffers "that the reason that those properties were left out was so that Vince and Miguel would be able to vote on the plan. If they were included they would

  December 28, 2007

• Another Santa Ana Councilmember With Conflict - of - Influenza?

  *Updated, with new info on the bottom... Earlier, we discussed the developmental gerrymandering that seemingly allows SanTana mayor Miguel Pulido and councilmember Vince Sarmiento to vote on the city's Renaissance Specific Plan (RSP), the controversial project that seeks to "diversify" and "revitalize" SanTana's downtown. Now, the Weekly has learned that another councilmember might have a conflict of interest that would preclude him from voting on the RSP: David Benavides.

  January 4, 2008

• And the Winner is...Papi Pulido!

  Last week, we asked ustedes to pick a nickname for SanTana Mayor Miguel Pulido, who's increasingly taking on the airs of a Latin American dictator. And the winner is...Papi Pulido! Personally, we liked El Caudillo Pulido better 'cause that would've allowed us to commission a portrait of Papi Pulido on horseback ala Napoleon--then again, who says we can't do it? From now on, Miguel Pulido no longer exists on this blog--SanTana's mayor is now and forevermore Papi Pulido. As always, if you have

  January 16, 2008

• Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Help Make the OC Great Park a Reality?

  Calling the action "momentous," the Great Park Corp. Board of Directors voted unanimously today to recommend the Irvine City Council adopt the Great Park Design Studio's Comprehensive Park Plan, the final planning piece required before the building phase can begin--as soon as March 20--on the ambitious, mixed-use park on 1,350 acres of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.Now all the directors have to do is figure out how to pay for it.To that end, director Miguel Pulido, who is Santa Ana

  February 19, 2009

• Where Were Santa Ana Officials at Ceremony for Fallen Hero of Iraq War?

  You may have missed it in the comments to this post, but someone going by the handle "cook", who apparently attended the plaque unveiling ceremony for fallen hero Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor at the Walk of Honor Plaza in Santa Ana Thursday morning, poses an interesting question: Where were the Santa Ana residents and, more importantly, city officials? "I was disappointed that only a Marine vet from the Wilshire area and myself, a Navy from the Willard area, were t

  February 20, 2009

• SanTana Sports and Don Papi Pulido's Preferred Pelotas

  Don Papi Pulido in his other preferred sport: maintaining his kingdomArt Pedroza at Orange Juice! had quite the scoop last week in reporting that First District Supervisor Janet Nguyen recently allocated $170,000 to the building of a clay tennis court at Cabrillo Park in SanTana. Pedroza opined out loud that the tennis courts came at the request of mayor Don Papi Pulido, a known tennis fiend, because he's a Francophile (past media profiles have documented Don Papi Pulido's French fluency and sup

  March 10, 2009

• Three Local Elections Worth Watching. Call It Morbid Fascination

  October 30, 2008

• A CLOCKWORK NARANJA

  August 11, 2005

• Lag On Taxes, Get Appointed to State Commission!

  September 25, 2003

• German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

  December 18, 2003

• Letters

  'For the record, no one currently in our employ was contacted or quoted. In fact, the surf industry does support Save Trestles and Surfrider Foundation'

  November 2, 2006

• Having a Latino Mayor of Santa Ana

  October 19, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  November 24, 2005

• Embrace the Mexican

  October 6, 2005

• A Few Words on Why Tom Umberg Doesnt Want Campaign-Finance Reform

  April 28, 2005

• Next Stop: Immobility

  An A to Z Guide to Surviving the Death/Pause/Sunshine of the CenterLine

  February 17, 2005

• Battle of the Boondoggles!

  January 27, 2005

• This Week in Restaurants and Their Websites

  January 27, 2005

• You Have To Be Afraid

  January 27, 2005

• Letters

  November 18, 2004

• Choo-Choo-Choo-Ching

  November 18, 2004

• Letters

  September 30, 2004

• This Week in Super Markets

  September 30, 2004

• Good Choo-Choo, Bad Choo-Choo

  September 9, 2004

• The Lunch From Hill

  That stench coming from Irvine City Hall? Its convicted felonand energy lobbyistFrank Hill

  August 12, 2004

• Letters

  March 18, 2004

• German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

  December 25, 2003

• Homeless For The Holidays

  December 11, 2003

• The Plight of Dwight

  November 6, 2003

• Pete Wilson on Steroids

  September 25, 2003

• Ball Busting

  May 10, 2001

• Orange Countys Least Powerful People The First-Ever Weaklies!

  September 9, 1999

• Lock Our Asses Up!

  May 27, 1999

• July-September

  January 7, 1999

• October-December

  January 7, 1999

• 'Jeeeeeezuz Christ!'

  November 12, 1998

• Letters

  October 15, 1998

• What Happened?

  October 8, 1998

• Fed Said: Ted Dead

  September 3, 1998

• No Ace with Taxes: Santa Ana Mayor Don Papi Pulido and His Family Muffler Shop

  Not scheduled for gentrificationThere is perhaps no business more fundamental to an Orange County politico's creation myth than Ace Muffler Shop, on First Street in downtown SanTana and belonging to the family of SanTana Mayor Don Papi "Miguel" Pulido. It was the city's planned demolishing of Ace Muffler through eminent domain that spurred the young Don Papi to enter politics in 1986. It was the fight to preserve Ace Muffler that earned Don Papi Pulido the coalition that elected him to the city

  May 7, 2009

• Mega-Connected Firm Wins Anaheim Design Contract

  Whoa! They're moving the Sydney Opera House to Anaheim!Oh wait, no. That's the newly approved design for the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, a.k.a. ARTIC.On Tuesday, the Anaheim City Council awarded architecture firm Parsons Brinckerhoff/HOK with the contract to design and lay the groundwork for ARTIC, a regional transportation hub that's been more than 15 years in the making. The dollar total for the job could reach $24.3 million. According to the Register, Parsons Brinckerho

  May 27, 2009

• Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Bullets for Bangers!

  Nothing like a good old gang-related murder in Santa Ana to set off all the Register readers who would like nothing more than to see the city cordoned off by immigration cops and the entire non-English speaking population rolled into Tijuana-bound paddy wagons. The latest example? This story from Wednesday about an 18-year-old Latino gangbanger who shot another man during an armed robbery. "Eduardo Valencia, 18, is expected to appear in court today to face charges that he killed Jaime Anica Olve

  August 7, 2009