RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: James "Jimmy" Beilke and Paul Puente charged with one count petty theft for stealing campaign signs of Councilman David Armenta. Both face 6 months in jail and fines

Thursday, November 05, 2009

James "Jimmy" Beilke and Paul Puente charged with one count petty theft for stealing campaign signs of Councilman David Armenta. Both face 6 months in jail and fines

By Randy Economy
PICO RIVERA - The son of a City Councilman is being charged with petty theft for allegedly offering to pay three others to steal campaign signs belonging to his father's political opponent Councilman David Armenta, officials said.

Armenta easily won reelection on Tuesday by receiving top vote. Several hundreds of his campaign signs were stolen during this past campaign. (See above).

James "Jimmy" Beilke (right), 18, and Paul Puente (above), 20, of Pico Rivera were charged Thursday with one count each of petty theft, officials said. Beilke is the son of City Councilman Ron Beilke.

Voters in Pico Rivera tossed the elder Beilke out of office Tuesday. Ron Beilke still faces possible criminal charges himself by the Distirct Attorney's Office on political fraud charges.

If convicted, James Beilke and Paul Puente could each face up to six months in county jail and/or a fine of up $1,000, law enforcement officials disclosed.

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”