RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: My Thoughts: The Legacy of Augustin Bobby Salcedo was Born this Week

Friday, January 08, 2010

My Thoughts: The Legacy of Augustin Bobby Salcedo was Born this Week

I wanted to share a couple of personal thoughts about the passing of community leader Augustin Bobby Salcedo. This past week, in covering his tragic murder, tens of thousands of people from all over the world have logged onto this blog to read about the news and life of this one man.

Like you, I have been truly touched by the passing of Mr. Salcedo. My heart goes out to his Family and the entire El Monte community today.

The brutal crime against Bobby has been felt all over the Globe. People in India, Russian, Japan, China, Iceland, Austria, Germany, Brazil, and South Africa have sent me notes about the passing of Mr. Salcedo.

This is the biggest reaction I have EVER had in the 5 years of publishing my Blog.

We lost Bobby Salcedo because of the bloody war on drugs.

I strongly agree with Los Angeles Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony who said this week (at Bobby's funeral), that "ALL of US need to start talking and taking action on the drug war, right here in our community.”

Now IS the time for the Catholic Church and for EVERY Church to start getting ACTIVELY involved in the fighting this "drug" war that has destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives...right here in our community. Not in 6 months....but today. Every single Church needs to start a program to educate and to help those who lives are being affected by drugs and alcohol. Now IS the TIME for action.

We don't need more victims like Bobby Salcedo.

Let’s remember his life as a "sign" of hope. He inspired the young and the young at heart. Bobby was an Educator whose life lessons will be taught for generations to come. The Legacy of Augustin Bobby Salcedo was born this week, and for that we are all truly blessed.

Randy Economy

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Meet Randy Economy

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.”