RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Remembering Bobby Salcedo: California State Senators Gloria Romero and Gil Cedillo praise the life of amazing man, father, community leader

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Remembering Bobby Salcedo: California State Senators Gloria Romero and Gil Cedillo praise the life of amazing man, father, community leader

SACRAMENTO, CA -- Tributes continue to come in from all over California and the US in honor of slain El Monte School Board Member Augustin "Bobby" Salcedo.

Senator Gloria Romero (D – East Los Angeles), Chair of the Senate Education Committee, led the California State Senate in honoring the memory of Bobby Salcedo this week. Salcedo, a native of El Monte, was an assistant principal and served on the El Monte City School District board. He was killed last week while on vacation in Mexico after gunmen stormed a restaurant where he was dining with his wife and friends.

“Bobby Salcedo was an incredible educator and community leader. His bright light was darkened far too soon and I hope that his killers will soon be brought to justice,” said Romero.

State Senator Gil Cedillo also paid tribute to Bobby Salcedo on the floor of the State Senate this week. He called him a political star on the rise who could have gone "all the way to the top."

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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.”