RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Pico Rivera Earthquake: A Wake-Up Call

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Pico Rivera Earthquake: A Wake-Up Call

By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:25 a.m.

Today, we had a 4.4 earthquake here in Pico Rivera. Like you, it rocked me out of bed at 4:04 a.m. For a split moment I thought, is this the BIG ONE? Nope. Not this time. But, it did get my attention.

As soon as I wrote about this earthquake, within 5 minutes, more than 245 people from all over Southern California had logged on here to get the "news."

Our need to know details ...as it happens... is staggering to me.

Since this earthquake, I have had people from India, China, Germany and Russia hit my blog.

Back when the Sylmar earthquake hit in 1971, (I was 11 then) the internet did not exsist. We didn't have details about the death and damage all over the San Fernando Valley for several hours.

So, today, as we wait for minor aftershocks, we all need to appreciate just how lucky we were, and just how far we have come as a community and society. I want to salute the great coverage this morning on local television news channels here in Los Angeles...especially NBC4. They were up on the air as soon as this happened....and their coverage was the best in town.

But, remember...we all need to be prepared. The BIG ONE is JUST around the CORNER!

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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.”