RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: IRONIC TWIST: LA Budget pro Miguel Santana charged by District Attorney with DUI after attending charity event honoring DA Steve Cooley

Monday, April 26, 2010

IRONIC TWIST: LA Budget pro Miguel Santana charged by District Attorney with DUI after attending charity event honoring DA Steve Cooley

Miguel Santana was arrested after he
attended this charity event in
Downtown Los Angeles County
DA Steve Cooley
Cooley is seen above. Someone attending this event sent me
this photo from her IPhone.

By Randy Economy
http://www.economy4abc.blogspot.com/
April 26, 2010
9:30 p.m.

WEST COVINA – Miguel Santana, the top budget guy with the City of Los Angeles, was charged by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office today with misdemeanor driving under the influence in connection with his March 26 arrest while driving home from a charity dinner.

Santana, 40, was arrested in the Covina area by California Highway Patrol officers. He was freed on $5,000 bond.

Interesting twist in this case that everyone in the media is missing....

The charity event Santana was attending that evening before his much publicized arrest was a Charity Dinner in Honor of Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, the man who is now prosecuting him for driving drunk.

Could this actually be a "Conflict of Interest" for the DA to prosecute this case? It will be interesting to see Mr. Santana's defense. BTW. Mr. Santana is a good guy, from what I can gather. I hope he is doing well and hope that he can get "some recovery" under his belt.

Santana is scheduled to appear for arraignment on May 25 in Department 6 of the Superior Court in West Covina.

A prosecutor has not yet been assigned to the case, which was filed by Deputy-in-Charge Mark L. Evans of the West Covina office.

Perhaps the next time District Attorney Cooley is honored at a Charity event, it will be "booze-free" so these type of cases could be avoided.

According to the complaint filed against Santana, his blood alcohol level was “0.15 percent by weight and more,” double over the legal limit. BTW....

Don't drink and drive. Let's stop these political booze fests from taking place once and for all.

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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.”

Monday, April 26, 2010

IRONIC TWIST: LA Budget pro Miguel Santana charged by District Attorney with DUI after attending charity event honoring DA Steve Cooley

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