RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Keeping America Safe: Deputy Homeland Security Director Erroll Southers talks from the heart at Whittier College

Friday, April 30, 2010

Keeping America Safe: Deputy Homeland Security Director Erroll Southers talks from the heart at Whittier College

By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
Whittier, CA
April 30, 2010
2 p.m.

Last night I attended a great talk by Erroll Southers, the Deputy Director of Homeland Security for the Obama Administration over at Whittier College. The community event was hosted by the Whittier College Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society.

Southers, who is in charge of "counter intelligence" under Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, talked about his rise from the ranks of being a local cop here in Long Beach to his career as a former FBI Special Agent and Deputy Director in the California Office of Homeland Security under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Southers spoke to more than 60 students, faculty and community members during his 90 minute talk about national security, and how he carved his path from our local community to his current post. Southers is passionate about keeping America safe.

Thanks for a great night to Melanie Abe, President of the Pi Sigma Alpha Chapter for allowing the community to participate in this event. This is a great group of young, passionate leaders here in our community.

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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.”

Friday, April 30, 2010

Keeping America Safe: Deputy Homeland Security Director Erroll Southers talks from the heart at Whittier College

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