RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: PULITZER PRIZE BABY! LA Times Reporter Ruben Vives wins Journalism's top honor for his expose' on corruption in Bell! W2G, pal!

Monday, April 18, 2011

PULITZER PRIZE BABY! LA Times Reporter Ruben Vives wins Journalism's top honor for his expose' on corruption in Bell! W2G, pal!

Ruben Vives: Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Affairs Reporting for his coverage of the corruption in Bell.! Randy Economy Photo

By Randy Economy
Monday, April 18, 2011
12:20 p.m.

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Los Angeles, CA

Fantastic news. I just heard that Ruben Vives from the Los Angeles Times has been awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage on the scandal over at Bell City Hall!

Wait a minute. I predicted this would happen MONTHS ago.

Here is a news flash announcing the award:

:The Los Angeles Times won the Pulitzer Prize for public service today for stories uncovering shocking financial corruption in the city of Bell, whose officials secretly enriched themselves with extravagant salaries and benefits. The stories, by reporters Jeff Gottlieb, Ruben Vives and other Times staff writers, led to criminal charges against former Bell City Administrator Robert Rizzo, who, with his $800,000 salary, became the face of the scandal. Rizzo and seven other current or former city officials were charged with multiple felonies and have been ordered to stand trial."

Today is my first "official" day as a Staff Reporter for the Los Cerritos Community News Group. Ruben, your a role model for me and many other Journalists here in "the Hood!"

W2G!

RrE

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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.”

Monday, April 18, 2011

PULITZER PRIZE BABY! LA Times Reporter Ruben Vives wins Journalism's top honor for his expose' on corruption in Bell! W2G, pal!

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