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Monday, May 30, 2011

REMEMBERING ASHTON SWEET: A bright light that will never be forgotten.

ASHTON SWEET: One young life that will live on forever!

Updated at 5:47 p.m. PST
Students at Northwood High School are being asked to wear "WHITE" on Tuesday in honor of Ashton Sweet.

By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.blogspot.com
Monday, May 30, 2011
3:15 p.m.

Orange County, CA

Today is Memorial Day here in the United States. It is a day of reflection and a day to pay tribute to those heroes who have sacrificed their life in the name of "American Freedom."

I attended two wonderful community tributes today. One in Artesia at the Artesia Cemetery, and the other at Norwalk City Hall. I love my community and today we all came together as one to celebrate the lives of those brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.

I also have been touched by a young girl I have never met, but this afternoon, I vow to remember her for a long long time. Her name is Ashton Sweet.

A cheerleader and popular track athlete at Northwood High School here in the OC. Bright, full of life and energy. She really is a "sweet" person according to everyone who has ever come in contact with her.

Today we are all being touched by her life. Sweet was involved in a horrific car accident this Memorial Day weekend when according to media sources, including Eyewitness News here in Southern California reported the following details:

Authorities said 48-year-old Irvine resident Michael Ghaemi was driving a late-model Mercedes-Benz with two 14-year-old girls and two15-year-old girls to his home from a party when they were hit by 26-year-old Austin Farley.

All five in the Mercedes were transported to area hospitals. The 14-year-old girl, Ashton Sweet, was left nearly lifeless. One of the 15-year-old girls is in critical condition but is expected to survive. The other two girls and Ghaemi were treated and released.

I hope Ashton's life is never be forgotten. She is on life support as I write this blog entry. We are all hoping for a miracle.

I have posted literally hundreds of posts here on my blog over the past five years about young people who have been killed in traffic accidents. Today, Ashton Sweet is not only another victim, but someone who has touched millions of lives over the past 48 hours all over California and the world.

A Facebook page entitles "RIP. ASHTON SWEET 1996 October 7th - 2011 May 29th. I was the 1,417th person to honor her life on Facebook. But today, I want to do much much more.

Tonight, as this Memorial Day Weekend wraps up, let's all pause and Pray for Ashton and her family. Please, share your thoughts. Hit my comment section below! God Bless you ASHTON! I will post more about this case, and if this could have been prevented.. Right now, lets just keep our focus on ASHTON and her FRIENDS and FAMILY!

2 comments:

In Irvine said...: God Bless Ashton. Wow. This really is a wonderful statement by her family to donate her organs. Thanks for the kind words, Randy!; Monday, May 30, 2011 3:55:00 PM
Nigam Chokshi (Cerritos) said...: How incredibly sad... God bless Ashton and her family. May she rest in peace.

If this turns out to be another drunk driving incident... I think I'll go crazy. This needs to stop.; Monday, May 30, 2011 4:06:00 PM

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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, May 30, 2011

REMEMBERING ASHTON SWEET: A bright light that will never be forgotten.

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