Latina Huntington Park Council Member claims city problems caused by ‘Americans’

By Randy Economy

A public comment from a Mexico-born Huntington Park City Councilwoman has sparked a controversy after she blamed “the Americans” who served as past elected officials for problems with residential and business water meters.

Councilwoman Rosa Perez, who was elected in 2011, stunned the mostly Spanish speaking audience in attendance at Huntington Park City Hall last week when she blasted residents with the comment “I wanted to come into (elected) office, and to see what the problems are in the city and try to bring solutions to them. A big problem is that people think that when the Americans were in office everything was all great and when the Latinos came in, then all the problems came in.”

Perez continued in Spanish by claiming, “but the Americans did a lot of these contracts that are costing us (Latinos) much money.”

Several residents immediately reacted with loud yells in protest to the comments.

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5 comments:

krg said...: That article is now gone from the Los Cerritos Community Newspaper site. why is that?; Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:44:00 PM
Randy Economy said...: Thanks for note. The original link was tampered with, but a new one has been installed. Sorry. We have it fixed. We have had TENS of THOUSANDS of hits in the past 48 hours, from all over the world. Amazing! Thanks!; Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:46:00 PM
Anonymous said...: This is really disturbing! The mayor and rest of the city council better do something about it ASAP!; Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:41:00 PM
Anonymous said...: SHAME on No one but those who comment and have no idea......Rosa Perez is an amazing woman, and as a proud citizen of Huntington Park. You would have to know the actual history on Huntington Park and what it has evolved into from the early 50s to now.......Women like Rosa Perez, Jessica Maes, and Rosario Marin (Treasurer of the United States) are all from Huntington Park and have strived to make this city amazing. And have fallen short because of matter that were not taken care of in previous times. She wasnt trying to offend anyone she simply meant people deam our community (Latinos) as stupid and gullible and have been bamboozled for far to long with regards to the City and its contracts. Look what happened to Bell.....Again if you are not from HUntington Park and actually have lived through the good and bad here then you shouldnt point fingers. Because if you were a resident you would also know that Rosa Perez's late husband was a beloved and amazing Mayor of our city and did much for the people here and then was taken from office and passed without finishing what his plan was and now Rosa is there......Ignorance is not bliss...; Friday, August 31, 2012 11:08:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Amazing! I live in South Gate and this is just more Hate spewing from South East areas Council Members. Luckily we have good people now in South Gate, but I remember when Albert Robles and Xochilt Grace Ruvalcaba were in office before they were recalled, they spoke just like Rosa Perez. Blaming the White Man for everything. Watch out Huntington Park. Perez is full of hate and anger and pointing fingers instead of trying to fix the problem. from Virginia of South Gate.; Monday, September 03, 2012 11:12:00 AM

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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.”