RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Dr. Kathleen Daly arraignment

Monday, February 06, 2012

Dr. Kathleen Daly: Los Angeles County Mental Health Director Charged with Misappropriation

LOS ANGELES – The county’s director of Adult Justice Housing for the Mental Health Department is scheduled to be arraigned today on a charge of hiring her husband to provide services to the department, the District Attorney’s office announced. Dr. Kathleen Daly, 56, allegedly signed a contract hiring her husband as a consultant to provide educational services through UCLA Harbor, said Deputy District Attorney Michele Gilmer with the Public Integrity Division. The contract ran from Feb. 1, 2008 to Jan. 31, 2010. Her husband was paid a total of $20,606 by the county department. Daly was charged in a felony complaint for arrest warrant filed Tuesday with one felony count of conflict of interest in case BA393381. She is due to surrender today at the Criminal Justice Center, 210 W. Temple St., Department 30. Prosecutors will ask that her bail be set at $20,000.

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.”