RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Montebello City Council Election: Trash Talkin' campaign comes down to money...like $389,000 from Athens Garbage contributions...and RISING

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Montebello City Council Election: Trash Talkin' campaign comes down to money...like $389,000 from Athens Garbage contributions...and RISING

TRASH MONEY

FUELS EMOTIONAL MONTEBELLO

CITY COUNCIL CAMPAIGN

By Randy Economy
(Montebello, CA) - The nine candidates running in today's Montebello City Council election have one thing in common. Money, and lots of it. This campaign has been nasty, loud, crazy and has this city of 62,000 residents on an emotional political rollercoaster.

Nine hopefuls are vying for three seats on the City Council. All of them are well funded so money is not a problem here. Having been involved in dozens of Montebello City Council elections in the past, trust me, this one is one for the record books.

So far $389,324 in contributions to candidates and political action committees has been raised here according to reports filed with the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Office.

The election is being driven by an exclusive 15-year contract awarded to Athens Services in July 2008 to haul all trash in the city. Athens raised $548,251, some of which have been doled out to other local city council candidates, but a huge majority of this campaign cash has been spent in Montebello, according to documents.

Trash haulers raised $242,746 through its "Save Our City" campaign.

In Montebello, challengers Giuseppe Veneziano, Jamshid Jimmy Javaheri, Nancy Cadena-Perez, Frank Gomez, Richard Garcia and Jorge Manzur will appear on ballots alongside incumbents Bill Molinari and Rosie Vasquez (seen here are Molinari and Rosie Vasquez).

Five candidates submitted late contributions on Friday totaling more than $100,000, according to the Whittier Daily News.

25,500 registered voters are tagged here.

Look for a modest voter turnout, say in the 25 to 30 percent range here.

RrE

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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.”