RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Votes being counted in Montebello Recall Election. Stay Tuned for results

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Votes being counted in Montebello Recall Election. Stay Tuned for results

BREAKING NEWS:

Have voters in Montebello tossed two controversial members of the City Council out of office today?

Ballots are arriving at City Hall from today's hotly contested recall election of Councilmember’s Robert Urteaga and Councilwoman Kathy Salazar.

If Salazar is recalled from office, the voters will choose from a field of three possible replacements including Business owner Jorge Manzur, News Editor Alberto Perez, and Planning Commissioner Maria Chavarria -Halpern.

If Urteaga is tossed out of office, voters will select either Engineering Consultant Bobby Gutierrez, Communications Director Richard Garcia, Program Assistant Larry Salazar or Program Assistant Christina Cortez.

As soon as results are in, I will be posting them.

Recall supporters claim that Salazar violated California Fair Political Practices Commission rules by allegedly laundering campaign money to her tax-exempt business where she draws a salary; Salazar’s major campaign donors are Special Interests who also contribute funds to her tax-exempt business.

Urteaga pled guilty to Felony Grand Theft for stealing $30,000 and was indicted on 5 counts of check forgery before he was elected to the Montebello City Council. His opponents charge that Urteaga lied to the community about his criminal past, and that he lacks "morals" as a City Council Member.

Stay tuned. I love these nasty campaigns in Montebello...they are classic!

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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.”