RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Hawaiian Gardens Mayor Mike Gomez

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Healing In Hawaiian Gardens: Beginning a Conversation, with everyone listening!

KUDOS IN

THE GARDENS!
Tonight I watched the Hawaiian Gardens City Council Meeting and wanted to congratulate three outstanding community leaders for formally beginning an OPEN and HONEST conversation between the the residents, city council members, and the Sheriff of Los Angeles County.

Kudos to Hawaiian Gardens community leader Pastor Barry Bruce for his passionate honesty tonight, and to Mayor Mike Gomez for his diplomacy, and to Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca for "listening" and "learning" and "reaching out" to everyone, and to the hundreds of concern residents who are still in search of answers.

In order to begin a "conversation" between interested parties, you need to develop a plan and rules and everyone needs to respect one and other. Tonight Hawaiian Gardens became the "example" on how a community needs to deal with a crisis. Every City Council Member and City Manager, and Law Enforcement officials in California should watch this meeting tonight and learn from this amazing community..

I will be talking more about this in my column this weekend with the Los Cerritos Community News.

Until then, my hat is off to everyone in Hawaiian Gardens tonight! Job well done. Congratulations!

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Randy Economy

Thursday, June 18, 2009

SHOUT OUT: City of Hawaiian Gardens is Getting Back On Track!

Tonight, I have been watching the Hawaiian Gardens City Council Meeting, here in Cerritos on Verizon Channel 16.

Hawaiian Gardens is going through a lot of hard times lately, and watching the residents tonight, I see a community full of pain, hurt and anger.

I wanted to congratulate The Garden's Mayor Mike Gomez and City Administrator Ernesto Marquez for beginning an "open conversation" with the community that is based upon respect, truth and candor. People are hurting in HG. Young children are at risk of heading in the wrong direction. Tonight I saw a city wanting a fresh start, and one with lots of questions.

City politics in The Gardens is a contact sport. Rough and Tumble Politics is the Rule in The Gardens. Three incumbents (Betty Schultze, John Heckerman and Michi Canada) will be facing tough reelection campaigns this November.

Open conversations with the community is vital and is the foundation of our Democracy.

I can only hope that the upcoming election in HG is civil, spirited, and one run on facts, passion and hope for the future.

Let Freedom Ring!
Randy Economy

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.”