¡Basta, Huntington Park! ¡Afuera Karina Marcias! ¡Afuera Efren Martinez!

I read the news today, and Oh Boy .... I loved what I found.

Former Huntington Park, CA mayor is hot water already, and it just got hotter!

The Los Angeles Times reports that after viewing conflict of interest concerns in Huntington Park between Karina la Korrupta and her consultant contacts, who in turn are donating money to her or Efren Martinez' campaign!

Well, well, well!

Shame on Karina!

Shame, shame on Martinez!

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office is looking into a Huntington Park councilwoman’s role as a political consultant in which she raised money from companies that sought to do business with the city, a spokeswoman for the D.A. said this week.

We the People Rising have been hammering the LA County DA's Office for violating our First Amendment rights.

The DA is well-aware of the corruption going on in this city already.

The inquiry by the district attorney’s public integrity division follows a Times article published Sunday detailing how Councilwoman Karina Macias raised money for a state Assembly campaign by parlaying her connections throughout the community.

Some of the contributors were linked to companies that were awarded contracts by Macias and the council majority, including the city’s bus service and dial-a-ride operator, its street sweeping and bus stop maintenance vendor and a towing company.

That's right, and they are charging the working people of Huntington Park higher fees, too!

And the contracts cost more than the other contracts up for bid.

Who is connected to all this crap and corruption?

Why, the Eminence Grise, Felon Mario Beltran, the compa of John Noguez!

"This is my good side!"

Macias said she raised about $25,000 for Efren Martinez’s 2016 race for state assembly. She was paid nearly $6,800 in commission for her efforts, according to her financial disclosures. The commission was based on a percentage of the contributions she raised, she said.

Efren is running for State Assembly ... again? He ran in 2012, then he wanted to run 2016.

And he's running against in 2020?

We have a word for this kind of rampant fundraising: money laundering!

Let's Make a Deal!

“We are reviewing the matter,” district attorney spokeswoman Shiara Davila-Morales wrote in an email to the Times.

Government watchdogs said Macias’ fundraising business created at least the appearance of a conflict of interest.

REALLY?!

“The question is are these people really giving to the candidate or are they giving to her?” said Bob Stern, co-author of the 1974 Political Reform Act, one of the state laws that cover conflicts of interest.

LOL!

Macias said she couldn’t recall all the donors from whom she raised money. When asked for an example of a contribution from somebody who was not associated with a city contractor, Macias couldn’t come up with one.

Sure she couldn't! SURE!

Macias and Martinez did not return calls for comment Tuesday.

Here's Macias' number: (323) 947-6898

The Times has also learned that the council appointed Martinez to the planning commission while Macias was fundraising for his campaign committees. The commission pays a $75 monthly stipend, according to the city clerk.

WOW!

Guess what, LA Times -- We the People Rising knew all about this from Day One!

The revelations about Macias’ fundraising have figured into the March City Council elections. Macias is running for reelection, and her political opponents have called on labor groups and some elected officials to “reconsider” their endorsements of the councilwoman.

Heck ya!

Reflection

When will comunity leaders and activists realize that these corrupt elected officials never cared about solving the immigration problem?

They only reason the four Corruptos n the city council appointed the two illegal aliens was to ... cover up their corrupt misdeeds.

They are in violation of federal law, not just on immigration, but also for fraud and bribery.

We know where they are headed, now, don't we?

Illegal Immigration Breeds Corruption: Karina La Korrupta on the Take

The Los Angeles Times had an interesting story about Huntington Park today ...

Huntington Park councilwoman's consulting business raises questionsabout conflicts of interest

Karina Macias said she saw a business opportunity shortly after being elected to the Huntington Park City Council.

She decided to become a political consultant and parlay her connections throughout the community to help raise campaign contributions for other aspiring candidates.

"Parlay her connections"? How about calling it what it is? Influence peddling!

So far, she’s had only one client, raising $25,000 for a state Assembly race in 2016. For her efforts, she said, she received a percentage of the contributions raised, which totaled about $6,800 in commission.

Several of the contributions came from businesses — or people associated with them — who were awarded city contracts approved by Macias and her council colleagues, according to a Times review of campaign records and interviews.

EEK!

How many times have I been writing about this?

How many times have other residents and activists working in and around the city have blasted this corrupt city council?

In one case, Macias voted in favor of a city contract for a bus company that Huntington Park’s then-finance director complained was “completely inappropriate” because the deal short-changed city taxpayers.

Yes, it was inappropriate because it ended up costing the city more money.

Macias, who is running for reelection in the March council race, denied that contributions she raised as a political consultant influenced her decisions on awarding city contracts to those same contributors.

Wow! And Mexico has a big beautiful wall they want to sell us in Gualajara/

“It’s not swaying my vote in any way,” Macias said.

You're lying, Karina!

But some government watchdogs said her actions have the appearance of a conflict of interest and questioned whether she should have voted on contracts involving people who donated money to a campaign that paid her a percentage of those contributions.

“The question is, are these people really giving to the candidate or are they giving to her?” said Bob Stern, a government ethics expert and co-author of the Political Reform Act. “It’s the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this.”

It's a new scam. A  member of the Chamber of Commerce in Florence-Firestone told me about this.

Macias raised money for Efren Martinez, who opened a campaign fundraising committee to run for state Assembly in 2016. He had also raised money for a 2012 Assembly race. On both occasions, Martinez decided not to run. He now has a committee open to run in 2020.

Puppet Master Martinez is not running for office. He is running a corrupt machine politico who wants to run everyone else.

In 2015, Martinez’s campaign reported paying Macias for fundraising services, campaign filings show. Martinez’s financial disclosures show that among his donors was the company that received the city’s bus and dial-a-ride contracts, a legal services firm, towing contractors, and a vendor that provides street sweeping and bus stop maintenance.

Macias was also paid a $1,000 fundraising salary from another PAC run by Martinez called Saving Local Jobs, which also received contributions from city contractors.

However, that compensation was not based on commission. Stern said that  although it still raises conflict-of-interest concerns, they aren’t as serious.

In an interview with The Times, Macias confirmed several of the donors she raised money from.

Macias said she raised money from Erika Hernandez, wife of the general manager of the city’s bus and dial-a-ride contractor Metro Transit Services. Records show Hernandez donated $4,200 to Martinez’s campaign on May 29, 2015.

That month, Macias and the council majority voted to award Metro Transit the multimillion-dollar bus contract. A little over a year later, she voted to give the company a dial-a-ride contract worth more than $3 million.

Macias also voted for a contract amendment with the company that allowed it to lease new buses from the city. The five buses cost Huntington Park $260,000, but it leased them to Metro Transit Services for $100 a month per bus.

HUH?

The city’s finance director wrote in an email to the city manager that the bus leases were far below market value and “completely inappropriate.”

No kidding!

Macias also acknowledged raising donations from at least two others doing businesses with the city: Nationwide Environmental Services, the city’s street sweeping and bus stop maintenance vendor, and the owners of H.P. Automotive & Tow Service Inc.

Macias said she couldn’t recall other contributions from city contractors, or denied asking for them. The Times asked her for an example of a contribution she raised that was not associated with a city contractor. She couldn’t provide any and didn’t return phone calls following up on that request.

WOW! Karina La Korrupta!

In the case of Nationwide Environmental Services, Macias made the motion in April to give the company a bus stop maintenance contract worth more than $111,000 over two other bidders for the contract.

Macias said she decided to get into the political fundraising business after her parents fell ill and she was forced to quit her day job to care for them. The consulting business is a way to make extra income, and she said she has ambitions to build a more successful company.

Sure she has ambitions -- to rip off everyone else and enrich herself.

She said she figured she could ask people she’s “gotten to know as a councilwoman” for the money. She said she told contractors she would be getting paid commissions for delivering the money, but she denied discussing city business with any of the contributors while asking them for money.

“That’s pretty much my approach to fundraising,” Macias said.

Martinez described Macias’ role differently. He said he initially made contact with all of the contributors and got them to commit to contributions. But, the most difficult part of fundraising is collecting on those commitments, so he dispatched Macias to be the “bill collector.”

WHAT?!

Macias’ job was to make sure those people wrote the checks and to collect them, Martinez said. She was paid a combination of commissions and salary for the work, he said.

In either case, the fundraising arrangement is problematic, government watchdogs say.

Problematic? How about criminal?!

Jessica Levinson, a lecturer at Loyola Law School and member of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission, said the commissions give the appearance of a conflict of interest.

“I would say it’s a very unusual setup, and one that raises the specter of where her alliances are,” Levinson said. “It looks like what it might be, which is a kickback scheme, but not necessarily an illegal one.”

Karina La Korrupta is using her connections to get rich, and it is shameful that she is hiding behind her ill parents to justify her corruption. What would her father and  mother say to such perversity?

"Chucky Cheese" Martinez and Los Corruptitos de Huntington Park in Central Committee [UPDATE!]

The 53rd Democratic Central Committee added some new members.

The top vote-getter was Laura Herrera, who is running for Huntington Park City Council.

The Number Two vote getter (and I meaan #2 in every way) was Huntington Park City Councilwoman Karina Macias.

She was a DISTANT second according to the final tally.

Macias has been spending big money on flyers.

Yet she was 6,000 votes behind Herrera.

Not a good sign for an incumbent city councilwoman who wants to get reelected.

Now, check out these photos at the installation meeting for that Central Committee:

There we have Efren "Chuck Cheese" Martinez, the puppet-master of the four Corruptitos.

He owns that committee. That's what is happening.

Republicans have only begun waking up to the necessary influence of these committees. Democrats have understood for years how these voting blocs, which recruit, endorse, and fundraise candidates, wield an inordinate amount of power.

Martinez is buying up influence with his PAC money from his aborted assembly race for the 59th.

And look who else was there ...

There's Kreepy Karina, sitting with her girlfriend Graciela.

Ugh.

The whole thing is just sickening.

These ratas con cuatro patas must be exterminated.

The vermin can and will be chased out of Huntington Park!

The Democratic Central committees in Southeast LA County are a cauldron of conflict and corruption.

They need to be emptied out and cleansed thoroughly.

Let's start with Huntington Park!

UPDATE!

Another source has confirmed what I had feared.

This Democratic Central Committee meeting took place at Kenneth Hahn Hall, where the Board of Supervisors meets!

This is a massive abuse of public funds! OUTRAGEOUS!

"Cudahy Really Cares" Exposes Uncaring Chris Gudahy Corruptitos!

Cudahy Really Cares is another Facebook page exposing the corrupt city councilman Chris Garcia of Cudahy and the rest of the Southeastern LA County region:

Here are the contents from the page's June 17, 2015: ·

The following statement was heard during Garcia, Markovich, Hernandez and Sanchez preparation meeting to go to NALEO, Las Vegas Event

Christ Gracia mention to his colleagues from Cudahy Council:

“Cudahy is a city were illegal’s live and we can use them as platform to move up the political latter.

The illegal paisas do not have education and are afraid of making complains about elected officials.

The illegal paisas are happy just working minimum wage jobs and the paisas are now the brute labor force.”

“Is funny who Christ has played with the feelings of illegal’s living in Cudahy at the dumpsters of movile homes infested with flying rats and cucharchas” Council member Hernandez said.

“ Remember my friends we have an Invasion! from succumbs to illegals said

NOTE:

Christ Garcia is late in the declaration Cudahy Sanctuary for Illegal Immigrants.

Maywood California was declared Sanctuary for Illegal Immigrants under the corrupted politician Felipe Aguirre.

Former Maywood City Council Felipe Aguirre is a personal friend of Robert Rizzo.

Is important to mention Felipe Aguirre provided support to help Christ Garcia get elected in Cudahy.

Chris Garcia is now working to pay back the help he got and help Felipe Aguirre get elected one more time Maywood Ca in the upcoming city elections at Maywood CA.

Cudahy City Council Meeting - Tuesday, January 6th at 6:30pm

Council Chambers, 5220 Santa Ana Street, Cudahy, CA 90201

January 6, 2015 (Cudahy, CA) - As a valued member of our community, a member of social justice and human rights issues, we are hopeful that you will join Mayor Chris Garcia, residents, and law enforcement on Tuesday as they support the City of Cudahy becoming a Sanctuary City for all residents, regardless of immigration status.

Christ Garcia is playing with the hearts of undocumented in Cudahy Ca.

Is important to mention California is taking steps to solve immigration problems.

Christ Garcia has not concentrated in finding solutions to manage the resources of the local city.

First fact: President Barack Obama with Democrats and Republicans are working to find solutions to the immigrant problem in the nation.

Second fact: Jerry Brown California, Governor influenced DMV system to give driver licenses to undocumented persons.

Third fact: Los Angeles County Sherriff Department made the decision to not participate with Immigration and Nationally Act, 287g program

DACA

On June 15, 2012, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced that certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal.

On November 20, 2014, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would not deport certain undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and parents of lawful permanent residents (LPRs). The president also announced an expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for youth who came to the United States as children. Under a directive from the secretary of DHS, these parents and youth may be granted a type of temporary permission to stay in the U.S. called “deferred action.” These programs are expected to help up to 4.4 million people, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

May 2014 Los Angeles County Sherriff Department and their Departments Executives for their commitment to protect human rights and suspending participation in the Immigration and Nationally Act, 287g program

By: Luis E. Ayala

For: Cudahy Really Cares