Posted on 02/27/2007 3:44:35 PM PST by ruination
The first sign of trouble for Cudahy City Council candidate Tony Mendoza was a pair of thong panties mailed to his wife, with a note telling her to watch her husband’s back. Then came the phone calls — and the death threats.
A political novice in a tiny city of Mexican immigrants that hasn’t had an election since 1999, Mendoza had expected dirty tricks. But to his dismay, the caller, who spoke poor English and called every day for three days, said Mendoza would be killed if he did not leave Cudahy, a 1.2-square-mile city 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. After the third call, Mendoza pulled out of the March 6 race. “I have my family to think about,” he said.
Running for council seats against a slate of incumbents in a city infested with gangs and drugs, Danny Cota and Luis Garcia faced similar tactics. A truck owned by Garcia, a former city employee, was painted with graffiti, and ex-felon and Cudahy city employee Gerardo Vallejo sought a restraining order against Garcia for criminal threats. A judge tossed the complaint, but Garcia’s campaign was rattled.
In late December, at a holiday gathering at the City Club in downtown Los Angeles hosted by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Cota ran into Bell Gardens Councilman Mario Beltran, who was perplexed to see Cota, a 29-year-old teacher, hobnobbing and being photographed with Villaraigosa and others.
“Who brought him here?” Councilman Beltran asked onlookers, some of whom are friends of Cudahy’s Vice Mayor, Osvaldo Conde, who is running for re-election. “You better watch out,” Beltran warned Cota, the bright-eyed challenger. “Conde will take care of you with his cuerno de chivo.”
Though Beltran was smiling as he tossed off some Mexican slang for an AK-47, Cota says he did not appreciate such talk.
(Excerpt) Read more at laweekly.com ...
Maybe Rudy will designate it a sanctuary city, like NY
Rudy will win the nomination and you'll still be a petty troll.
Good to know.
The same upstanding business practices they use to keep Mexico at the forefront of the world's economy are being imported into America.
If he does it will be an utter disgrace. Shame on those who support the socialist lite RINOs.
Socialist Lite my @$$!
They are full out SOCIALISTS!
Heck, that almost describes most all L.A. suburbs to the north and east, and lots of scattered suburbs elswhere like Oxnard, Santa Paula, etc.
Agreed, I made the error of understatement.
Gee, never though I'd be called a troll pushing for rock ribbed conservatives on America's premier CONSERVATIVE website. Go back and read the mission statement, sparky.
Can't we comment on the article without mentioning Rudy?
Haven't you heard the golden rule on FR?
Speak no ill of Open Borders Sovereignty Selling RINOs!
Read the thread, idiot.
Panning Rudy on unrelated threads isn't what the FR mission statement states.
No
That was my point...there's plenty of Rudy threads to shrill over.
If I said the town must be run by democrats, would your panties still by knotted in your arse?
What, no Snake Plisken photos yet?
RINO is and will, unfortunately, ALWAYS be a relevant term.
I wonder if you even know what it means.
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