Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The DISSENT FILES part 2: the time trustee TOM FUENTES made the SOCCCD an international laughingstock

We wrote about the incident (and our part in it) here:

Trustee Fuentes’ Spanish Adventure —or “No one would do that!” 

That we substantially damaged the odious Mr. Fuentes' career is one of our proudest achievements!

I took some videos the first of which set off the media firestorm. Check them out.

VIDEO 1: Trustee Fuentes' Spanish Adventure (2/05): abandonment!
 
  

As often before, Rebel Girl and I seized an opportunity. The morning after the board meeting, I sent a transcript of Fuentes' remarkable words to the Register, but the brass there wanted video. We quickly burned the digital video footage to a DVD and brought that to the Register in Santa Ana. Soon thereafter, the story broke (with our video footage) and it went national, then international, greatly embarrassing the "board majority" to which we were very much opposed. At the time, County Republicans were very polarized about Fuentes, who had just stepped down from a 20-year stint as chair, and the brass at the Register were among Fuentes' greatest detractors. All of this is explained in Trustee Fuentes’ Spanish Adventure —or “No one would do that!”

VIDEO 2: Trustee Fuentes' Spanish Adventure, part 2 (March 2005)
Public comments are strongly against the board's action.

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