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by Jay Beeler
I am not surprised that city prosecutor wannabe Tim O’Reilly is plastering the city with illegal campaign signs [see Kirt Ramirez’s front-page story]. The team of Reeves and O’Reilly has little regard for the laws they pretend to enforce. They are certainly not doing the job that Reeves is elected to do, especially in the areas of code enforcement and environmental protection.
Their ongoing corrupt, unlawful, malicious prosecution actions — as well as promoting themselves at great expense to the taxpayers — are a citywide embarrassment.
They would have been perfect for the roles of Adolf “how fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think” Hitler and Hermann “shoot first and ask questions later” Goering back in the 1940s. But this is a different era and these two need to be terminated as soon as humanly possible. Election Day on April 13 has a nice ring to it.
Our current online web poll asks readers if they agree or disagree with the Press-Telegram’s endorsement of Doug Haubert for city prosecutor and Robert Shannon for another term as city attorney. So far the voting has been evenly split, though I don’t know why. Shannon may be “the lesser of two evils” but clearly O’Reilly and Reeves are unqualified for any elective office. Haubert will be a breath of fresh air … just like the new chief of police, Jim McDonnell.
So we’ll leave the poll in place another two weeks and see what happens. Go to www.longbeachcomber.com to vote and e-mail comments to editor@longbeachcomber.com.
On a very personal level, what I have learned these past 10 years as a newspaper publisher is nothing short of shocking. Being a policeman used to be a respectable profession, now we know for a fact that many will lie to your face as well as lie on the witness stand. “The end justifies the means” is their mantra. It doesn’t stop there, going upward to the command level, attorneys of all shapes and sizes, plus the judges as well.
Honesty and integrity be damned. Who would have ever thought that the lowly used car salesman would rise above the judges, lawyers and police in terms of “Whom do you trust?” Even a used car salesman respects the law.
When Steve James, the head of the LB Police Officers Association starts dictating who should be your elected representative in the Third District or who should be the city manager, it’s time for a reality check. Get mad, people, require them to register as the influence-peddling lobbyists that they are. Vote against everything they stand for, including their “donning and doffing lawsuit.” What clowns they are.
Thursday morning, Mar. 4, former Beachcomber carrier and Los Altos resident Anthony Guzman was skateboarding to Wilson High School at Park Ave. and Anaheim St. at about 7:35 a.m. when he was struck by an eastbound, dark color vehicle, possibly a Mercedes. Guzman fell to his right hip, then landed on his left shoulder and head.
The male Asian driver repeatedly told Guzman to “get in the car” in an apparent attempt to avoid drawing attention to the incident. Young Guzman responded “No, I don’t know you.” The driver then got back in his car and left the scene without calling police or paramedics.
Guzman crawled to the curb to avoid being struck again in the street. His mother, Lillian, is very grateful to an unknown “nicely dressed, guardian-angel” woman who stopped to aid her son and took him along with her two daughters to Wilson, where Guzman was seen by a school nurse. He was subsequently taken to Community Hospital by his mother and kept overnight.
Lillian Guzman is asking anyone who may have witnessed the hit-and-run incident to contact Long Beach Police Accident Investigations at (562) 570-7355 (reference DR100015120) and is willing to offer a small reward. Anthony was anxious to get back to school this week, escaping with a “football size” bruise on his hip as well as cuts, contusions and abrasions.
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