Remember our little exchange of words back a few days ago regarding Rosario Marin? On the topic of Joe Baca in the WSJ, I wrote about

“Everyone here seems to be missing the biggest story of them all. If Joe Baca is partly to blame, them partly to blame should be Rosario Marin. Does anybody remember her? She is Gov. Schwarzenegger’s’s Secretary of Consumer Affairs, a $4 Billion state agency (yes, Billion with a B).

Rosario Marin was paid by a Republican consulting firm (DCI) to secretly lobby only targeted Republicans in the U.S. Congress to reduce oversight of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

How Rosario went from being a councilwoman in Huntington Park, CA, to being handpicked by GWB as the nation’s 41st U.S. Treasury, a largely ceremonial post, was beyond anybody’s comprehension. What all of us must understand is that Rosario is as much to blame as the Joe Baca’s.

Marin’s meteoric rise through the Republican ranks is built on a tiny little city of barely 65,000 residents that is Huntington Park in Southeast L.A. County.

Rosario is one of the dirtiest of corrupt politicians, Latino or otherwise. She is an extremely shrewd politician. Her political proteges in Huntington Park are giving contracts worth millions of dollars exclusively to Marin’s friends. One of her proteges has been convicted of Grand Theft of public funds while he was the mayor of Huntington Park. The majority city council is now controlled by Rosario’s other proteges.

Yet nobody’s called her on her role in the meltdown. Folks, she made money on the deal back in 2005 and look at what her consulting gig was holding back, a financial meltdown.”

Anna and I settled on a common ground understanding about the ethically challenged Rosario Marin. And then this about her resignation hits.

None of this is surprising to the Editor at WatchOurCity.com. It is a pattern of ethically challenged behavior that has been set since 1994, when she first ran for public office.

I’ve simply been reporting the on the trail she leaves behind. The very last thing I want to say is “I told you so”.

The Editor,

WatchOurCity.com

1) I don’t know if the stimulus plan has “pork” in it. In case you haven’t noticed the Republicans call all spending on infrastructure “pork” or “earmarks.” That’s their whole strategy. Money for schools? Pork. Money for highways? Pork. Money for healthcare. Pork.

A 750 billion dollar handout to Wall St crooks who are giving themselves billions of dollars in bonuses? Necessary spending.

Furthermore in Obama’s stimulus plan only 18% is being spent on infrastructure. 40% is going to tax cuts and the rest to more handouts for Wall St crooks and military contractors.

2) Will the stimulus surpass all other Presidents in spending? I don’t know. So far, Dubya holds the record and this is HIS mess.

I also know that this economy hasn’t hit bottom yet.

..your thoughts please.

I knew her when I was a teenager. She was considered a natural born leader.

That book plots the Southern Strategy the Republicans have been using for the last 40 years. The last section of the book notes that Latinos could put an end to the Southern Strategy, and that’s exactly what happened.