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Tuesday, October 27, 2010
Editor, WatchOurCity.com

Huntington Park, Ca -

L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich endorses John Wong. So does
the L.A. Times.

The Times stated that Wong has no "political entanglements", this in
reference to Wong's opponent, Noguez, who is deeply entangled with
Bell's corrupt officials, having given millions of dollars to George Cole
in rigged contracts for bus transportation services and redevelopment
affordable housing contracts.

WatchOurCity.com also endorses John Wong for L.A. County Assessor.

John Wong's opponent, John Noguez, is mayor of Huntington Park, a
city adjacent to Bell. Several municipal management experts have
labeled the entire southeast cities as bastions of corruption.

Imagine the Assessor's office being run by a man with only a high
school diploma, no college degree, who lied about having one, lied
about being a financial expert, who has never managed a business
unit, nor has supervised even one employee, and whose fool-hardy
political games have ruined the finances of one city, leading it on a
path to insolvency, who all of a sudden is running a one trillion dollar
tax roll, the largest on American soil, and will manage a staff of 1,600.

A man whose political portfolio includes intimate "political
entanglements" with Bell's corrupt and indicted officials, whose
awarded rigged million dollar contracts to Bell's former mayor George
Cole, and whose past two campaign managers have been both
convicted of crimes. That man is John Noguez.

Noguez's fiscal responsibility in Huntington Park has been anything
but constrained. Under Noguez, the city of Huntington Park has the
distinction of having the highest payed city attorney in the entire
state of California. Francisco Leal, was hired by Noguez's slate of
fellow council members in closed door session in December 2003. Leal
donated thousands of dollars to the Noguez team. In fiscal year
2009-2010, the city clerk reports that city attorney Francisco Leal has
been paid over $700,000. By contrast, L.A. City attorney Carmen
Trutanich makes around $300,000 per year and manages a staff of
1,200.

Mr. Wong is the best candidate for L.A. County Assessor. He has a
degree. Ran a successful business, hired staff, and has for the past
15 years been Chairman of the L.A. County Assessment Board.

Noguez on the other hand has been a long-time civil service employee
of the Assessor's office. Despite touting his longevity and experience
in the assessor's office, was not able to be promoted to Deputy
Assessor in all those years precisely due to his lack of a college
degree. The lack of a college degree has kept him from promotion and
the added professional responsibility of managing others. Again, the
lack of a college degree has disqualified Noguez from managing even
one county employee.

If the Assessor's own promotion rules kept Noguez from being
promoted to Deputy Assessor, what would possibly qualify Noguez to
take chief Assessor's seat? There are Senior Deputy Assessors with
PhD's who will be told what to do by a college dropout who has
financially failed his city, and has participated in outright corruption
practices in the city of Huntington Park. Currently, the D.A. has
opened a preliminary investigation into Noguez's false name issue.
Noguez was born Reynaldo Rodriguez, and has never changed his
name legally in a court of law to John Noguez.

Noguez has deep political ties to the Bell corruption scandal, has lied
and deceived voters about who he really is and about his academic
credentials.

In Huntington Park the bar is quite low for entry into city council.
Along with not having a degree, not having a job also qualifies one for
a city council seat. Noguez's slate includes Mario Gomez and Ofelia
Hernandez, neither have been gainfully employed for decades, let
alone have a college degree. A third councilman was appointed by
Noguez when the 2009 elections were cancelled due to a lack of
candidates. This appointee also does not work. All assure that
Noguez's public policy proclivities have a high rate of passage.

The Assessor's office should have a higher standard for qualifications.
Evidently, according to Supervisors Don Knabe, Gloria Molina, Zev
Yaroslavski and Mark Ridley-Thomas, the Assesor's office has the
same low bar as Huntington Park and the rest of the corrupt
southeast cities of Bell, Maywood, Cudahy and Vernon.
Tuesday July 13, 2010
Update Wednesday July 14,
2010
The Editor,
WatchOurCity.com
Depriving the Public of
Honest Services: Bell,
Maywood, Huntington
Park, LAUSD
Fiduciary fail by Maywood, Bell,
Huntington Park officials.
Tuesday July 13, 2010
The Editor,
WatchOurCity.com
Huntington Park in $1.2
Million Fiscal Deficit Partly
Caused by City of Bell's
George Cole
Mayor Noguez gave George Cole
millions
Monday, October 4, 2010 6:00 am
WatchOurCity.com
Mayor Noguez in bed with
George Cole: Awards  
Multi-Million Dollar Housing
Redevelopment contract to
Cole, Recently Arrested by
the D.A. & sued by the AG
Huntington Park's
Redevelopment Agency awards
$3.8 million for Fiscal Year
2009-2010 to Cole's Oldtimers.
Monday, September 27, 2010 6:00 am
WatchOurCity.com
Mayor Noguez  
Implicated in Bell
Scandal with Cole
Noguez directed multi-million
dollar contracts to George Cole's
Oldtimers Foundation, shared
convicted felon as campaign
managers with George Cole.
Monday, September 27, 2010,
WatchOurCity.com
Huntington Park's Mayor
John Noguez Shakes down
Charter School for
campaign Contribution in
Exchange for Project
Approval
Mayor John Noguez and City
Attorney Leal called meeting
with Charter school. Noguez is
running for L.A. County Assessor.
September 24, 2010,
WatchOurCity.com
Huntington Park Attorney
Francisco Leal making
$630,000, more than twice
city of L.A.'s Attorney
Mayor John Noguez authorized
payments to Leal, and is good
friend to Bell's George Cole.
Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010, 6:00 am,
WatchOurCity.com
Supervisor Antonovich
sends formal request to
D.A. to investigate John
Noguez
Antonovich "referred" letter to
the D.A.s' office "for his review
and appropriate action".
Complaint seeks to investigate
Huntington Park mayor John
Noguez based on allegations
that his legal name is John
Rodriguez. Noguez is in a
November runoff race against
John Wong for Assessor.
Monday October 11, 2010 6:00 am
WatchOurCity.com
Times Endorses John Wong  
for County Assessor, Again
Noguez Fails Endorsement
"Political entanglements" says
L.A. Times as reason not to
endorse Huntington Park mayor
John Noguez for Assessor.
Noguez awarded rigged
multi-million dollar contracts to
Bell's George Cole, recently
arrested by the D.A. in Bell's
corruption scandal.
Academic Degree Scandal  
Widens - Huntington Park's  
mayor Noguez Does not  
have a College Degree
Noguez did not inform voters he
failed to get a college degree.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 6:00 am
WatchOurCity.com
D.A. Steve Cooley
Rescinds Noguez
Endorsement
Cooley is first elected official to
rescind endorsement of John
Noguez for County Assessor.
Noguez is Huntington Park's
mayor implicated in Bell scandal.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:00 am
WatchOurCity.com
Mayor Noguez's
Fiscal Policies
leading city to
financial ruin
Mayor Noguez and George Cole
urged Huntington Park voters to
pass Measures E in November
2009. Noguez told voters
Measures patched hole in city's
budget, instead used for
interest-only payments on $23
million bond slated exclusively
for PD retirement benefits,
taking up 75% of budget;
bankruptcy is next.
Huntington Park's HP Tow
in Bed with mayor John
Noguez
Tow company donated
thousands of dollars to Noguez,
in turn received lucrative
contracts. Noguez ordered Police
to tow more cars.