At a recent City Council meeting in the City of Barstow a local political activist accused the 72-year-old GOP Mayor of Barstow Lawrence Dale and his buddies over at the local Masonic Lodge of frequently using a racial slur to refer to Barstow City Councilman Joe Gomez.
Gomez, of latino heritage, was raised in Barstow and was elected to the City Council in November 2004 after being endorsed by the Barstow Police Officers' Association.
Recently it has come to light that Mayor Dale who began a life-long career with the Santa Fe Railroad at age 17 failed to graduate from high school.
Dale and Gomez have often been often at odds over the direction Barstow should take if it hopes to attract an Indian gaming resort that could serve as an economic catalyst for the struggling desert community.
In 2006, an independent council majority appointed Hector Rodriguez as City Manager of Barstow much to the dislike of Mayor Dale. Since then, Dale has worked behind the scenes to undermine Rodriguez and recently succeeded at pushing Rodriguez out of City Hall. Gomez had hoped to retain Rodriguez as City Manager.
While Mayor Dale may be playing to his base with these alledged racist comments, nearly 40% of Barstow residents indicate they are Hispanic; and according to the San Bernardino Registrar of Voters, 40% of Barstow voters are registered Democrat; while 34% are registered GOP.
2 comments:
Give me a freakin break! All of a sudden the mayor is a racist because Rocky says that he is. That is just to much, I am starting to get the impression that the ol verifiable truth is starting to just put any ol thing it hears on here.
How bout this, Larry refers to E.T. as "The Alien", or how bout Conan as "The Destroyer" or even Indian as Injuns. How do we know this is truth, because Splixx says so. If you are gonna put this kind of stuff on here at least back it up, come on your better than this.
By and by Dale does stike me as a racist and I don't know what it is about his voice on all these youtube videos but they give me the heebie-jeebies.
TVT heard about these comments some time ago. But the earlier sources who are credible and who reported hearing Mayor Dale say these comments first-hand have chosen to remain anonymous.
TVT only decided to post information on these comments when it was discovered that the circumstances were raised during a regular meeting of the City Council.
Note that TVT has published these comments as "alledged comments" although TVT has had the incident verified with others.
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