Comment: Back to the news, Albert’Little Al Robles still has a lot of bones to choose from

When the world calls you “Little Al”, you will do what you need to see.

That’s what I thought about last week at the Porsche Experience Center in Carson with the city’s former mayor Albert Robles.

He is not Albert Robles, he was found guilty 19 years ago because he was the $20 million treasurer, which is Al Robles. Small Al is a man who has been trying to become a politician in Los Angeles County for more than 30 years, until almost always inadequate, his career went from controversial to controversial.

In 2006, he represented three people who moved to Vernon and tried to take over the city council. They were all lost. That same year, Little Al represented Big Al (no, they don’t actually have anything to do) in the latter’s sentencing and believed that his clients should be leniency because what he did in California politics was common. The Chairman Judge replied: “What you just said is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of.”

The Fair Political Practice Commission fined Robles $12,000 the second year after being elected Mayor of Carson in 2015 to resolve allegations of violating campaign laws. Two years after that, Robles served on the board of the Southern California Water Supply District, an obscure institution that provides water to 44 cities in Los Angeles County — a seat that was ruled while the Superior Court judge ruled that he could not serve as mayor.

He lost his mayoral seat in the 2020 general election after bidding for county supervisors in the primary earlier that year. Robs has been unsuccessful in two other games since the 2022 Los Angeles County Superior Court seat, with only 8.5% of the vote last year.

“I kept thinking I’m done and then not done yet,” the 56-year-old joked during the conversation. The Cayman and Carreras roared on the test track as we hang out on the nearby terrace. “It’s like they dragged me back.”

We meet is the latest waltzer with the headlines: He is the attorney for former Huntington Park Councilman Esmeralda Castillo. She is suing the city for retrieval of seats after an internal investigation found that Castillo was not a resident of the suburbs of Los Angeles County. The board declared the seats open and then chose a substitute.

“Does she live in [Huntington Park]whether she is an angel or not, whether she is Charles Manson or not, it doesn’t matter: she is deprived of the process that we all have the right to. ” Robles said.

Well, Manson?

He also represents other Valentin Amezquita, a former Huntington Park Commission member, is in another lawsuit against the city. That People asked the city to hold a special election for Castillo’s former seat, which Amezquita applied for.

Wait, aren’t litigation conflicting with each other?

The judge told him the same thing, Robles admitted. He told me that he applied to them to reveal what he described as “hypocrisy” in Huntington Park because it was said to follow the city charter of Castillo Matter, but ignored it when choosing her alternative.

“It’s like what I’ve seen, it’s like what’s happening at the federal level,” Robles complained. Earlier, he compared Castillo’s alleged lack of due process with Kilmar Abrego Garcia of the El Salvador nation who illegally expelled his home country. “It’s frustrating.”

The more he said, the more obvious he saw Robles as the crusad he had always thought he was and was not to himself.

Carson Mayor Albert Robles talked about the $480 million desalination plant at El Segundo in 2019 at the Carson Event Center.

(Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times)

He was dissatisfied with a lot.

He continued to complain about the former Los Angeles county. Atti. Steve Cooley,,,,, He described it as “corruption…I call him his face.” Cooley told Times in 2013 that when Robles opposed him in 2008, his political past may be the most unqualified candidate ever.”

Robles brags about knocking Curley out of his career.

“It’s an exaggeration to me – exaggeration, but I actually praise it.” Cooley lost his bid to become California attorney general in 2010. “Because when I opposed him, I made him spend money – otherwise he would have had for the AG race. [Cooley] If he had to spend an extra million dollars for the DA game, he might have won. ”

He believes that Latino politicians need to top the list like he thinks other races.

A suitable example: A Los Angeles County District Attorney Dirty Pond operates an investigation into a long-extended Huntington Park water park. In February, investigators raided the city hall and the houses of seven people, including two former council members and two current members. Robles said the investigation did not make sense and further demonstrated that Latino politicians had higher standards than other politicians.

“If Esmeralda was black or Asian, or hell-I dare say-even white, I think that would be different. Honestly, I believe that. Because these communities are willing to throw away their differences for the better benefit because they know, hey, if one is abused, we will all.”

Once he realized that I wanted to discuss my political suffering as much as my clients, Roberts said the better environment for us to chat would be the Albert Robles Center, a water treatment center in Pico Rivera that opened in 2019.

“This structure, you know, now everyone loves it. Everyone is celebrating it’s there. But it’s amazing, it’s amazing: There’s no environmental group, no one comes out to support our efforts to build it. …No one works harder than I do for that building.”

This caused more dissatisfaction.

Robles felt pain because the “Latino Power Elite” in Los Angeles hadn’t heard him and devoted more time and energy to the South Bay, where Latinos make up the majority of the population in many cities, but with little political representation.

“They just see us as different, and the resources that have never been realized in organizing and building a political power base,” he said. “I don’t know if they see it as ‘oh, these are richer communities, they don’t need our help.’ I don’t know.”

He was also “frustrated” by black residents who opposed the Carson area elections, which could bring more Latinos to the council. They were introduced in 2020 after alleged Latino voters were deprived of their lawsuit in the city. Since then, no Latino has been elected to the city council.

“We would have members of the African American community show up and say, ‘Well, we have a Latino mayor. We don’t need a region. Latino people should vote – stop speaking Spanish and learn to vote.’ And I would say, “You know, everything you say is what white people say to black people in the South.” So, like some people forget their history, now we seem to be trapped in “if it wasn’t our politics, it could not have been them.”

We climbed up the viewing deck of the Porsche Experience Center upstairs so Robles could take pictures. The worker in the venue restaurant greeted him and drew the first real smile Robbs flashed all afternoon.

Then he mentioned that somewhere in the building was his name. I think it will be a plaque to mark the 2016 debut of the Porsche Experience Center at the Mayor of Robles. But it turns out that his John Hancock and a bunch of others were on the whiteboards in the room facing the parking lot.

The room was locked.

Robles was yelling about whether he should ask the staff to turn it on so we can take a better look. Instead, we stared at the window.

“It’s right there,” he told me, trying to describe the exact location in all the other signatures. “Well, you’re not familiar with it, so you probably won’t see it.”

He can.