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05-03-2009, 12:13 PM #1
Scandal-plagued Hispanic Chamber seeks rescue SDUT
San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial
Sullied leadership
Scandal-plagued Hispanic Chamber seeks rescue from ex-slumlord
2:00 a.m. May 3, 2009
The San Diego County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is reeling.
A former employee was just sentenced to jail for embezzling at least $70,000. Fallout lingers from a 2007 blow-up in which several board members resigned after accusing the group's former president of poor administration, including suggestions of irregularities in the way she collected commission income. And the organization has cut back services and staffing, but is nonetheless operating with a $28,000 deficit – just five years after having cash reserves of nearly $240,000.
Typically in situations like this, organizations bring in leaders with unimpeachable reputations for integrity to repair their tarnished images.
Think of the San Diego Red Cross, disgraced by revelations of financial mismanagement at the start of the decade, bringing in a former police chief and a retired admiral to restore respectability and get things back on track.
So, when the Hispanic Chamber realized the need for a new board chairman, to which sterling community giant did it turn for instant credibility and unsullied leadership? Nick Inzunza.
That's right, the former National City mayor forced to end his quest for higher office and retire from politics after a 2005 Union-Tribune investigation detailed that he was a slumlord who regularly evicted his low-income tenants when they complained about things such as rats, holes in walls, lack of heat and plumbing problems.
He is also the Inzunza who:
Unsuccessfully tried to create a retirement plan that would have given him up to 30 percent of his mayoral salary for life.
Recommended a developer group for a city project without disclosing that the group had given him $4,200 in campaign contributions.
Was fined $2,000 by the San Diego Ethics Commission for failing to disclose information about donors to a political committee he controlled.
The Hispanic Chamber is a private organization, albeit one that receives taxpayers' money disbursed by the county Board of Supervisors, including $40,000 in the current fiscal year. Its members are free to elect their own chairman. But Nick Inzunza to rescue a scandal-plagued organization? Seriously?
What could possibly go wrong?
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05-03-2009, 12:54 PM #2
Sounds like good news to me!!!
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