But for the record, there’s no reason to pillory the guy for splitting from a woman he clearly hasn’t been in love with for 15 years. It’s just that it’s too easy for Lopez et al to have a field day with a woman who goes up the ladder from Nunez to Padilla to the Mayor. What guy wants to marry a woman who’s been passed around among his closest friends?

Don’t jump into marrying this woman, Antonio. Let her leave town, the whole thing die down, show some results with your schools initiative, bring in business from Asia…Then after a year of this, it will have blown over. When you do remarry have her history checked out. Like it or not, she will be a leader in the community. A woman can be hot and have integrity. You need a woman to give you stability, and be a stepmom your kids can take to school, not reinforce your image as a playboy.

This advice is free, and I’m not Ace Smith.

Usually it’s multiple links that set it off. I haven’t a clue what did it this time (as I saw no reference in your post to either Viagra or Rolex watches.) If it ever happens again, bring it to our attention as you did, or email me.

Not one person has come forward to defend Rocky, which is pretty telling, but he’s angered everyone from Baca (who he tried to discredit over Paris, being too stupid to “remember” that his own wife and he himself drove without insurance, in her case also with suspended licence, crscking up city cars all the while…), to DA Cooley, whose job he wants, by demoted felonies to misdemeanors to grab attention and apparently every other city official and his deputies.

Meanwhile, he remembered to “pressure” a senior deputy to give favorable treatment to an “influential grocer” who has recently been indicted for majuor felonies, including putting out a contract hit on someone. The guy may have been bugging him, but fee, how many of us actually go around killing our opponents? There was the billboard scam a while ago, kicking things off — after billboard companies made a large donation, he actually fostered MORE billboards across town, against the vehement opposition of residents and their elected officials, and the good of the city. (To date, the billboard companies have gotten even more privileges regarding secrecy from the D A’s office, directly going against the City Council.)

Does anyone really think this guy needs help doing himself in? He just plain looks and acts dumb and dorky; his “Gee, I’m sorry, I’ll be a better boy,” is too little, too late, and too wimpy.

I’m not for or against any camp, but I resent Alan’s so- called journalistic ethics and grandstanding here, stirring up things that don’t exist.

But as for Rocky, isn’t it pretty telling that NO ONE is coming forward in his defense? Surely, the whole city can’t be in on this “conspiracy” with the mayor. Conversely, it seems everyone has their own valid reasons to dislike Rocky, starting with Baca — who Rocky publicly insulted and opened up to questions about HIS integrity, while being too just plain STUPID to remember that his own wife was doing a Paris AND cracking up cars at city expense, and oh, yeah, that he himself, our chief law enforcer, forget to see if his dingbat wife (whom he blames for this mess, not very gallantly) “remembered” to get him insurance, too. (No.) And he didn’t check to see if she had a business license…
The guy just seems stupid, as he also has in his press conferences about this, and his “gee, I’m sorry, but I’ll try to be a good boy from now on” pleas to be allowed to stay and play in the sandbox some more.

And pushed a senior deputy to be lenient toward an “influential grocer” who has been recently indicted for serious felonies, including putting out a contract hit.

In the past, he got away with things like taking very large contributions from billboard companies, then allowing dozens of huger, bigger, illiminated glitier ones, to be put up in direct defiance of the heated demands of constituents and their elected representative. The Times reminded us of this recently, as well it should.

How much outside help does this guy need, bringing him down?

I’m not a supporter of any “camp,” by the way, but I think Alan’s self-serving harassment of Smith to try to “prove” he was correct in the first place, is just his own egomania.

But Alan: who is holding the red wine, and does that guy with his hands in his pockets symbolize something he is also hiding, you know, a “deep pockets” metaphor you can pursue?