How did Tito Ortiz nearly end up the mayor of Huntington Beach? jon_wetrtheim and yay_yee looked into the former fighter's turn as a Trumpian figure in local politics
. Given that all of the incumbent members had already served as mayor, the position was given to Ortiz, the newly elected member who had received the most votes.) This was no local dog catcher job. Huntington Beach is a city with a population of 200,000 and an annual budget exceeding $400 million. And as mayor pro tem, Ortiz was in line to serve as mayor during the second year of his term.
Also in January he showed up at a strategic planning meeting at Huntington Beach’s Central Library. Again maskless, he was barred from participating in person. Meanwhile, even over Zoom, council meetings became as contentious as UFC fights. Five of the council’s seven members, a group that included Mike Posey, a conservative, pushed for meetings to be held in person in March on the condition that everyone wear masks. Ortiz responded that he would rather be escorted out by the police than comply.
Carr told Ortiz: “We all have differences. We all have love and hate mail. We all get attacked. Welcome to politics. You are a politician. That’s part of the game. I hope you like it. That's what you signed up for, and you’re in it for the next four years.”without masks.
When it came to naming his replacement, Ortiz endorsed Gracey Van Der Mark, a finance commissioner who had finished fourth in the November general election, and, according toThe council, which would vote to choose Ortiz’s replacement, whittled the slate of 100 candidates to three: Van Der Mark; Jeff Morin, vice-chair of the city’s commission on air traffic; and Rhonda Bolton, a local attorney. On July 26, by a 4–2 vote, Bolton became Huntington Beach’s first Black council member.
Residents say that Ortiz may no longer be a member of city council, but the embers from his tumultuous few months continue to smolder. To those still showing up to heckle at meetings, he is an encapsulation of a well-intentioned outsider, bullied out by leftist politics and elites. To everybody else, he is an encapsulation of what Trump has wrought, an outspoken celebrity who tried to disrupt and destabilize the status quo.
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