Open Letter to Supervisor Gloria Molina
Ξ April 20th, 2008 | → | ∇ 90041, 90042, 90065, Food, Glassell Park, Highland Park |
We recently heard back from Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina regarding her proposed taco truck legislation. Unsatisfied with the response, we here at YORK BLVD. have crafted an open letter below. Read it and let us know what you think. Better yet, write your own to Supervisor Molina.
Thank you for contacting my office to express your views regarding the
proposed changes to the Los Angeles County peddling ordinance. Please be
aware that this ordinance is effective only in the unincorporated areas
of Los Angeles County. The proposed changes to the ordinance allow peddlers to remain in one location in a commercial zone for one hour. The current ordinance permits 30 minutes in one location. For your information, vending from a sidewalk has never been permitted in Los Angeles County. Our ordinance will protect the health and welfare of our residents and respect the needs of our business community.If you require additional assistance with a County-related matter, please do not hesitate to contact my office at (323) 881-4601.
Thank you.
Sincerely, GLORIA MOLINA
Supervisor, First District
Dear Supervisor Molina,
Thank you for responding to our concerns regarding your recent ordinance affecting taco trucks in Los Angeles County. As residents of Northeast Los Angeles, we wholeheartedly support a thriving business community that includes “brick and mortar” restaurants. While we understand there are many conflicting interests involved, we are concerned the measures passed by the board of supervisors do not best promote the health and welfare of our community. Forcing hard working men and women, who we object to being classified as “peddlers,” to move too frequently to earn a sustainable income is not an effective means of addressing the health needs of the community. If the aim of this ordinance is the health of the community, you might consider stepping up inspections and more diligent enforcement of existing health codes. If the aim is to improve the welfare of the community, find a compromise that allows more established businesses to reasonably coexist with nascent restaurateurs and other local business owners. Criminalizing these vendors, for what previously was essentially a parking violation, fails to acknowledge the reality that these vendors are an established institution of Los Angeles County and provide an affordable option for families unable to afford sit-down restaurants. Additionally, the culture and community created by taco trucks is enormously beneficial to a neighborhood’s welfare, as it brings people out on otherwise abandoned streets.
Furthermore, the fact that this ordinance only affects trucks in unincorporated Los Angeles County is of no comfort, as we fear this legislation will open the door for similar ordinances that affect us more directly in the future.
If you truly feel that the honest and hardworking families who work in these taco trucks are detrimental to the community under current regulations, we would urge you to find a compromise that better serves your constituents as well as your business interests. A healthy compromise, that allows restaurants to compete without eliminating taco trucks from the landscape, could include preventing the trucks from parking within a specific distance of an open restaurant. Please consider how this ordinance will affect all of your constituents before removing something so loved in our neighborhoods.
34 Responses to ' Open Letter to Supervisor Gloria Molina '
on April 26th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I frequent both traditional restaurants and taco trucks, each for the unique qualities they offer. Taco trucks are part of the special fabric of our neighborhood, providing not only delicious food when traditional restaurants are closed, but reprieve from the monotony and soullessness of chain restaurants. I urge you to support the presence of taco trucks in our neighborhoods.
Mary Beth Heffernan
Associate Professor
Occidental College
on May 1st, 2008 at 7:29 am
This business model is one that has grown out of a real service need for businesses that have employees that did not have the ability to get food with a short break. Fine. This type of mobile catering truck fit those needs. Here is the rub. When these trucks started to roam the streets thay have now created a business model for the city that is out of touch with what a brick and mortar restaurntuer must contenend with. The lower opperating costs and the ability to intercept clients before they have a chance to support a traditional restaurant is simply unfair business practice. This law should be expaneded and should apply to all parts of the city. Taco trucks are taking valuable business from those that have invested in their community and to have a mobile business opperating in the vicinity of their business that has a higher overhead and no ability to move freely is at a disanvantage to a taco truck. This unfairly damages a business owner that has made a substantial investment when the taco truck is simply taking advantage of the lack of laws and low overhead simplicity. Personally I believe that all persons have a right to make a living but it should not be done in such a way that disadvantages a long standing business model that is properly placed. Taco trucks should continue to do what they where designed for, to take food to those that are not able to get it easily due to working or locational considerations. Parked on the side of a major city street causing traffic congestion and litter are only the obvious issues that taco trucks are causing. Community health is not a viable arguement poeple found food in their communities long before these opportunistic taco trucks decided to cross over from mobile catering trucks serving wrokers to illegal mobile restaurants. This was a created market that is being developed at the expense of properly permitted and correctly placed business establishments.
NO MORE TACO TRUCKS AS MOBILE RESTARAUNTS! THIS IS UNFAIR BUSINESS!
on May 1st, 2008 at 10:08 am
I THINK THEY SHOULD REALLY REMOVE ALL OF THE TACO TRUCKS THE TACO GUYS TOUCH MONEY AT THE TIME THE SERVE THEIR TACOS . I VOTE TO HAVE THEM ALL REMOVE.
on May 1st, 2008 at 10:09 am
OUT WITH ALL OF THE TRUCKS AND STANDS ON THE STREETS ALSO.
on May 1st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Where do these people live?????
I see taco trucks ONLY at a very few spots here in Los Angeles.
Heck I have to drive out to Eagle Rock to get my tacos and I live past East Los Angeles. These trucks everyone wants to get rid of are not taking ANY business from Chilis, Carrows or Home Town Buffets. Last I checked I dis not see any taco trucks on Colorado Blvd in Pasadena I cant spot one in Glendale unless you head over to San Fernando Rd. Anyone who supports this “act” is just plain being ignorant and wants to blame their poor food business savy on anything parked near theirs.
-Danny
on May 1st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
my taco truck has one person handling money, one person cooking. Your taco truck sucks. Mine rules. As for competing with brick and mortar restaurants, the trucks have maintenance fees too - gas costs, commissary rent(where they take the trucks at night to clean and restock etc), truck purchase/rental. In my opinion, people use trucks because they can’t find a good place to open a restaurant ie no good real estate. There are a million taco trucks in my neighborhood (Echo Park) and the brick and mortar restaurants do fine.
Brick and mortar restaurants can serve alcohol, which the trucks can’t.
Brick and mortar restaurants can create a fine dining environment (like dancing etc) which the trucks (usually) don’t
Brick and mortar restaurants SHOULD be able to make better food because they have more space, better facilities etc.
Stop feeling so sorry for the poor bullied restaurants. The good ones, the ones that deserve to be there will be fine and the rest, sorry, but there’s no place for crappy overly-expensive food in my neighborhood
on May 1st, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I’m sorry, last time I checked, I thought we were living in a capitalist society that encouraged entrepreneurial activities. The taco trucks have found a business model that is cheap and effective. Why should they be punished for their ingenuity? If the brick and mortar businesses are losing money to the trucks, obviously the consumer is making a choice about where they choose to take their business. Tough luck, that’s how business works. Someone has found a way to under-cut you and supply a superior (in the consumer’s eyes) product. So the answer is to pass legislation to punish the creative? I think not.
on May 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Ms. Molino, Please reconsider you law to bantaco trucks on our streets They provide an importantservice to our neighborhoods.
Sincerely,
Robert Eberhard,
Highland Park CA
on May 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
Dear Gloria Molina,
Brick and mortar restaurateurs and developers are not the only groups that can mount campaigns to remove their rivals. Us taco-truck diners will mount a campaign to have YOU removed from office.
Enjoy the remainder of your last term in office!
Mike Hawk
on May 2nd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
These guys don’t even pay taxes, if they do they only report the minimum income, who can control what they sell if they don’t generate receipts, their prices howewver are as if they pay high rent and utilities, also in most of them the guy serving the tacos is the one touching the money, lety’s enforce the law!!!!! out of the streets now.
on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
The Constitution of the United States of America
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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Here are just three definitions of the word Liberty:
Liberty - (definition from Dictionary.com unabridged v. 1.1)
1. freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
2. freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
3. freedom or right to frequent or use a place: The visitors were given the liberty of the city.
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Thank you Gloria Molina for pointing out that
“The current ordinance permits 30 minutes in one location. For your information, vending from a sidewalk has never been permitted in Los Angeles County.”
So I propose given that piece of information that maybe you allow them to stay in one spot even longer than an hour, maybe a day or a week or indefinitely. Maybe set up a law or a way for them to get a permit to be there, and to be inspected if you are so concerned for the health & welfare of the community.
They are as much a part of the history and culture of the community as you or anyone else is in Southern California, even across these United States ~ Remember what America was founded on, how we were established, who we are and where we came from. The people who were here first were the American Indians, we are all descendants of either immigrants or of American Indians.
What I love about America is our cultural diversity, our American dream and hope of being able to start a business out of nothing. It has always been our cultural diversity that has made us a great nation under God. The freedom to hope and to build and to dream, no matter how poor you are and where you start from; that with hard work and a good product you could make it in this country.
What is wrong with America now is that our big businesses and corporations are no longer investing in the American Dream they are going to other countries and raping them for all they can.
Gloria, let’s turn the tide, let’s invest in what makes America unique, let’s invest in the people and the small businesses that are just starting out. Then you will see a change in America for the good once again, you will see hope and a future in peoples lives.
My father has had a small business in San Diego that started from nothing and grew and supported him for the rest of his life before he retired, he even got a businessman of the year award. I have learned from him the value of the American Dream, the value of hard work paying off and making your dream come true no matter how small or insignificant it may seem to the rest of the world.
So please retract this bill and make it better for the hope and the future of America, let freedom reign in Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness! Pursuit of a hope and a future for everyone in America.
on May 2nd, 2008 at 5:03 pm
The ordinance is actually EXTENDING the amount of time that the taco trucks can be on the street-from 30 minutes to an hour. So, shouldn’t we be pushing our lawmakers to develop a bill that protects “peddlers” rather than urging them to vote against this bill?
on May 6th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Hey all you taco haters…..you all need to go find a taco truck and order a freakin taco yourselves and you will come to find out that they are not bad at all. Have a heart and leave the taco trucks alone.
on May 7th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Always count on ignorant politicians to push senseless policies into our system.
Rather than scapegoating the taco truck vendors, we should look into skyrocketing rent prices that are killing us all financially.
on May 7th, 2008 at 10:39 am
REMOVE ALL ILEGAL VENDORS. I live in Highland Park and the taco trucks and street vendors with open fire grills is out of control. These vendors are nuisance to the neighborhood. Just drive down York Blvd and you will notice the trash left behind people using these vendors. And, I disagree that families can’t afford sit down restaurants. There is plenty of restaurants selling cheap food.
on May 7th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Third paragraph from bottom: there is a spelling mistake in the last sentece. It should be AN otherwise abadoned street.
on May 7th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Hi Ms. Molina,
I am a registered voter her in the 1st district of Los Angeles and I am deeply saddened by the board of supervisors decision to limit catering trucks to 1 hour in a given location. I feel this decision is anticompetitive and unfairly limits the open market. I am a business owner here in Los Angeles and I welcome a diversity of business types here in our city.
I have read some of your responses to this decision and am disappointed at your insensitive remarks, calling these business owners “peddlers.” In my opinion you owe an apology to these hard working people. This is no time for our public servants to be using degrading remarks towards any of this cities residents or business owners.
By limiting these businesses to one hour in any given location you force business owners to cut corners in order to set up and break down quickly and have thus made the general public less safe. Instead the board should have come up with regulatory measures for these businesses to further protect the public for poor procedures in food preparation.
I voted for you in your last election, and will not vote for you anther term unless you retract your tactless comments about these vendors and make an effort at positive change in this county.
Regards,
Toshi Jones
on May 8th, 2008 at 8:46 am
TO ALL YOU WHITE WASHED LATINOS, YOU NEED TO DO YOUR RESEARCH, BEFORE JUDGING THE TACO TRUCKS! MY FATHER OWNS A TACO TRUCK AND I MUST TELL YOU THAT THEY DO PAY TAXES JUST LIKE YOU AND ME! AND NO THEY DON’T HANDLE MONEY AND SERVE FOOD AT THE SAME TIME! AS FAR AS GLORIA MOLINA, I DON’T CONSIDER HER A LATINA SHE’S A WHITEMAN’S SLAVE!! SHE NEEDS TO BE REPLACED! MOLINA, CAN’T EVEN SPEAK SPANISH! THE ONLY REASON SHE WANTS TACO TRUCKS OUT IS BECAUSE SHE’S RELATED TO THE OWNER’S FROM KING TACO AND THEY FEEL THESE TRUCKS ARE TAKING THERE BUSINESS AWAY! LAST BUT NOT LEAST TO ALL YOU LATINOS, WHO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THESE TRUCKS, MOVE OUT OF L.A.
on May 8th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I am a Korean American Protestant pastor and, as an immigrant who grew up in Los Angeles, my family, my friends, and I have frequented both “brick-n-mortar” Mexican restaurants and Taco trucks. However, I use Taco Trucks much more often than restaurants. First, because they provide tastier food. Their food is much more closer to Mexican food I eat in Mexico. Second, becuase they are cheaper. Despite the quality (taste & amount), they are actually much cheaper so they save a lot of money for low-middle income clergies like myself and, I bet, many working class people. Third, they are convenient. I cannot take too long a break for luch or snack to go to restaurant and Taco trucks provide me fast and wholesome meal within the short time. In addition, I often work late at night, but most restaurants do not open that late so I use Taco Trucks. I must confess that taco de carne asada and tostada ceviche are my favorite foods, and they are provided best at Taco Trucks I frequent. Don’t take away our right to eat the best cheap food, not to mention, the vendors’ right to live.
on May 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Hey business owners,
If you’re losing business due to that taco truck parked next to your brick and mortar business, why not just buy a truck yourself and put it out there? Then you’ll be capturing *both* market shares.
The American Public vote with their wallets, and their feet. They’ll go where they enjoy their eating experience, and if that so happens to be the taco truck down the street from your restaurant, maybe you should re-think your business plan instead of trying to squash the competition, that is trying to make a living, JUST LIKE YOU.
on May 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Quiero Taco Bell!
on May 8th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I work in Culver City where an organic salad and sandwich truck that averages ten bucks a plate pulls up once a week at the curb outside our entrance. The truck runs on biodiesel. I wonder if this coopted variance on the taco truck were the norm, would Supervisor Molina be in such a hurry to make them move every half hour.
on May 8th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
This ordinance is an unnecessary and egregious intrusion on the use of PRIVATE PROPERTY! Licensed catering trucks must NOT have their livelihood interfered with.
These trucks must have permission from the property owner to park and perform their services. If you object to the noise or trash, call Code Enforcement and have them discuss the issue with the PROPERTY OWNER, Not the catering truck!
To you greedy or clueless ‘brick and mortar’ business owners, these trucks are successful because of your LACK OF IMAGINATION! Stay open later, add some menu items that show your enthusiasm for the cuisine, or get your own damn truck!
on May 11th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Gloria, Given your background and rise to power it is important to remember that you serve at the pleasure of the people. Not the other way around.
on May 14th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I have to say how disappointed I am, reading all these posts. I live on the east coast and obviously, do not have the ability to frequent these icons to your neighborhoods. However, this isn’t just about what is happening at your local level. When the rights of hard working people in this country are placed in jeopardy, we all need to get up and take a stand. As a veteran, a citizen, a taxpayer, a small business owner and I also happen to be a police officer. (One who could not penalize hard working people for trying to feed their families) I can’t believe the very basic rights that this country is founded upon, is being manipulated by elected officials because stationary businesses cry foul. Business is just that business. You have to work harder than you ever did in your life to make it work. It has to be your passion. The business owners reading this…no matter what business you are in, know exactly what I am saying. This isn’t about parking too close to another eatery. This is about using elected officials for personal gain. If I open a “brick and mortar” restaurant immediately next door to another, essentially, I am closer than a parked vehicle on the street. Does that give my neighbor the right to use an elected official to close me down if I do better than they do? Officials have been imprisoned for using their office for the personal gains of themselves or others that they are illegally representing. There are 20 Lowes stores and 20 Home Depot stores in the LA area (check their websites). I have yet to hear this argument from one of them about the other.
As a veteran, I have fought for our rights, for our way of life, for everyone’s freedom and to protect the Constitution and all it stands for. I will do it again if asked. And, I will do it proudly, as I believe in this great country and all it has to offer. We have the right to work hard and feed our families. What has happened to our country when some one works hard and then is punished for being successful? If these stationary restaurants are of any quality in food & service, they will do just fine no matter who is parked out on the street. Enough is enough! Leave these hard working people alone. Let them provide a wanted service to the communities they are in. Let them bind the threads of their neighborhoods with culture and friendship.
Have we forgot the people that are in official office are there by the people, for the people? They are our representatives. We have the power to not re-elect them.
on May 14th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I’m a tax payer and a VOTER! Gloria I hope you got a retirement package ready cuz you can kiss that seat good-bye. You apparently have no sense of community or understanding of how much people want or need these trucks. Its not just patrons at 2am that frequent these. Its families who have worked long hard hours at their two jobs that are maybe a little too tired to cook that night. Its a trip, a little getaway that allows them to spend a little time with their families. Instead of filling their kids with deep fried fatty food and a toy that they could choke on made of lead, they get time with mom and dad and their siblings while enjoying a quesadilla. Or someone like me, who used to work till midnight and just wanted a carne asada burrito. Mc Donalds and the like are the only ones around open at that time. If the restaurant businesses are so concerned, why not allow taco vendors to operate away from a certain distance? Or after those businesses have closed? You should have thought about it before you jumped to such a hasty decision.
You arent just taking way the taco trucks, you are taking away a commUNITY!
on May 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Taco trucks are the best thing that happened to New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. The hardworking-low paid Migrants came there to clean up and to help rebuild New Orleans. Soon after the Migrants came, the taco trucks followed and fed these hungry hardworking laborers. It wasn’t long before locals were introduced to authentic Mexican food that is superior to that which is found in higher priced restaurants from these taco trucks. Better and cheaper!! If I won the lotto and had money to burn, you would still find me at a taco truck rather than Chile’s. To the restaraunt owners, I say to you “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” To Gloria Molina I say to you “Your family migrated here with little or nothing to start with but only dreams” Your lofty heights now prevent you from seeing reality as your hard working ancestors lived it. Don’t look down your pocha nose at these people, their dreams and their taco trucks. It’s their support that keeps you at your office and up high in your Mt. Washington home. Would you rather they be on welfare?? I would rather they work hard and enrich our community. Get real Gloria. We need them and don’t need you. Shame on you Gloria!!! Shame, shame, shame..
on May 15th, 2008 at 12:36 am
My parents own a Taco truck and i can tell you first hand that its not a tax free “easy” way to work. we have to pay taxes twice a year and we pay rent to park where we are. we have been working there for over 15 years and i think that this new law is rediculous and completely ignorant. all these big wig jerks who dont know what a single day of hard work feels like are going to tell the working class people how they can and cant work? They need to find a way to shelter the homeless and how to stop gang violence, i think that these problems should be a higher priority than these innocent hard working people trying to make a living for themselves and thier families. you people have no clue how hard the sanitation dpartment comes down on us about EVERYTHING so trust me most of the trucks out ther ARENT dirty. They arent mixing dirty money hands with food products. they HAVE to have sinks and soap right on thier trucks. People shouldnt make comments on things that they know nothing about. These people if they are lucky can make decent money on these trucks and all they ask for is the right to work in peace. we dont need extra fees and the cops kicking cutting down on our buisness. we are a part of the working class and thats all we want to do.. work.
on May 15th, 2008 at 3:04 am
This law is completely retarded! If bigger restaurants are losing business its simply because they just suck. Not because taco trucks sell cheaper food. Id still eat at taco trucks even if their prices went up. Its part of our nationality and it the food is just that damn good. The atmosphere is good in taco trucks. Whats there to hate about them? I eat at restaurants a lot too. I like both of them. It all depends on the mood im in. Taking away taco trucks just cause rich people are complaining is pathetic. Where are we supposed to buy food late at night when everything else is closed? CARNE ASADA IS NOT A CRIME! Save the taco trucks! The person who passed this law is an idiot. Hope your happy that a lot of people hate you now that this stupid law is passing. & for all you people that are losing business. Your losing business cause your business sucks! Not cause trucks sell cheaper food. All you have to do is improve your restaurants.
on May 23rd, 2008 at 1:52 am
Dear Gloria Molona,
I find it very demeaning of you to refer to taco trucks as “peddlers.” The only one peddling here is you, a purveyor of loser public policies. We know that all the hoopla about sanitation and taxes is bunk. The taco trucks are highly regulated, have hot running water inside, and pay their taxes or can’t be on the streets at all. I find your response to be moronically insensitive to the role these eateries play in LA culture and culinary life. Why shouldn’t a taco truck compete with any other business? Unfair competition?? Since when is entrepreneurial hard work providing a food that is basically healthy and accessible unfair?? The taco trucks provide hot meals at barely affordable prices for many working poor people. At the other extreme, for your information many taco trucks have culinary reputations that make even westsiders and others wander into East LA and Highland Park to look for the great taco experience.
If someone is going to a “brick and mortar” restaurant for lunch or dinner, especially a good one, do you actually think they are going to drive there and then double back across the street to the taco truck instead?? Idiotic!! Both “brick and mortar” restaurants and taco trucks have their respective function and customers.
The other thing I don’t get, is how you can ignore the carbon footprint that will be caused by making trucks move once an hour from place to place, wasting gas and creating more traffic.
Not to mention the mean-spirited hardship you are causing all of those Latina women who work and own taco trucks, who you claim to care about and represent.
You are the height of elitist hypocrisy and thick-skinned bureaucracy incarnate. I will never vote for you again and will instead work to bring a more reasonable enlightened person with vision to your office. I think the diet coca-cola you are always sipping in public must have gone to your brain!! My mom used to call pretentious people like you “piojos resucitados.” ¿Y qué?
Amorcito Ferenji
on June 1st, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Los Angeles, CA. May 21, 2008
Sra. Gloria Molina
Supervisora del 1st Distrito
de Los Angeles County
856 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 974-4111
Fax: (213) 613-1739.
Honorable Supervisora:
Un grupo de estudiantes de UCLA nos han enviado un mensaje, solicitando lo hagamos propio, lo firmemos y se lo remitamos a Usted, lo cual cumplimos puntualmente a continuacion:
Querida Supervisora Molina,
Le escribo para expresar mis serias preocupaciones con respeto a las acciones que Ud. ha tomado contra las camiones de tacos en nuestras comunidades. Como miembro de la comunidad del este de Los Ángeles, valoro mucho a nuestros vendedores locales-por la comida, servicio y especialmente la cultura.
Estos camiones ofrecen algo distinto a los restaurantes tradicionales, por ejemplo autenticidad, mejor comida, horas flexibles y precios baratos. Además, crean un sentido de comunidad en las calles que los restaurantes tradicionales no pueden duplicar. Los camiones de tacos representan una faceta especial y única del este de los Ángeles y son algo que valoro mucho de mi comunidad.
Le recomiendo encarecidamente que retire su petición y que se enfoque en temas más pendientes y perjudiciales a nuestra comunidad.
Adicional a ello, nos permitimos recordar con Usted, que en 1991, al ser electa al Consejo de Supervisores de Los Angeles, mucho tuvo que ver el crecimiento del electorado latino, que pensaron en una persona que entendiera sus necesidades.
Leyendo su biografia ( publicada en su pagina oficial ) nos enteramos que …”Durante su infancia, Molina vio a su padre llegar a casa todos los días agotado por su trabajo de jornalero. Así es que cuando ella fue elegida para su puesto público, ella entendió que el tesoro público proviene del pago ganado con gran esfuerzo por la gente trabajadora. Por eso, Molina ha sido defensora de la responsabilidad fiscal y un gobierno con buenos valores”.
La invito a reflexionar sobre lo anterior, a abrir un dialogo franco y respetuoso con los ” loncheros”. Ello le permitira sin ninguna duda cerciorarse de que todos ellos estan al corriente de sus obligaciones fiscales, pagan puntualmente a la ciudad y tramitan y conservan todos sus permisos, incluidos los sanitarios.
Ninguna accion persecutoria, ninguna multa o agresion policiaca resolveria el problema, por el contrario, lo agravaria, creando artificial y caprichosamente delincuentes, donde solo hay trabajadores que son el sosten de mas de 18 mil familias. crean mas de 50 mil empleos directos y sostienen a cientos de proveedores de insumos (tortilleros, verduleros, carniceros, abarroteros, etc ), por cierto en dificiles momentos de crisis y recesion economica no vista hace muchisimos a`os en los Estados Unidos.
Reciba nuestro respetuoso saludo.
Juan Carlos Ruiz Rubio
Comite Bunacional de Derechos
Humanos de Valle Imperial.
Tel. 323 419 75 77
on June 4th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Bravo to post #9 from Mike Hawk! Apparently Ms. Molina, you’re not too concerned about a large segment of the population that is not very happy that you are working on your own agenda, as opposed to working for your people. Come on, do you really think PF Chang’s, Chili’s, TGI Friday’s and the like are on the verge of bankruptcy because people are handing $2 at a time to a taco truck? Even a local restauranteur is making at least $10 (or $20+ if alcohol is involved) to the taco truck’s $2. Get a grip woman…
Karma has a way of comin’ back around…
Christine Eastman
Laguna Niguel
949-481-5561
on June 7th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I wish the government would just stop trying to control everything under the guise that it is for my “protection”…I’ll take my chances with a Taco truck and it’s my business…I eat plenty in Brick and Motar restaurants and like the option either way…leave the venders alone and get the hell out of the business of trying to control every damn detail…focus on educating our youth and protecting the environment and leave the rest to free reign in the market place!
on August 13th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Hello,
This is to all who wants to get rid of the “so called taco trucks”
I wish I had known about this new law before I just shelled out 100,000 bucks for a new truck. I am a chef and I have always wanted my own kitchen. So I came up with this idea for a new spin on the “Taco Truck” and this kind of sucks for me. This venture is costing me almost as much as it would if I were to open a restaurant. I am doing everything right. Permits, getting inspected, storing the vehicle at a CITY APPROVED COMMISSARY, (which by the way is not cheap!!) Insurance both vehicle and Workmans Comp for my qualified food handlers. I am just sick about this.