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The San Fernando, Calif., councilwoman at the center of an affair scandal with a council colleague was charged Friday with vandalism and battery of her former lover during a breakup last month, according to a misdemeanor complaint filed by the LA County District Attorney’s office.
Maribel De La Torre allegedly attacked Mario Hernandez, with whom she served on the San Fernando City Council, and destroyed his laptop and a picture frame during a June 28 incident, according to the complaint.
De La Torre, 41, and Hernandez, 47, took out restraining orders against each other after the incident and were ordered to stay 100 feet apart.
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San Fernando City Council members and residents have criticized the pair for letting their personal lives invade City Hall and have demanded their resignations.
Hernandez – who announced the couple’s relationship during a city council meeting last fall with his wife in the audience – stepped down from his post Tuesday, hours before the council was set to meet.
"I want to apologize to the community for the inconveniences caused by my personal life," Hernandez said in a statement at the time.
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Hernandez, De La Torre and Mayor Brenda Esqueda – accused of having a relationship with a police official while voting on police matters – face a recall election in the fall.
San Fernando Mayor Pro Tem Antonio Lopez said Tuesday that the pair has caused "enough damage" and it was time for the city of 23,000 to get its government in order.
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Well, what do you expect from a bunch of illegal alien anchor babies?
WOW, I was wondering why this was even a story, and then you find out the guy announces his affair at a public meeting with his wife in the audience. Nice guy.
And to top it off, you have a female mayor, who also could not keep her personal life out of her office.
Are they putting pheromones in the water?
They don't call them "City Council" meetings anymore, they call them "Bunga Bunga" parties.
Whoever said sex and politics don't mix?
YIKES!!! Nothing like "leaders" who can't function properly...Now these people are charged with creating public policy for the rest of us??? No wonder we are in a mess....
Hey Meg,
I'm not sure how the council has actually functioned since this story is more about how the people on it have led soap opera lives, but I kind of think this is more routine in politics than we would like to imagine, just as it is in life outside of politics. I think we are in the mess we are not because politicians are screwing one another, but because we allow (want?) them to screw us, over, and over, and over again, and we still keep electing them.
BTW, de la Torre looks pretty damn hot, but the story doesn't mention any of her non-city council life. Was she married too? Is Hernandez the only one on the council she was banging? I'm thinking San Fernando, porn movie industry...she might have been auditioning.
Dang, I should've checked the veracity of that photo before saying she looked hot. If that is a photo of Maribel de la Torre it was taken a long time ago. I wouldn't say she is fugly now, but she has no chance in the film industry like I imagined!
Yes, why is it a news? People break up all the time (and break a few things during break ups, sometime). But as long as she didn't break the restraining order, what law did she break that she has to resign? That the guy had a wife tells on his lapse. Did she have a husband when she had the affair with the married guy? Why are politicians made to look like saints by the law, while all they do is lie, deceive and take digs at each other?
Love is a magical force that is the most wonderful experience one will ever have the good fortune to experience in ones life.............. unless you really piss her off and your new Laptop is within her reach......well fortunately there were no firearms within that reach..
VERY sad. This is NOT love and MEN are victims too... I hope someone intervenes before a gun or knife is "within reach" during one of these "episodes" and irreparable damage is done to a human life.....:(
This has nothing to do with love This is called lust
Our government at work for you.
If their not too busy screwing their constituents, they're screwing each other.
"I make my living off the Evening News
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry
Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em all around
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It's interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/don+henley/dirty+laundry_20042033.html ]
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry
You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough love
Eat your dirty laundry
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're stiff
Kick 'em all around
Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
We can do "The Innuendo"
We can dance and sing
When it's said and done we haven't told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry!"
Don Henley
@Midnightridr,
Are you talking about the politicians in the article or about Congress ? :)
Good post lessthan...if you have ever watched any Mexican TV you know these actions are 'par for the course'....the next story will be about Muslims in America killing each other with suiside bombs....or beheading their daughter for 'humiliating the family' for wearing a ball cap or some other religious crap.
Uhhhh, the Internet has articles on some of these issues.
It is in the United States already, and some judges have vowed to allow Islamic Law be presented in their courts.
DISGUSTING.
What's disgusting is that you guys believe that drivel you just posted.
@node4, IDO is correct, I wouldn't mind it so much if Islam judges were to take some of laws into account in their courts.
I think they mean in their final decission. Not exceping their law persay.
They probably were each earning $800,000/year as council members, and were so spoiled they thought they could screw the taxpayers and each other at the same time!
They appearently were doing that.
All over a little panocha.
Kinda reminds me of the tom cat that crossed the tracks when a train was coming and it cut off the end of his tail, then he turned around and recrossed the tracks and lost his head over a little piece of tail. PU$$Y is a powerful thing. Nothing trumps the power of PU$$Y!! .
Nice smile, Maribel. Does it hurt?
Some people really shouldn't be allowed to take up space on this planet. These two are a prime example.
my mouth after reading this article made a polite phraafft sound, like bill the cat from Brookley Breathed, ah what the heck, PHRAAFFT, hey who farted?
Almost certainly both Demoncats, but I couldn't find the actual proof online...
I hate it when I'm all ready to once again smear the Left, but then I can't find the specific evidence.
You're such a good little republican...
The Left has their John Edwards and their Bill Clinton, the Right has their Newt Gingrich and their John Ensign. And countless others on both sides of the aisle.
You're truly kidding yourself if you think sex scandals are as partisan as you are.
chester, so if you are assuming and can't find proof then you are talking out your ass.
When has that ever stopped them?
Make something up.
Abbyga has the best post of the day (that I have read so far anyway) very enlightening :)
@Byron Raum "Make something up."
Thats where most of it comes from anyway :)
Though in all fairness I've seen both sides do it at times :(
Both sides make things up, and it's not new. I don't even think it is bad as it once was, like when the nation was just a baby. But that doesn't mean we should accept it and reward it. The bigger problem with all the made up garbage today, like the lies about Romney favoring outsourcing or of liking to fire people, is that it moves so much faster than before, so fast in fact that there is no way to keep up with all the untruths.
Churchill said it...A lie is halfway around the world before the truth even gets its shoes on. And that was without the internet. We had better try to find a way to get a handle on this if we want to keep the country together for the long term. The way it was done, more or less, before was to have just a few news organizations doing the filtering for us. That didn't work too well since it helped give us modern liberalism. My solution is to have the government do far less, and push most of what they do down to the next lower political subdivision. That way people like de la Torre and Hernandez can screw one another all day long at it just won't make a difference to the lives of their constituents.
It's that hot Latin blood!
Yah it's from watching adulterous soaps 24/7. Lol, Latino people actually watch this shi'ite in prime time.
¡Ay caramba!
Soon to be a hit Bravo reality show -
Excellent post
eye yi yi...
seems like we have rednecks posting on this blog, you can tell by the racist comments ( not all are , though )
@Sandra: agreed, I was actually surprised by that - people are missing the point: it's all about politicians behaving badly. I do hope this story goes on; it's getting almost as interesting as Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll's situation in Florida. What would be great is if somehow both were connected;now, that would be real entertainment.
What do you want to bet they are all dems?
They are all Dems.
The Left has their John Edwards and their Bill Clinton, the Right has their Newt Gingrich and their John Ensign. And countless others on both sides of the aisle.
You're truly kidding yourself if you think sex scandals are as partisan as you are.
notapolitical, you are talking out your ass as well.
The difference is that, if a Republican politician does something stupid, the media wh0res make dam* sure that his/her party affiliation is mentioned early and often.
You can always tell it's a Democrat if NO party membership is mentioned.
They'll both probably get huge retirement packages.
At present Maribel is less one package :)
well, if more people get involved and run for office you would know what they make and the crap that they don't tell you. get involved and run baby run for the office.
Isn't it amazing that no party affiliation was mentioned. After all it is msn.
MSN is biased.
Always has been.
Just like FOX.
They are funded by their respective party affiliations.
I read the headline and thought the story was about Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Afterall, he did state that he was marrying his Husband! Well, I could hope, can't I ???
Where do these people think they are - Florida? No, wait, if this storyline took place there, I'd expect to see at least one of these people be a teacher .... or at least a lieutenant governor.
If they were rep's msn would mention it in every other word...wow what a mess..are they all sex starved or what..geeze...our finest at work NOT..the wife should have slapped the crap out of them both, let her have at them..after all she was the VICTIM.....
AGREED...This is ridiculous.
Never cross a latino woman.
They are passionate in everything they do.
Sex, love, and vindictiveness.
And there is NO balance.
(I know first hand)
Military Members, Veterans, Military retirees;
please note that Swiss Bank account Romney PROMOTED THE DRAFT during the Viet Nam War,
then skipped out to France for extraordinary length of time when church missionary tours were limited.
When Romney came home, he sided with his dad that the whole Viet Nam War was a scam and that he was against the war.
Promoting the draft, while Americans were dying, he skipped out, then says he wishes he could have participated. His whole life has been a lie.
Romney is a COWARD, Lying, Draft Dodger, who promoted someone else to die for him, that is his way of management.
Some may want anyone but Obama, but this guy ranks with Jane Fonda and should not be given anything or elected for anything.
For those who are not old enough to remember the military draft, it was a mandatory commitment for two years that was implemented during the Viet Nam War. If your number was called, you went and served like it or not. Young people may say, I wouldn't go and they can't make me, think again.
This is what Romney promoted as if he were a "responsible citizen", then he left his fellow citizens to serve and some died for us and him. I am ashamed of him as I am retired military member, and forget about representing our country Mr. Romney.
I am one of the Military members who are against Romney, this has nothing to do with politics
I think you are on the wrong thread..
Fairly Reliable Bob
Your post above is honestly the biggest pile of unproven, non-documented, poorly written junk out today on Newsvine.
Great Job... and saying this has nothing to do with politics??? You never once commented on the article you posted in or about. Once again the word is pathetic.
P.S.: I am registered independent VET and your partisan rhetoric is pathetic.
So Bob, you are one of the military members that is against Romney??? WHO is the other one?? After returning from his missionary duty in France, he attended school with the same deferment everyone else in school got. Then, this part you will love Bob....his draft number was 300, which meant that the POPE would probably go before he did. I can't find anywhere that he returned and was against the draft. Not even a nice try Bob, and by the way, the SECTION 8 club just called, your turn as doorman is tomorrow.
what about Bill Clinton he hid at Oxford in the UK like a sniveling coward , draft dodging seems to be a bipartisan effort with all the chickenHawks..that want to be POTUS....or the Vice..remember Dickie "boy" Cheney also was a draft dodger, can't stand any of them....write in for Ron Paul and piss the draft dodging chickenhawk media mogols and the left/right zealots off , that's what I think
The TRUTH is that Romney was very much eligible for the draft but had a very high draft number BECAUSE OF HIS BIRTH DATE.
And that means that you, FAIRLY RELIABLE ROB, are just another LYING, LEFT-WING, SCUMBAG.
Even your username is a LIE.
Romney is a lying snake who thinks he's too good to a) tell us what he will do IF he manages to become president (aside from repeal a program he instituted in MASS) and b) release his tax records like every other presidential candidate. He's also been whining on FOX about how the Obama campaign keeps harping on Bain Capital even though that's the experience he's running on WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Stupid c*nt, if he doesn't want to play by the rules WTF is he running? Not only is he an equivocating liar, he's a cry baby.
Little Mexico.
Yes, just like corrupt Mexican Govt.
WOW, this got way too messy! What a story, lol!