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The attempted eminent domain of Ace Muffler in the 1980s gave Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido a cause célèbre and launched his political career. Now, the government is again threatening to seize the business.
Records show the Santa Ana mayor has for years misrepresented the nature of his ownership of downtown properties on public disclosure forms.
The tax has been the center of a nearly two-year battle that squared property owners against each other and was criticized for being part of a downtown gentrification plan.
Jose Pulido, brother to Mayor Miguel Pulido, says he refused to
pay the auto shop’s property taxes for three years as a
protest.
Such a move would relieve some of the property owners who have
been fighting the assessment tax that supports the
organization.
Jose Pulido says his family’s auto care shop gets no benefit
from a downtown assessment tax that funds Downtown Inc. His brother
— and mayor of Santa Ana — has been a champion of the booster
organization.