She at least could have fired up some backing music on her karaoke machine and sung, “I did it my way.” Awards and such That’s wise legally but a missed opportunity. We’ll let the legal system sort that out.Īnyway, Gomez’s video doesn’t appear to address her arrest. They involve a disturbance at a meeting in July at which she was arrested. Keep it classy, Victorville.Įarlier Tuesday, Gomez had been charged with three misdemeanors. What did Gomez’s colleagues think of her antics? The video captures one of them turning to her and flipping her off, twice. I used to cover Victorville and environs in the mid-1990s, and I gotta say, while I witnessed some hare-brained local government meetings, at no time did an elected official bring in a Mr. She narrated the action in Spanish as it was happening, starting with her riveting walk indoors from the parking lot.
A screenshot of Blanca Gomez’s Facebook Live video in which the councilwoman appears to be testing a karaoke machine microphone from her seat on the dais of the Victorville Council Chambers. Rather than belt out a few numbers, she used it to record a 45-minute Facebook Live video. Given that the song is recognizable within seconds and gets fans on their feet, she offered a solution: “Why don’t they just do it as an instrumental and let the audience sing it? Mick said, ‘Hmm.’ That means he was processing it.” Is this thing on?Īs you may have read in Wednesday’s newspaper, Victorville Councilwoman Blanca Gomez brought - why not? - a personal karaoke machine to Tuesday’s council meeting. “Everybody’s so sensitive,” said Lennear, who’s Black.
The song has been unofficially retired for now to avoid criticism of its lyrics playing off slavery and rape. She was disappointed the band didn’t perform “Brown Sugar,” a song she claims credit for having inspired.