Okay Mike, so ya got me interested. I've been searching the net trying to find party affiliation for these guys....seems others have been doing so as well:
Nowhere in the Associated Press report is there any identification of the political party affiliation of anyone involved. The cop-out may be their party isn't identified when such elected officials are on the ballot. That's a pretty thin defense, given that such a concerted level of excess is involved, as this earlier LA Times report shows:
Okay, let's get to the party part.
Wikipedia tells us that "In the state legislature Bell is located in the 30th Senate District, represented by Democrat Ronald S. Calderon, and in the 50th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Hector De La Torre. Federally, Bell is located in California's 34th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +23[32] and is represented by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard."
Hernandez and two Bell City Council members were listed as endorsers of Democrat Luiz Marquez in his bid to succeed the aforementioned De La Torre in the 50th Assembly District. Marquez finished third in a field of four candidates in the District's June Democratic primary.
That's enough of a start to suggest that the Associated Press and others (here, here, here, here, here and here, to name just a few) who have reported on the scandal -- none of whom I have found to have identified the party of the perps -- should be at least a little curious as to what political party could be involved with such a pervasive culture of greed. Given the info learned thus far, the odds that this corruption is a straight-ticket Democratic enterprise would appear to be pretty high.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2010/07/25/name-party-bell-california-edition
I don't know their party affiliation but would like to so I'll keep searching.