Tim Whitacre led the failed campaign to recall Assemblyman Anthony Adams

Yeah, and I’ll bet Whitaker and Schroeder drew a salary or fees from this recall campaign. Then again, I am a suspicious type.

Oh, and about Hunt, I’m not a fan of Arpaio either. That may play well to the crowd that likes cheap red meat to scapegoat all the blame for the financial mess we’re in. But my understanding of Hunt is that he’s a defender of conceal carry licenses, unlike Sandra Hitchens who is handpicked by the political machine establishment in OC, that likes to wave around a lot of rah rah red meat platitudes but keep the voters at bay and at their self-serving service.

Art says:

‘he is an under-educated loser”

Is that how you feel about the vast majority of the residents of Santa Ana? Most don’t have even a high school degree.

take a bow post 5 did you see that the the law breaker supporter pedroza left a key word out of his rant a immigrant hater hmmmmmmmmmmm maybe the word ILLEGAL .

Art, I’ll have you know that I was with Tim when this photo of him was taken. He was at a church meeting when he was praying for the souls of the O.J. staff!

What a waste of time this was.

The scariest part of this whole money wasting exercise was how little the “RECALL ADAMS” understood about the way Sacramento works.

On the other hand, maybe they did and were just look ing for some free press to keep them “alive” while the ship was not so slowly sinking.

This effort should be tagged “STUNT”.

#16,

Schroeder’s money is immaterial. And it is likely that he took it in the shorts too when the market collapsed.

If money is all that matters, why is Schroeder’s pick for Governor, Poizner, at 9% in the polls?

Schroeder’s pull is most suspect. That goes for the OC GOP in general. If the DPOC weren’t so lame they might actually be able to turn the OC blue in a couple of years…

Instead, Republicans and Dems alike will continue to leave their parties in droves.

And wait until the Open Primary starts up again. Between that and the undoing of gerrymandering, Schroeder and his boys are DONE!

Who says Whitacre is Hunt’s campaign Manager. Hunt or Whitacre? We know Schroeder supports Hunter which is probably not a good thing for Hunter if anybody remembers Schroeder defending Carona even after Carona was indicted. As for the recall I am sure Schroeder will be Schroeder and throw Whitacre under the bus.

RV: Point taken. The thread started here is worth discussing and I do like how the blog picks up interesting items. But its the premise of the post that I am taking issue with. The failure of the recall to meet the sig requirements has nothing to do with Schroeder and probably, at best, a**-clown Whitaker had little impact on that. The more interesting issue in my mind is why the sigs didn’t qualify. Was it skewed statstics that undermines the democratic ideals behind a recall effort? Was it shoddy signature gathering by paid circulators? The later is a “D’oh” for the recall campaign; the former is a public policy issue that should be investigated and rectified. My retort to the author was to indicate that the mid-nineties recall triumvirate and the recall attempted of Adams have real similarities. Nonetheleast of these is the involvement of MJS, who (like it or not) is a true activist.

Art: I guarantee you that the market collapse and not hindered any ability of Schroeder to impact politics. As for Poizner, that has nothting to do with money and everything to do with the intersection of Schroeder’s businesses and Poizner’s regulatory purview as Insurance Commissioner. D’uh! If I was MJS, I would support Poizner too, even if he was totally doomed to fail. Finally, as for the open primary, what most supporters of that don’t realize is that it will actually move the process away from the voters. We’re headed for a caucus system to pick nominees. Another “D’oh!”

#22,

That is not unusual. Al Amezcua’s consultant is also running a campaign for State Insurance Commissioner.

But Whitacre is a buffoon. I am sure Hunt is looking to replace him if he has not done so already!

On Friday November 20, CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen declared that the recall of Assemblyman Anthony Adams had failed to collect enough valid signatures to call a special election. The campaign needed to gather 35,825 signatures from registered voters in the 59th District. In the end, 58,384 signatures were collected and turned in. Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters reported in a 65 percent validity rate from a random sample of 500 signatures while San Bernardino County reported a substantially lower validity rate from a random sample of 1,339 signatures. The conventional wisdom is that the results from both counties are not adequate to call a special election.

The big question now is how could this have happen? A cushion of over 20,000 signatures was collected over the required amount. Although speculative, there are several scenarios.

1. The San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters pulled a random sample containing more invalid signatures than valid ones. Although not entirely impossible, it would definitely be considered a statistical anomaly for this to happen.

2. The paid signature gathering operation turned in an overwhelming number of invalid signatures. This is highly unlikely given that the signature gathering operation was contractually obligated to meet a 70 percent validity rate. In addition, verification of signatures collected was performed independently of the signature gathering operation.

3. Irregularities were perpetrated by one or both of the Registrar of Voters. The huge difference in validity rates between Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties is highly inconceivable when the same signature gathering operation was used in both counties. These results suggest that two very different standards were employed by each ROV. This scenario warrants further investigation.

In addition, there are other questions to be answered. For instance, in an article from the Hesperia Star, Adams was quoted from an interview that was conducted at a Veterans Day event. For one, Adams said of the Committee to Recall Adams petition drive, “There are lots of bad signatures.” How could Adams possibly know this when the results were not public back on November 11?

At this point, one thing is for certain, – this is NOT over and Committee to Recall Adams intends to pursue a thorough investigation of how there could be a significant discrepancy in validity rates between the two counties.

Our Committee has invested a significant amount of time and effort to conduct due diligence every step of the way to avoid the typical pitfalls that can derail a campaign. First and foremost, the hired campaign manager and the paid signature gathering company were seasoned professionals that had run successful recall campaigns before. Second, our committee consists of longtime political activists from various professional backgrounds including legal, finance, marketing, sales, high tech, and communications, as well as government. This is to ensure that every aspect of the campaign can be managed with expertise from across different fields. On top of all else, many of us have worked on numerous successful campaigns including other recall elections.

Since February, our Committee has raised over $162,000, collected nearly 60,000 signatures and worked too hard to give up now. We owe it to all the campaign volunteers, donors, as well as KFI’s John & Ken Show and its listeners to make sure we’re afforded due process. This current development is a temporary setback. We are immediately filing an appeal to the denial and will pursue every avenue available to us to see that this Recall goes forward. At this time, we ask all of our supporters to maintain confidence that we’re on the right track and are doing everything in our power to guarantee that we’re given a fair shot. We will keep all of our supporters updated on a timely basis as we move forward with this process.

THE COMMITTEE TO RECALL ANTHONY ADAMS
http://www.RecallAdams.org

#25 It would be a pretty trivial matter to inspect how each of the registrars selected the signatures they used for their sample. Both counties use Premier Elections Systems (now owned by ES&S) DIMS software for voter registration and election management. My guess would be that the DIMS software provided the random sample from the pool of signatures as defined by the registrars’ staff.

Can’t you simply ask them for the algorithm used? The SOS had to approve it at some point. It should be public record. Then ask them how they identify the signature pool.

The raw numbers are then used by the SOS to make the determination based on a weighted calculation that, if I recall correctly is defined in the California Elections Code.

Unless you are aware of a failure on the part of the registrars to use an approved random sampling technique, what is a judge going to do for you?

Tim is an unprofessional, hate filled moron whose tactics are akin to Adolf Hitler. He is the one posting the anonymous posts in his favor and the recalls favor. I gURANTEE YOU HAD THEY LEFT THE JOB TO THE ORIGINAL MANAGER ONSTAED OF ALLOWING wHITACRE TO UNFAIRLY Harm her ( try to ay least) this would not have happened. He did so many underhanded things to that woman- it is despicable.Tim does not even know what he is doing when it comes to such tasks and is an arrogant, unsrupulous criminal who stops at nothing to lie and attempt to damage others unjustifiably- hypocrite? Yes, by all means he is. I could go on and on about him, but he is not worth another smidgeon of our energy.

You see- there he goes again, spreading lies. She was not fired, she bowed out after futile attempts at battling the dishonesty and the game playing when Whitacre and his druugie friend, Derrick Lee were forced into the camapign for reasons that were sheer political nepotism. His strategy is to slander innocent people because he is the liar, the cheat, the unworthy one. We know that is you Tim and we are well aware of your minset. Attack anyone who gets in your way with filthy, sordid and imoral tactics. Your days are over in politics. What background are you talking about you moron? This woman has an impeccable reputation and it is only thugs like you who try to berate her as you do everyone else. You could not even prove your claims that there were, “illegal” activities with the SB Registrars office. Had you been able to do so, you and the rest of your troop would have been running the streets boisterously in decrees of that. Truth be told- you were merely attempting a feeble try at ” Damge Control”. You have many enemies who know all too well your M.O. So now, since you cannot find anything negative about Catherine Sabatino, you set out by way of blogs like this, to try and damage her name since there was absolutely nothing negative about her on the Internet- only her books- that is until you decided to try to change that. It does little good because your tactics speak for themselves as you are as transparent as glass. Why don’t you take your weel-deserved failure at the Recall and reflect on it? I mean, after all, you are such a devout Christian- Yeah, sure you are- your actions tell that story for what it really is. I feel sorry for you because you are such a pathetic soul. people know that it is you posting such fabrications. You are obviously looking in the mirror when you say such things. Psycholigist call what you are enacting- well, there is a name for it, but I will leave that to you to discover. Go get the much needed help that you are clearly lacking. What an idiot!

“AJ” we can trace who you are so if I were you, I’d stop your slimeball attacks/tactics of trying to run pristine people through the mud. You are none other than, TIM WHITACRE- the gutless, heartless subterfuging low-life who has nothing but failures to his political career’s credit, but for one and it was Lopez. I am contacting sites and asking them to block your blogs about innocent people as they are lies. You should be ashamed of yourself, you slug. This woman Catherine Sabatino never had any issues until indirect contact with you on that Recall- which you destroyed. keep posting lies about her so that we can re-post with the truth about you. Someone should have put you out of your misery along time ago, but, oh, that’s right, you leave the real battles for the REal Marines to fight. You are no Marine, so quit hiding aback of the claim that you were a marine- I guess they let anyone in the Corps these days if you were one . How yu passed their Psyche evaluation behooves me, But then again, anyone as manipulative and crafty such as yourself could fool anyone right? That is until your true personality shows itself for what it is.

If CAS is her, we give her credit because she does not ned to hide unlike you WHITACRE, who rarely reveals his identity with all the posts he makes and then lists some fale name- What a joke you are Whitacre. How funny you are. people are not stupid. they see right through you.