Quang X. Pham appears to be serious about running for Congress - his campaign website is up and running. Pham is challenging Democratic incumbent Loretta Sanchez, who has been in the news a lot of late, but not for good reasons. He is also taking on corrupt GOP Assemblyman Van Tran, who is termed out from the state legislature and running for Congress for the first time.
I am still not sure if Pham is running as a Republican or as an independent. But he is a good guy and at this point I rather support him than Sanchez. But if he runs as a Republican I cannot vote for him as that party won’t allow independents and third party members to vote in their primaries.
Sanchez’ latest gaffe is one for the ages. According to the O.C. Weekly, she told a young descendant of President Richard Nixon that she regretted voting for Tricky Dick. That was of course a horrible insult to the young man, who was visiting her office in D.C. But beyond that, the fact is Sanchez wasn’t old enough to vote back when Nixon was running for President. Sanchez appears to be either a liar or a ding dong - or both.
This is very bad news for O.C. Clerk-recorder Tom Daly, who like Galloway is also a Democrat. Particularly since Jerbal, at Red Klownty, is also reporting that La Habra Councilwoman Rose Espinoza, who is also a Democrat, is thinking about running for Clerk-Recorder instead of running for the 4th Supervisorial District.
Daly is already being opposed by Anaheim Councilman Harry Sidhu. Now Galloway will further dilute Daly’s base in Anaheim, where he was once the Mayor. Read more…
Talk to this small but vocal faction of local Democrats about the future of the party in central and north Orange County and one name above all others brings a sparkle to their eye and a smile to their face. Despite the fact the demographic makeup of the party in this geographical area is largely Latino the local elected that garners their excitement doesn’t have a Hispanic surname like Tinajero, Alvarez, Benevides or Martinez as one might expect. The “chosen one” for these folks is Anaheim Union High School District Trustee Jordan Brandman.
Many in this group make up the “Janny” faction of the DPOC, thus called this for their covert support for Latino bashing Supervisor Janet Nguyen. It is not shocking that they would pin the party’s hope for the future in Central/North OC on the shoulders of an Anglo politician. History shows us that many within the DPOC have a track record of opposing Latino politicians in the local area. Loretta Sanchez and Lou Correa did not gain any party support until the won their seat. To this day, much, if not all of Loretta and Lou’s success is in spite of the local party.
While we cannot, nor should we, hold the actions of these folks against Mr. Brandman, we should question his decision to endorse uberconservative Republican Chris Norby for Orange County Clerk/Recorder. From what I have seen Mr. Brandman is a bright and articulate young man, not to mention he is a fellow Anteater alumnist. I would think that Mr. Norby’s politics are the polar opposite of Brandman’s, at least I would hope they are. So why endorse him? Read more…
Politics is all about hope - and fear. But all too often the truth lies in math. Take for example the current DPOC darling, Irvine Councilwoman Beth Krom. Some folks think she actually has a chance of defeating well-heeled former car dealer Rep. John Campbell. But the numbers don’t bear this out.
Last year, perennial Democratic candidate Steve Young tried mightily to take out Campbell. In the end, Young got just over 40% of the vote - with Barack Obama atop the Democratic ticket, according to Smart Voter. Campbell came in at over 55% of the vote. Campbell got 171,431 votes to Young’s 125,351 votes. That is to say that Young lost by over 45,000 votes!
Sure, Krom has had some success at the local level. But this is the big leagues now. And the registration numbers don’t favor Krom - not by a long shot. There are 195,299 Republicans in the 48th Congressional District. There are only 128,341 Democrats in that district. Young got almost all their votes and still lost. Read more…
Jim Toledano, former Chair of the DPOC (Democratic Party of Orange County)
“Jim Toledano, the 65-year-old former chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party and a three-time losing state assembly candidate, has been charged with two felony counts in an alleged $350,000 extortion plot, according to prosecutors,” according to the O.C. Weekly’s Navel Gazing Blog.
Toledano is famous for running against Loretta Sanchez in the Democratic primary, the year that she went on to beat Bob Dornan. And he also made the headlines when he left his wife and announced he was gay, shortly after retiring as Chair of the DPOC.
Toledano has been in trouble before, according to the O.C. Weekly, “A few years earlier, the Federal Election Commission caught Toledano attempting to conceal an illegal $10,000 personal campaign contribution to a Democratic candidate trying to unseat then-incumbent Republican Congressman Robert K. Dornan of Garden Grove. He was fined $7,500 and severely reprimanded by a U.S. District Court of Appeals which reviewed his conduct.”
I found the actual record of this transgression online: Read more…
In a shocking development, it appears that not all Democrats are as economically ignorant as Barack Obama, who now advocates taxing every time an American flips a lightswitch, or in a Libertarians case, blows gas. In Maine, the Democrats have actually passed tax and spending CUTS in their state.
The class-warfare crowd in Washington wants bigger government and higher tax rates, so it’s a bit shocking to see that a group of Northeastern Democrats are slashing tax rates. Yet that is exactly what Maine’s politicians are doing. The Governor even makes the common-sense observation (that so far has escaped President Obama’s attention) that there won’t be any jobs without investors and entrepreneurs.
So when will California leftists and Democrats get it? Its doubtful the class warfare dupes and the welfare pimps here ever will. They’re more concerned with demonstrating that they “care” about working families by cutting child deductions and killing jobs. Great job Democrats! Keep up the good work!
“Irvine Councilwoman Beth Krom will continue her bid for U.S. Rep. John Campbell’s 48th District seat, after the sudden death of her 22-year-old son, her campaign manager has announced. “Beth is committed to the ongoing success of this campaign,” Krom’s campaign manager, Melahat Rafiei, said in a recent e-mail,” according to the Daily Pilot.
In related news, new details have emerged regarding the death of Krom’s son, Noah, earlier this month, in an article in the UCSB Student Newspaper, the Daily Nexus. Here are a few key excerpts:
“So far our investigation has told us that he had just crossed over from climbing over a fence from 6653 Del Playa over to 6663 Del Playa where at some point he fell off the cliff outside of the fence that borders the different properties,” Olmstead said.
Krom was the sixth person that has fallen down the cliffs this year, but he is the only fatality. Olmstead said that all of the previous five incidents were alcohol-related. The toxicology results for Krom will be available within the next few days. Read more…
It looks like former SAUSD Trustee Nativo Lopez finally got busted. Here is what the L.A. Times is reporting:
Felony charges have been filed and an arrest warrant issued for an Orange County political activist suspected of committing election and voter registration fraud, the California secretary of state’s office announced Wednesday.
Investigators in the agency’s election fraud unit said Nativo V. Lopez, 57, of Santa Ana leased office space in Boyle Heights and registered to vote using that address although he lived with his family in Orange County. They also say Lopez, president of the Mexican-American Political Assn., cast an illegal ballot in L.A. in the 2008 presidential primary. Read more…
The death this month of congressional candidate Beth Krom’s son, Noah, 22, was a terrible tragedy. Now those wishing to honor Noah Krom’s memory may contribute to The Noah J. Krom Foundation c/o JCFOC, “to help carry Noah’s legacy forward and realize the dreams he held in his heart.”
Those wishing to make credit card donations please contact Myrna Shields at the Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Orange County at (949) 435-3495.
Please make checks payable to: The Noah J. Krom Foundation c/o JCFOC. Read more…
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“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told the leaders of the Assembly and Senate on Wednesday to scrap their plan to raise taxes to help close the state’s budget deficit, but the two Democrats insisted they would move ahead next week with a vote of the full Legislature,” according to the L.A. Times.
Wow! It would appear that Arnold has finally grown some huevos.
In fact Arnold actually sent “a metal sculpture of bull testicles” to Democratic Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, this week, which “came with a note suggesting the lawmaker would need them to make some tough budget choices,” according to the L.A. Times. Read more…
Former Santa Ana Councilman Mike Garcia knew that shady Santa Ana developer Mike Harrah would try to move government offices into his proposed One Broadway Plaza building, so Garcia added a clause that forced Harrah to have to lease out half the building before the City of Santa Ana would allow him to build his monstrosity.
This week, Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido told an audience at a fundraiser that “he may have found a way to meet the letter of that requirement, and quickly: Sign up the County of Orange as the tower’s major tenant. He said he had spoken with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week about using federal stimulus funds to move at least some county offices into the proposed tower,” according to the O.C. Register.
You read that correctly. Pulido wants to waste federal money to move County of Orange offices to One Broadway Plaza. Don’t forget that he has some allies over at the County. Former Santa Ana Councilman Rob Richardson, who Pulido helped to get reelected last year to the SAUSD School Board, is the Assistant County CEO, and current lame Santa Ana Councilman Carlos Bustamante works as some kind of middle manager in the County Planning Department. Read more…
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