The O.C. Register has finally confirmed something I wrote back on January 5, “Last fall, Orange County labor leaders faced their own breaking point. Many seethed privately when they failed to garner endorsements for their chosen candidate for the 1st Supervisory District election scheduled this June. Promoting former state Sen. Joe Dunn, labor failed to garner endorsements from Rep. Loretta Sanchez, state Sen. Lou Correa or Assemblyman Jose Solorio.”
That’s right – central Orange County’s Latino legislators turned a collective cold shoulder to Dunn. And now Nick Berardino, the head of the Orange County Employer’s Association has spent several hundred thousand dollars registering voters in the area as a way to increase leverage against the Latino legislators.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just develop good Latino candidates? And to admit that Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido has ruined most of the current crop of Latino local elected officials?
What if Berardino was compelled to tell the truth, while registering voters in central Orange County? It might go something like this:
Entering satire mode…
Scene: Nick Berardino walks up to a home in Santa Ana’s Artesia Pilar Neighborhood, with a union lackey in tow, and knocks several times.
Resident (a male in his 40’s): Si?
Berardino (Turns to his Latino lackey): Tell him we are here to register voters in his house because we want to threaten the Latino legislators in the area.
Latino Union Lackey: Buenos dias. Estamos aqu
The penny, Ron Paul supporters, and Art Pedroza.
Name three things that serious people don’t take seriously.
#1,
Actually, copper is so valuable now that thieves are stealing wires from buildings and even from freeway wiring! There is now talk of getting rid of the penny because it is too expensive to produce.
At any rate, I don’t worry too much about what anon commenters, or anyone else for that matter, think about me. But thanks for reading this blog. You are part of a very broad universe of readers that includes media, legislators, local elected officials, attorneys, businesspeople and grassroots activists.
This is more about Solorio, Correa, and Sanchez not wanting to have to run against a rich Dem lawyer in the future.
Art,
How will Nick build a consensus of union labor followers or make central county Latino leaders more accountable by building the base that drives these leaders?
This program is registering Latinos to vote so that Latino elected leaders will now take labor unions more seriously. If anything, Labor will lose more political clout.
#4,
Nick’s strategy is a mystery to me too. He ought to have targeted the 68th A.D., so the Dems could go after Van Tran – who is arguably the most corrupt Republican legislator in Orange County.
Instead they paid a bunch of money to register more Dems in an area that is already chock full of Dems. Not very bright. And as you pointed out, the voters are Latino, which means they will naturally gravitate to Correa, Solorio and Sanchez.
It sounds like Nick is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
Arturo,
Last time I checked your girl, Janet Nguyen, violated state law and county regulation by setting up an illegal defense fund. And in your eyes, she is a darling and an honest politician. Go ahead look yourself in the mirror.
Art-
Next time can you work Mark Leyes into the comedy? Loved the Mountian Dew and pizza boxes references.