The O.C. Voter Registrar has posted the first returns, which largely reflect absentee voters. Here are a few of the more interesting results:
- Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez beat Van Tran, by 8 points. The votes are still being counted, but it is over for the Trannies.
- No problem for State Senator Lou Correa. He easily beat Lucille Kring.
- Same goes for Assemblyman Jose Solorio, who wiped the floor with Robert Hammond.
- Melissa Fox and Beth Krom lost big. No sense going over the numbers.
- In Irvine, Jeff Lalloway and Larry Agran won. Now they will have to find a way to work together.
- In the 68th AD, Phu Nugyen lost to Allan Mansoor by 9,000 votes.
- In Santa Ana, it is over for Alfredo Amezcua and his unhinged coalition. Mayor Miguel Pulido won with almost half the vote. Amezcua only got 25% of the vote – he spent perhaps 200K for just over 6,000 votes. Ouch!
- The other Santa Ana mayoral candidates are far behind, but Charles Hart edged out George Collins. Who cares though. They really weren’t a factor in this race.
- Sal Tinajero won in Ward 6, with close to 52% of the vote. Nam Pham got 26% of the vote. Helen Martinez didn’t matter in this race.
- In Anaheim, it looks like Kris Murray and Gail Eastman won. John Leos came in third place. The unions spent a fortune on Leos, to no avail.
- In Brea the good news is Ron Garcia won. So did Roy Moore, but fellow union shill Ric Clough lost to Brett Murdock.
- In Fullerton, Bruce Whitaker beat Roland Chi!
- And Rick Sandzimier lost in Mission Viejo!
- In Huntington Beach, Joe Shaw and his Democratic ally, Connie Boardman, won.
- In CAPO, Maddox and Winsten were recalled! The good guys won, as John Alpay and Gary Pritchard will replace them. Good riddance! And Measure H passed too!
- And in case you are wondering, in the SAUSD school board race John Palacio won and Audrey Yamagata-Noji is behind him. Turnout was low. But I spent less than a thousand and got over six thousand votes. Let’s just say I spent a lot less per vote than Amezcua did for his 6,000 votes! Thanks to all that supported me and voted for me. I will run again in two years – and this time we will start early and run a major campaign. And I will continue to run my www.fixthesausd.com blog in the interim.
How much did Al spend per vote? This guy couldn’t get elected Senior Class President at Century High School! The people have spoken Al, and they don’t want you in elected office. Adios Amigo!
Has Al made the “felicidades” call to Miguel yet? Let the healing begin in our fair city. The people have spoken.
Univision is showing that Loretta Sanchez has taken 50% of the vote
while Van Tran has taken 43.3%
NO! Pulido again?! Are you SERIOUS! People in this city just don’t get it. We need change, people are so uninformed here, ugh!
Can you please give me directions to Thomas Gordon’s victory party? I seemed to have lost the Evite.
Come on ceci we belive. In u
Lets see Thomas Gordon can’t count, McCuwen has a long middle finger and man hands, Glen Stroud can’t afford to leave Santa Ana, Tim Rush needs to place his initials on all his clothes to remember his name. Have you seen his car? His plates spell RUSH… wtf… what arrogance.
Amezcua can’t understand that maybe Miguel would lose to a solid candidate. Amezcua proved he is not a solid candidate. Usual suspects please take note you don’t matter… your day is gone, Mexicans run this city and they will not victimize other Mexicans. Get over it and find another hobby. Tonight, the people spoke loud and clear; this is the government our citizens want. Nah nah nah nah… Nah nah nah nah… hey ay ay GOOD BYE
Your day is gone, Mexicans run this city and they will not victimize other Mexicans.
MQ says:
I fully agree; thick Mexicans do run Santa Ana and that is why the city is a dump!
I suggest to the Mexicans of Santa Ana that you start voting for Americans! They like their country, they want parks and successful schools! They actually believe that working is wayyyyyy better than picking up a Calworks check! They know where their kids are at night and they would like YOU too know were you’re kids are too!
I suggest to the Mexicans that you are right it is your city and you can keep it!
But know your time is up as far as making our live’s harder!
We are getting the feeling you don’t like us Americans and the feeling is becoming mutual!!!
In Santa Ana it’s time of all of us to come together and support Mayor Pulido and Councilman Tinajero. The people have spoken. We had a healthy debate on the issues and now it’s time for supporters on all sides to join hands and work together to address the many issues facing our city in the years to come. Congratulations to all who ran. There are winners and there are losers but at the end of the day, we all need to work together. Thank you Orange Juice Blog for your fair election coverage.
Pssst, it’s John Alpay 🙂 And Lynn Hatton won as well.
“It is over for Alfredo Amezcua and his unhinged coalition. Mayor Miguel Pulido won with almost half the vote. Amezcua only got 25% of the vote – he spent perhaps 200K for just over 6,000 votes. Ouch!”………….Hmmm
That leaves my 2004 Mayoral campaign the best run campaign in the history of Santa Ana!
I spent $0 dollars and got 25% at 10,000 votes.
As to the future of Santa Ana the pictures above speak 1,000s words.
So do not blame the usual suspects for an increase in the Santa Ana’s misery index, Pedroza!
The Mexican’s are in control.
Frankly, I do not care since I am heading to the greener pastures as the self reliant entrepreneur.
Since I live in Irvine, I will only comment on Irvine.
Larry Agran and Jeff Lalloway are like a canister of gasoline and a box of strike anywhere matches. A combustable combonation. No matter who is in and despite Lalloway’s “tough” campaign rhetoric to bring fiscal discipline to Irvine, it will still be business as usual at Irvine City Hall. More money wasted on projects like the unfinished Great Park, which was supposed to be finished in 2005, and the seldomly used iShuttle. More closed door meetings regarding the Great Park finances. More scams to raise funds under the guise of “education.” Of course, Dan Chameleonewski will still be making apologies for the city on the FibOC.
Maybe my proposed municipal ballot measure to legalize the sale of fireworks is what is needed to light a fire underneath the complacent electorate and Star Chamber of Master Planistan. I just found out I need 18,000 signatures from Irvine residents to qualify it for the fall 2012 ballot.
By the way, Westminster just did that! (The fireworks)
It was one of the few things I was thrilled about on Election Day. The other was the banning of red light cameras in Anaheim which won by a sizeable margin. Now I when I go to visit my folks in Westiminster, I can pick up Piccolo Petes and sparklers for the 4th of July. If Westiminster can do it, why can’t Irvine?
Another very low turn-out.
I think the California lottery should be tied into voting, as X number of voters win a special cash prize.
Vern, thanks for the help in getting me that write in canidates name yesterday.
Notice how it worked out in south county? If you can not beat the incubant in the election, take’em out in a recall.
the “Trannies”? Nice. No wonder you support her, you fit right in with Sanchez’ racist remarks about the Vietnamese community and Tran. I’m a 2nd generation American, my parents were born in Mexico, and I’m ashamed to be represented by Sanchez. She’s a classless, racist boor and hopefully in 2 years Tran will run again and dismiss the shame we should feel at having her in office. A truly despicable woman and hate-filled demagogue. Adios, indeed.
People need to get over this tribalism and racial and ethnic solidarity. Democrats wish to keep HIspanics on the reservation and in their pockets, and appeal to racist and bigoted instincts to keep office. This is what’s wrong with politics today. Clearly, most of the country is sick of it, and 60-70 Democrats were handed their pink-slips yesterday. Too bad my district does not have enough “wise Latinas/Latinos” to make that same wise choice.
I voted for Ceci.
I am very, very sorry that Loretta Sanchez, that California Democrat, was returned to the House. As far as I’m concerned, she is one of the poisons in American politics. She was running against a Republican named Van Tran. And she said something highly revealing, and highly disgusting, to a reporter, in Spanish. According to this report, her statement went like this:
“The Vietnamese and the Republicans are — with an intensity — trying to take away this seat, this seat (from which) we have done so much for our community, take away this seat from us and give it to this Van Tran, who’s very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.”
Yeah, those damn Vietnamese. Their country is taken over by Communist monsters, many are murdered, others are put into reeducation camps, others take to the South China Sea on rafts, in tires, on bits of cardboard, on anything that might float, to brave piracy, dehydration, drowning . . . and then they arrive in America, if they’re lucky, to screw the Hispanics. Anti-immigrant bastards, those Vietnamese are.
By the way, Van Tran escaped with his family a week before Saigon fell.
I believe that, if a Republican had engaged in the sheer racial-ethnic nastiness and stupidity of Loretta Sanchez, he would not have been able to survive in public life. But it’s much different, if you’re a liberal Democrat.
Joe Biden said that Barack Obama was “the first mainstream African-American” candidate, going on to describe him as “articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” (Al Sharpton protested, “I take a bath every day.”) Today, Biden is vice president. Harry Reid called Obama a “light-skinned” black “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” He, of course, is the Senate majority leader. Dan Rather said that Obama “couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.”
I don’t believe that a Republican could have survived those remarks. But, again, it’s much different if you’re a liberal Democrat. You know, we can live with the double standard. I only wish the Left would admit it. If only they could say, “Yeah, it’s a double standard, too bad for you. Ha, ha, suckers. Deal with it.” But I have never heard any such acknowledgement from them.
Anyway, Loretta Sanchez is back in Congress. And Van Tran will just have to console himself with his obvious and flagrant hatred of immigrants.
Well, that’s simple. Biden and Loretta survived their little GAFFES because their long-term records clearly showed real support for minorities – black or Viet. NEXT?
I would suspect they won because of racism- that’s exactly why she said what she did, to appeal to the worst instincts of her constituents: “We don’t want an Asian taking our HISPANIC seat!”.
It’s disgusting. Hopefully she will be defeated next election. Democrats are happy to keep minorities poor and helpless so they can exploit them.
Oh, did I mention – Van Tran has a long record of telling Vietnamese voters, in the Vietnamese language, that they can only be represented properly by a Vietnamese.
When Loretta (in her awkward out-of-practice Spanish) said that “the Vietnamese” were trying to take away her seat (meaning the Trannies) and then Van jumped all over that, it was definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Vern, I didn’t want to post much on this blog but I had to jump in this time to say that I agree with you 100%.
Lam,
I took a look at Bolsavik and was mighty amused to see you getting your butt kicked!
Maria, you can’t possibly be for real. Sanchez has done more for the Vietnamese community than any Vietnamese politician ever have. You’re screaming racism when you know dang well that the Vietnamese are telling other Viets to vote for Vietnamese candidates only. Thank god many of the us didn’t buy into that BS, and thus it’s one of the reasons why Tran lost. I know quite a few Viets who did not vote for Tran.
Racism exists on both sides, as ugly and unpleasant as it is to admit.
Loretta dresses up in your clothes too…
Art, you are such a racist, it’s amazing.
Lam,
Really? How exactly am I a racist? Care to be more specific?
I am a minority and I will always vote for someone who will support the middle class, the rights of woman, the rights of our gay citizens, and support health care reform.
Why does the rest of the industrialized world protect the health of its people but we think it is perfectly OK to make a profit out of sick people. We are the wealthiest country in the world and we are supposed to stand for everyones rights but Van Tran and his party only supports the rights of some and not others; he is willing to make the rich tax cuts permanent; he wants to roll back health care reform; and he doesn’t support the dream act.
So say what you want I am glad we have Loretta back
You obviously are clueless to the rest of the world!!
Let me educate you please: Europe has one of the worst health system’s EVER and in total free fall!
MRSA is rampant in the hospitals and people line the corridor’s!
I have had numerous relatives die from the incompetent care they received at Irish hospitals! Public healthcare is awful and I mean awful especially for the old!
And again let me EDUCATE YOU!
Poor people do not create jobs, rich people do and the poor benefit from that!
I swear I don’t know if people are thick because of genetics or denial???
By the way; NO one supports the dream act because it allows SOME a fast track road to citizenship but not all!
It is amazing that your minority (Mexican) seem to believe they are more important than the rest of us!
And of course you want loretta back, but here is a question for ya! Is it because he is a part of YOUR minority???
OMG!!!!!!
I don’t really care for either candidate in the 47th CD race and don’t have much of a stake in who wins between Sanchez and Tran. I live in a district (48th) with an out of touch Congressman who won 60% of the vote and wants us to “Join the Resistance.” However, I have a feeling that something doesn’t pass the proverbial smell test here even though Sanchez has a 9 point lead. (No reference to the Van Tran “Scratch and Sniff” mailer intended).
I don’t like engage in conspiracy theories, but I think the Tran campaign is up to something not on the up and up. Explain to me the “record number” of 112,000 mail in ballots dropped off at the polls on Election Day.
From today’s OC Register: http://www.ocregister.com/news/ballots-274344-sanchez-voters.html
“Sanchez had a nine-point lead over Tran in updated vote totals released Wednesday, with all precincts reporting – a winning margin that equaled more than 5,000 votes. But the county was just beginning to sort through more than 112,000 vote-by-mail ballots that voters dropped at the polls instead of in the mail, a record number.”
“We have thousands of ballots left to count,” Tran said Wednesday afternoon in a prepared statement. “Although we have a steep hill to climb, in respect to our voters we’d like to see more votes counted.”
When did Van Tran ever care about the voters?
After the count is over, then there be the recount.
In the recount, that is where the VBM ballots and the Blue Ballots and the white Ballots are challenged.
VBM are challenged on improper information on envelope or unnecessary marks on the ballot itself, such as any and all mistakes.
Blue Ballots are tossed if there is another vote with that voters name on it, in fact both are tossed and the documentation send to the DA.
White Ballots are tossed for the most reasons.
White ballots require a lot of information, and there was one question that some voters kept missing that must be answered. Maybe it is because its next to the optional questions and small print, but it is printed in RED.
Are you a US Citizen? ( ) Yes ( ) No
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“Explain to me the “record number” of 112,000 mail in ballots dropped off at the polls on Election Day. “
Something like 600,000 VBM ballots were sent out to voters, those ballots must be in the hand of the ROV by 8pm Tuesday Night 11-2-10, any at the post office will not count. (Post mark’s don’t count)
So the only way to have your VBM ballot count is to take it to the ROV office or drop it off at a polling site. (Each polling site verifies the envelope is correct and the voter or an authorized person is dropping it off.)
There is no doubt in my mind that in Santa Ana illegal Aliens are voting! There is no real verfication at all! It’s kinda of ridiculous that you can vote without any ID verification!!!
Loads of fraud!
I would say Meg Whittman lost because of it!
Michelle
What… and you as a minority has the guts to say that illegals are voting. Let me let you in on a little secret. Illegal immigrants are afraid and stay away from government programs that help them because they fear being deported. There is no way they would stick their neck out to vote. Unlike, the Vietnamese who are here enjoying legal status once they set foot in America. They are the ones who can be prone to voter fraud… how many Hung Trungs or Kim Trans are there? The answer many, correct me if I am wrong but was it not Van Tran’s campaign that dropped thousand of late vote by mail ballotts on election night?
Really, if they are so afraid why do they seem to know where to go to every government entitlement program???
And if you have not noticed: The largest illegal immigrant population surround state and federal buildings (Santa Ana)!!!!!!!
Not that afraid are they now???
I know this is hard for you to hear because you are used to being treated like royalty!
The Vietnamese are not the problem, Latino’s from south of the border (mainly Mexican) are!!!!!
1. Child pregnancy rate through the roof
2. Drop out’s
3. violent gangs
4. AWFUL parenting
5. Quick to become welfare recipients ( It is why this state is the largest welfare state in the country!)
Shall I go on: I know it is hard to swallow!
Mexicans are shooting themselves in the foot and that is why YOU being Mexican have no interest in the truth! You can’t stand to it!
After all it is your blood! OMG!
The vietnamese enjoy legal status here because they behave well in this country!
It’s that simple!
Michelle, I guess you vote by mail or not vote at all, cause if you voted at a polling place, you would be verified. Everyone who votes at the polls are verified.
Good Old Day, You are wrong, Tran’s campaign did not drop off thousands of late votes.
(all VBM ballots are verified at the polls)
I give a name and address! Not once was I asked for identification!!!
Is this not one of the problems AZ is trying to fix?? For voters to show citizenship proof??
I have absoultely no doubt that illegal’s are voting in Santa Ana and else where in this state and country!
Michelle,
Az wants Immigrants to show proof of legal residence (as required by Fed Law). That Az law has nothing to do with voting.
At the polls, you are verified as the voter, your US Citizen status was verified before hand.
What you should do is call up the ROV and add your name to the pool of poll workers for the next election.
Take the training and work at your local poll during an election. . Then you will see that there are thousands of citizens throughout the county working to insure clean elections.
I have only shown proof of residency!
Again there is no doubt that voter fraud goes on; just ask ACORN?????
It should be mandatory to shown proof of citizenship before voting period! It only makes for common sense and a sure way of knowing that the person who is voting is a US citizen!!!!
Well, you just keep on looking for some proof, Michelle. Thousands of you righties have been for years. You might find an isolated case here or there. Buncha clowns.