Losing elections just plain sucks. There is really no other way to put it. It is a lot of work running for office, and when you don’t win all you have left is campaign bills and paperwork. One thing for certain, losing doesn’t make you a loser – it just means you didn’t win.
With that in mind, I must say that Paul Lucas has had a rough time of it over the past few months. He filed for the Board of Supervisors, against Janet Nguyen, then pulled out. He then ran for the Garden Grove City Council and lost. And then he ran in the Democratic Party of California’s 68th Assembly Delegate Election, and lost again. And tonight he tried to win a seat on the Democratic Party of Orange County’s Central Committee, in the 68th Assembly District. And he got seven votes.
Most of the votes went to Garden Grove’s Benny Diaz, and Fountain Valley’s Gus Ayer picked up the rest.
Diaz is popular with many folks at the DPOC. He has been the DPOC’s Sergeant at Arms and has served honorably on the DPOC’s Central Committee. Diaz was also recently elected to serve as a delegate to the Democratic Party of California, in the 68th Assembly District.
I am pretty sure that Lucas’ enemies in the DPOC asked Diaz to run. But that’s just politics. It was up to Lucas to drum up support and it didn’t work out. But one thing we do know, whatever you might think of Lucas, is that he was right about Supervisor Janet Nguyen. Unfortunately for him, too many of the folks at the DPOC are Jannies – and tonight they made sure to finish off Lucas.
Interestingly, many of these Jannies are also allied with Assemblyman Jose Solorio. We have reported here the fact that Solorio was the one who asked Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido to shut down the controversial Viet FOB II art exhibit. Now a theory has emerged as to why Solorio is kissing up to the Trannies – the enemies of the Jannies.
Apparently Solorio is working on a deal with the Trannies. He will run against Nguyen – and the Trannies will give him support, even it it is behind the scenes. Who knows? They might even recruit a white candidate to split the vote, such as Trannie ally Steve Jones, who is on the Garden Grove City Council.
Of course the Jannies on the DPOC could have avoided all this had they supported the Democratic candidate against Nguyen, Hoa Van Tran. But they didn’t and now they have drummed Lucas out of their Central Committee.
I am sure this is a bitter pill for Lucas. It may be best for him to take a break from politics for now. In a couple of years, when Nguyen files against Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, he will be able to tell the folks at his Central Committee, “I told you so!”
art,
your pajarito forgot to mention that popular former fountain valley mayor gus ayer was aloso a candidate for the 68th ad central committee.
Right, Ayer was so popular as an incumbent councilman in Fountain Valley that he placed fourth out of four last year.
Paul,
Thanks for the clarification. I did note Ayer in my post. Clearly the deck was stacked against you in this race with two popular candidates vying against you.
To be fair Ayer spent his time campaigning for Debbie Cook and spent minimal time on his own campaign. Gus is a good man, he essentially sacrificed his own political career to further another Democrat seeking higher office. His actions stood to benefit those of us in this west OC district as our current representative has done little for his district in 20 years. I think Gus’ selflessness was admirable.
#4,
I agree. Gus took one for the team last year. He does deserve credit for that. Perhaps Benny can name Gus as his alternate?
Art,
benny did the work of reaching out to memebers of the dpoc to garner support for his position on the central committee. I did not do the lobbying that he did becauase i hated being up against my friend Benny. Several memebers abstained from the vote all together for the same reasons.
Gus is a good guy. he really went all out for debby cook. and as a result he did not have the the time to work on his own re-election. The dpoc central committee will lose memebrs as people stop attending meetings every month. Its the same every year. members get fed up or they do other things and openings become available.
I am not that enthuisiastic about getting on the central committee anyway. i served five years on that body.
John or Paul Lucas, whatever your name is this week. Please stop acting like you are some sort of martyr. The majority voted for Benny because he is a good and honest person. Both he and Gus have worked hard on behalf of other good Democrats. You have only worked for yourself.