Martin Wisckol writes in today’s O.C. Register that if Lou Correa does indeed run for the 34th State Senate District, his Supervisorial seat might open up – and that district now has a Republican voter registration advantage. Interesting. Wisckol suspects that the race for that seat would be dominated by Santa Ana Council Members, including two Democrats (Jose Solorio or Claudia Alvarez) and one Republican (Carlos Bustamante).
Bustamante already works for the County of Orange, as an Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services. He has a background in law enforcement, and has held various posts in Orange County. He also has extensive military experience. For whatever reason, Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido opposed his candidacy and recruited a caucasian candidate to run against him. However, Bustamante prevailed and he is now perhaps the most high-profile Latino Republican elected official in central Orange County. You have to wonder though if Bustamante, as a county employee, will be able to stand up to the powerful county employees’ union. I hope so.
Solorio and Alvarez are equally ridiculous and not worth noting. However, could former Anaheim Mayor Tom Daly have an interest in the Correa Supervisorial seat? He is currently the elected county Clerk-Recorder and would be a lot tougher candidate than either Solorio or Alvarez.
The best news is that the GOP now has an edge in registration in the First Supervisorial District. Congratulations to everyone who has worked on that registration effort. To read more about Carlos Bustamante, go to http://www.ci.santa-ana.ca.us/cm/cbustamante.asp. To read Wisckol’s article, go to http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/atoz/article_937058.php. He also plugs Judge Jim gray’s musical efforts in the same column.
Those registration numbers don’t mean squat! Us Dems have hardly put any real effort in yet. And we know Scott was paying big bounties for those registrations (to some of our people by the way)so he got a bunch of decline to staters or dem leaning voters and come election day they’ll be ours anyway.
Come on take a look at the real numbers. Do you really think the demographics shifted that much to justify those registration numbers? Get real but thanks for the extra Xmas cash Scotty.
I have to disagree.
This next 2006 election will pit some really interesting candidates (myself included) into the Central Orange County spotlight.
The Democrats running in Central Orange County haven’t done anything and I think it’s time someone points that out.
Come November, I think people will vote who they think will be a better representative than just some dude in their party.
Actually the GOP has been using trickery to get registration. Yes they are paying a huge bounty per registration, and the result has been deceptive tactics. I had a recent experience with a signature gatherer. After signing the various petitions, he suddenly puts a voter registration form in front of me telling me to put my name and address and sign it. He claimed this was to help in varifying the signatures. I knew this was a bunch of bull, and it suddenly dawned on me, he is attempting to register me Republican without my knowledge. I told him this should not be needed, the Registrar of Voters has all they need to verify signatures. He insisted it made their job easier, I asked how when they have computer technology. Looking at the form I noticed the box was checked Republican. He suddenly grabbed it away from me as I outright accused him of trying to trick me into registering Republican. I asked him how much they are paying him to do this. He tried to deny claming he accidentally checked the box earlier while doodling on a piece of paper. Beware people, signature gatherers are using deceptive measures to get Republican registrations. If a signature gatherer tries to get you to re-register and claims it is for verification purposes or any other reason (accept if you have moved) do not register. Get their name and report them immediately. I guess if the GOP is willing to cover up for child molestors, voter registration fraud is definitely within their lack of morals.
Kinda funny hearing a Democrat complain about Republican’s lack of morals.
Do you have any idea what Tom Umberg was doing while representing the 69th AD?
Neither us Dems or you Reps have a lock on the moral high ground. I go to church for that and heck even they screw up every once in awhile.
Hopefully Correa runs for the 34th SD so we keep that in the D column.
The Supervisor seat will sort itself out and it doesn’t really matter who’s on the end of those 4-1 votes but a D would be nice just to be a thorn in the rest of the board’s side. A democratic version of Norby who says what he wants and rattles the cages would be great.
Well, I personally would love to see Tom Umberg “politcially castrated”… and that can be done by getting himself beat up in a DEM primary or against a REP in the 34 Senate Seat.
If it comes down to Correa winning that seat, then so be it. As long as Umberg finds himself out of a job I’m happy.