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Council candidate Onofre now embracing her Republican identity

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Civic Affairs, Claudia Alvarez, Democratic Party, Elections, Latinos, Loretta Sanchez, Orange County, Politics, Republican Party, Roman Reyna, Santa Ana, Women 12 Comments

Carlos Bustamante is the last Republican left on the Santa Ana City Council.  And his political career appears to be done, as he is facing numerous felony charges of sex crimes and public theft.  The dwindling Republicans in Santa Ana may however have a new champion – Karina Onofre, the young candidate who is running for the Ward currently represented by Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez.

That Onofre is a Republican may have escaped the attention of Dan Chmielewski, the editor of the Liberal OC, who introduced Onofre to his readers in a post a few months ago that described her as “a 29-year-old moderate who is liberal on some issues, Libertarian on others and fiscally conservative.”   Continue reading→

Floral Park residents helping Hart to gather Council nomination signatures

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Carlos Bustamante, Charles Hart, Republican Party, Santa Ana 3 Comments

John and Ann Coil, Floral Park residents, are hosting a signature gathering and kick-off party for Charles Hart, a Republican who is running for Santa Ana City Council, on Monday, July 16.

Hart is running for Ward 3, which is currently held by Council Member Carlos Bustamante, who was recently arrested after being charged with several felony sex crimes and public theft.  Bustamante is a former Orange County middle manager and Hart is currently an Orange County middle manager.

Hart has apparently just pulled his Council nomination papers, and the Coils are holding a meeting in order to gather the 20 signatures he needs in order to run for the City Council. Continue reading→

Bustamante’s last hurrah was the Usual Suspects’ 2012 4th of July event

Posted on by Posted in Carlos Bustamante, Civic Affairs, Courts, Crime, David Benavides, Francisco Barragan, Orange County, Parks and Recreation, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana 5 Comments

It turns out that Santa Ana Council Member Carlos Bustamante’s last hurrah was the 2nd Annual Santa Ana Independence Day event at Centennial Park, which was held last Sunday.   He was arrested the very next day, after parking his car in a parking structure at City Hall, on charges of sex crimes and public theft.

One of the things that always bothered me about Bustamante was his overstated patriotism and gung ho attitude towards public safety.  It always felt fake to me.  He once compared himself to movie character Forrest Gump, a pretty dumb guy who made out over time by being in the right place at the right time.  That is the story of Bustamante’s life. Continue reading→

69th A.D. candidate Perez totally failed in his hometown of Anaheim

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Anaheim, Democratic Party, Elections, Jose Moreno, Julio Perez, Michele Martinez, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Tom Daly Leave a comment

Chris Nguyen, over at the Republican OC Political blog, spent a lot of time breaking down the vote in the 69th Assembly District, in the June 5 primary. It turns out that corporate Democrat Tom Daly won in Anaheim and in Santa Ana, which is no surprise as he spent a fortune and his friends in Sacramento and Anaheim spent even more.

Daly also benefited from being the only white candidate in a pool of Latino candidates. But the other story of note is that liberal union hack Julio Perez, who grew up in Anaheim, completely failed in that city. Republican candidate Jose Moreno, who barely ran a campaign, totally whacked Perez in Anaheim. Continue reading→

Will Orange County Democrats run away from Obama in November?

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Democratic Party, Elections, Loretta Sanchez, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Tom Daly 1 Comment

Will Orange County’s Democratic candidates run away from the increasingly unpopular President Barack Obama in November? He is likely to win the State of California, but I can’t see him doing well in Orange County. Obama won U.S. Representative John Campbell’s district in 2008. That is highly unlikely to happen this November. In fact the only Congressional District that Obama might pick up is the one held by his fellow Democrat, Loretta Sanchez.

On the other hand, I expect Republican nominee Mitt Romney to come to Orange County perhaps more than once. He should be a boon to the local Republican candidates, with the exception of Jerry Hayden, who is running against Sanchez in the 47th Congressional District. That district’s Latino voters won’t likely be very impressed by Romney, who has been very harsh on immigrants during his campaign this year. Continue reading→

Santa Ana’s voters could help decide the winner of the 72nd A.D.

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Democratic Party, Elections, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Joe Dovinh, Little Saigon, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Travis Allen, Troy Edgar, Van Tran, Vietnamese, Westminster Leave a comment

Chris Nguyen, over at OC Political, wrote a very complete analysis of the election results in the 72nd Assembly District, where two Republican candidates, Travis Allen and Troy Edgar, will face off again in November.

Nguyen analyzed the vote in each city in the 72nd and found that Edgar and Allen were in the top two in the Cities of Huntington Beach, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach,
and Rossmoor.  Edgar also came in second in the City of Garden Grove. Continue reading→

Is Barragan to blame for Perez’ loss in the 69th A.D.?

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Anaheim, Democratic Party, Elections, Francisco Barragan, Jose Moreno, Julio Perez, Michele Martinez, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana 6 Comments

The Orange County Voter Registrar finally closed the ballot counting from the June 5 Open Primary, yesterday.  Ultra liberal 69th Assembly District candidate Julio Perez lost by 242 votes to Republican Jose “Joe” Moreno, who will now face off against top vote-getter Tom Daly, a corporate Democrat, in the November General Election.

Perez and his union allies spent a small fortune and all they got out of it was third place.  I have argued in a previous post that Perez and fellow Democrat Michele Martinez both erred by not attacking Daly, but there might be more to this story. Continue reading→

Multi-partisan Sounds of Truth Festival set for 7/7 in Irvine

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Charities, Democratic Party, Elections, Entertainment, irvine, Libertarian Party, music, Orange County, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Youth Activities Leave a comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michael Maxsenti, Mobile: 714.745.9830

REBELLIOUS TRUTHS PRESENTS SOUNDS OF TRUTH FESTIVAL
A Visionary Experiment in Empathy, Good times and Understanding.

Think it’s impossible that Occupiers, Tea Partiers, Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians could ever sit down together in a civil conversation? Rebellious Truths doesn’t.

The nonprofit Rebellious Truths is making modern history by hosting the very first “Sounds of Truth Festival” on Saturday, July 7th, 2012 at Mason Regional Park in Irvine, California from 10 AM to 5 PM. Continue reading→

Jose Moreno requesting investigation of deceptive pro Daly mailers

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Anaheim, Democratic Party, Jose Moreno, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Tom Daly 2 Comments
Jose “Joe” Moreno, Candidate the 69th Assembly District
Press Release, For Immediate Release
June 11, 2012
Jose “Joe” Moreno to request an investigation of deceptive mailers that promoted Tom Daly
SANTA ANA – Jose “Joe” Moreno, one of the two two candidates for the 69th Assembly District, is formally requesting that candidate Tom Daly, running for the 69th Assembly District, publicly denounce and disassociate himself from any involvement in a series of campaign literature, paid for by JobsPAC.  Continue reading→

U.S. Senate candidate Emken to party in Santa Ana on Election Night

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Leading Republican U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Emken will be celebrating on Election Night in Santa Ana, at Original Mike’s Restaurant, which is located at 100 S. Main Street.  Emken is the only GOP candidate endorsed by the California Republican Party.

The fun is set for Tuesday, June 5, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. Continue reading→

How much did Loretta Sanchez hurt herself by skipping the June 5 primary?

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Democratic Party, Jorge Rocha, Loretta Sanchez, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana Leave a comment

California’s elected officials and political candidates are trying to figure out how to campaign in the new Open Primary Election that is set for June 5. Here in Orange County, one of our longtime U.S. Representatives, Loretta Sanchez, apparently decided to skip the primary election altogether.

You won’t find any Sanchez signs and I have seen no mailers and have not received any phone calls from her campaign. But her opponents are all running hard. Continue reading→

The dark side of Tom Fuentes, the deceased former OC GOP Chairman

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Orange County, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana 1 Comment

Photo courtesy of Dissent the Blog

Deceased former Republican Party of Orange County Chairman Tom Fuentes “scripted his funeral ritual last August with one of his former seminary classmates and refined it in the intervening months,” according to his longtime friend, O.C. Register columnist Frank Mickadeit.

As usual, when it came to Fuentes, there is more to the story.  The OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano scrutinized the list of guest speakers and attendees at Fuentes’ funeral and he found a gaggle of pedophile apologists:

*Giving the homily was the man who replaced Fuentes as communications director, Lawrence Baird. Baird was a notorious asshole to many sex-abuse victims, defended vile pedophile Michael Harris as “an icon to the priesthood” to the media even as the Orange diocese knew he was a pedophile rapist, and even once sued a sex-abuse victim for defamation (he lost). Yet Fuentes wanted this man to give the homily? Birds of a feather… Continue reading→

The Lincoln Club rejects most of the OC GOP’s Central County candidates

Posted on by Posted in Charles Hart, Elections, Jose Moreno, Latinos, Orange County, Politics, Republican Party, Robert Hammond, Santa Ana, Tom Daly 3 Comments

The Lincoln Club of Orange County’s State and Federal Political Action Committees have issued a primary election Orange County voter guide, and it is a stunning slap to the Republican Party of Orange County’s slate of candidates in Central Orange County.

Why would the Lincoln Club reject them?  Well, for starters, most of them are startlingly anti-Latino.  One of them, Robert Hammond, got rejected not once but twice – the Lincoln Club refused to endorse him for both the OC GOP’s 69th Assembly District delegation and the Orange County Board of Education, Area One. Continue reading→

Daly’s campaign caught lying to GOP voters in the 69th Assembly District

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Democratic Party, Jose Moreno, Michele Martinez, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Tom Daly 6 Comments

By: 69th Assembly District candidate Jose “Joe “ Moreno

My name Is Jose “Joe “ Moreno and I am still a candidate on the ballot for the 69th Assembly district.

A campaign mailer sent out yesterday on behalf of Tom Daly is a lie!

This particular mailer titled “Attention Republicans” was mailed to registered Republicans and also distributed by canvassers who called themselves Republicans. Continue reading→

New 69th A.D. poll shows Martinez, Daly and Moreno on top

Posted on by Posted in 2012 Elections, Democratic Party, Elections, Jose Moreno, Julio Perez, Labor, Michele Martinez, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Tom Daly 4 Comments

A new poll of voters in the 69th Assembly District might be the reason that Orange County Labor and the OC GOP machine are trying to squeeze Republican candidate Jose Moreno out of the 69th A.D. primary.

According to the survey memo, “Democrats Tom Daly and Michele Martinez and Republican Moreno lead the pack.  Martinez leads all candidates among Latinos and leads Julio Perez, by 16 points. She also leads all candidates in Santa Ana – home to 60% of likely voters. Martinez is also likely to benefit disproportionately from the fact that Democratic women are among the most undecided subgroups in the district initially.  And when voters were read profiles of the three major Democrats and a shorter profile of Republican Moreno, Martinez moved into the lead.” Continue reading→