I never posted a blog comment in support of Carona. I haven’t given him money, or campaigned for him. I voted for him, yes, but that was the extent of my support. So I’m about as much to blame as the rest of the 51% of the electorate. There’s been plenty of candidates I supported that didn’t turn out the way I had expected, but hindsight is 20/20.

Dulop,

I appreciate the support of your vote. Maybe next year I will win. Though I don’t think I blog enough to garner the support for that prestigious honor of being the most “hackish partisan.”

….I do however find the Peter Griffin/Dan C hilarious however.

I tried to vopte for Dave Swanson AND Jubal, funny though, I have never seen their name on any ballot.

HYPOCRITES.

In other words, you’re saying any candidate who succeeds in raising money is ipso facto a sell-out.

Now, since we both know that is not true, the only reasonable conclusion is you failed to persuade very many people that your candidacy worth investing very much of their money in.

I don’t know what evidence you need re Rocco’s success in Orange other than the results.

The results were Rocco won, Phil Martinez one. It is impossible to infer anything from that alone. And you are unable to provide an iota of evidence to support your racialist speculation — not that that every stops you from presenting your lunatics theories as facts.

Sorry you lost the “Rotten Orange” Award for most hackish partisan blogger to Dan C. I really thought you would win it!

As for why I found it hard to raise money, are you kidding? You know I am not a sell-out. So do the donors.

I don’t know what evidence you need re Rocco’s success in Orange other than the results. But you have admitted to voting for Rocco – so you are all the evidence we need…

Ha! The ultimate in loser spin! I didn’t realize the goal of your candidacy was to limit Bustamante to 49.9%! Most candidates run in order to win.

The fact that I got over 10,000 votes, on a shoestring budget, is pretty good.

“Pretty good”? Have you ever asked yourself why, despite all the noise you made about your support in the community, you could hardly raise any money?

In fact had Rocco and Busty’s plant, Valencia-Verdin, not been on the ballot I very well may have beaten your boy Carlos.

Yeah…right…file that under ” and if pigs had wings”

Rocco, BTW, won in Orange in part because your fellow Republicans opted to vote for him instead of voting for his Latino opponent. Same thing happened in Santa Ana this year.

Sorry, Art, but telling a lie often enough doesn’t make it any less of a lie. Admit it: you don’t have a shred of evidence to back up your speculation.

Nice backpedaling there. But the fact remains – you supported Carona. I spoke out against him at the OC GOP Central Committee, or have you conveniently forgotten that?

Now you are sticking up for your pal Carlos, who is every bit as embarrassing as Carona. Well, at least you are consistent.

The fact that I got over 10,000 votes, on a shoestring budget, is pretty good. In fact had Rocco and Busty’s plant, Valencia-Verdin, not been on the ballot I very well may have beaten your boy Carlos.

At any rate, the campaign is over and now Busty has to come up with solutions to a $40 million dollar budget crisis in Santa Ana. My guess is he has no clue what to do…

Why should I be embarrassed? I decided to run the week of the filing deadline. I raised ten percent of what Busty raised. And I still kept him under 50% of the vote. He got less votes than any of the incumbents on the Santa Ana City Council.

Rocco, BTW, won in Orange in part because your fellow Republicans opted to vote for him instead of voting for his Latino opponent. Same thing happened in Santa Ana this year.

So tell me Dave, when will YOU apologize to the community for supporting Mike Carona? You want to talk about embarrassing, your boy Carona takes the cake!