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The excitement here at Orange Juice Blog Central Headquarters is palpable! (Seriously, go ahead — palpate it!) We are beginning our ORTEGA WATCH, the vigil to see whether Orange Unified School District Trustee John Ortega will challenge Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in CD-47!
How it is that we, humble Orange Juice Blog, are the ones able to break the story of our waiting for a story to break?
Well, the RSS feed helpfully lodged on this site (and perhaps other sites … and perhaps not) from New Santa Ana Blog shared what appeared to be some exciting news earlier today: that Trustee Ortega, listed in the bowels of the Community Foundation of Orange as a Board Member (whence the above photo of him comes), would be challenging Rep. Loretta (so called here to distinguish her from Rep. Linda) in 2012. Republicans, we are given to understand, have been trying to unseat Rep. Loretta for years, “but they have never found a decent candidate” — special note to former Assemblyman Van Tram: that’s not coming from me, I got that language from the NSA’s RSS Feed — until now!
The news was published — otherwise it would not have gotten onto our feed — and then mysteriously disappeared!
The link to “OUSD Trustee John Ortega to challenge Rep. Sanchez in 2012” — an apparent NSA scoop! — leads to a link with this explanation: “Error 404 – Page Not Found.”
Why has this scoop disappeared? This writer … does not know. It seems impossible that NSA could have been wrong about this, or could have comically hit the “publish” button rather than the “fantasize” button, or could have inadvertently broken some tightly wound news embargo. That leaves open the possibility that Trustee John may be wavering about entering the race! (And who, frankly, could blame him? He is doomed, after all.) What other explanation can there be?
I suppose that I could ask NSA or Trustee John himself, but that seems to violate local blogging rules. So instead I asked Google, by typing in “John Ortega” and “Loretta Sanchez.” I got these hits:
OUSD Trustee John Ortega to challenge Rep. Sanchez in 2012 …
newsantaana.com/…/ousd-trustee-john-ortega-to-challenge-rep-sanch…
11 hours ago – … to unseat Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez for years – but they have never … Orange Unified School District Trustee John Ortega will be …
John Ortega | New Santa Ana
newsantaana.com/tag/john-ortega/
11 hours ago – Orange Unified School District Trustee John Ortega will be announcing his …. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, 47th Congressional District …
Could Tran defeat Supervisor Nguyen in 2012, if the County goes …
newsantaana.com/…/could-tran-defeat-supervisor-nguyen-in-2012-if…
Sep 26, 2011 – He did not beat the incumbent, Loretta Sanchez, but he garnered a lot of press, both negative …. OUSD Trustee John Ortega to challenge Rep. …
Rep. Sanchez invites the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam to join human …
newsantaana.com/…/rep-sanchez-invites-the-u-s-ambassador-to-vietn…
Aug 18, 2011 – Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, Representing California’s 47th Congressional District …. OUSD Trustee John Ortega to challenge Rep. …
(My emphasis throughout.) There’s somethin’ funny goin’ on here, but I don’t know what it is! One possibility is that Google has figured out a way to read Admin Pedroza’s mind and that it has used this frightening capability to insert announcements of John Ortega’s doomed challenge to Rep. Loretta into four separate stories (ok, maybe three) over the past three months plus!!!
If this is what’s going on — if Google has really obtained this technology — then only one person outside of its clutches can set the record straight: Admin Pedroza. We therefore implore him to explain: how has Google been inserting this information into NSA stories for what is now over three months? This story is NOWHERE ELSE! (Well, it’s listed in one OJB page, but that’s apparently only because of that RSS feed.) Where else could Google have found it? How is Trustee John’s equivocating, if it is that, worming itself into, but not out of (except somehow for at least a moment earlier today), the New Santa Ana blog?
We don’t know and are not absolutely sure that we care. But, you should know more about John Ortega, shouldn’t you? (Maybe not! Maybe he’s not running!) Well, anyway, here what CommFoundOrange has to say of him:
John Ortega, Trustee of the Orange Unified School District Board of Trustees, assists with the management of 3200 employees, 32,000 students, and a budget of $215 million. The District includes 30 elementary schools, 4 middle schools, 4 high schools, and one continuation school. During his early years with OUSD, John was instrumental in the modernization of Fred Kelly Stadium. In addition to serving on the school board, John works as a police captain in Los Angeles County.
Born in Orange, and a graduate of Villa Park High school, John received his Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, and will soon receive a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership.
John is a member of the Legislative Committee of the California School Boards Association, the National School Boards Association, the Southern California Chaplains’ Association and has recently graduated from the FBI National Academy.
So in other words … he’s not from Santa Ana. (We presume that this means that he doesn’t get NSA’s endorsement. And, even if he does, he’s doomed anyway.) But for heaven’s sake — why doesn’t that blog warn us?
By the way, my suggestion of earlier today, in a comment to a separate post —
My feeling is that, if this is true, Loretta should just have her husband file to run against her as well. Even splitting her share of the vote with her, he’d still probably beat Trustee Ortega for the second spot in the runoff — after which he could relax and Loretta could avoid spending even a dime to win in November.
— was intended as a joke. It might well work if she tried it — but it was still intended as a joke.
So, anyway, we’re introducing an “Ortega Watch,” for which you’ll see I’ve already prepared a spiffy logo, to see whether Ortega eventually jumps in — or stops beaming information about the possibility of his doing so into Admin Pedroza’s mind and/or Google’s database. We’ll keep the Ortega Watch going for as long as anyone out there is interested — which means that this may be the last time you see this feature. (But, if it finally happens, we think that we still get part credit for the scoop, right?)
I know John Ortega. We grew up together in el bario Modena. hes a good guy. Honestly he is. Hes a sherrifs deputy for LA County. I would bet 100% of all I have that he has been recruited to be the sacraficial lamb in this election by the OC GOP. I dont believe that John believes he can actually launch a serious challenge to Loretta even after her accounts have been wped out by Kindee durkee. Go easy on the guy. Im sure hes taking one for the team OCGOP.
Thst wasn’t going hard on him, Paul. But: “sacrificial lamb”? Mouse over that RSS feed. I’m pretty sure that Admin Pedroza said something like that the OCGOP “had never found a decent candidate — until now.” I took this to mean “decent chance of winning,” but maybe he did mean “decent character.” In that case, he may well be right about it being a first — and that may also explain why he excludes Tran from having been “decent.”
A lil late in a reply… O well, ya there is much more about el barrio da barrio der barrio la barrio El Modena!! Hey first of all ask the Ortega Family how they pronounce that word El Modena!!! Ya and the rest of those idiots that even live there and attend drop out, or even graduate from that high school “El Modena” !!! I know all those people because I am related to all of those people.. They do not know how to pronounce their Spanish vowel “e” properly!!! They pronounce El Modena as El Modina!! Get it!?!?
Ya, a lil petty huh??? Well, you know what is even more petty??? —–‘s father my uncle ——-, a Sgt. with the O.C.S.D. being a narcotics under cover cop dealing drugs for Mike Carona and other Sheriffs in California. What is even worse is that when I was a lil boy in the BARRIO!!! O THANK GOD WE MOVED TO THE BEACH TO A REAL DECENT HISPANIC / MEXICAN FAMILY SORTA ( OXY MORON?? LIKE IS THERE SUCH A THING??) .. I sorta digrested hint hint….
So, when I spent time in El Modena as a youth (or YUTE as Joe Pesci would say) my favorite cousin was murdered!! Ya, my uncle ——-‘s son was murdered!!! My uncle —– cried in front of me, my other uncle, and his wife and said.. ” Johnny we know who murdered my son lets just go get them!!!” Gorgy (nick name for my aunt short for gorgeous) and my uncle *** just laughed at my uncle *** who just lost his only son and said “A homie its all over A” (not the Canadian “A”!!)
No one knows about all those people being a bunch of crooked DRUG DEALERS THAT HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FEEL FREE TO FACE BOOK ME I AM Steven Marty Ortega I will welcome you on facebook, even my UNCLES INFORMANTS AND UNDERCOVER “CON ARTISTS / UNDERCOVER NARC COPS THAT LIKE TO FOLLOW ME AROUND.. Ya I get them to drop their cover some times when we get drunk together!!!! hey uncle do the letters F.O. mean any thing to you ;)?????????
Hey Paul Lucas.. Me Steven Marty Ortega once more… Hey Pal did my cousin **** (Ya that’s what we call him) ever tell ya how his mother use to dress up in his father’s Orange County California (I don’t want any one to think New York or Florida) Sheriff’s Deputy uniform while he was out doing undercover work (A.K.A. selling and buying drugs or murdering drug dealers and taking their money and drugs) and go and have sexual relations with “F-Troop” gang from Delhi or is “F-Troop” gang from LOGAN??? I forget!!! Ya, Face book me I need to start a web show with the subject of the ***’s, Lee Baca, idiot Donald Duck / Donald Trump our demented Pres. that wears way to much make up!!!!!
There was a “hubub” of activity on Towner today. Looked like door to door activity.
Could have been the Christmas Card shoot?
Could have been Laurels Piano Recital!
Greg,
i havent read the post by Art Pedroza yet so Im kind of in the dark. But my point is that Im pretty sure that John was most likely recruited to run aginst Loretta by the OPC GOP as a team player. I cant see John having serious aspirations of defeating Loretta. I havent spoken ith him since our high school reunion in 07. Hes a school board meber and apparently a captain in the LA Sherrifs dept now so hes pretty busy.
The post is down now. I presume that you are likely right — but then I have a hard time making sense of the “finally a decent candidate against Loretta” thing that was published. Well, semi-published.
Special to Steven Ortega: We have received your four posts. Given their nature, they are going to have be be vetted prior to publication. Vern may have time to do it; I will not until next week. As the last comment on this post was 5-1/2 years ago, I think that you can wait a few more days for them to see daylight. Just wanted to let you know that they did arrive.
Very colorful barrio comments. I found the guy on facebook. Paul doesn’t know him, but he remembers the people who died that he mentions. I think I’ll print them with most names removed – apart from well-known proven malefactors like Carona, Haidl and Trump.
O ya and how ***’s mother fed their overpaid drug lord family on purchased food stamps from her poor cousins?? Ya her niece (who’s no longer alive because she died of the elements homeless!!!!!!!!!!!!!) used to come over to our house next to ****’s and complain to my mother crying that **** ripped her off again with her food stamps back in the day when the food stamps were like a paper fiat currency!!!
I cried when I found out that *** died of the elements… she was my baby sitter much of the time when I was a kid!!!! She was a sweet girl that did not deserve to die like that !!! So a sacrificial LAMB!!!???? HUH!!??
As a matter of fact I dined with “RELATIVES” / “THEM” under DURESS a while back!!!!! God I will never do that again. I am not like them , ya an actor!!! It is hard to be near people I do not trust much less attempt to keep food down or break bread with them!!
If my memory serves me correctly ***** said that my cousin ran for that seat uncontested so what the paper work was $45 bucks for registration fee or did my “UNDERCOVER NARC UNCLE ****” bribe would be contenders with the stock piles of saved up “coke” 😉 😉 / WINK WINK !!!!!!
Man this is just the start of a lovely BLOG /REALTIONSHIP!!!! I THINK THAT I LOVE THIS BLOGGING STUFF.
HEY UNCLE **** tell Mike Carona that I had nothing to do with the F.B.I. set up at 400 Main St. with Don / Donald Haidl!!! hmmm I worked at the Tale of The Whale at 400 Main St. in Balboa for 4.5 years or so my job after I would leave Newport Harbor H.S. and hmmmmmm interesting huh Uncle *****???? THE SHERIFF GETS SET UP THERE???? COINCIDENCE????