Anaheim has posted its Mayoral and City Council roster — and sure enough, Joe “The Quack Doctor” Moreno has shifted races to follow Anaheim City School Board President and actual Ph.D. Dr. Jose F. Moreno from the School Board race into the City Council race, the better to sow confusion. (If you can’t win straight, I guess, win crooked!)
Some of you informed readers have spoken to me on numerous occasions about Quack Doctor Joe’s chortling, in unguarded moments, about how he could use his sharing a name with his better known and far more qualified antagonist to ride into public office — which, for some reason, hasn’t happened yet — or at least impede the civic-minded Dr. Jose F. Moreno’s success. I will be contacting you for interviews.
Fortune has smiled on the Actual Doctor, in that he has been designated with the number 1 next to his name for ballot purposes. The Quack Doctor posing as Jose Moreno — note that he even dropped the nickname “Joe” that he has used in previous races and originally planned to use in the School Board race! — has been designated as #2. No further comment on that.
Let’s look at the ballot statements while we’re here. For Mayor, I know that there are special rules for using the word “Retired,” which I have not memorized, but I think that Dennis Fitzgerald complies with them here. Lorri Galloway’s “Abused Children Executive” is iffy, as I’m not sure that this is an actual job title. I’d have advised her to go with something more clearly legit, like “Children’s Nonprofit Executive.” Lucille Kring will, if I recall the rules correctly, probably end up in court, because mixing your title as an elected official with other jobs is forbidden. To see how it’s done correctly, see Tom Tait’s descrption, which cites his Mayoral position without mentioning his heading a corporation maybe 1000 times larger than whatever Kring claims to run. (Maybe Council candidate Doug Pettibone can get some good press by working up the challenge.)
For Council, let’s start with the Republican frontrunners. Gail Eastman falls into the same trap as Kring, while Kris Murray — the candidate that the Kleptocracy actually cares about — got the right advice. Doug Pettibone goes with the perfectly solid “Anaheim Businessman/Attorney” — possibly especially attractive given the lawless Council majority — while James Vanderbilt takes home the gold with “Educator/Army Captain.”
For the reason mentioned above, Dr. Moreno might hit a bump and lose “Professor” off of his ballot statement –but even if that happens his current elected position is good enough as it is. Quack Moreno is a “County Eligibility Technician” — which reminds me, does his employer think that he’s clear this time so far as the Hatch Act goes? I seem to remember others at COSSA getting some flack over this — and of course Joe the Quacker was himself required to withdraw from the 2012 Assembly race against Tom Daly once his prime mission of knocking Julio Perez out of the runoff had been accomplished. Someone ought to ask them.
Of the remaining pair, Donna Acevedo is a “Property Manager.” And Jerry O’Keefe goes minimalist with “Business Owner” — which can be one word under the rules, which would have allowed him to add a slash and two extra words, like “/Long Shot.” (He should have gone with “Retired Anaheim Policeman” if the rules allowed it — which I will look up perhaps tomorrow, or at least sometime before voting begins.)
It actually looks like a pretty interesting field. Let the games begin!
Ironically, the guy who must know the most about the Quack Moreno would be Tom Tait’s campaign guy, John Lewis. Quack Moreno popped up out of nowhere in 2012 to siphon off Latino votes AND provide a no-hope Republican schmoe for Tom Daly to batter in November. Then he even had the decency to pull out due to some Hatch Act nonsense which conveniently didn’t come up until AFTER the primary.
There’s a story to tell there. And one of the most (if not the most) Latino districts in the state got lily-white Daly, Business Democrat, and master of several major disasters as County Clerk-Recorder.
Yeah but what was the alternative David Zenger? Martinez, Perez?
Race doesn’t matter, at least its not supposed to. Daly as bad ad he may be was the only realistic option for that district.
What is the opposite of “Lilly White” a “Dark Chocolate” President Obama? Or how about “Pleasantly Yellow John Chaing”?
The apparent implication of shameless’s post, David, is that pretty much anything was justified to keep Perez out of office. (Martinez never had much of a chance, especially after Solorio recruited her and then spent the far greater portion of his energies supporting Daly.)
(It’s a real advantage for him to be anonymous when spouting the likes of this, isn’t it?)
Race doesn’t matter? Heh, yeah, right. Tell that to the ACLU.
Can we agree to disagree on the electibility of Julio Perez Diamond? I wasn’t mean I didn’t call him names (like “Quack”) or was unfair.
What does my not posting my birth name have to do with anything here?
Vengence aside, you remain stubbornly opposed to any contrasting views.
My implication was that to most, Julio Perez was an untested, unknown quantity who had just weathered a well publicized financial crisis which painted him in a bad light. Making him unattractive to the voters. No matter what color his skin or ethnic make up.
I will play Devil’s Advocate here, and admit I asked “Joe” Moreno about the run, out of curiosity, but only AFTER the filing closed so that my lily white self could not be accused of interfering with a latino candidate filing in a contentious election year. Jose says he filed BEFORE Dr. Moreno.
Yes, he no doubt did file before the Good Doctor. I would like to know who recruited him. I found it quite interesting that “Joe” was being immediately talked up by Cunningham who admitted he really didn’t know the man. Since we know Mr C. from Suite C doesn’t do anything for free, we can reasonably assume that he was doing something for one of his employers.
But which one?
Nahhh — this is more like being a Minor Apprentice Demon’s advocate.
He switched after it became definitively known that Dr. Jose would change races. Let’s see if he’ll lie about that too.
Ask him why he dropped the “Joe” nickname that he had used when pulling papers for the Anaheim City School District race when he thought Dr. Jose would still be there.
Running dummy candidates is just about the lowest thing you can do in an election. I’m still not sure whose dummy he is.
If he could figure out, he’d be less of a dummy.
Isn’t Joe Moreno part of the ‘New Anaheim’ clique? They slant towards the Mayor, including Moreno. If I recall correctly, Moreno got more votes in Anaheim than Perez in the AD-69 primary. He’ll be somewhat of a factor in the council race.
In the end, it’s his right to run. He pulled papers before Jose anyway.
I haven’t got the sense that there’s anything he believes in strongly, except that he likes to run. He can’t possibly be such a moron (like he pretends to be) that he doesn’t know his run only helps Kris and Gail. But yes, it is his right to run. I wonder what we’ll hear from him next…
He strongly believes in sabotaging the candidacies of Dr. Jose Moreno, Julio Perez, and other such progressive left community leaders. Other than when he has an opportunity to do so, I don’t see evidence that, in an Albert Ayala sort of way, “he likes to run” generally.
Yes, Parasite Joe Moreno is part of Pedrozaville. I don’t think that Pedroza has a well-defined position on the struggle between the Mayor and the Pringle Ring. In any event, Mayor Tait is not endorsing Dr. Moreno; he’s endorsing James Vanderbilt and Doug Pettibone, so a “slant towards the Mayor” would not be a slant towards Dr. Moreno.
As for your Council race analysis, it’s a daunting leap from judging Parasite Moreno’s performance as the only Republican in a primary against four Democrats (one of whom, Perez, was getting almost a million dollars spent against him, largely in corporate generated IEs) with a race where there is not just one well-supported Republican slate, but two of them, to compete with him for Republican votes. He won’t consolidate Republican support in this race, to massively understate things. He will probably take the votes of a few people that they’re voting for Dr. Jose Moreno and will probably benefit, like any good parasite, from the host’s efforts to feed himself, such as with campaign signs. He has openly bragged about this before.
Dr. Moreno’s decision to file for City Council before known before Parasite Joe made the decision to switch races. Dr. Moreno delayed pulling and filing papers to allow for a press conference on the morning of the last day of filing. Yes, Parasite Joe pulled papers first (just in case Dr. Moreno filed, as was then the rumor) and filed first (once Dr. Moreno was known to have made the firm decision to enter the race), but he was clearly following Dr. Moreno into the race — and dropped the nickname “Joe” (which he had used before, including in his School District finding, and by which he is generally addressed in real life) to magnify the likelihood of confusion and the success of parasitism.
But, yes, he does have the “right to run.” Is that your best judgment of what the story is here? “Parasite Joe has right to run”?
When I say New Anaheim slants towards the Mayor, I mean Joe Moreno as part of that. Not Jose F.
Yeah, Jose Joe has a right to run. Beat him. Oh wait, neither Joe, Jose F. or Donna are firefighters, so Latinos can’t win council seats anyway as per the ACLU lawsuit!
C’mon Gabriel, you could do better than putting down the significance of the ACLU lawsuit! What’s up with you brother?
Ricardo: I forgot to mention that Chicano Studies professors can’t win either. They must magically transform into “teaching education and policy!”
What’s eating you, Gabester? Do you think it would be better to elect the Ferguson City Council and import their Police Chief so that we could hasten the people’s revolution or something?
Your ignorance of civil rights lawsuits is appalling. Seriously, absolutely gobsmacking. If someone else accused you of saying what you have to say on the issue of the districting lawsuit, and if I didn’t know that you were actually saying it, I would accuse them of defaming you.
But hey, congratulations on your apparent drive “to take race out of politics.” You have some prominent allies in that quest. Allies that don’t want to see you voting.
Why is a Latino who sued an at-large election system on the basis that Latino voter dilution and polarized voting disallowed Latinos from electing their preferred candidate to council and Latinos in general from getting on council…
…now running in an at-large election for council?
I’ll ask the candidate myself at some point, I’m sure. But your blovaiting on the subject might provide a sliver of entertainment in the interim. Might.
You and Matt Cunningham.
Your grudge against Jose is that big, that you’ll stoop to Matt Cunninghamn nonsense? This is beneath responding to.
Your talking about my supposed “bloviation” is like a third-grader making fun of incomprehensible looking algebra. Grow up a bit more and you’ll eventually be able to follow it.
I think that he’s running because he’d like to be elected. Your logic (if one can call it that) seems to be that because they didn’t put it up for a vote in June, like they should have, so that districting could have applied this year, he instead should have boycotted the process out of either spite or principle.
He’s not following that advice because it’s stupid, pointless, and self-defeating. The district system stacks the deck against a Latino winning, but no one ever said that it was impossible. It doesn’t have to be impossible for their to be a claim, it just has to be a non-trivial disadvantage.
Of course, from your perspective, running is for saps — given the alternative of the sweet acrid scent of lovely lovely cynicism. Boring.
And why would we need to import anything from Ferguson? We (actual Anaheimers) had a somewhat similar situation on our hands two summers ago.
Police Chief John Welter made false statements that Manuel Diaz throw heroin on an Anna Drive rooftop before he was shot and killed. He also suggested that anarchists and OWS stirred up the trouble on the night of the riots, not Latinos with actual, organic grievances.
Welter escaped unscathed from the Latino leadership here. I guess it was too much to ask for the ‘politics of respectability’ to take him to task for his shit.
I dont’ know, noveau journalist, why would we bring up the story that is capturing the attention of the country while it is unfolding, given the grand alternative of continuing to talk only about Anaheim — a serious of disasters that sadly did not?
Welter didn’t represent himself, Anaheim, or the profession of policing well in those few days — but unlike the red-necked knucklehead in Ferguson he had not had as uniformly horrible of a record before then. Serious problems, sure — Cesar Cruz and the rest — but Ferguson seems like pure Old South. That’s why people are reacting as they have.
But I could be wrong! Tell you what, why don’t you write a big old article explaining how Paul Welter was just as bad as Ferguson’s chief cop, shop it around, and see what sort of reaction you expect. This should be marvelous entertainment. Go, get to work, prove your point!
That means you don’t have an intellectual defense against it. Cognitive dissonance.
BTW, since Ferguson’s police chief was invoked, consider this Chief Welter like comment: In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox Wednesday, Ferguson’s police chief, Tom Jackson, claimed “outside agitators are causing the violence.”
Same shit. Textbook.
Oh bloviator, you’re beyond reproach! If he (or any of the post 9/11 non-first responder Latino candidates) wins, it can become one of your new “outliers.” If he and the rest of the company loses, it only serves to prove the point about the electoral system.
I think the district elections ballot should be right where they are in November. Don’t put words in my mouth. Had they gone in June, like you would have liked, the reform would have been in the hands of a pitiful voter turnout, a dangerous prospect.
As for Ferguson? All I pointed out is that Welter used the same racist excuse of “outside agitators” as Ferguson’s police chief did. Since damn near everyone let Welter (John, not Paul) get away with that, you must turn around and bloviate, bloviate and bloviate away. I already wrote about Welter at the time and compared him to OC’s own Sheriff Logan Jackson.
I’ll take tips from you when you start practicing what you preach and get some diversity on this blog in terms of content creators. All I see now is an occasional post by a Chileno in a sea of chattering gabachos! Peace out sandbox boys!
If you want me to explain to you in sufficient detail (and possibly having to break out my hand puppets again) for you to understand it how an analysis of racial effects under the Voting Rights Act works, then I’m going to have to charge the Weekly for it.
So what you’re saying, Gabrito, is that you think that it’s better that district elections didn’t go into effect in 2016 rather than 2014. Your mistake, by the way, is thinking that district proponents would have necessarily had only one bite at the apple.
Almost EVERYONE faced with civic unrest tries to blame it on outside agitators. If this similarity somehow rocks your world, maybe you should have started your study of radical history about a century or two earlier. Maybe a millennium or two. Yes, they both did this, and they were both bipedal, and both were chock full of mitochondria. Find a point of comparison that really tells us something, eh?
Anyone who wants to write, and who can put up with the lack of compensation, gets considered for a chance — and we generally offer it. We’d love more writers of diverse backgrounds. We do like our Chilean, though.
But, since you bring up diversity, let’s look at the OC Weekly’s news reporting stable: Gustavo Arellano, R. Scott Moxley, Matt Coker, Charles Lam, Nick Schou, and Gabriel San Roman. Anything look like it’s missing? That’s right — I don’t count more than three ovaries among the six of you, and probably a few less than that. So you were saying what again? (And you have the budget to PAY writers!)
Minimizing Welter’s racism just to score a point? Well, I guess that’s what happens when you don’t have any brown people blogging for you.
And the blogosphere in general being a sausagefest? Wrote about that already. Maybe someday you’ll have an original comeback!
I think that it’s hilarious that you’d try to look down at anyone for writing something “just to score a point.” But I wasn’t.
Minimizing his racism? No, “minimizing” has an actual meaning. Saying that he had demonstrated less of it than that of Ferguson’s Chief Tom Jackson is not “minimizing.”
You guys could hire a woman to blog if you wanted to. It might require paying someone else less, but as an anointed “real journalist” you could do something about it. But — you don’t. Oh, wait — you say you WROTE about it. “Already!” Problem solved, I guess! I can’t believe that I somehow missed such an epochal event.
Nah, it’s just that you keep telling me to do shit I’ve already done.
Bored.
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What bullshitting that is. An easily tossed-off line, impossible to verify. Do I keep doing that? Then give me a list.
Here’s something that I have told you to do: understand how litigation under the Voting Rights Act works. You don’t. You have no idea, which doesn’t stop you from poking fun at people who do. But you think that you’re “done” with that task — not because you understand it, but because it bores you. How infantile can you get? (That wasn’t a challenge.)
Zenger: if bored, don’t read.
He wrote about this blog being a “sausagefest” back in the day, when he still wrote here. It was still a new expression to me. Whatever, minorities and/or women are always welcome to write here, but I don’t feel like going out and searching for them. They know how to contact us.
You aren’t the only one.
Oh, so he complains about US, but doesn’t complain about the publication for which he works — the one that can afford to pay writers? And on that basis he says that he is “done” with the topic?
Gabriel, your making that argument is pretty humiliating. (Or it should be.)
Thanks for elevating the discourse here — at least to the best of your apparent ability.
Joe the Parasite has not shown any indication, to my knowledge, of taking a position in the Tait-Pringle battle royale. He’s not really been much involved in city politics in the past couple of years. Has he spoken before Council even once?
The difference (so far) between Ferguson and Anaheim, is the kid in ferguson was A) Unarmed B) A civilian (meaning not a member of a violent street gang C) was not fleeing from police in a stolen vehicle.
As for Joe the “Parasite”, how is he different from Jose “The Lettuce Picker” or Lorri “The Baby Saver”, “The Meaner Beaner” How about a nickname contest for the candidate, or maybe a collumn dedicated to Dr. Jose Morenos efemminate looks and demeanor…..You get what I am saying, I know you do. Stick to the issues for a change, quit stooping to my level, after you are a candidate……..for Water Board.
And even GSR would agree, name calling is NO WAY for a water board member to behave.
If I were inclined to take instructions from disembodied and unidentifiable voices, I think I could do better that what you serve up for my … what? What’s that? You want me to do what to whom? But I don’t even know who to find him!
Here’s the difference, clever imp, between Parasite and the other troublesome suggestions you try to stir: “parasite” is the proper scientific term to describe Joe the P’s role in this race (not in the fields, in the nurseries, or … well, I’m not going to touch that last one), as well as the proper figurative one
That’s literally what’s going on here. Joe the Lesser (if you prefer) has no track record or KSA (as government applications say) that would qualify himself for office. His life plan is to live on the nutrients (votes, qualifications) of another entity (Jose the Greater) — and, of course, to lie about what he is going. That’s an important basis for viewing this race, which he entered (after first aiming for the race that Dr./Host Moreno was going to run specifically to siphon off his “nutrients”; then he left that race and dropped the characteristics that might be used to distinguish him from
the host, in case anyone wanted to eradicate him.
Both character and the propensity to confuse the public are issues in this race — and his likelihood of success is an important part of any analysis.
Yeah, we’ll get into how a Water Board member should behave in due time. You may not end up being part of that conversation, though, Butch — despite your masculine looks and demeanor.
My point is, and you well know it:
When an intelligent/educated man like yourself reduces himself to name calling calling someone who I presume you have never met a “parasite”, you expose yourself as a partisan hack.
We have a name for that in the OC blogesphere: JUBAL.
I’ve met him. I know several people who have worked with him. And it does not take sustained close proximity to figure out his game, especially given his proclivity for PROUDLY BLURTING IT OUT TO PEOPLE. So, yes, he is a parasite. And you, for all I know, are Jubal himself. (As Shakespeare almost wrote: “I can tell a hack from a Harshaw.”)
As for your water board bid.
I spent a good number of years in Sacramento as an education “lobbyist”. I spent more then enough liver capacity with people intimately involved with the “water issues” in this state. It is entirely political which is why this could be a good place for any neophyte to start his political career (as opposed to Senate or DA).
If you would shut up long enough to listen I might school you on Salmon, Almonds, Rice and boat insurance!
PS- I watched Loretta’s fat ass jog by my house for a dozen years (ask her she knew I was staring at it !), I don’t need to see her tits in a video. That was classless and in my view REALLY REALLY creepy for you to get excited about.
I’m OK on the relevance of salmon, almonds, and rice — but I’m not sure which direction you’re going with “boat insurance.”
If you don’t like breasts (as we candidates for political office call them) being featured (by her) in the Ice Bucket Challenge, you should not have watched the video. She put it on her campaign website, and it was a fun skit on her part. No one who doesn’t seem aching to make a political point seems to be bothered by its reproduction here.
One special thing about your gifts as a dung-flinger is your ability to pretend to defend Loretta, and to be affronted, or whatever you were doing — when pretty clearly the point of your post is to slip through the insult that she supposedly has a “fat ass.” That’s what makes you so good at what you do — and your continued existence here without taking responsibility for such merry lacerations of others so very tenuous.