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Mayor Ph.D. Choi, Travelling Mayorish, Sidhu, competitors Deb Pauly and Brian Chuchua.
The battle between the two Republican mediocrities who are spending the most money in AD-68, Anaheim Hill’s Harry Sidhu and Irvine’s Steven Choi, got even stupider this morning.
[Ed. Note: I’m working on the campaign of longtime Republican Brian Chuchua in this same race, so you can take that bias into account. I think that the facts I present, though, speak for themselves.]
As you may recall, Sidhu turned in a ballot statement asserting that among his prior held positions was “Mayor.” In fact, Sidhu never served as Mayor of Anaheim — or anywhere else, unless El Pollo Loco conferred upon him their equivalent of McDonald’s “Mayor McCheese” — although at times he has served as Vice–Mayor, such when Lorri Galloway was ripped from that position by a bare 3-2 Council majority after the opening exchange of fire (over the GardenWalk Giveaway) that sparked Anaheim’s current political civil war.
Choi was alerted to this convenient and raving falsehood while there was still time to challenge it in court — such a case would have been a nine-inch putt — but told the press that he wouldn’t do so, for tactical reasons. Given the good press that could have come from such a courtroom defeat of his rival — such a decision would have been damned near insane. I presume that Choi isn’t actually insane — readers, feel free to weigh in on that — so this was most likely a little face-saving fib to cover the other consideration he mentioned: that litigation was too expensive. (Filing a lawsuit would have cost under $500, given that Sidhu was, you know, never Mayor. Sidhu would have ended up paying for Choi’s attorney. The best explanation is that Choi didn’t understand the opportunity presented to him and was too lazy to go find out what had fallen into his lap.)
Choi is apparently still chapped by this, so an email that came out this morning included a swipe at Sidhu:
29 Orange County Mayors Endorse Steven Choi
ORANGE COUNTY, CA – Twenty former Orange County mayors have joined nine current mayors in endorsing Dr. Steven Choi for the 68th Assembly District, which lies entirely in Orange County.
“As the Mayor of America’s Safest Big City and America’s Best Run City, I am honored to have the support of my colleagues,” Dr. Choi said. “My fellow mayors know I will do for our state what I’ve done for my city.”The twenty-nine mayors, all of whom have actually served as mayor like Dr. Choi has and not falsely claimed to be mayor as a certain AD-68 candidate has, are:
And then follows a list of 29 names. “29 Orange County Mayors”! As a friend and supporter of a rival candidate, I did a spit take. TWENTY-NINE? My thoughts flashed before me as I regarded that headline:
“OC only has 34 cities — and Choi had managed to corral 29 of them? Wow — I have to admit that it’s really impressive to nail down 85% of the … the … hey, wait a minute…”
I had started checking to see if Brea’s Mayor was among them, but then I noticed something. The word “former” — all over the place.
The only current Mayors — or, as they are commonly known, “Mayors” — endorsing Choi are those of Fountain Valley, Newport Beach, Laguna Hills, Los Alamitos, Orange, Westminster, Mission Viejo, and Placentia. (All but Orange’s Tita Smith — who probably knows Sidhu all too well to want to see him elected — are from outside of the district.)
But wait, that’s only eight. Didn’t Choi say that nine current Mayors endorsed him? Who’s the ninth? Took me a moment, but that ninth would appear tobe: Steven Choi himself.
“News flash: Choi endorses own campaign!” Sorry, but “endorses” doesn’t work that way. You can vote for yourself — but, “endorse” yourself? “Endorsement” is sort of implicit in “running for office.”
Well, at least Choi got in a shot at Sidhu — so that’s something! Keep on fighting, boys! Voters are very concerned about whether it is more foolish to consider a “Vice-Mayor” a Mayor or to consider a former Mayor as a current Mayor. (Too bad for both of these candidates that Deb Pauly will probably pick up the Republican Trump vote from these Cruzers.)
By the way: if Choi had just said “Current and Former Mayors” in the headline, there would have been no problem — but he didn’t, and unlike Sidhu’s maybe-unintentional-but-maybe-not error, this one was clearly intended to mislead. (Yes, it’s explained in the first sentence, but as any political messenging artiste like Dishonest Dave Gilliard could tell him, people often don’t look past the headline.)
And just to be clear: Brian Chuchua has never served, or claimed to serve, as a Mayor. All he’s done is spend great amounts of time, energy, and political capital over the years as a prime servant of the reformist causes championed by Anaheim’s Mayor Tom Tait — which actually is good cause to be proud.
UPDATE: Speaking of Brian Chuchua, check out the 1:52 mark of this video!
I always liked that flier with Hide-and-Seek Sidhu’s giant, ego-inflated noggin floating over Orange County.
Please repost that assclown picture. The classics never get old.
The campaign season is young. I thought that that flier deserved some time in the sun today.
Ahh Stephen.
One more in a long line of Irvine Council Critters who have _no clue_ how to run for higher office but do so anyway.
I predict our Mayor Pro Tem will be next.
Added a video at the end as an update with Brian Chuchua speaking before the Anaheim at the 1:52 mark — and calling for Kris Murray’s resignation. Let’s see Harry Sidhu match that bid!
[Ed Note: Vern was replying to “WhatKindofDemocratAreYou. at fake email address randyroddy2@aol.com, whose comment has been spammed. The comment was: “Actively working on a Republican’s campaign? No wonder you are such a popular Democrat.” — GAD]
Brian is an independent. You have no idea what whores both parties have been in Anaheim
[Ed Note: Vern was replying to “WhatKindofDemocratAreYou. at fake email address randyroddy2@aol.com, whose comment has been spammed. The comment was: “Actively working on a Republican’s campaign? No wonder you are such a popular Democrat.” — GAD]
Brian is an independent. You have no idea what whores both parties have been in Anaheim
Vern, this guy does have an idea of what the parties are like in Anaheim because it’s the same guy whose comments litter our deleted box. (Please don’t argue with me about this publicly; I’ll explain to you privately.)
Hey, cowardly turdblossom! (The original commenter, not Vern.)
Actually, as there is no endorsed Democrat in this race, I’m fine. For quite a while, it looked like there would be no Democrat at all — in which case anyone brighter than an idiot like you would have to consider Brian a godsend. He agrees with Democrats about a third of the time — including his endorsing Dr. Jose Moreno and Sharon Quirk-Silva — both on the merits. That is the absolute best that Democrats could hope for out of this district.
As has been amply demonstrated over time, any Democrat will lose the general election in this district if they are nominated. We get nothing good out of that. Instead, if Brian wins (and he well may), we’d have someone who could sweep the Democratic and independent vote and do very well with the “good government” Republican vote associated with Tom Tait and some others. He’s not a total civil libertarian, but does not generally favor anti-LGBT policies or maltreatment of Muslims. That’s a HUGE advance over what we’ve had there.
He’s also been a main mover — don’t just take my word for it, ask the vets — in pushing for the Veterans Cemetery in Irvine, to the extent that he’s one of maybe ten people without whom it would likely not have happened. He’s a budget hawk, yes — but he’s a budget hawk in the right ways and places and for the right reasons. He is opposed to taxpayer ripoffs that enrich cronies and big corporations while generating campaign contributions and independent expenditures for politicians (like Correa and Pulido.)
As Vern noted, he’s now a political independent (NPP) — and he’s the best chance that both good government types in all parties and no party have had since I don’t know when of having a rational, humane, yet tough-minded and skeptical person in this seat. If you weren’t such a coward, I’d be happy to meet with you and explain it to you at painful length — and the more painful, the better.
Now stay off of this site, you worm’s pustule, as you have been repeatedly told. Thanks and have a nice day.
Since I am an expert at detecting blog-pustulery I can affirm that this zit is also “White Horse” who tried unsuccessfully to insult me, Bushala and Travis today. It’s probably Chemewlowski, but really, who cares?
Still, I wouldn’t ban him. These carbuncles are good at signalling the angst of the Kleptocracy. What else they are good for, I cannot say.
I know. No, I don’t think that it’s Dancy. Too creative.
The comments come to me and Vern by email, so we still get the benefit of them. One of us can send you a compilation if you’d like.
I’m usually pretty tolerant. But when someone has been banned, they should go away. If I knew who they were, I could reason with them. (Not in the “Godfather” sense.) But I don’t. So I don’t give them more consideration than I would a chat-bot.
I wouldn’t be too sure about that. Lil’ Clumski exhibits strong indications of multiple personality disorder. The constant use of the plural pronoun is telling.
Hey maybe it was Jubal, Joe Hill, kenlaysnotdead, DKMfan, nameless, Demagauge, Redvixen…..
Wait maybe it was really Randy Roddy, or Anaheim Insider, OneWhoKnows or maybe Henry Lipton, Gattis or even ElMerro Merro. Let’s not leave out Bezzlebub, LFOldtimer, Jose S. or even Grover, Tony Serra Diamondsareagirlsbestfriend.
If Matt and Chris Prevatt, Zenger and Cantnor,Lucas and others on both sides use fake names, shouldn’t you ease up on the critisism and censorship?
I guess if you agree with Greg, it’s OK, if not……bye bye……
OK, I don’t think that you’re one of the above group, so this stays up. In fact, let’s start a conversation. Do you know my long-held and oft-stated position about when anonymity becomes a problem? Because, if not, after I explain it there might be a glimmer of hope for agreement.