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Here’s the new news from OC’s daily log of candidate filing activity, produced by the hard-working and ever-pleasant staff of the OC Registrar of Voters! Having already addressed Congressional races, we’ll focus a little on state executive races, then we’ll finish with what’s going with the County races — the various county executive races and Supervisor. But first!: Some have wanted to know what’s happening in other counties — so, for legislative races, here’s your:
OUT-OF-COUNTY REPORT!
OC shares some seats with Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. So here are some highlights from the relevant links on those Filing Logs:
San Bernardino:
Nothing listed for races overlapping OC.
Los Angeles:
AD-55:
SHARON SUZANNE BUTLER, (Republican), took out sigs in lieu
PHILLIP CHEN, (Republican incumbent), filed for nomination
GREGG D. FRITCHLE (Democrat), filed sigs in lieu, who join OC’s
Democrat MELISSA FAZLI from Yorba Linda (sigs in lieu issued) and
Republican JAMES GERBUS (sigs in lieu filed)
SD-29: no one listed for the recall
SD-34 — no one listed, not even GERI SCHIPSKE, who is supposedly running
San Diego:
[Note that San Diego does NOT show candidates’ party registration status –which: GAHHH!]
CA-49 (ex-Issa)
FIVE candidates have taken out papers; six others appear on the list, TWO of whom are potentially significant players:
TAKEN OUT PAPERS:
Sara Jacobs
David Medway
Craig Nordal
Robert Pendleton
Danielle St. John
NO PAPERS, BUT PROMINENT:
Rocky Chavez
Paul Kerr
NO PAPERS, NOT PROMINENT:
Joshua Hancock, Jordan Mills, Daniel Perlman, Joshua Schoonover
[Note that OC now has nine candidates on its list, and that Doug Applegate has NOT yet filed in either county.]
SD-36
MARGGIE CASTELLANO
BRIAN W. JONES
ANTONIO SALGUERO
[OC has only incumbent Republican PAT BATES listed.]
Castellano appears to be the OC Dems’ choice, so I’m going to hazard a guess that she’s a Dem.
NOW BACK TO THE OC REGISTRAR OF VOTERS’ VASTLY SUPERIOR CANDIDATE LOG!
STATE CONTROLLER:MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 55th District
KONSTANTINOS RODITIS and his inflammatory surname are in the race for Controller against Betty Yee. I don’t know of anyone else running against Yee, who is a lock to win, so maybe he’ll have media play through November.
OTHER STATEWIDE OFFICES:
While some people on the OCROV’s candidate log — and remember, this link will show the latest log for whatever day you click on it, not necessarily the Feb. 20, 2018 log being discussed here — are potential players in various statewide races, I don’t think that any of them are from OC, and those from OC don’t seem to be potential “NEEL KASHKARI-level”players in any of the races. But it’s nice to know that DELAINE EASTIN (Dem for Governor) GAIL LIGHTFOOT (NPP for Senate), GAYLE MCLAUGHLIN (NPP for Lt. Gov), and ALEX PADILLA (incumbent Dem for Sec. of State) and least came her and dropped off some of their money!
CA–39:
SUZY PARK LEGGETT has filed her declaration of candidacy becoming the first Democrat or NPP to have locked herself into the race. As was explained weeks ago, she is therefore disqualified from being considered for OJB endorsement for this race in June, and possibly (especially if we see an R-on-R runoff) for any future race forever. (What part of “STAY OUT OF THE RACE!” wasn’t clear?) The only thing that could salvage her is if she were able to prove that some other candidate paid her to enter the race to screw over another candidate by splitting the women’s, Democratic, Korean, or [insert her place of residency] vote with her. Then they would get kibboshed instead.
CA-46:
ED RUSHMAN, an NPP, filed his statement of candidacy against HermaphroDem LOU CORREA. Note that, once Correa is endorsed by the CA Democratic Party convention on Saturday, as a party Central Committee member I will not be allowed to disparage or recommend against him here — so when I talk about his prospering based on independent expenditures from Big Oil it will be intended as a POSITIVE thing reflecting his MODERATION. Got it? Vern apparently thinks that he can do whatever the hell he wants, so if he writes about Correa that’s up to him. In any event, we wouldn’t recommend Rushman over Correa, because he filed first.
CA-48:
NPP EDWARD LOYD has taken out all of his papers but has not yet returned them. We suggest that you tread very carefully at this moment, Mr. Loyd. (We also suggest that you buy yourself a second “L” for your surname, and consider using the diminutive “EDD” for your first name. “EDD LLOYD” — we like it. “WHAT THE EFF, VOTE FOR EDD!” You can use that slogan for free.)
AD-74:
In Pub MATT HARPER‘s seat, Dem RYAN TA has taken out papers, increasing the likelihood of an R-on-R runoff to “Condition Goldenrod.” Democrat COTTIE PETRIE-NORRIS appears to be tsweeping up both activist and establishment support in her party, and seems likely to face off against Harper in November, where Harper may be vulnerable if people confuse him with TRAVIS ALLEN.
What I find most interesting about this race is its features a Republican and a Democrat who are virtual mirror images within their parties. Democrats largely consider KARINA ONOFRE to be a DINO because of her ambivalence on reproductive rights, while it seems that Republicans largely consider KATHERINE DAIGLE to be a RINO because of, I don’t know, her willingness to engage with Democrats? I like them both personally — they are both extremely earnest, for one thing — while having some serious policy differences with both. (Special to them: “I think that you two should get to know one another, if you haven’t: I think you’d get along!” (I have nothing to tell readers about Ryan Ta.)
Judges:
Incumbent judges had their candidacies cleared on Tuesday. The potentially competitive races so far include:
Office 13, where Judge THEODORE HOWARD may be challenged by FRANKLIN DUNN.
Office 15, where Judge M. MARC KELLY (who notoriously failed to throw the entire book at a pedophile, prompting an abotive recall effort by people who love their mandatory minimums and freakouts by members of the criminal defense bar) appears likely to be challenged by … by …
[wipes glasses. checks again]
uh … by … by … uh …
by … LENORE ALBERT SHERIDAN, whose career interrupting sanction from the CA Supreme Court has not yet been delivered, and if I were on friendly speaking terms with this Counselor I would probably suggest to her that this is NOT the way to wangle one’s way into a lighter sentence. Anyway, Chumley will surely keep advising her, so at least she’s in … hands.
COUNTY OFFICES:
District Attorney-Public Administrator:
This is a good time to tell you that LENORE A-S has also taken out papers not only for Judge, but also towards a run for District Attorney! This came onto my radar because BRETT MURDOCK apparently went to the Registrar’s office on Tuesday and paid his fee among other needed moves. Murdock, however, is NOT running for judge at the same time as he runs for DA! Slacker — or just a bit conventional? You decide! TONY RACKAUCKAS and TODD SPITZER round out the field. (Hahaha.) Two of them will make a very likely runoff.
NON-OCDA Races:
County Supe of Schools: No challenger yet for AL MIJARES. There should be!
BOE Area 2: DAVID BOYD may face challenge by MARI BARKE.
BOE Area 5: All kinds of crazy going on here in Lincoln Club First Lady LINDA LINHOLM’s seat! Four candidates preparing to run so far. I’ll learn what I can and report back someday.
Supe 2: Two potential challengers to MICHELLE STEEL, neither of then a CA-39 wealthy person, certainly not one named Mai-Khan Tran, who will someday come to recognize that she was getting some good advice from this blog.
Supe 4: The most interesting county race by far, with three Democrats and two Republicans likely facing off for the seat being vacated by Shawn Nelson. Four of them are officeholders, and the fifth is officeholder-equivalent in notoriety. We’ll address this more in depth at some later time.
Assessor: Two Latino men have begun runs against the non-Latino incumbent. It never rains but it pours.
Controller: No one’s running against incumbent ERIC WOOLERY so far.
Clerk-Recorder: HUGH NGUYEN is this year’s ROCCO TARGET!
Sheriff: DAVID C. HARRINGTON and DON BARNES will be competing to replace SANDRA HUTCHINSON, who once seemed to hold such promise. A Democrat will supposedly be joining this race, but I’m not going to scoop them. (Hurry up, though, sir!)
Treasurer & Tax Collector: SHARI L. FREIDENRICH is running for re-election.
Karen Schatzle paid her filing fee yesterday for the CA-39 race. This is not yet irrevocable — only filing the Declaration of Candidacy crosses that line — but it suggests that, as predicted, she’s likely going to enter the race. I wish that she’d instead run for Superior Court Office 15 against Lenore!
AND our best friend Cynthia Ward has just filed as well, for mayor, at Anaheim City Hall. She’s an official candidate now. Doesn’t seem like quite enough to make a story out of, especially after my “Why this Progressive Democrat is Supporting Cynthia Ward” from exactly a month ago … http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2018/01/why-this-progressive-democrat-is-supporting-cynthia-ward-for-anaheim-mayor/ … but I’ll be doing more stories on her soon.
Especially on the ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF CATER. (Yes, I hear you anonymous trolls.)
What’s with the continued aversion to coverage for SD-29?
We just got our DMV renewal for my truck. It went up 25 FREAKING PERCENT. Sorry Josh, but you really blew it,.
Want to know how much we had to pay for damage to one of our cars from a street pothole? A hell of a lot more than 25% of DMV renewal!
Hell, we probably pay more than that every quarter in burned fuel for traffic congestion that this fee will help to address. Remember, you haven’t argued that this work isn’t necessary; you’ve just sid that the needed money is already there in the state budget … somewhere … where it would be unlikely to be moved to this line item.
Oh, bullshit.
Also conclusory. Also wrong. But here, I’ll make your actual argument for you, since you apparently can’t.
You hate taxes. I get it.
You think that the government wastes money. I get it.
You think that the government could and should move around this wasted money. I get it.
You don’t even seem to give a damn whether that will actually happen, regardless of whether it should. I get that too, even if you won’t admit it.
Josh isn’t in that same position of privilege, where he can just refuse to budge until he gets pie-in-the-sky reforms that will not happen anytime soon, despite that he sees the problems you mention and is about as sympathetic as anyone in the majority caucus.
He knows that the choice to be made was whether these badly needed road repairs go ahead — or don’t.
He knows that most people in his district — especially the poorer ones — don’t own trucks, a class of vehicles that (1) imposes more than its share of damage on roads and (2) insolates its owners from the effects of damaged roads. So he can’t say, like you do, “let them eat cake!” He needed to get the job done.
He could probably have wrung pretty much ANY CONCESSION HE WANTED out of the majority caucus to get the vote that would put him — uniquely alone among caucus members — on the line.
What’s the concession he sought? One that would address EXACTLY THE RAIDING THE COOKIE JAR PROBLEM YOU DECRY. NOT something that would benefit him personally or make it likelier for him to win reelection. No, something that SERVES THE INTEREST OF GOOD GOVERNANCE — and something that his fellow caucus members and their donors surely DID NOT WANT TO DO.
At your best, Zenger, you are smart, brave, principled and honest. At your worst, you’re a hack. Here you’re a hack.
And note how much more developed this argument is than my simply saying “YOU’RE A HACK!”, which would be the conclusory argument I could make here. So boo-hoo for your having to pay your share to fix the roads that everyone drives on. So sad for you that you can’t “starve the beast” because so many people without your resources would be debilitated by the hunger pains before you felt the slightest twinge. I look forward to driving roads that won’t destroy my socially responsible, gas-saving, not-really-affordable-but-still-worth-it smaller car — thanks to Josh being willing to make a sacrifice that most politicians would never consider.
And HE’S who you want gone? What hackery. Go after one of the real bad guys.
Maybe the 25% difference is a bigger chunk for David than you think it is.
One thing I’ve promised Josh as June gets closer – he’s gonna send me a list of all the OC infrastructure improvements that are and will be getting paid for by this extra money, and I’ll post it.
Blah, blah blah.
Vern, trhe added tax on vehicle registration and gas is fundamentally regressive and will disproportionately affect the unterklassen the Dems are forever pretending to champion when really it’s all about bigger and more expensive government. And it’s not just the taxes directly. It’s also the indirect costs in higher commodity prices, you know, LIKE FOOD.
And who are the principle beneficiaries? The grossly over-staffed CalTRANS bureaucracy, the road lobby, the purveyors of unnecessary and overly expensive projects, and of course all the grifters and bagmen who line the High Speed Rail line. The defenders of this rip-off have no clue how much of this money will be racked off to prop up various government engineering departments with their massive pay and pension benefits.
I bet that Lincoln widening budget includes State grant money. The toll lane mess on the 405 certain will, just to cite a couple of instructive examples.
What has happened to the existing hundreds of billions of gasoline taxes collected over the years? Where did it go? Josh can come up with a long list of projects that the leadership will promise him; and then he can pass along the promise. It will guarantee nothing.
Protecting the Dems super-majority is critical to the Sacto crowd and to the “hacks” who defend these taxes.
Vern,
Maybe you should post that list inside ARTIC.
I’m not singling it out; I just haven’t had time to get to State Senate and Assembly races generally so far, among a few other categories. For the record: so far Bruce Whittaker, Joshua Ferguson, and Kevin Carr have started the process.
And former Assemblywoman at https://www.lingforsenate.org/ . Apparently, Dems have Josh’s back so none will be running as a backup option (like “No on the Recall, Yes on Bustamante”). I wonder how the recall will affect turnout in June.
SteveKevin Carr, a pro-Prop-13 Democrat will be running to replace Josh if he’s defeated. He has not shown a lot of sway in the past with either the party or the public.(Nane corrected; the “Steve” is a professor I know from elsewhere.)
Oh you mean Kevin. From Stanton. He is very anti-tax for a Democrat. Is that what you mean by “pro-Prop 13?”
No, I’m not being elliptical there. I mean that he favors and does not want to reform Prop 13, even to return it to its original purpose of protecting homeowners rather than corporate landlords.
I would start calling that “Prop 13 extremist.” Otherwise we’re playing into the propaganda that WE are ANTI-Prop 13.
More updates:
Mimi Walters filed her papers yesterday in CA-45.
Dana Rohrabacher filed his papers yesterday in CA-48.
Lisa Bartlett paid her fees for Supe District 5, for which she is currently unopposed.
Some other developments, none shocking, in Assembly and Senate races I’ve not yet covered.
Lisa Bartlett is corrupt. I wish somebody would run against her. On the toll road extension among other things.
Nobody ever challenges a 5th District Supervisor despite having some of the most bought-off, incompetent and self-serving nitwits imaginable. Before Bartlett it was Bates; before that Wilson.
Too bad Joe Kerr doesn’t have the huevos to challenge HIS OWN Supervisor.
So I’ll mention this here, and on my Mendoza story from last month…
State Senator Tony Mendoza, dogged by six credible #metoo allegations, has finally and suddenly resigned, opening up the senate district that includes our own Buena Park. And did he go bitterly! Part of his parting-shot letter:
“I refuse to participate any further in the farcical ‘investigation’ against me that ignores the Senate’s own rules, invents processes, criteria and standards as needed, ignores due process and constitutional rights to self-defense all for the purpose of playing to election year politicking.
“I shall resign my position as Senator with immediate effect as it is clear that Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon will not rest till he has my head on a platter to convince the ‘MeToo’ movement of his ‘sincerity’ in supporting the MeToo cause…”
More here http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article201577959.html along with some of the stories of what he’s been accused of.
I’ll leave my comment on the other thread and I suggest that others do the same. This topic needs its dedicated space.
UPDATES FOR 2/22/18 FILINGS, OC ONLY:
– Travis Allen is “on the board” for Governor, but it’s not clear why. He’s not shown as having taken out papers, etc. I’ve wondered how much this whole Goobie run is a charade to get him some publicity before bowing out and letting someone like Doug Ose carry the ball to defeat — in which case he’d likely be heading back to AD-72 (if, as I recall, he’s still eligible). A Travis Allen vs. Josh Lowenthal race would be very much worth watching — as would watching Tyler Diep’s face perturb like a manta ray when it became clear that he had been bigfooted. (Long Pham could always run against OCBOE Supe Al Mijeras, right?)
– CA-39: Karen Schatzle’s nomination papers have now been filed, but she still hasn’t crossed the Rubicon. Let me just once more whisper here: SUPERIOR COURT OFFICE 15, KAREN! HAVE YOU MET LENORE?
– CA-48: Stelian Onufrei paid his fees to possibly become the second Republican in a race against Dana Rohrabacher. Unfortunately, the two leading Democrats in this race are making in harder and harder to care about what has seemed like an inevitable clustercrash….
– CA-48: … but comes now Republican John Gabbard from out of the blue (or out of the red?) to pay his fee to split the anti-Dana Republican vote with Stelian! So maybe Dems won’t get shut out in June after all, despite doing so very much to invite it.
– OCDA: Todd Spitzer files his declaration of candidacy for the race. Someone somewhere perhaps just lost a very foolish longshot bet that he wouldn’t run.
Note that there may not be any more updates until after this weekend’s Democratic convention.
Interesting news even for those NOT attending the State Democratic Party convention this weekend in San Diego:
I don’t like EITHER of the leading candidates — but this announcement is interesting because the OTHER leading candidate, Hans Keirstead, is not listed as attending. (I’m guessing from the vitriol of Rouda’s attacks on him, was probably not invited; even if he was, he’d be a fool to wander into this particular lion’s den.) Keirstead got enough votes at the pre-endorsement conference to get his name on the consent calendar — and this party seems like the site for the push where ALL of the candidates who don’t want him to get that nomination will push attendees to vote to take him off of the consent calendar and vote for No Endorsement.
The only reason I’d vote to keep Keirstead — who met with Lenore Albert a while ago for lunch, which campaign functionaries have not been able to explain to me — on the consent calendar is to make Rouda go away. If Rouda dropped out of the race, I’d be happy to see the other three campaign against Keirstead without him having an endorsement. But Rouda’s attacks on Keirstead won’t help him and will just make it likely that Dana’s runoff opponent this year will be a Republican. (If two of the other three challengers attending the party would drop out, maybe the remaining one would have a shot, but that’s almost as unlikely as Rouda dropping out.)
My understanding, as a resident and reasonably involved citizen in Huntington Beach, it is my clear understanding that the Starbucks meeting was brokered by the lawyer who is promoting David Valadoa in CA-21 (VS. Emilio Huerta). This the same attorney who has staffers following Victor and Oscar (why is OR even there???) in San Diego this weekend.
This Attorney has the alleged assault video and has been for weeks setting a trap for dem’s in hope of a payday.
It is very elementary of you to put your views out there the way you did. Have you ever asked: “WHO ELSE WAS AT THAT MEETING” and “WHY WOULD SEASONED POLITICAL OPERATIVES AND LAWYERS MEET LIKE THIS”?
Better walk this back guys.
“Better walk this back?” You threatening us?
No sir. Not in anyway, shape or form. I am trying to be responsible, reasonable and stapled to REALITY.
We all know “WHO” I am talking about. This is a HUGE risk to progressive politics in HB, OC and California!
My “walk this back” comment was advise, you already (as Dem’s) have several embarrassing sexual scandals. This is a RAPE / Cover-up deal.
Make this about YOU all that you want. The reality is the ENTIRE party is at risk because of this ASSHOLE.
I don’t believe that there is any rape video.
I do believe that there might be a bukkake porn video out there that people of bad faith could convince people involved Victor — if you squint and if all young Latino males look the same to you. That’s just a theory.
I STRONGLY believe that if I ever use my smartphone (or my computer) to access HB Sledgehammer, I will end up having to throw it away. So if you want me to view the alleged video — which you’ve seen, not seen, what? — then you can loan me a smartphone and I’ll try it.
Your view of politics is one where the most vulnerable groups can have their leaders eliminated by false allegations on the grounds that that’s “safer for the party.” That’s pure scumminess. Thanks for your crocodile tears and your “concern,” “Mike.”
I’ve never mentioned “starbucks” as a meeting venue and the only meeting I’ve mentioned recently was between Hans Keirstead, a top staffer of his, and Lenore Albert Sheridan. Is that what you mean?
You seem very well-versed in the secret machinations of Republican attorneys. That’s an interesting trait.
San Diego’s Union Tribune has conducted a Survey USA Poll that looks a lot more dependable than either the campaign-funded polls that always tell the candidates what they want to hear, or the little insider gaggles the Liberal OC likes to tout with Levin on top.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sd-me-applegate-chavez-20180219-story.html
Col. Doug Applegate 18%
Col. Rocky Chávez 17%
Diane Harkey (anti-immigrant favorite) 10%
Mike Levin from Irvine 8%.
27% undecided.
No, Dan, I don’t think Doug is gonna drop out of the race and go for SD Supervisor.
PS and now I see Dan is referencing that old Issa slander about Doug’s marriage in a comment. “Look up the court documents” knowing that almost nobody will but he’s still getting the slander out there. Desperation creates flop sweat. http://www.theliberaloc.com/2018/02/23/is-doug-applegate-throwing-in-the-towel/comment-page-1/#comment-267002
So Dan C’s stupid story yesterday totally SPECULATED that Doug might drop out of the C-49 race and go for San Diego Board of Supes instead.
This morning he discovered that the deadline to file for Supervisor has passed.
So did Dan say, “My bad, it was a dumb rumor that I believed and passed on, maybe I’ll even take down the story?”
Of course not. He says, “I guess Doug can’t read the calendar.”
‘Tard.