What’s On Your November Ballot? (WOT)

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It’s that time of year — or actually, of the two-year (or four-year) election cycles — again, when runoff elections featuring the top-two vote-getters from the June primary races will be joined on the ballot by non-partisan races, which tend to be confusing.  Below is a list of most of what’s on the ballot, just to get the juices flowing.  (The exceptions are the races in OC’s 38 incorporated cities, which one has to check one-by-bloody-one if one wants to see who’s running for their city councils  — and the occasional City Attorney or Treasurer races.)

We’ll get to those city races, ummm, when we get to them.  Meanwhile, fresh from the OC Registrar of Voters, here’s the upcoming election contests, from the prominent to the obscure.

That was Greg.  This is Vern.  Many of the below races are still ones that YOU might think of running for.  These are the salt-of-the-earth races where people who are really interested in public service start out, and may eventually move up to higher offices once they learn more, prove their intelligence and honesty, and make a name for themselves.  Remember a few months ago when we had 17 people running for every Congressional seat?  Well, a lot of those people should have started at these more modest levels … and they STILL should.  – Vern.

Races on the Nov. 2018 General Election Ballot

The Top Two vote-getters from VOTER NOMINATED contests:

United States Senator

Representative in Congress

  • 38th District
  • 39th District
  • 45th District
  • 46th District
  • 47th District
  • 48th District
  • 49th District

State Constitutional Officers

Governor

Lieutenant Governor

Secretary of State

Controller

Treasurer

Attorney General

Insurance Commissioner

Member, State Board of Equalization, 4th District

State Senator

  • 32nd District
  • 34th District
  • 36th District

Member of the Assembly

  • 55th District
  • 65th District
  • 68th District
  • 69th District
  • 72nd District
  • 73rd District
  • 74th District

We really wanted to illustrate this post with a graphic from the Buena Park Library District website, but it is sadly bereft of graphics so this pin-up shot of Greater Fullerton divided into districts will have to do.

NONPARTISAN

School – State

Superintendent of Public Instruction

County Supervisors

Supervisor, 4th District — Tim Shaw vs. Doug Chaffee

County Offices

District Attorney-Public Administrator — Racky vs. Spitzer!

Sheriff-Coroner — Nguyen vs. Complicit Guy

School District Contests

Coast Community College District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 5

North Orange County Community College District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 3
  • Trustee Area 6

Rancho Santiago Community College District

  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 4
  • Trustee Area 6

South Orange County Community College District

  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 4
  • Trustee Area 5

Anaheim Union High School District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 5

Fullerton Joint Union High School District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 4
  • Trustee Area 5

Huntington Beach Union High School District

Brea Olinda Unified School District, Full Term

Brea Olinda Unified School District, Short Term

Capistrano Unified School District

  • Trustee Area 4
  • Trustee Area 6
  • Trustee Area 7

Garden Grove Unified School District

  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 4

Irvine Unified School District

  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 4

Laguna Beach Unified School District

Los Alamitos Unified School District

Newport-Mesa Unified School District

  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 4
  • Trustee Area 5
  • Trustee Area 7

Orange Unified School District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 4
  • Trustee Area 5
  • Trustee Area 7

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District

  • Trustee Area 4
  • Trustee Area 5

Saddleback Valley Unified School District

Santa Ana Unified School District

Tustin Unified School District

  • Trustee Area 3
  • Trustee Area 5

Rowland Unified School District

Anaheim Elementary School District

  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 4
  • Trustee Area 5

Buena Park School District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 5

Centralia School District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 5

Cypress School District

  • Trustee Area B
  • Trustee Area C
  • Trustee Area D

Fountain Valley School District

Fullerton School District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 3
  • Trustee Area 4

Huntington Beach City School District

La Habra City School District

Lowell Joint School District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 4
  • Trustee Area 5

Magnolia School District

  • Trustee Area 1
  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 5

Ocean View School District

Savanna School District

Westminster School District

  • Trustee Area 2
  • Trustee Area 3
  • Trustee Area 5

Special District Contests

Capistrano Bay Community Services District

Emerald Bay Service District

Rossmoor Community Services District

Surfside Colony Community Services District

Three Arch Bay Community Services District

Serrano Water District

  • Division 1
  • Division 4

Silverado-Modjeska Recreation and Park District

Costa Mesa Sanitary District

Midway City Sanitary District

Sunset Beach Sanitary District

Surfside Colony Storm Water Protection District

El Toro Water District

Irvine Ranch Water District

Moulton Niguel Water District

Santa Margarita Water District

East Orange County Water District

Rossmoor/Los Alamitos Area Sewer District

Mesa Consolidated Water District

  • Division 3
  • Division 4
  • Division 5

South Coast Water District

Trabuco Canyon Water District

Yorba Linda Water District

Orange County Water District

– particularly important to put up ONE GOOD CANDIDATE EACH against these 4 Poseidon whores (V.)

  • Division 1 – run against Dina Nguyen in Garden Grove / Westminster area!
  • Division 2 – run against Denis “Bill-more-Dough” in Orange / Tustin / Villa Park!
  • Division 5 – run against Steve Sheldon in Newport / Irvine area!
  • Division 7 – run against Shawn Dewane in Costa Mesa / Newport / Fountain Valley area!

[n.b. by Greg: is there any set of three politicians on any OC public entity creepier than Bilodeau, Sheldon, and Dewane?  Cathy Green is a horror show also, but she’s not up this year.  Remember — we need one, BUT ONLY ONE, opponent against each!]

Municipal Water District of Orange County

  • Division 1 — Brett Barbre (like Jordan Brandman, a former Tom Daly Public Funds Scholarship winner), whose district in Brea, Buena Park, La Habra, La Palma, Placentia and Yorba Linda.  [Greg ran against him four years ago as a Poseidon protest candidate — Barbre is one of the county’s main movers behind the consumer ripoff — but doesn’t plan to do so this year.]
  • Division 2 — Larry Dick (is OK, as I recall, despite his being an OC Taxpayers Association board member.  Right, Vern?)  His district is Garden Grove, Orange, Tustin and Villa Park, and unincorporated North Tustin.  I don’t think that there’s a reason to oppose him, but I defer there to Vern and to the amazing John Earl.
  • Division 5 — Sat Tamaribuchi, whose district is Newport Beach, Laguna Woods, portions of Irvine, Lake Forest, Laguna Hills, Aliso Viejo, and parts of Mission Viejo.  [Greg here: I sued Tamaribuchi on behalf of then-candidate Ron Varasteh four years ago in an unsuccessful in a challenge to his ballot statement, at the same time that I successfully sued Dave Ellis over a much larger problem with his statement.  It’s the only election lawsuit I regret filing; with the perspective of time, the issue was too small to justify it, and it really seemed to annoy the hell out of him, because he took it as a major affront rather than something techical.  I don’t believe that he’s a Poseidon supporter, and on that presumption I don’t favor anyone running against him.]

Buena Park Library District

Placentia Library District

Santiago Geologic Hazard Abatement District

[This is the best named district of them all. — GAD]

City Contests

[It’s complicated…]

This is your “getting your feet wet before filing closes” edition of OJB’s “Weekend Open Thread.”  Talk about this, or whatever else you’d like, without reasonable bounds of discretion and decorum.


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