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Just six of the contenders so far: Sanchez, Murray, Krom, Thorburn, Choi, Wagner.
Just thought we’d break the news before some other bastard blog did: Former longtime Democratic central county Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is indeed, as rumors suggested, “throwing in her hat” for the special election early next year, to take Todd Spitzer’s place as Third District Supervisor. (Let’s get the residency question out of the way – as Paul Lucas informs us in comments, she and hubby Jack have been living in Olde Town Orange for a couple years now.)
We Democrats were excited to have a tough progressive candidate, with money, for this race – Andy Thorburn who’d come in second to Gil Cisneros in the CA-39 primary. Then along comes Agranista Beth Krom, threatening to take a huge chunk of Irvine Democrats with her. And now the Fabled Lo. Should Democrats support her as the most likely to beat Klepto favorite Kris Murray? And is there really a lot of difference between those two?
I was always the one, over the years, to remind Loretta’s detractors of the good and brave things she’d done in Congress, despite her Valley Girl mannerisms and Blue Dog pretenses – voting no on the PATRIOT Act right after 9/11, opposing the invasion of Iraq, opposing NAFTA and TPP under both Dem & Reep Presidents, playing chicken to get a strong public option into Obamacare. And my wife and I did appreciate her endorsement in Donna’s 2016 council race.
But what does she stand for now, locally? Her recent actions in Anaheim make us wonder whether she is indifferent or ignorant to what’s really going on here – between her regular attendance of SOAR fundraisers, and her endorsements of Jordan Brandman and EVEN MITCH CALDWELL – (the latter of which can only be explained by her inexplicable and irrational grudge against Jose Moreno.) This all makes us wonder how much she would differ from Kris Murray or Don Wagner, both part of the same Pringle “klepto” crowd that Jordan and Mitch hail from.
I had her number, I lost it… Somehow I’ll get some kind of statement from her, on what she would actually want to do on the Board of Supervisors that would represent a difference…
More shortly!
No luck reaching Loretta yet, but I’m told that she made this announcement at some Democrat event last night, at which no press was present, so we are the only ones with the story. I’m also told that Democrats are trying to talk Beth Krom out of the race (and presumably Andy as well) so that we can unite against what’s currently SEVEN Republican candidates. Sounds smart. IF Loretta has a message and plan that can actually inspire us.
Sequel coming Monday morning…
And somewhere near Serrano Avenue, cries of jubilation erupted as another Democrat emerged, thus assuring the dawn of the Murray reign, extending the Kleptocratic Empire beyond the confines of the 241 freeway.
Word on the street is that Pringle is backing Wagner, not Murray. From a fairly reliable source.
Anaheim Chamber already backed Murray. This could be interesting.
Is Pringle becoming a splinter of himself, like Agran seems to be?
Lo Sanchez? I wonder what she is using as her phony address.
That’s true, she’s lived in Santa Ana as long as I can remember. Not District 3 by a long shot.
She’s lived in old town orange off of Cambridge for several years now.
DID NOT KNOW THAT. Thanks, Paul.
“Sounds smart”
Well that counts Lo out.
Just when you think things can’t get any worse.
I never think that things can’t get any worse.
I allowed some of our trolls to talk some trash on this thread and the Correa one … but none of it had any value so it’s all gone now.
*Sweet Loretta would be a perfect Supervisor! More wet T-shirt Contests!
*OK, OK, Michelle Martinez is our 2nd Choice! She probably beats Loretta too!
Unconfirmed report (note: I haven’t tried to confirm it) that Krom has withdrawn and endorsed Sanchez. If so, the establishment will rally behind Loretta with great force — including expelling dissenters from party leadership. Thorburn’s only chance would be a complete “outsider” campaign.
I am puzzled about her statement that county social workers barely make minimum wage. Perhaps she has confused the title “Social Worker” with the home care aides who work in the In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program? They are paid a low wage hourly, and are not counted as county employees by most folks, including the official count by the county itself. I believe there are over 10,000 of these workers. Many of them are relatives caring for relatives, but not all of them. This one needs some clarification from her. (She needs an adviser who is knowledgeable in the workings of county government run programs in considerable detail – and no, I am not available!)
A typical example of how Lolita doesn’t know anything about the County (or likely anything else, for that matter).
The SSA employs a whole array of people doing different things and getting paid a non-minimum wage salary. They work in a real nice building (my accountant has office there) with a sunken reflecting pool out front. These people work on all sorts of Federal and State programs and alsso General Relief (County.)
IHSS is a completely different animal, and as you point out includes a lot of people who get reimbursed for tending to “disabled” impecunious relatives. As I recall these people are represented by the UDW union and get a pretty low salary.
Yes. Lo needs help.