I don’t have anything against Mark Leyes, per se, but his posts at Red County/OC Blog have just become an unending diatribe against Janet Nguyen. In his latest post, he knocks what she does or does not do for a living. Give me a break! Leyes has been sucking at the public teat virtually his entire life – has he ever worked in the private sector?
Actually, one of his first jobs was in Los Angeles, where he worked for then Mayor Tom Bradley – in opposition to conservative Republican Governor George Deukmejian. Back then Leyes was a liberal Democrat. He also applied to be a delegate for Mike Dukakis. I don’t know if he was in the tank that Dukakis was famously pictured in…but he might have been. He also campaigned for Bill Clinton in 1992. The horror! I found this information at this link.
Leyes’ last job, working for State Senator Tom Harman, came to an end when Leyes couldn’t get along with Harman’s female district director, according to a conversation I had with Leyes last year.
I imagine that he has been lounging around the stately Leyes Manor in his boxers, surrounded by empty pizza boxes, Doritos bags and sticky, squished cans of Mountain Dew, researching on google.com feverishly in an endless attempt to discredit Janet. What a sad waste of time.
Why would Leyes be in such a huge rush to slam Janet? Could it be that Carlos Bustamante has already offered him a job on the 5th Floor? Please – won’t someone hire Leyes? Please?
HOw do you live with yourself?
Mr. Leyes has been an angry man ever since he ran a full blown campaign and lost a race for a water board seat against an 92 year old grandmother from Garden Grove who did not campaign. That was a crushing blow which was followed soon thereafter by his devastating defeat when he ran for Assembly against Mr. Van Tran. Mark then realized his political days were over. Thank you Art for helping explain the strange posts Mr. Leyes has been writing about Ms. Nguyen. You have answered some questions that have been bothering me for a very long time.
Leyes was the outcast of the council – he hates janet since she supported all of bill dalton for mayor against leyes..had he won that race he would still be an elected official with some pay
hey art – you forgot to talk about his political office failures. he ran for supervisor (LOST), ran for assembly (LOST), and ran for mayor (LOST)…he can’t stand watching janet winning this seat
Poster 2,
Mark has done us all a favor by making it obvious that the paid political consultants, hacks and insiders who write at Red County/OC Blog do so not to make a difference but rather to make lots of $$$$$$. They ought to call themselves Green County as money is their main motivator…
Poster 5 – but wait, if that is true then wouldn’t that mean Mark has a job!
Wow, and to think that I actually used to come here to get part of my local political news…
Mark should try and get a job with Tom McClintock. Unless someone knows otherwise, Tom has never done anything other than suck off the public teat as well. And conservatives revere him in almost iconic terms.
I don’t think Mark’s decision to support Carlos has anything to do with him looking for a job. He will have something unrelated to the 5th floor before too long. More then likely its payback for Janet’s opposition to him on more then one occasion. And Mark is certainly not going to do Trung any favors.
Art:
Do I sense blog-envy? Not to mention a continued preference for uninformed opinion and insinuation over informed, fact-based opinion.
Keep it up, Art! It’s interesting to see how crazy and angry your posts can possibly get.
Oh, and good luck in your weird crusade to to get the Libertarians to take you seriously.
I don’t even know why Rick Reiff had Leyes on his show several weeks ago. When Leyes tried to speak about the late Pres. Gerald Ford’s legacy on “his” Vietnamese community, Reiff rightly gave me credit for bringing up the point in an op-ed to the OCR which was reprinted from the WaPo. It’s sort of similar to the manner in which the LAT wrote about Trung’s AdobeGate without crediting Jubal for breaking the story. Leyes and Kermit Marsh from Westminster always claim that they’re born, bred and have lived here their entire lives. What they cannot admit is that newcomers have progressed politically more than they have thus they cannot and will not support Van, Trung, Janet or any Vietnamese candidate (except Kermit for Andy Quach and vice versa).
“…but his posts at Red County/OC Blog have just become an unending diatribe against Janet Nguyen.”
And YOUR posts have become an unending diatribe against Carlos Bustamante.
Looks like there’s no shortage of hypocrisy in the blogosphere.
Look for a potential
Jubal,
What exactly was untrue about this post? I documented everything.
As for Cohen, I can understand why you are upset. The OC GOP machine just lost one of its tools. From now on, when he endorses Republicans I will be blogging about it. My guess is his fellow Libertarians will do away with him before long.
I believe that there is a statute of limitations on the use of DNA testing in a Court of Law in California. Perhaps someone with a legal background could set the record straight. Those old charges will not stick if all you have is DNA evidence!
In all honesty, how many actual voters do you think have the time to read these blogs every day? The number of actual votes influenced by Red County or Orange Juice is so small, it won’t have any affect on this or any other election.
Quang,
Thanks for your edifying feedback! It does serve to explain Leyes’ behavior. I know it took guts for you to write about your co-blogger. Thanks for doing so.
Bladerunner,
Who knows? It sure looks like Leyes is trying to ingratiate himself to Bustamante. What is the quid pro quo of not a job?
Anonymous #16.
At a political meeting last week our guest speaker is a major player in the world of polling data.
In his firms assessment of the Nov General election one of the questions asked dealt with the voters primary source of information. Although I will not share all of his data I can state that 16 percent of those who responded say they used the Internet. That’s not to say it’s our blog postings but the Internet blogs are playing an ever increasing roll in getting information out to the public.
Although some of the comments I read on the blogs can be arrogant, many others are quite factual or at least provide meat for the debate that you can rarely get from political chicken dinner candidates with their canned speeches.
Notice that even the major print media have created their own blogs.
“What is the quid pro quo of not a job?”
A bag of Doritos (gigante-sized) and a 2L bottle of sticky Mountain Dew.
Larry,
I am not downgrading the growth in influence of blogs. I am simply saying that the number of registered voters in the First District that read these blogs is minuscule. Look at the repetition of posters on O.C. Blog, here, and the other O.C. blogs. It’s the same core group with the addition of some Vietnamese, now that their community is involved in the current special election.
All this time I thought Cristi Cristek was Gilliard’s biggest mistake….this guy takes the cake! Tom Harman?
Art
Between this post and the Photoshop-gate this has been one of entertaining week.
Thanks for making my LMAO the past few days.
Phil
I think Mark is just a bitter loser all his life. He is just jealous and can’t stand to see Janet win. Why did he not publish this article a few weeks earlier when the race was wide open? When Janet has a lead, Mark jumps in and try to stir up controversy. Give us a break. Voters are smarter than he think they are.
A point of clarification. Kermit says he has supported many Vietnamese candidates. He supported Janet Nguyen for council, Van Tran for both council and Assembly, and Lan and Trung for the school board. And some guy named Trung Diep for a sanitary board. He also backed John Duong for Irvine Mayor.
He said Quang was misinformed about this.
Leyes was the tank Dukakis rode on.