Even I was surprised when I read at Red County/OC Blog, and at the Register’s Total Buzz blog that Lupe Moreno, the Minuteman activist who is best known for her anti-immigration stance, has dropped out of the race for the 1st Supervisorial District. She has endorsed Carlos Bustamante.
I am not sure that this helps Bustamante. He might pick up a few Minutemen, but he stands to lose a lot of Latino votes. Maybe this is a concession that he is not in fact doing well with his paisanos?
Noted immigrant-rights activist Benny Diaz is starting to really pick up speed as Democrat Latinos realize that they should not be supporting Tom Umberg. After all, Umberg’s candidate statement reads like he too is going after the angry white vote.
My other theory is that Moreno is doing this as a favor to Bustamante’s consigliere, Tim Whitacre. However, if that is the case, this could backfire, as I have outlined herein. Indeed this might prove to be an enormous boon to Diaz. Now he finally has something to rally the voters to the polls with – the ultimate Cucuy/Chupacabras…Lupe Moreno.
Diaz asked me the other day why I ran Moreno’s campaign for the 34th State Senate District last year, when we don’t agree on immigration. The plain truth is that at the time I perceived Lynn Daucher to be the greater threat. Ironically, I later got to know the Dauchers and found them to be very pleasant people. I ended up endorsing Daucher in the general election.
My own position on immigration is that we ought to find green cards for those who have been working here without causing trouble over the last few years. Let them work. Their children are often American citizens – why tear these families apart?
And so I now find myself in Diaz’ corner – and Moreno finds herself in Bustamante’s corner. That’s politics – but I think Bustamante is going to rue this endorsement. Hey Benny – if you are reading this – time to go on Canal 22 my friend!
Did Carlos accept the endorsement? If I were him I would have said, “Thanks, but no thanks”.
Lupe Moreno is a mess. First she quits the GOP and then she rejoins it. First she is running, now she is not. This broad is just starving for attention.
The fact that we are still even discussing her is pathetic. She is a self-hating hypocrite who wants to blame others for her plight.
Hey Lupe how about taking some personal responsibility for your lot in life? I’ll be glade when we never have to mention her name again.
Art
“Chupacabras” = “Lupe”
That’s bold! But, she has absolutely no following.
Good point in telling Benny to let the spanish Media write about this endorsement.
I met Benny the last day of the filing and was glad to meet him.
He’s defintely getting the 3,000 Latino votes from Garden Grove plus another 7,500 from Santa Ana if he can get the message out about Bustomonte.
If anyone really believes Carlos is even in the top 5 candidates ( I don’t) then this is the perfect time for a massive I.E. against Carlos the Mexican hater who is endorsed by the self-loathing Lupe Moreno. It’s I.E. time boys and Carlos is primed to get body slammed politically speaking.
So let me get this straight…the Republicans are going to win over Latinos by supporting a Mexican for office who hates Mexicans! I love how those Republicans think! Can we just get Carlos to change his name to Pete Wilson and complete the image?
Can’t believe AP is supporting a Democrat…thought the only good demo was a dead demo. Maybe AP is receiving some payment under the table to cross over, or maybe he has just come out of the closet. Sad to see “nasty mouth” SHM is still insulting Latino women, or is it just women he hates?
She quit?, now I gotta figure out someone else to vote for. Any other women running?
Any other women running?
Plenty.
Mostly away from Umberg and Bustamante though.
poster #5 or is that you Chupa”Lupe”bra
There some real hurt in that post.
“Maybe AP is receiving some payment under the table”
Yeah, like Benny diaz has a war chest.
“maybe he has just come out of the closet”
There is defintely something in the water in Santa Ana.
I’m not passing judgements about the endorsement transformations from some conservative politicos in the 69th AD but who has not notice the appeal/support for moderate candidates from Whitacre, Pedroza, and now Lupe.
While it is true Pedroza has supported Benny D but endorsed Janet N. things have chnged?
By Pedroza’s own warped sense of reasoning, if Lupe Moreno brings the Minutemen to Carlos, then Benny Diaz brings with him a ‘Mexico first and only’ agenda that includes socialistic views such as universal health care that the Governor is trying to shove down our throats. Pedroza is playing “Paisano” to the Democrat Diaz while claiming he’s a Republican. Diaz is the “Zeke Hernandez” of Garden Grove- always running for something; never winning, the difference being Benny, while likeable, is way out there in his anti-American, pro-illegal alien position as well as his tax and spend socialistic solutions to local problems.
Pedroza is the village idiot who turns on somebody the minute they don’t do what he wants or says. Lucky for Lupe she doesn’t have to tolerate this yahoo in her life anymore. Pedroza’s true colors are coming through loud and clear. While I don’t agree with all of her views, I greatly admire her and respect her right to express them in the manner she does – always with respect but yet never afraid to tell it as she sees it. Lupe obviously saw that Carlos has the best chance of beating Umberg and did the right thing. The ‘right thing’ is foreign to Pedroza which explains his rantings and condeming of Lupe, in favor of a liberal Latino Democrat.
Lupe needs a fashion consultant.
Does ABC have those extreme makeover shows anymore?
Latino GOP,
We will see who the idiot is on Election Day – when Bustamante loses badly…he will surely rue this decision to ally with Moreno.
Art Pedroza,
You are nothing more than a bully with a blog that has zero credibility except in your own mind.
You should be ashamed of yourself for bad-mouthing a hard-working, big-hearted lady like Lupe Moreno who has done way more for her community and the GOP than you ever will.
Carlos Bustamante didn’t “ally” with anyone here. It’s obvious to the rest of us that Lupe backed out of the race and endorsed him instead of one of your loser candidates, Benny Diaz or Janet ‘Vietnamese Only’ Nguyen. That makes you mad so you rip into her like you do everyone else who doesn’t do everything exactly as you want them to. Of course, because you don’t like Carlos you try to put a negative spin on her endorsement of him as well.
You are a real piece of work…
By the way, it’s “Latina” not “Latino.”
who’s is going to win?
Is it 2 demo’s vs 8 gop’ers?
I think it’s 4 Dems and 6 Reeps.
Dems: Tom Umberg, Mark Rosen, Benny Diaz, Larry Phan
Reeps: Brett Franklin, Janet Nguyen, Trung Nguyen, Carlos Bustamante, Lupe Moreno, Kermit Marsh
One of my girl friends doesn’t understand why this blog allows bashing/ridiculing/name calling of Lupe Moreno but her comments about Solorio on another topic on this blog are censored. How sexist is that? All she wanted to do was give Ryan Gene some advice on how to win the 69th.
Lupe must have asked Jose Solorio if it was okay to endorse Carlos (tee hee snicker snicker)
#20 –
Tell your girlfriend it’s called the First Amendment. When anyone tosses their hat into the political arena, they are fair game. Politics is not for the brittle or fair-haired.
Too bad your girlfriend doesn’t have the chuptzah to speak out for herself. Cat got her tongue?
#22
Maybe Carlos has her tongue.