It has been quite a year for the O.C. GOP machine. They are still not sure what happened to their wonder boy, Santa Ana Councilman Carlos Bustamante, in the 1st District Supervisorial race. Not only did he get blown away, but their other horse in the race, Trung Nguyen, also lost as Janet Nguyen crossed the finish line a nose ahead of him.
The machine did get their boy Mike Carona reelected to the Sheriff’s office – and that blew up in their face when he was tossed out of a law enforcement association because of his mobster pals. Carona also recently had to pay a large fine for his campaign finance violations. And now he is looking like a choir boy compared to O.C. Treasurer Chriss Street, who is immolating before our very eyes while undergoing a federal investigation.
But that’s not all! Congressman Gary Miller has been a disaster as well and has also been the target of an investigation. You can read more about him at this link.
And the Republicans were the ones who handed a school board seat to the mentally unhinged Steve Rocco over in Orange Unified School District. Red County/OC Blog editor Matt Cunningham even said he would vote for him again! Good grief!
Speaking of local schools, Republican Rob Richardson is presiding over a Titanic like disaster over at the Santa Ana Unified School District, as millions of dollars have been lost in the throes of massive class size reduction fraud. His fellow Republican, Rosie Avila, has been no help at all as she focuses on social issues while students fail to graduate.
Even OC GOP favorite Dianne Harkey is now facing a recall because she allegedly “cursed at residents during council meetings, ignored a state ruling on her conflicts of interest, told people to “grease palms” in order to get construction variances, ignored her community to run for higher office only months after being elected and much more.” Nice.
When are the OC GOP machine capos going to apologize for what they have done to the people of Orange County?
“told people to “grease palms” in order to get construction variances”
Sounds like something Jay Trevino, Planning Director in Santa Ana, would say!
All good points, Art. No wonder why you left the GOP. They jus don’t get it. Sane people here want to be represented by similarly sane people. But what does the OC GOP Machine do? Force these crazy, corrupt wackos down our throat!
And they wonder why everything is tumbling down around them…
Great points Art! Where does the O.C.G.O.P. find these losers they run for office? Is this really the best they can come up with for candidates? I don’t blame Ryan T. for quiting the Central Comm. Why should he sully his reputation hanging out with the likes of these nogoodnicks!
Is former Santa Ana Councilman John Acosta still a member of the GOP? I hope he is a Dem. by now so I can vote for him.
#3, I haven’t quit the Central Committee. In fact we have a meeting on the 20th.
and i am sure the dems are so squeaky clean what a joke art . im sure if someone wanted to do the research we can find just as much stuff on the lefties demos to owe o c a apolgy
Poster 6,
I don’t know ANY Democrat who is as disgusting as Carona, nor do I know ANY Republican who has the rare combination of integrity and guts displayed with great regularity by State Senator Lou Correa.
Could poster #6 point us to a dem in the Exec level of county office that is involved in as much “stuff” as Street?
I keep waiting for the Greenhut column in 14 pt font that takes Street and his mentor Moorlach to task for Street’s actions. Yet nothing.
On the OC Blog, Jubal instead tries a deflection by blasting away at Art Brown’s expense report.
If you were to read the OC Register’s editorial pages or the conservative blogs like the OC or Flashreport you wouldn’t know this was happening.
What’s funny is how little influence all you cranks have on anything. you bitch and moan and get nothing done. Pedroza is the worst of all of you — a liar and political failure who no serious person wants to work with. He keeps drifting from Right to Left because he keeps burning through friends and acquaintances. His lefty “friends” like him because Art craps on people they don’t like. Who’s Art going to crap on when his Demo pals get tired of his nuttiness.
RHackett, poster #6 won’t be able to name one because the only Dem at the “Exec level of county office” is Clerk/Recorder Tom Daly. There isn’t much opportunity for doing that kind of “stuff” in the Clerk/Recorder position. (Would he issue fake birth certificates?)
All 5 Supervisors, the Sheriff, the DA, the Treasurer, the Auditor-Controller, the Superintendent of Schools, and the Public Administrator-Public Guardian are all Republicans.
Poster 9,
Gee Tim, not doing well in the mortgage business right now, are you? Should have gone to college!
How am I a political failure? I was right behind you last year in the OC GOP Central Committee election, winning a seat after being away for several years.
I chose to quit the OC GOP after realizing that it was run by corrupt lobbyists and people like you.
Don’t worry. I won’t run out of people to write about as long as you are involved in politics. In fact next year I plan to help defeat your buddy Carlos Bustamante and your amiga Rosie Avila. Rack em up Timmy! We’ll take them out…
The OCGOP fosters a culture of corruption. It funnels money to a handful of moronic consultants like Adam “I never went to college” Probolsky, Steve ” my face is red because of the sun and not from being drunk” Sheldon and John ” boy its neat being a kid” Lewis. Scott Baugh needs to be trown out on his fat ass.