Thank you Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez! You soundly defeated crazed SAUSD Trustee Rosie Avila by a massive margin, effectively ending her political career. For that the people of Santa Ana are most grateful!
Sanchez won by a higher percentage than any of the other incumbent Congressional candidates in Orange County, while Avila, who made Prop. 8 a cornerstone of her hateful campaign, barely got 27% of the vote. I expect that Avila will now move away from Santa Ana, joining her husband who works in Missouri, if memory serves correct.
And, to rub salt in the wound, Avila was replaced by Democrat Valerie Amezcua, on the SAUSD School Board. Amezcua was endorsed by O.C. Planned Parenthood. That grinding sound you are hearing is Avila’s teeth… Adios Rosie! Now go away.
Seriously Art,
Today is the first time I have started reading your blog, and while it is very comically entertaining. I find it to be very hipocritical and full of absolute untruths. Why is it when a Republican loses or one of our proposition fails, we say okay the will of the people has spoken. I voted for McCain, but I will support our new president Obama with all the fervor that I would have for John. Yet, to salivate over a democratic victory in such a fashion as to mock a candidate who had different opinions but believed in what she fought for is extremely unbecoming.
Is this the face of the democratic party. I voted for Prop 8, but I do not consider myself ignorant or hateful, as I also endorse Gay Unions with all the same rights and benefits just not under the monotheistic tradition of marriage as defined by Judeo-Christian Religions and the belief that the government should intrude less on social policy.
But if this was typical of the thought proces you employed in your council run, no wonder you barely defeated Steve Rocco. It is racist, hypocritical, spiteful, and uninformed blather. I thought it was the democratic party that was supposed to be more open and accepting rather than so close-minded as to not even consider the opinions or wishes of others who might have a difference of opinion.
Just think about it for a minute.
Reality Check,
Except that I am not a Democrat. I am a Decline to State voter. I was a Republican my entire life up until about two years ago. In fact I was very conservative and I used to edit Rosie’s writing, which was awful.
My wife voted for 8 too. I think you both will come to regret that.
The bottom line is that government and religion should not mix. Marriage is a contract between two people and it should not matter what their gender is. If society is concerned about marriage failing, then we need to do something about divorce; adultery; and men who dump their long-suffering wives for younger models.
I have been married for 21 years to the same woman and I expect we will be together as long as my body holds out. I certainly believe in marriage. What I don’t believe in is putting religious tradition into law.
BTW, if you look at the figures from all the Santa Ana races you will see that there were about 5,000 angry white voters who refused to vote for any Latinos. Rocco had a non-Hispanic surname and he benefited from that. At the end of the day, the votes he got represent the extent of anti-Latino fervor in my city. I cannot blame the voters entirely though. We have an all-Latino Council that is LAME. No wonder folks are mad.
Interesting, I thank you for your reasoning behing it. I am under a different belief on it as I believe a civil union is the part of marriage where government is involved. Upon being married, the civil union part of it is where the government intercedes and defines the legalities of it, such as property, rights, and everything else that is entailed. “Marriage” is the binding under god and is a religious ceremony, the civil union was attached to it by government.
Now if people want to have a civil union and are gay. I am all for it, and believe that they should have all the benefits and rights. But, it is a union and not marriage. If they wish to establish a different tradition, that is their option. But Marriage is a religious ceremony, and for the state to intercede and tell religion to change the doctrine and honor something that has been the way it has for thousands of years is wrong and should not be allowed. It has nothing to do with the denying of civil rights to any particular individual.
Now the whole argument of gay as a choice or how someone is born. Is an argument for a different day. If you are a darwinist, you believe that being gay is wrong and not natural as the mere fact of being gay leads to non-reproduction which if were natural would lead to the eventual extinction of the human race.
But as for Santa Ana voters taking out their dissent and voting for Rocco as a non-hispanic alternative. You underestimate the sheer kitsch of some people who find Rocco for all his nuttiness very entertaining. His rants on the board were disruptive, but for entertainment value they were priceless. So he has a contigent of people who vote for him as counter-culture and they are quite numerous. I actually saw a few Rocco T-shirts at the Orange Street Fair this year. Now I know he did not make them, but it just shows the fanatacism of some of his supporters.
And congratulations on being married for so long and still being able to get along despite having a difference of opinion on some political lines. That is the sign of a strong marriage and is extremely admirable.
Just like the last canidate, Rosie will get a appointment to a state school board with a large salary and pension and benefits. All of her years on the SAUSD will count towards retirement and the taxpayers will be footing the bill for years.
absolute untruths? kindly explain what you mean by this claim.
“I believe a civil union is the part of marriage where government is involved”
Correct, Reality Check. And here is where your reality breaks down. If government is only involved in civil unions then it has no place defining marriage at all, right? That’s up to your church, whatever it might be, to decide. The government has no business inserting itself into the definition of a religious rite; and the people who want it to are enemies of individual freedom. Their true colors emerge: they want to control others’ lives to suit their own sense of propriety.
To start with a preconceived idea based on an article of faith and argue from that point only to arrive at the same point later on is called circular reasoning. Don’t feel bad – most people do it – which is why Prop 8 got the most votes.
Good riddance to the crazy lady!
We know that Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez had played around with voter fraud. I hope that we Americans stand up for what’s right and get to the bottom of this. It is really sad that the voice of the people doesn’t matter anymore. The voice of the people was never heard. The voter fraud did not have an proper investigation simply because there was no time to fix it! We need a full blown investigation and it is a pity that no one is standing up to the plate. Rosie Avila should have won. Do we have any leaders out there? Do we have anyone who is willing to get to the bottom of this? Let’s do what is right – the ones who voted for Loretta Sanchez are illegal and don’t even have a right to vote! Doesn’t that leave you a bad taste in your mouth? I ask you – the one reading this to stand up for what is right. Do something! We need to gather as people and do what is right! We should have a recall and vote again legitimately. We need to verify that all voters are legal. Are you with me?!!! God Bless America! Loretta Sanchez you are shameful – you should do the right thing and turn it over to Rosie Avila.
Ron
You need to volunteer to work at a voting precinct so you can learn how the voting systems works. Do it for your health, your current thinking will only raise your blood pressure.
Cook, I wonder if Republicans have something in their systems that allows them to feel like Ron and not suffer the effects of stress? This could be the basis of some great medical research. While they are at it maybe they can find why Republicans and Democrats think so differently? I swear to God, its like I see blue and they see red when we are looking at the same thing. I’ve never understood it.
Fortunately where my Reep friends and I find common ground is in common sense, and a basic view of good and bad, right and wrong. Mostly we get along well on those terms.
Good riddance. She helped Santa Ana lose the “Education First” banner.
Someone should investigate land Avila owns. No sale records and definitely some suspicious characters on site…