OCCCO — the Orange County Congregational Community Organization, a — has a finely styled video out this afternoon that will give Matt Cunningham something new (well, actually the same old tripe) to write about: inviting everyone to an event in Little People’s Park (at the corner of Clementine and Elm) from 11:00-2:00 to kick off the campaign for district elections in Anaheim. Check it out!
It was just recently posted and there were only 11 hits when I published this — can we get it to three figures by midnight? You know how to share a video on Facebook, don’t you?
Some people may choose to share this flyer to promote this event …
… but if OCCCO is going to go all multimedia on us, OJB is going to do its best to keep up by showing you both the flyer AND the video! So ink in those plans for Saturday!
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
At the risk of getting tossed, I won’t post the link to my cobbled together website, but suffice to say, I wish the districting advocates (and the whole City) would take a look at the methods of ‘cumulative voting’ and ‘ranked choice voting’ (used by the City/County of San Francisco) and elsewhere. They satisfy court thresholds of ‘representation’ yet retain public full voting power, and have initial costs of counting software mods, but avoid the perpetual mapping, demography, and other costs of districting. Google offers several excellent sites that explain the details.
I just watched the clip- ” this is about being able to engage in government, regardless of participation” Can you explain how that is not a contradicition?
I like those methods (as well as “single transferable vote” and in the past have called for their adoption. The main objection to them seems to be that they confuse voters. Unfortunately, unless there’s a way around it, that’s a pretty good objection.
Maybe we should game it out with some proposed candidates to see what it would do?
Excellent suggestion! An afterthought about costs (=???) of district maintenance, is that they reduce the WHOLE size of the pie, only aggravating the major complaints about unequal slices-
Of course none of this would matter if those who can’t vote: Felons, Non-Citizens would step aside from the politics and the people who can vote would.
It’s not the responsibility of the voting public to care for those who don’t.
That time I called upon people to look to something other than their own narrow self-interest and support a land…
Wait, Vern! I do remember that flyer now.
I don't remember that. Jesus H. that creep was useless. Always somebody's puppet.
That’s muy rico!!
Yeah, 'member this? This 2012 Brandman ad speaks for itself. Click for larger image.
I'm 100% in for Jessie Lopez. She's the real deal, a strong advocate for human rights and free speech who…
That time Joshy encouraged Irvine to violate the California constitution and ignore the electorate. What a pompous putz. https://irvinewatchdog.org/opinion/opinion-the-city-of-innovation-needs-to-take-a-moonshot-in-oak-park/
"Citizens for an Affordable California. I'm looking right at it. I never said Pulido was responsible for these mailers. BTW,…
Taj is pining for the Armenian American vote. lol! https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1387880783379929&id=100064740608946
At the risk of getting tossed, I won’t post the link to my cobbled together website, but suffice to say, I wish the districting advocates (and the whole City) would take a look at the methods of ‘cumulative voting’ and ‘ranked choice voting’ (used by the City/County of San Francisco) and elsewhere. They satisfy court thresholds of ‘representation’ yet retain public full voting power, and have initial costs of counting software mods, but avoid the perpetual mapping, demography, and other costs of districting. Google offers several excellent sites that explain the details.
I just watched the clip- ” this is about being able to engage in government, regardless of participation” Can you explain how that is not a contradicition?
Not necessarily. I’ll try tomorrow.
I like those methods (as well as “single transferable vote” and in the past have called for their adoption. The main objection to them seems to be that they confuse voters. Unfortunately, unless there’s a way around it, that’s a pretty good objection.
Maybe we should game it out with some proposed candidates to see what it would do?
Excellent suggestion! An afterthought about costs (=???) of district maintenance, is that they reduce the WHOLE size of the pie, only aggravating the major complaints about unequal slices-
Looks like a good place to plug my collection of layman’s explanations of election systems:
http://electionreform.wordpress.com/
Any suggested additions are welcome.
For my targeted ad on this post, I got “FREE NRA Duffel Bag Join NRA” Hmmm…. Whom are you expecting at this “event”?
Of course none of this would matter if those who can’t vote: Felons, Non-Citizens would step aside from the politics and the people who can vote would.
It’s not the responsibility of the voting public to care for those who don’t.
Really? “Those who don’t vote” includes children.
It also includes those whose ability to vote had been unnecessarily and unreadonably burdened.
Hey Tim Mcfadden, do you think the armed criminal who blasted the dog away and tried to kill three cops today voted??
Methinks not.