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Chief Joe finally gets that last pesky DPOC member’s support…
Saturday afternoon, Joe Kerr sent me (and no doubt scads of other voters registered in the 4th Supervisorial District) an email — and I’ve decided to vote for him rather than my top preference, Cynthia Aguirre. So when you see the election returns, mentally add my vote (and I think Vern is doing the same) from Kerr’s total and add it to Aguirre’s column: she’s earned them in every way other than having a plausible path to victory. Here’s Kerr’s email.
I am writing to ask for your vote and set the record straight.
As you might know, I am a retired Orange County Fire Captain and a previous President of the Orange County Firefighters Association. A certain organization who view themselves as rivals to firefighters when it comes to budget negotiations – recently began sending out mailers attacking my campaign. The reason for their attacks are simple – they don’t want to see a former firefighter elected to the Board of Supervisors.
The claims made in their mailers are untrue. Although my 25-year career has forced me to move all around Orange County, I am a proud resident of the Fourth Supervisorial District. I have both lived and worked in our district for a number of years.
Please don’t allow these last-minute attacks to influence your decision making. The stakes are high in this election and the group behind these attacks have a history of not always telling the truth.
I’m not voting for him because of that email, though. I’m voting for him because of a phone call — a autodialer-voicemail that came from his Republican opponent, Tim Shaw.
Shaw’s voicemail did not even mention Kerr. Instead, it was a slashing attack against the other most likely Democrat to make the race — Fullerton Mayor Doug Chaffee. And my reasoning has less to do with Chaffee than with a second Republican in the race: protofascist racist drunk Lucille Kring.
(You think CA-48 and CA-49 are complicated? They have nothing on the 4th Supe race!)
The only reason that I can figure that Shaw would be reaching out to smack Doug Chaffee right now is that he must be doing well — better than Kerr, even — in the polls. Shaw presumably thinks that he knows how to bear Kerr — a smart and congenial labor leader, who also happens to be a labor leader, if you know what I mean. (And everyone’s guess is that 4th District voters do). Shaw also knows that he will stomp the living daylights out of Kring if she makes the runoff. (I will end up having to carry Democratic voters to the polls on my back in November to keep an bloodthirsty, rights-trashing, moron like Kring to the polls from being elected, if Dems are shut out.)
Chaffee, like Kring — and perhaps even more than Shaw — is a flat-out sychophant of the police unions, who have acted deplorably on any issues involving police brutality. I’d easily support him over Kring — because, you know, Kring — but I have my doubts as to whether he’d actually be better than Shaw. Kerr, in my opinion, easily would be. Kerr is an unselfish, genial, “people’s servant” Chaffee is — as reflected in his being completely shut out of the DPOC endorsement race — selfish and calculating.
Cynthia Aguirre is a promising candidate who just doesn’t show much evidence that she can raise money andwin. If the differences between the other candidates were not so stark, I’d vote for her anyway — to show the flag — and I still think that the DPOC should not have endorsed Kerr. But they did, with just one holdout — me.
I guess that now it’s unanimous. If Chaffee is the problem, Kerr is the only plausible solution.
(Vern and I are writing in Cynthia for County Treasurer. It’s futile, but … care to join us?)
Hah, what a hoot. Like you were ever going to vote for anybody but the union goon. What a hack.
Coto Joe says he has “lived and worked” in the 4th for years? That’s tantamount to an outright lie. Even if we believe he now lives here (no one does) he established his “residency” in Placentia a few months ago.
Or are we to believe that passing through the 4th on a union mission constitutes “live and work.” Or maybe he’s counting the years of his ethical upbringing in Buena Park.
I was going to vote for Cynthia Aguirre, who is not a “union goon” of any sort — and was the sole holdout in DPOC against endorsing Kerr.
Do you give one single shit about whether a charge you make against someone is true or not? You don’t seem to. I guess when you care only about what a small number of people think about your credibility, there’s little reason to do anything else.
FWIW, I agree that he established his residence in Placentia only a short time ago. I don’t much care. He knows the district well, and he’ll still represent the district better than any of the Republicans — and, more to the point, better than “homegrown” Doug Chaffee, whom you used to revile for his position on the police-caused death of Kelly Thomas, back in your prime. Chaffee has the support of the cops/sheriffs unions; read the letter Kerr sent around, which I quoted up there. That’s who he’s talking about. Those are your allies here.