When Francisco Barragan got only 605 votes, as a Democratic candidate in the Open Primary election for the 69th Assembly District, this year, according to Smart Voter, he may well have set a record for futility in Assembly races. I spent a few hours searching for any comparable results and found none. Barragan appears to be the most unpopular candidate for the California State Assembly in the history of our state.
Barragan is by no means the first Orange County Democrat to utterly fail on Election Day. When Liberal OC blogger Chris Prevatt ran for the Garden Grove City Council, way back in 2002, he came in dead last in a field of five candidates, according to Smart Voter – but even with that stinky effort he got over 3,000 votes. Barragan only got 605 votes.
Just this year, in the Open Primary, we saw another O.C. liberal Democrat, Eleazar Elizondo, get spanked in the race for Area One on the O.C. Board of Education. Elizondo sent out at least one mailer and he also engaged in robo calls, but in the end he got only 3,037 votes, according to Smart Voter. That would be about five times as many votes as Barragan got on June 5.
I even looked at third party Assembly candidates to see if anyone ever got less votes than Barragan did. In 2010 a number of third party candidates ran for various state legislative seats in Orange County, including:
- Kristi Stone, a Libertarian, got 15,184 votes in the 38th State Senate District.
- Debbie Tharp, a Libertarian, got 6,212 votes in the 70th Assembly District
- and Jane Rands, a member of the Green Party, got 6,845 votes in the 72nd Assembly District
Those third party candidates each came in last, but they got thousands of votes, while Barragan only netted 605 votes. Of course they were an important 605 votes as they prevented his fellow Democrat, Julio Perez, from advancing to the November General Election in the 69th Assembly District. For that we should all thank Barragan.
Will Barragan ever run for office again? Who knows, but he certainly cannot do any worse than he did this year. Although he lost, his tremendous loss just might land him in the Guinness Book of World Records. In which case Barragan, who has been signing his blog comments lately as “Francisco Barragan, former candidate for the 69th Assembly District,” could change his signature to “Francisco Barragan, the past candidate for the 69th Assembly District who set a record for electoral futility, on June 5, 2012.”
LOL.
I think his vote total may have something to do with his long winded “solutions based” explanations on fixing our state, which went on and on and on without an end in sight or a real “solution based” solution. If this guy talks likes he wrote, there just no time left for anybody else.
It was really funny how the liberal blog and the Daly camp were trying to inflate his ego after the election, I wonder if he fell for it.
Chris is trying to get elected to the vacant seat on the OCERS retirement board. This guy comes in last place running for elected office, blogs at work, threatens a discrimination lawsuit to keep the county at a distance and now wants to oversee a retirement board just to create more smoke and mirrors towards the general public. Besides, why aren’t their any Latinos on this board? Is this one of those country club “good Ole” boys gatherings. Shame on the board of Supes and the OCEA for not considering all taxpaying community members and excluding Latinos.
So is this the same Chris that posts under the FAKE NAME Joe Hill?
Why Joe hill when posting propaganda on labor issues but Chris when pumping up Gay rights/issues?
Sounds like the guy from the OCBLOG all over again.
Admin. you are a Four time loser running for office. Face it, voters hate you
Well, let’s have a look at the facts, as much as you might be loathe to do so.
In 1998 I ran for the SAUSD School Board, back when I was still a Republican. I ended up with 5,808 votes. http://www.smartvoter.org/1998nov/ca/or/race/3202/
In 2006, I won a seat on the OC GOP Central Committee and got 4,358 votes, coming in third out of six candidates. http://www.smartvoter.org/2006/06/06/ca/or/race/9415/
In 2008 I ran for Ward 3 on the Santa Ana City Council. By then, as I recall, I had quit the GOP and was registered Decline to State. I got 10,231 votes and came in second to the heavily funded incumbent, Carlos Bustamante, who has since resigned his Count of Orange job after allegations of sexual harassment arose. http://www.smartvoter.org/2008/11/04/ca/or/race/5224/
In 2010 I ran for the SAUSD School Board. The two incumbents spent probably $40,000 to $100,000. As usual I did not do that. I ended up with 10,560 votes, losing by only 1,400 votes. http://www.smartvoter.org/2010/11/02/ca/or/race/3202/
This June I ran for Area One on the OC Board of Education. Didn’t spend a dime and got 11,126 votes. All of the other three opponents spent thousands of dollars on signs, mailers and robo calls. The lone liberal opponent, Eleazar Elizondo, who was highly touted by the liberals at the Orange Juice blog, came in last with 3,037 votes. http://www.smartvoter.org/2012/06/05/ca/or/race/3011/
I hate to break it to you but I have done quite well through the years and have spent almost nothing in so doing. Poor Barragan. He actually spent money and ended up with a paltry, and possibly record-setting, 605 votes. You can see him in action at the upcoming Santa Ana 4th of July event where he is supposedly doing the invocation. Pray that he won’t run for office again!
:”,,,his long winded “solutions based” explanations on fixing our state, which went on and on and on without an end in sight or a real “solution based” solution.”
Sounds like Greg Diamond
They are both founding members of the “We’re Smarter than You are Club.”
Does it really matter?
It was enough to send Julio Perez, packing up his crest, his bedroll and back to where he really lives.
FOR THAT: We owe you Paco!
People talk about spoilers, recently the GOP hacks that work for Norby brought this up. But they ignore the 800 pound elephant in the room.
OK, OK Julio only weighs 350, but if Michele’s hair style is in question, shouldn’t Prerez’s apperence?
The bottome line is Paco siphoned off enough to keep the Union agent away. thats good enough for me.
It’s funny that Andy nver asked him where he shopped. There is not a union shop for MILES. Another sign of the disinformation fed from Brea, Long Beach, San Diego and Sacramento in the name of representing our district.
OC Political shows Julio beat Martinez all over SanTanna. Daly won SanTanna. Explain that one
I’ll take a stab:
A million bucks of Union money dispatched on behalf of the carpetbagging closeted deadbeat!
I wish before he left back to his REAL address, whe would have the courtesy to clean up the signs he left behind littering the neighborhoods.
Maybe Diamond can put some of his touted “community service” to work and clean up Perez’s mess.
What a slob!