While the media and the OC blogger community is currently fixated on what attack blogger and Republican Matt Cunningham did in Anaheim, when he made fun of Latino families whose children have been shot and killed by the local police, there was another disaster that “set back party efforts to recruit Latinos “by 20 years.” I am referring to the infamous poll guard incident in Santa Ana, that directly benefited Cunningham’s master, former Anaheim Mayor turned lobbyist Curt Pringle.
That fiasco happened in 1988, and then OC GOP Chairman Tom Fuentes took the hit for it. In fact he had to resign his job as Director of Communications for the OC Catholic Diocese, according to the LA Times, after the poll guard incident blew up in the national media, just as Cunningham had to resign yesterday from his post on the OC Parks Commission – and we have since learned that Cunningham has also lost some OCTA consulting contracts as well. Continue reading
