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Will Solorio’s efforts to register Latino voters cost Daly his Assembly seat?

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Cecilia Iglesias, Francisco Barragan, Janet Nguyen, Jose Solorio, Lou Correa, Tom Daly Leave a comment

Say what you will about Jose Solorio, but he knows the score. As the Democratic Party’s sole candidate in the race to replace Lou Correa in the 34th State Senate District, Solorio is quite aware that he must pull out all the stops in order to beat the leading Republican candidate, and Queen of corruption, Janet Nguyen, in what is a very purple district.

Solorio is banking on a massive voter registration effort to get out the Latino vote, which has few reasons to support Nguyen or her GOP opponent, Dr. Long Pham. But this very effort is also threatening to undermine another Democrat, Tom Daly, who has no business representing the overlapping 69th Assembly District. Continue reading→

Updated: Failed Democratic candidate stalking and trolling woman candidates on Facebook

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Cecilia Iglesias, Democratic Party, Francisco Barragan, Santa Ana, Tom Daly Leave a comment

Tom Daly and Francisco Barragan

When SAUSD School Board Member Cecilia Iglesias ran for Congress back in 2010, she gathered over 10,000 signatures so that she could qualify for the ballot as an independent candidate. While she did not prevail in the election she showed us all that she was a viable candidate in Santa Ana, in a race that featured the powerhouse that is Democratic U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez and a former State Assemblyman, Van Tran, who was at the time still a dominant player in central Orange County.

Iglesias confirmed this when she ran for the SAUSD School Board in 2012, this time as Republican. While at the time I was unsure that she would do well in our city as a member of the GOP, she proved me wrong by becoming the top vote-getter in that election – she garnered more votes than two incumbents, Rob Richardson and Jose Alfredo Hernandez. That surely was a wake-up call for them as well.

Now Iglesias is challenging a Democrat, Tom Daly, who was elected to the 69th Assembly District in 2012 when three Latino Democrats split the Hispanic vote in that year’s Open Primary. Those candidates included Santa Ana Councilwoman Michele Martinez; labor organizer Julio Perez and an accountant named Francisco Barragan. While Martinez is still in power and Perez recently got appointed to a top labor post, Barragan has resorted to stalking candidates he doesn’t like, on their Facebook pages. Continue reading→

Did Barragan set a record by getting only 605 votes in the primary?

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2012 Elections, Chris Prevatt, Debbie Tharp, Democratic Party, Eleazar Elizondo, Francisco Barragan, Garden Grove, Jane Rands, Open Primary, Orange County, Santa Ana 9 Comments

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. Continue reading→

Is Barragan to blame for Perez’ loss in the 69th A.D.?

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2012 Elections, Anaheim, Democratic Party, Francisco Barragan, Jose Moreno, Julio Perez, Labor, Latinos, Liberals, Michele Martinez, Occupy, Open Primary, Orange County, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Vern Nelson 18 Comments

The Orange County Voter Registrar finally closed the ballot counting from the June 5 Open Primary, yesterday. Ultra liberal 69th Assembly District candidate Julio Perez lost by 242 votes to Republican Jose “Joe” Moreno, who will now face off against top vote-getter Tom Daly, a corporate Democrat, in the November General Election.

Perez and his union allies spent a small fortune and all they got out of it was third place. I have argued in a previous post that Perez and fellow Democrat Michele Martinez both erred by not attacking Daly, but there might be more to this story. Continue reading→

Chmielewski is right – Gebre should resign, say sorry or get fired

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2012 Elections, Anaheim, Andrew Galvin, Art Pedroza, Dan Chmielewski, Democratic Party, Francisco Barragan, Jose Moreno, Jose Solorio, Julio Perez, Labor, Liberals, Michele Martinez, Open Primary, Orange County, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Tefere Gebre, Tim Whitacre, Tom Daly 15 Comments

Julio Perez, the ultra-liberal union hack candidate for the 69th Assembly District, is still losing after the O.C. Voter Registrar updated the results of last week’s Open Primary today (June 13 @ 5 pm). Perez is behind Republican candidate Jose “Joe” Moreno, who currently has 5,933 votes to Perez’ 5,649 votes. With very few votes left to count, it is highly unlikely that Perez will catch up.

Tefere Gebre, the unctuous executive director of the Orange County Federation of Labor, went nuts on election night when he saw that his boy Perez was losing. O.C. Register reporter Andrew Galvin was hanging out with Gebre, which comes as no surprise to me at all, when Gebre went nuts, dropping multiple “F-bombs” and saying that “Jose Solorio is dead to me.” Continue reading→

Orange County Labor owes all of Santa Ana an apology

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Democratic Party, Francisco Barragan, Jose Moreno, Julio Perez, Labor, Michele Martinez, Orange County, Republican Party, Tom Daly Leave a comment

It looks like Santa Ana Council Member Michele Martinez won’t be advancing in the race to replace Jose Solorio in the 69th Assembly District. So far the top two in that race are Tom Daly, a Democrat, and Jose Moreno, a Republican. Martinez is in fourth and the candidate that Orange County labor backed, Julio Perez, is in third. If you are not in the top two, it is game over!

Had labor backed Martinez she might well have made the top two. Instead Democrats are now stuck with Daly, who has a distinctly anti-Latino record as the former Mayor of /Anaheim. Moreno also is from Anaheim, which means that Santa Ana no longer has a horse in this race, thanks to labor and Perez, not to mention that other foolish Democrat, Francisco Barragan, who hardly got any votes at all. Continue reading→