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The OC GOP machine lines up behind Tom Fuentes’ widow in Lake Forest

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Jolene Fuentes, Lake Forest, Orange County, Republican Party, Scott Voigts, Tom Fuentes Leave a comment

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The City Council of Lake Forest, again holding tight to the notion that its residents want change because three of them are newly elected, replaced a founding member of the Planning Commission in September with Jolene Fuentes, who admitted she has never even attended a city planning meeting, according to the Lake Forest Patch.

The key vote in favor of Fuentes was cast by Lake Forest Councilman Scott Voigts, a longtime player in the OC GOP who presumably voted for Fuentes because of his long relationship with her now deceased husband, Tom Fuentes, who ruled the OC GOP as its Chairman for many years. Continue reading→

The latest Cunningham fiasco started with his master Pringle way back in 1988

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Editor Posted in Anaheim, Curt Pringle, Dan Chmielewski, Latinos, Laura Cunningham, Matt Cunningham, Orange County, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Tom Fuentes 2 Comments

Curt Pringle

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→

Is there more to Wu’s attack on 74th A.D. candidate Onofre than meets the eye?

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Editor Posted in Irvine, Jack Wu, Newport Beach, Orange County, Republican Party, Tom Fuentes 6 Comments

Karina Onofre

I didn’t know that perennial candidate Jack Wu was now writing columns for the O.C. Register until a friend of mine sent me a link to an article he wrote this week wherein he ripped Karina Onofre, the former Santa Ana City Council candidate who is now running for the 74th Assembly District as a resident of Irvine.

Apparently Wu reached out to Onofre, wanting to meet with her. But then this happened: Continue reading→

Mrs. Fuentes angry at SOCCD Board, but her husband was appointed too!

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Irvine, James Wright, Jolene Fuentes, Orange County, Republican Party, TJ Fuentes, Tom Fuentes 1 Comment

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O.C. Register columnist Frank Mickadeit had a cow the other day because the South Orange County Community College District’s Board of Trustees moved to replace his dead pal, Tom Fuentes, the Monday after he departed from this plane of existence, according to a ridiculous column published on June 25.

Apparently Fuentes’ widow, Jolene, and his son, “TJ” asked the Board of Trustees to appoint Mrs. Fuentes to replace her dead husband. Barring that, they asked that no one be appointed until the voters could fill the position at the ballot box, in November. Continue reading→

The dark side of Tom Fuentes, the deceased former OC GOP Chairman

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in Matt Cunningham, Orange County, Republican Party, Tom Fuentes, Tom Tait Leave a comment

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Deceased former Republican Party of Orange County Chairman Tom Fuentes “scripted his funeral ritual last August with one of his former seminary classmates and refined it in the intervening months,” according to his longtime friend, O.C. Register columnist Frank Mickadeit.

As usual, when it came to Fuentes, there is more to the story. The OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano scrutinized the list of guest speakers and attendees at Fuentes’ funeral and he found a gaggle of pedophile apologists: Continue reading→

Former O.C. Chair Fuentes has passed away

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Barack Obama, Ed Royce, Huntington Beach, Lake Forest, Leslie Daigle, Newport Beach, Orange County, Republican Party, Scott Baugh, Sr., Stanton, Tom Fuentes Leave a comment

UPDATED: Former OC GOP Chairman Tom Fuentes has passed away, according to the OC Political Blog.

I worked with OC GOP Chairman Emeritus Tom Fuentes back in his heyday, when I was the inaugural OC GOP Hispanic Outreach Director. He was something back then. No one could run a meeting quite like Fuentes, who was famous for his “one clap.” He had asked me to help the Republican Party to reach out to Latinos – but by the time I quit the OC GOP Central Committee, in 2007, the Republican Party of Orange County had gone from reaching out to Latinos to bashing them. It was a sad turn of events.

Fuentes is now deathly ill with cancer, but he is still working on behalf of his beloved Republican Party. He summoned GOP Assembly candidates Allan Mansoor and Keith Carlson (Huntington Beach) to his bedside this week, at his home in Lake Forest, according to O.C. Register columnist Frank Mickadeit, and sure enough Fuentes did it again – convincing Carlson to pull out of the race for the 74th Assembly District. That paves the way for Mansoor to go head to head with moderate Republican Leslie Daigle, a popular Newport Beach Councilwoman. Continue reading→