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Carpetbaggers lining up to run for Area 2 of the AUHSD’s Board of Education

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Anaheim, Annemarie Randle-Trejo, Carpetbaggers, Education, Eleazar Elizondo, Jose Moreno 2 Comments

Annemarie Randle-Trejo

From the New Anaheim Blog

The race for Area 2 of the Anaheim Union High School District’s Board of Education has apparently already attracted two carpetbaggers. The District covers 46 square miles and stretches across the cities of Anaheim, Cypress, Buena Park, La Palma and Stanton, and has 31,000 students.

One of them, Eleazar Elizondo, ran for the Orange County Board of Education in 2012, as a resident of Santa Ana. He came in dead last garnering only 7% of the vote, according to Smart Voter.

Elizondo ran for the Santa Ana City Council in 2002, losing to Mike Garcia while totaling less than 5,000 votes, according to Smart Voter. 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→

Will Orange County Democrats run away from Obama in November?

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2012 Elections, Albert Ayala, Barack Obama, Beth Krom, Charles Hart, Chris Norby, Democratic Party, Jerry Brown, Joe Dovinh, Jose Moreno, Judge Jim Gray, Miguel Pulido, Mitt Romney, Orange County, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Sharon Quirk-Silva 1 Comment

Will Orange County’s Democratic candidates run away from the increasingly unpopular President Barack Obama in November? He is likely to win the State of California, but I can’t see him doing well in Orange County. Obama won U.S. Representative John Campbell’s district in 2008. That is highly unlikely to happen this November. In fact the only Congressional District that Obama might pick up is the one held by his fellow Democrat, Loretta Sanchez.

On the other hand, I expect Republican nominee Mitt Romney to come to Orange County perhaps more than once. He should be a boon to the local Republican candidates, with the exception of Jerry Hayden, who is running against Sanchez in the 47th Congressional District. That district’s Latino voters won’t likely be very impressed by Romney, who has been very harsh on immigrants during his campaign this year. Continue reading→

Orange County liberals crashed and burned in primary election

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2012 Elections, Bloggers, Bob Huff, Democratic Party, Don Bankhead, Education, Eleazar Elizondo, Fullerton Recall, Greg Diamond, Julio Perez, Labor, Liberals, Michele Martinez, Orange County, Santa Ana, Tom Daly 4 Comments

It was not a good night for Orange County’s liberals, who crashed and burned in California’s first Open Primary.

Labor spent hundreds of thousands on Julio Perez‘ campaign for the 69th Assembly District. The result? So far he is in third place – ahead of Santa Ana Council Member Michele Martinez, wjho had 3,316 votes, and wannabe candidate Francisco Barragan, who must have run so as to keep Perez out of last place. Perez has 3,554 votes. Tom Daly is leading that race with over 8,231 votes. A Republican who spent no money, Jose “Joe” Moreno, is in second place with 4,495 votes. . Continue reading→

Elizondo was forced to change his ballot designation as he is not a teacher

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2012 Elections, Art Pedroza, Education, Eleazar Elizondo, Orange County, Robert Hammond Leave a comment

I reported on Thursday about O.C. Board of Education, Area One, candidate Eleazar Elizondo’s comments to an OC Weekly reporter about how teaching adults is not teaching. Now that OC Weekly article has been published and his comments are as ridiculous as the reporter indicated when she called me. But even worse for Elizondo, the true story about how he arrived at the awful ballot designation of “Public Affairs Consultant” has now been revealed.

I recall that Elizondo, when I ran into him on the last day of the filing period, at the Orange County Voter Registrar, desperately called an attorney, on his cell phone, and asked the unknown lawyer to be his campaign attorney. I wondered then why in the world he needed a campaign attorney. Well, now we know. Continue reading→

OC Board of Education candidate Elizondo slams adult education

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2012 Elections, Art Pedroza, Democratic Party, Education, Eleazar Elizondo, Orange County, Santa Ana 6 Comments

I just got off the phone with a reporter from the OC Weekly. She called to tell me that one of my opponents, Eleazar Elizondo, a liberal Democrat who once worked for U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, doesn’t think I should be able to call myself a teacher because I work in Adult Education, at Cerritos Community College. Well that is interesting – apparently Elizondo is not aware that the Orange County Department of Education is heavily involved in Career Technical Education for adults!

Here is what the O.C. Department of Education has to say about this on their website: Continue reading→