This jump started an earlier idea to publish the names of all the lackeys, stooges and repuglicans who signed onto Ackerman Inc.’s Big Lie Tour of 2009.

This is a list of the elected officials that decided their best interests lay in the endorsement of Linda Ackerman for the 72nd Assembly District. Enjoy the asinine quotations at the bottom of the page and be sure to pick out your favorites on the list for special attention. We have helpfully highlighted in red the names of politicians in whose elections Fullerton voters will get to participate.

• Congressman Ed Royce
• Congressman Dana Rohrabacher
• Former Congressman Bill Dannemeyer

Statewide Elected Officials

• BOE Member Bill Leonard
• Former State Secretary of Education and Mayor of Los Angeles Richard Riordan

State Senators

• Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth
• Former Senate Republican Leader Jim Brulte
• Former Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman
• Former Senator Marian Bergeson
• Senator Mark Wyland
• Senator Mimi Walters
• Senator Bob Huff
• Senator Bob Dutton
• Senator George Runner
• Senator Sam Aanestad 
• Senator John Benoit 
• Senator Abel Maldonado
• Senator Dave Cox

State Assemblymembers

• Former Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines
• Assemblyman Jim Silva
• Assemblyman Joel Anderson
• Assemblyman Ted Gaines
• Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher
• Assemblywoman Diane Harkey
• Former Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher
• Former Assemblywoman Sharon Runner
• Former Assemblyman Tom Bordonaro
• Former Assemblyman Openmike Duval
• Former Assemblywoman Marilyn Brewer

Orange County

• Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens
• Orange County Supervisor Pat Bates
• Orange County Supervisor Bill Campbell
• Orange County Supervisor Janet Ngyuen
• Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas
• Former Orange County Supervisor Cynthia Coad

Anaheim

• Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle

Fullerton

• Fullerton Mayor Don Bankhead
• Fullerton Councilmember Dick Jones
• Former Mayor of Fullerton Buck Catlin
• Former Mayor Leland Wilson
• Former Mayor Peter Godfry
  
• Former Mayor of Fullerton Jerry Christie
• Former Mayor of Fullerton Linda LeQuire
• Former Fullerton Police Chief Pat McKinley

Placentia

• Former Placentia Mayor Scott Brady
• Placentia Councilmember Jeremy Yamaguchi

Orange

• City of Orange Mayor Carolyn Cavecche
• City of Orange Councilmember Mark Murphy
• City of Orange Councilmember Jon Dumitru

Yorba Linda

• Yorba Linda Mayor Mark Schwing
• Yorba Linda Councilmember Jim Winder

Villa Park

• Villa Park Mayor Pro Tem Bill Mac Aloney

Brea

• Brea Mayor John Beauman
• Brea Councilmember Roy Moore

La Habra

• La Habra Councilmember James Gomez
• La Habra Councilmember Steve Simonian
• Former La Habra Mayor Juan Garcia
• Former La Habra City Councilmember John Holmberg

Elected Leaders

• Tustin Mayor Doug Davert
• Tustin Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Amante
• Laguna Hills Mayor Joel Lautenschleger
• City of Covina Mayor Walt Allen
• Newport Beach City Councilmember Steven Rosansky
• Capistrano Unified School District Trustee, Anna Bryson
• Fullerton School District Trustees Maynard Duncan, Ellan Ballard, Hilda Sugarman, Lynn Thornly.

“Having called North Orange County her home for over 30 years, Linda is by far the most experienced and effective candidate for Assembly. She is a respected leader who will restore dignity to the office while fighting for Orange County values.”- Former Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher

“Linda has been a steadfast conservative leader in Orange County for many years. She will be ready to lead on the important budget issues facing the region and the state on day one.”- Assemblywoman Diane Harkey

“I am proud to stand by Linda in her campaign to promote conservative leadership and higher standards to the California State Assembly.”

- State Senator Mimi Walters.

“Linda Ackerman is an experienced leader who has proven her dedication to the community time and time again, I am proud to support her campaign for State Assembly because I know she will be ready to lead on the issues our state faces on day one after being elected.”- Senator Bob Huff

“Linda Ackerman has always done what is right for the sake of the community, not political gain. She is a proven leader who will help solve California’s budget crisis and bring Orange County values to the State Assembly.”- City of Orange Mayor Carolyn Cavecche

“Linda Ackerman is an experienced businesswoman and community leader who I trust to help balance the budget and rein in out of control spending in Sacramento. North Orange County needs Linda in the Assembly fighting for real budget reform.” – Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle

“We need an experienced leader who will fight for North Orange County. That’s why I’m supporting Linda Ackerman for State Assembly,” Fullerton Mayor Don Bankhead

“When it comes to the safety of our children, Linda Ackerman will never back down.”- Former Fullerton Police Chief Pat McKinley

“I wholeheartedly endorse Linda in her campaign for Assembly. As a businesswoman and community philanthropist she has been an active leader in North Orange County and is by far the best person to represent us in the Assembly” -Yorba Linda Mayor Mark Schwing

Paid For by Ackerman for Assembly 2009, FPPC ID #1321372

I've been waiting 15 years for this moment

Word has it that Don Bankhead has endorsed Hieu Nguyen for Clerk-Recorder, joining Dick Ackerman’s anti-Norby jihad. This is a slap in the face for the lone councilman who supported Don’s quixotic bid for Sheriff back in 1990. Ackerman supported Brad Gates, who easily turned back the Bankhead challenge.

Don was first elected in 1988 with the promise that he–like Norby–would back Molly McClanahan for Mayor (an Ackerman/Catlin/LeQuire triad had blocked her for years). That broke the annual mayoral controversy and restored the rotation that continues today. So Norby and Bankhead began as buddies. Norby even endorsed him as late as 2002, much to the ire of some longtime loyalists.

For Don, though, it’s still all about his being recalled by Fullerton voters. Norby opposed the utility tax passed by Bankhead, Catlin and McClanahan which led to their recall in 1994. He’s been sore ever since. Norby did not actually support the recall, but his later hiring of organizer Bruce Whitaker is a constant reminder of the utility tax/recall fiasco, foisted on Fullerton by then-City Manager Jim Armstrong.

Yo G, what does 1+1=

Other Hieu backers with grudges against Norby include: La Habra Councilman      Tim “Taxman” Shaw (mad at Norby for pulling his endorsement when he supported the 1/2 cent LH sales tax hike), State Sen. Mimi Walters (mad at Norby for supporting Harry Sidhu against her), Ackerman (mad at Norby for beating his hand-picked council candidates) and Cynthia Coad (mad at Norby for beating her for Supervisor in 2002). It ain’t no secret, the Republican party is the party of grudge holders.

The fact that County Counsel is actively opposing the proposed redevelopment expansion further fuels Bankhead’s bile. Perhaps, Bankhead thinks the County should just lay down and let the RDA steal the County’s money for that all-important Commonwealth blight fight.  But, it appears the recall is what really keeps galling Mayor Donahieu.

If county bureaucrat Hieu Nguyen thinks Dick Ackerman can help his Clerk-Recorder campaign, he’d better think again. There is one word for Ackerman-backed city and county candidates: LOSERS.

Is it just bad luck? Or does Dick choose weak candidates he can control after they’re elected? The problem for him is that they don’t get elected!

Look at the record of Dick’s choices, dating back over a quarter-century:

• 1982: Ackerman backs insurance agent Jim Williams for Fullerton City Council. Williams loses to Molly McClanahan.
• 1984: Dick endorses realtor Merrill Braucht for the open council seat. Braucht loses to Chris Norby.
• 1988: Dick supports Dan Baker for an open council seat. Baker loses to Don Bankhead.
• 1992: Ackerman goes 0-for-2 in ’92. His hand-picked candidates Jim Blake and Jack Beddell place 5^th and 6^th.
• 1994: Ackerman vocally opposes the recall of Buck Catlin, Bankhead and McClanahan. That trio had rubber-stamped an unpopular new utility tax foisted by City Manager Jim Armstrong. The recall easily passes, all three leave office and the tax is repealed.
• 1996: Dick endorses fellow legislator Mickey Conroy for Third District Supervisor. Conroy loses his cool—and the election–when he flips his opponent the bird during a debate. Brea School Board Member Todd Spitzer wins handily.
• 2002: Like 1992, Dick goes 0-2 in 2002. He actively supports Supervisor Cynthia Coad’s re-election and is featured prominently in her mailers. Coad loses to Norby. Later that year he backs accountant Chuck Munson for Fullerton City Council. Munson is buried by Shawn Nelson.

To be fair, there is one current Council Member who was elected and thrice re-elected with Dick Ackerman’s support: Dick Jones.

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Steven Greenhut confirmed the other day that uber right wing “Republican consultant John Lewis will be supporting (although not working for) Clerk/Recorder Tom Daly in his bid for the 4th district supervisorial seat once Chris Norby is termed out,” according to the Orange Punch Blog. Apparently Lewis “appreciates that Daly was one of the very few people who backed Norby when the entire establishment was behind Cynthia Coad.”Greenhut points out the fact that Daly, who is a prominent Democrat, willl not likely be a better advocate for limited-government than either of the two likely Republican contenders, Fullerton Councilman Sean Nelson (Republican elected official of the year), or Anaheim Councilman Harry Sidhu.(Click here to read the rest of this article by Art Pedroza)