2024 Election is Over
Today the OC Registrar of Voters finally certified the November 2024 election results. In Fullerton’s 4th District race Jamie Valencia has defeated Vivian Jaramillo by 53 votes.
With hard work, the support of the “public safety” unions, and relentless public service announcements by Fullerton Taxpayers For Reform about Jaramillo, Valencia prevailed in her electoral debut.
Jaramillo, the handpicked candidate of the OC Democrat Party was backed by a small fortune invested by the marijuana dispensary lobby and the government paper-pushers union. Unfortunately for Jaramillo, her supporters (with or without her knowledge) created a phony candidate, Scott Markowitz to draw male and Republican voters away from Linda Whitaker. The plan backfired spectacularly as Markowitz was busted for perjury and falsifying public documents – charges to which he pleaded guilty.
The scandal was used by FTFF to hammer the Jaramillo campaign.
Meanwhile, Linda Whitaker, wife of outgoing D4 Councilman Bruce Whitaker ran a lackluster campaign effort even though she raised a lot of money. She seems to have been hoping for enough name recognition to win. A mid-campaign excursion to Italy was symbolic of her campaign’s entropic trajectory.
And then there’s Markowitz, the completely fraudulent candidate and perjurer who may or may not have ratted on his accomplices in a remarkably quick plea bargain deal with the District Attorney. Despite publicly disavowing his scampaign, Marko still got 1020 votes, an electoral testament of some kind, probably better left unexamined.
Mayor Nick Dunlap and Councilman Fred Jung both won re-election easily. Jung’s 40 point win over a hitherto unknown comedian/science fiction writer named Matt Truxaw was a forgone conclusion.
Dunlap’s big win over former Councilperson Jan Flory may finally signal the demise of the self-righteous, morally bankrupt, and sclerotic Fullerton Gerontocracy.
The consequences of the Valencia victory may soon start to become apparent. The election winners will be sworn in on December 17th. The council will then choose the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem for 2025. The liberals in Fullerton will be in high dudgeon indeed if their darling, serial liar and immigration fraud Ahmad Zahra is not chosen Mayor. If that does not occur, we can expect a similar disappointment for America’s first openly gay, Muslim elected in America, again in 2025.
Finally, in other local election news, we are rid of soon to be ex-State Senator, Gas Tax Josh Newman, whose new district appended him to a vast area of central Orange County where he was an unknown, and this after being a loyal water bearer for the Sacto Smash N’ Grab Club. Oopsy. Newman lost to a former Assemblyman and buffoonish librarian from Irvine, Steven Choi. Newman rose from political obscurity eight years ago. Will he return to it? Some are saying he should run for County Supervisor in 2026. If so, he’s not going to get any help from those who hopes for him in 2016 as an outsider were badly misplaced.
Scrolling through this article, from top to bottom, Jamie looks like a breath of fresh air compared to the rest of the hacks. Not going to say I am currently a fan, but hopefully that changes.
Hey, at least it ain’t the pink mudslide.
And we all can be happy about that.
There is a God!
Thank you God!
Jaramillo is a card-carrying member of the Fullerton Gerontocracy.
Her campaign made several errors in judgment. The biggest was thinking Linda Whitaker was the Big Threat. They may have gotten that idea rom a the big donation Freydel Bushala made to her back in May. Hence the phony Markowitz campaign.
The effort was clumsy and stupid and there was a trail of evidence a mile wide and left “Team Jaramillo” wide open to attack. Was that decisive? It’s a 53 vote margin, so I’d say yes. It’s obvious that most of Marko’s votes would have gone to Linda Whitaker, although not nearly enough to win. But who else would have been the beneficiary, Jaramillo or Valencia? Probably even,
Are you saying, a Bushala “head fake” threw Team Jaramillo off kilter? Hell, they would have been better off backing Aaruni. At least he had some name recognition.
I am very unnerved.
Jamie wasn’t endorsed nor was she supported by Fullerton Taxpayers for Reform. Jamie and her team just outworked the other candidates and one bologna candidate. District campaigns aren’t won by just saying no. A good candidate helps.
True enough. And they are hindered by a bad one. Let’s face it. Nobody wanted to watch Jaramillo sweat bullets.
Where in the world did you 4Fr’s mine that photo of Jaramillo at?
Believe the Observer interview.
https://share.newsbreak.com/a78p3q0x
Newman will not leave quietly
“A mid-campaign excursion to Italy was symbolic of her campaign’s entropic trajectory.”
Classic Whitaker.