Pilferin’ Paulette: Busted Thief Running for North Orange County Community College Board
And that would be Paulette Chaffee, disgraced wife of our senile and corrupt County Supervisor Doug “Bud” Chaffee. It had been rumored last summer that this perennial candidate was again looking for an elected job, and that this seat might be it.
Mrs. Chaffee is desperate to be elected something. Her strategy has been to cling like a barnacle to the hope of something education related, that being the easiest sort of thing to be elected to. She has run and failed twice to be on the opaque Orange County Board of Education spending who knows how much of her kids’ inheritance in the process.
Before those BoE runs, Mrs. Chaffee bought a condo in the newly formed 5th District, and faux carpetbagged into it to try to get on the Fullerton City Council, even though she really lived in a posh house up on a hill. That election saw her get into trouble with the long arm of the law.
Chaffee was caught on video – twice – stealing campaign signs. She pleaded guilty and paid a fine and quit that race. But she wasn’t done self-promoting for future political advantage.
Her community service, it was said, provided education related photo content for her future OC Board of Education attempts.
This unelected’s strategy has been to photobomb just about every political event imaginable, always haunting the background like the chorus in a Greek tragedy. You name it, there she is. Her husband anointed her OC 4th District Ambassador, whatever the Hell that was supposed to be.
Even the most cynical political creatures might be understood for withholding their endorsement of Pilferin’ Paulette. However some seem not to be even bothered by her checkered past. Here are some of the endorsements from her website:
But Mrs. Chaffee has a problem and it isn’t callow youth. She is at least 76 years old and time is running out. Moreover, the seat she is running for has two rivals.
One is the dim bulb Jesus Quirk-Silva, former Fullerton councilmember, who has his own set of endorsements, several the same as Chaffee’s. Even his wife endorses him. Could he be bought off to go away? Not likely.
And then there’s the 24 year incumbent, Jeffrey Brown, who isn’t going anywhere and will enjoy the title NOCCCD Board Member as his job title on the ballot.
The only thing we can be sure of in this election is that the potential for merriment, FFFF style.
Connor Traut endorsement will give her the win.
Or not.
It’s hard to imagine what goes through the mind of people like this. Desperate for the validation of elected office. Like an addiction. In her defense though, I suppose seeing her greasy little witless rodent of a husband becomes a County Supervisor makes her wonder how come it can’t be her.
Paulette is Doug’s 4th District Ambassador. Someone please tell me what that is again. Ambassador for the district?
It’s a made up non-paying job where his wife gets to go around and get to make a little speech and get her picture taken at every possible event.
I think I’m going to vote for her instead of Jesús. That guy is phony as they come..
No he isn’t phony. But he’s a championship dumbass. Vote for Jeffrey Brown.
Brown was a champion of the Measure J bond scam AND the scam to use the money raised from J for an un-needed football stadium rather than the promised veteran’s center. If these are the choices, Jesus Silva gets my vote.
Thanks for the information. But the only reason Jesus Quirk would vote against the stadium thing is because he lives across the street.
You’re probably right. I recall hearing at the time that it took a lot of pressure to get Silva to come out against the stadium in the first place, so your point is well taken.
Still, Brown’s screw up wasn’t just supporting this, it was – from what I understand – a failure to even take neighbor concerns seriously. The stadium was in his district, those were his constituents who were complaining, and he was less responsive to their concerns than Trustees who represented other areas, like Blount.
Let’s face it, any choice would be deemed to be the least of three evils. I don’t know much about this Brown guy, but I’ve seen Jesus Quirk-Silva in action, or to be precise, inaction. The Chaffee woman is just completely unacceptable.
Josh Newman – another perennial candidate endorsed Jesus and Pilferin’ Paulette.
You can always count on Fullerton to bring the worst of the worst to the ballot.
Didn’t she try to call herself a teacher last time around? The only thing she knows about college is that she went to one once. When Lyndon Johnson was President.
If Connor Troutlet can call himself a consumer protection attorney (instead of ambulance chaser), Pilfering Paulette ought to be able to call herself a teacher.
Connor Traut’s only true talents are carpet-bagging and lying. He is desperate for higher office.
His mentor and role model was Jordan Brandman a politcal parasite.
They probably smoked meth together and circle jerked.
I would NEVER vote for paulette !
Reading this was actually real journalism
Fullerton being Fullerton.
“Paulette discussing critical education issues with a bunch of helium-filled balloons.”
I wonder if she made her points clear to the balloons. They don’t look impressed.
That old horse needs to go to pasture as does the Stud Silva. How many pensions do they really need.
She was a lawyer of some sort.