June 7, 2010October 27, 2010Fullerton 2010

Fullerton Voter Guide

Friends for Fullerton’s Future put together this handy voter guide for Republicans in Fullerton and North Orange County. Our voter guide covers important local races in Orange County along with the statewide primaries. It was put together with the help of a few of our trusted Friends. The statewide recommendations are passed along from our friend Allan Bartlett.

Orange County

4th District Supervisor – Shawn Nelson

Nelson will be a leading force against the unions when it’s time to negotiate out of control pensions. His voting record make shim a strong fiscal conservative who is not afraid to stick his neck out for taxpayers. Both of his main opponents are union-supported carpetbaggers who live outside the 4th district.

OC Sheriff-Coroner – Bill Hunt

Just mark the spot for Bill Hunt and watch the establishment scramble like cockroaches. This is one of the most important races in this June election.

Superior Court Judge #16 – Gerald L Klein

In the words of Attorney Bernie, we need to get private practice attorneys seated as judges. People don’t realize how important it is to keep insider government lifers from usurping the judicial powers

Superior Court Judge #50 – Julian Bailey

Mr Bailey’s opponent here, Lon Hurwitz has donated to a laundry list of national liberal Democrats.

County Assessor – Webster Guillory

Webster has done a good job as Assessor.

Clerk Recorder – Hugh Nguyen

The incumbent, Tom Daly, has been lashed over and over on this site for wasting our money and feeding expensive, do-nothing contracts to his pals. Hugh Nguyen is a great candidate.

District Attorney – None, Leave Blank

Sitting DA Tony Rackauckas could not be bothered to fully investigate the well-documented perjury accusations made against Harry Sidhu, although he did find time to prosecute Steve Rocco for a bottle of stolen ketchup.

Public Administrator – Steve Rocco

Treasurer – Shari Freidenrich

Republican Central Committee – 72nd AD

(all or parts of Fullerton, Brea, Placentia, Anaheim & La Habra)

Candidates are designated by Allan Bartlett based on certainty that candidates were Tea Party, Campaign For Liberty, and CRA friendly.

Bruce Whitaker – Tea Party, C4L, CRA friendly
Shawn Nelson – Tea Party friendly
Zonya Townsend – Tea Party, CRA friendly
Rick Rios – Tea Party, CRA friendly
Marilyn Davenport – Tea Party, CRA friendly
Micheal Nutto – CRA friendly

School

Superintendent of Public Instruction – Alexia Deligianni

Statewide

Lt Gov – Sam Aanestad

This is a no brainer. Abel Maldonado should not be rewarded for being the main reason that taxes are higher CA during the last budget cycle. Vote for Sam Aanestad.

Secretary of State – Damon Dunn

Orly Taitz has not been helping herself in the media with her over the top stands on Obama’s birth certificate and a few other issues where she basically has taken herself out of contention because of the way she has come across to voters.

Controller – Tony Strickland

I’m not impressed with Tony’s endorsements the last few years, but he is our choice for Controller here.

Treasurer – Mimi Walters

It’s either this or leave it blank. Her endorsement of repuglican carpetbagger Linda Ackerman last year makes her suspect.

Attorney General – John Eastman

John Eastman is far and away the best conservative choice for CA Attorney General.

Insurance Commissioner – Brian Fitzgerald

The other candidate Mike Villines was the GOP leader in the State Assembly that helped deliver the largest tax increase in CA history. Don’t reward him with your vote here.

BOE 3rd District – Vic Baker or leave blank

No Republican in good conscience could support Michelle Steel anymore after what she did to Irvine Republicans. She has been giving aid and comfort to Democratic Mayor Suhkee Kang because they’re both Korean. Last time I checked, that’s not a very good reason to support anybody, especially if they are ideologically against most everything that you say you are for.

US Senator – Chuck DeVore

This is another no brainer. Chuck gets it. He understands that in the Constitution, there are less than 18 specific enumerated powers delegated to the Congress. He will be a great US Senator and he can beat Barbara Boxer in the fall.

June 7, 2010June 7, 2010Harry Sidhu

Nelson and Sidhu; Divergent Philosophies On Public Employee Unions

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Watch this clip. First you’ll hear from 4th District Supervisor candidate Shawn Nelson and then Harry Sidhu. Both talk about public employee unions.

Remember that Sidhu actually lives in an elegant estate in the 3rd District and faked an address at the Calabria Apartments (2230 W. Lincoln Ave. West Anaheim). Even though he never lived there, Sidhu claimed he did under penalty of perjury (twice).

Sidhu has become the darling of the OCEA and OCSD unions, who poured in over 1.3 MILLION dollars into mailers, radio and TV ads telling us the opposite of what we have already seen for ourselves.

June 7, 2010June 7, 2010Orange County Government

URGENT (UPDATE): Message to Republican Voters… Clerk-Recorder Tom Daly is NOT a Republican.

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Daly Really2 — My nose gets longer with every lie, hehe...

POST UPDATE: DALYS NOW A DEMOCRAT PER DEMOCRAT VOTER INFORMATION GUIDE MAILER BELOW.

OK WHICH PARTY DO YOU BELONG TO TOM? PICK ONE ANY ONE JUST STOP LYING TO THE VOTERS.

Two-faced Tom Daly is busy lying to voters and is trying to pass for a Republican in slate mailers. By now I’m sure you have received a slate mailer describing Daly as the “Tax fighter who cut wasteful spending” or a “proven leader for reform” or that he “defeated a local utility tax”. Really? As the Clerk-Recorder? He even places his 15-year old portrait next to prominent Republican candidates or incumbents. He surrounds him-self with Repuglicans like John Lewis and Bruce Matthias. But no matter how hard Tommy boy tries to look Republican, we all should know that he is a pro-big government, free-spending, tax-wasting, lying, liberal Democrat and has been since his days in Anaheim. Remember, this is the guy responsible for the election of Loretta Sanchez!

True, Tom has the right to buy any slate mailer he wants to but has he no loyalty to his fellow Democrats. There are plenty of slate mailers he can be on that are owned by Democrats but Team Tom Daly knows better. He knows Orange County is a majority Republican county so Team Daly opts to play a Republican. It appears that Daly is willing to do anything, including lying to voters to win this election. If I were a Democrat I would be fuming! Tom doesn’t want you to know that he received money from unions or that he is endorsed by unions. He doesn’t even list any union endorsements on his re-election webpage. But if you scrutinize his campaign finance statements, you will see what a blue –blooded Democrat he really is.

Tom Daly is simply a two-faced opportunist willing to jump on any team to get the win. We recently became aware of a slate mailer in which Tom’s portrait is next to Democrat candidates like Jerry Brown, and Gavin Newsom. In the slate, he claims to be endorsed by none other than Loretta Sanchez and even Jose Solorio. The back-stabbing truth is that he doesn’t mention these endorsements in his re-election webpage.

Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, I believe you would vote for the candidate who represents your party’s values and for a candidate who is proud to be part of your party. Tom Daly fails both ways. Let’s send him a message and vote the opportunist career politician out of office.

June 5, 2010Orange County Government

Bill Hunt Supporters Rally for Constitutional Rights

by Travis1 Comment

Last week supporters of Bill Hunt organized a protest on the steps of the old county courthouse to counter a recent attack on his profession — an attack that is a clear distraction from the issues that are facing the office of Orange County Sheriff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30MKXsDhq3A

Hunt has been criticized by his opponents for his actions as a private investigator, which is essentially evidence gathering in accordance with the 5th and 6th amendments of the U.S. Constitution to counter the power of the state.

June 4, 2010June 4, 2010Behind Closed Doors

Judge Tells OCERS To Release Names and Pensions

by Greg Sebourn6 Comments

Those interested in Orange County government accountability and pension reform won a legal battle Wednesday.

In a ruling over a petition filed by the California Foundation For Fiscal Responsibility vs. the Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS), the Superior Court of Orange County ordered the OCERS to disclose “…gross amount paid to the payee member, the name of the payee, and the identification of the prior public employer of the named payee and no other information contained in the records OCRES.”

Read the ruling

The presiding judge, Hon. Luis Rodriguez, says in his ruling, “Individuals must have access to government files to hold governments accountable for their actions. Personal embarrassment is outweighed by the strong public policy supporting transparency in government and the strong public interest in knowing how it spends its money ‘to expose corruption, incompetence, inefficiency, prejudice and favoritism.’”

This ruling is consistent with the premise that government can only be held accountable when there is transparency. Without transparency, corruption, incompetence, inefficiency, prejudice and favoritism cannot be identified, much less routed out.

June 4, 2010Harry Sidhu

A New Sign of the Times

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June 3, 2010June 3, 2010Dead heads

Here’s An Irony: OCEA Heavy Petting Pedo-Perv Kept On Payroll

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The OCEA seems to be fixated on sexual pervs and pedophiles these days. At least they are as it relates to Shawn Nelson’s law practice – that seems to be guilty of having the potential to defend one some day.

A Friend forwarded a rather disgusting story about a creep sicko named Kevin Duane Van Otterloo – an OCEA member and Health Care Agency co-worker of OCEA PAC Treasurer Chris Prevatt, pictured above. The tale was told by the OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano back in 2004.

It seems that Van Otterloo was busted for lewd acts perpetrated upon a disabled kid at the County’s Juvie Hall. He plead down the worst felonies but lost his nursing license. Did the County dump this perv? According to Arellano they gave him a $70,000 make-work job in the Animal Care Services Division.

But was there any outrage at OCEA HQ that an admitted pedophile was kept on by the County but was actually promoted? Maybe we will hear back from Nick “Bullhorn” Berardino about any role he and the union may have had in helping Van Otterloo stay on the public payroll. Or maybe Chris Prevatt will chime in on why Van Otterloo got the kid glove treatment instead of being canned.

June 3, 2010June 3, 2010Harry Sidhu

Waste And Deception. So What’s New? They’re Unions.

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So far the Orange County public employee unions have spend over a million dollars in this year’s 4th District Supervisor’s election.

Doing what? Calling Shawn Nelson a pedophile supporter; claiming what a virtuous and honorable man Harry Sidhu is. A million bucks.

Lest anybody thinks these goons are going to give up their death grip on the taxpayers without a struggle had better think again. A million times.

Forget issues. They only care about their own selfish interests and Heaven forfend anybody suggests that a County paper shuffler shouldn’t be able to retire at 55 and enjoy most of his pay for rest of his life. Naturally these people are going to do everything they can to distract attention from the main issue of this campaign: unfunded liabilities on the taxpayers caused by public employee union greed and spineless politicians.

And so Hide and Seek Sidhu, carpetbagger and perjurer, the man who doesn’t even know what a defined benefit is suddenly a paragon of virtue; Nelson is an unspeakable monster.

There you have it. Fear and Loathing, and enough to go around.

June 2, 2010Orange County Government

IS TOM DALY HIRING ILLEGAL ALIENS?

by admin26 Comments

That is the question of the day. We have previously reported here that Tom Daly likes to give jobs to relatives or friends of campaign donors. But this hiring takes the “Manager of the Year” to a whole different level. According to department insiders, Tom Daly hired the wife of a City of Anaheim employee who also happens to be a personal friend of Tom’s.

Even during these tough times at the County, Daly has been budgeting at least $200,000 per year for extra-help hires. Despite revenues and workloads being at their lowest levels ever, Daly feels it is more important to keep his friends employed than to protect the interests of the public. Extra-help employees are basically at-will employees and can be let go at anytime.

Not surprisingly, Daly hired his friend’s wife under this category which means no competitive recruitment was held to bring her on board.

Clerk-Recorder employees tell me they are upset because this person speaks very little English. Due to her lack of English skills, this person is given very menial work but is getting paid the same as others who do much more. Word has it this person doesn’t seem to posses any qualifications or skills or even a verifiable high school diploma, the minimum educational threshold for the county, but was even given a raise over all the other extra-help employees in the department. How does this happen? Loophole-finding Tommy boy allows the assignment to expire and then re-hires the person at a higher position thus earning higher wages.

Other extra-help employees have been told by department HR that per County policy they were not entitled to raises.

Even more disturbing is that Assistant Clerk-Recorder Renee Ramirez approached several staff when this person was being hired and asked them “do you know how to hire an illegal alien?”

Is this a liability for the County? Is Tom Daly opening himself to a lawsuit where the taxpayers will have to foot the bill?

This clearly demonstrates that Tom Daly feels he can do no wrong and that no one will hold him accountable. Let’s show this CAREER POLITICIAN that we are watching him and that we will vote him out of office sooner than he thinks.

June 1, 2010Orange County Government

Sticks and Stones and a Protest Too

by admin20 Comments

I just received this email from the Bill Hunt campaign and I believe it’s worth a post, so here you go:

ATTENTION: CONCERNED CITIZENS OF ORANGE COUNTY !

This is a “Call to Arms!”

WHAT: A peaceful lunchtime Public Protest of political gamesmanship against Bill Hunt for Sheriff by the District Attorney’s Office, SAPD Chief Paul Walters, The Orange County Register, Channel 2/9 news reporter Dave Lopez, Sheriff Candidate Craig Hunter, Sheriff Candidate Sandra Hutchens.

WHEN: Wednesday June 2^nd, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

WHERE: In front of the Santa Ana Police Department Headquarters, 60 Civic Center Drive West, Santa Ana , Ca.

WHAT TO BRING: American Flags, posters expressing your thoughts about the recent hatchet job against Bill Hunt in the MSM, Bill Hunt signs.

BACKGROUND: Inside operatives of both the Craig Hunter and Sandra Hutchens campaigns for Sheriff have appeared to join forces in an attempt to falsely discredit Bill Hunt. Hunt was hired as a Private Investigator by a defense attorney on behalf of a client who was arrested as an alleged gang member and accused of committing a crime (P.I.’s are routinely hired by attorneys on both sides of a case to help support or refute the known facts in a legal matter or to bring new facts to light). Hunt conducted a thorough, objective investigation of the circumstances surrounding the arrest based on his two-decades plus, experience in all facets of evidence gathering, apprehension, arrest and prosecution of an alleged criminal. The findings of Hunt’s report concluded the wrong man had been arrested and both the DA’s Office and SAPD leadership were complacent in their zeal to prosecute the case anyway.

If it wasn’t for the fact Bill Hunt is a Candidate for Sheriff this would be a non-issue. However, D.A. Spokeswoman, Susan Schroeder (a staunch Hunter supporter), and SAPD Chief, Paul Walters (a staunch Hutchens supporter), in an attempt to silence and discredit Bill Hunt, employed their contacts in the media – specifically Dave Lopez of Channel 2/9 and the Orange County Register, to “expose” Bill Hunt as supporting gang members and to express “outrage” over this falsehood. Throwing all objective reporting codes of conduct aside, both Lopez of Channel 2/9 and Tony Savedra of the Register gladly acquiesced to the smear campaign, reporting whatever “facts” had been scripted for them by political insiders associated with both of Bill Hunt’s opponents. This resulted in lies and distortions of Hunt’s objective, ethical conduct as a Private Investigator to be presented to the voting public a mere two weeks before the June 8^th Election. This is nothing more than Election Engineering at its worst and a prime example of why we need at a minimum, a wholesale eviction and/or rejection of Establishment Incumbents or Candidates in Orange County .

Please join fellow outraged Citizens who can take time off from lunch to draw attention to this matter and seek redress for the unethical and possible illegal conduct of political insiders in high positions of authority within the law enforcement community of Orange County .

The Constitution matters! Our Bill of Rights matter! Bill Hunt was simply standing up as a principled man and placed the Rule of Law over the “Code of Silence” as he helped an accused man exercise the Fifth Amendment Right to due process and our Sixth Amendment Right to a defense when charged with a crime.

God help us if this kind of conduct is allowed to be reported as a negative attribute of a Candidate running for the highest law enforcement office in the county – the Office of Sheriff.

I’m outraged! Are you?!

Please forward this urgent message to everyone you know and please show up tomorrow!