There are already so many good reasons not to support O.C. Clerk Recorder Tom Daly’s pending campaign for the 69th Assembly District. While he has not formally announced his campaign, Daly did hold a fundraiser, in Santa Ana, this week.
The 69th Assembly District is currently held by Jose Solorio. The two other candidates for the Latino majority district are Santa Ana Councilwoman Michele Martinez and first time candidate Julio Perez, a labor consultant.
“Obama needs both an overwhelming edge among Latino voters and a heavy turnout,” according to the L.A. Times. It is not likely however that Latino voters in the 69th will be going to the polls in November, 2012, if Daly is the Democratic nominee for the 69th.
Latino voter turnout has been a problem in central Orange County for years – having Daly atop the Democratic ticket won’t help.
The Democrats already have a major problem – a new PBS series called “Lost in Detention” examines the sad story of over 400,000 Latinos put in immigration jail by the Obama administration. Check out this introduction:
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Check out this excerpt from a recent Huffington Post article: “But facing double-digit unemployment and Obama’s broken promises on immigration reform, Latinos are disaffected from the president and aren’t especially energized about voting for him. The latest Gallup pollhas Obama’s approval rating among Hispanics down to 48%, the lowest of his presidency, and down from 60% in January of this year.”
Daly could in fact doom other local Latino Democratic candidates running for office on the November ballot. In fact he might wreck Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, whose campaign coffers are now empty due to the actions of her former Treasurer, Kindee Durkee.
The Democrats still don’t have a candidate to oppose First District Supervisor Janet Nguyen, and their candidate for the 72nd Assembly District, which includes Little Saigon and part of Santa Ana, is a joke named Joe Dovinh.
Daly will be a total disaster for the DPOC – but check out the list of Democrats who were on Daly’s host committee for his recent fundraiser:
Host Committee
Are these people completely daft? No wonder the DPOC is such a train wreck in Orange County. Sanchez, Solorio and State Senator Lou Correa do NOT owe their seats to this lame party machine. They won on their own. How sad it must be for them to see this party drooling over Daly – knowing full well he will hurt his party and hurt Obama if someone doesn’t talk some sense into him before it is too late.
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The Pulido Machine backed you for school board last year admin. How did that work out?
I wish they had! Pulido stayed neutral due to his longtime friendship with SAUSD Trustee Audrey Noji. I might have won otherwise. Lost by less than 1,500 votes...
One would hope that voters of any race or faith put more thought into balloting than just a surname!
That may be naive but, the point is many of the electorate would rather have a quality, honest canidate than one of a particular ethnic group.
Using those as a qualifier, Daly doesn't qualify. Perez has NO TRACK record, which leaves Martinez. She has some record and has staked position on issues of interest to a cross section of voters.
As for Daly being a "disaster" for the DPOC, I think that maybe for the voters it might suck, but for the party players and the infiltrators from Long Beach, Irvine and Brea it will simply give them another tit to feed off for another election cycle. for them results DO NOT MATTER. It's about who they can say they met or had thier picture taken with (without writing a check of course).
"If Michelle runs the same race that she ran for Mayor, she will come in a distant third."
Nope - she will come in fourth, behind Robert Hammond. That will be funny to see.
The reason Leos lost was beacuse Daly supported him. Daly is a washed out has been who can't decide to wear panties or boxers in the morning much less make a strong decision on anything. For example, he is anti gay marriage but when the day came he didn't stand up and stop performing ceremonies, instead he hid behind Jean Pasco's pant suit and had her answer all the media questions. Jean is pro-gay marriage but had to keep neutral because her boss Daly couldn't take a stand for or against. We need leadership not some number playing, colorless, career politician. The reason we should worry that Daly would win this district is because he would look out for the minority constituents and no the majority. F Daisy, I mean, Daly and his pals!!