The Orange County Democratic Party endorses Benavides for Mayor

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• What does this mean Art? Will they give the candidates money?

• This is all going to blow up on the DPOC guys, when David is exposed.

  It will not only be embarrassing, he will look stupid for moving forward.

  As much as the OCDEMS may hate Pulido, are they really ready for a fundemental Christan who takes orders from a new age pastor?

  Me thinks not.

• Good News Supporters!

  the Liberal OC is concentrating on some photo scandal in Tustin.

  They are completely ignorant to the rumor I had a LONG STANDING affair with a twenty year old Co-Worker, who was impregnated and ABORTED the baby!

  These rumores (en espanol) ruined my marriage, but will not stop me from becoming MAYOR!

  As long as Dan and Greg and the union influences support me, I can flush out another dozen fetuses, It may piss of my EX, but, Pastor Dave says: GET THE POWER DAVID and God will forvive you.

  GO TEAM BENAVIDES!

• The majority council supports Benavidez. When Alderete and Reyna get elected the majority will be 6. Decisions will be amongst them and not involve a new age pastor. If a new age pastor was involved I do not believe the majority council would be supportive of Benavidez.

  No exposure forthcoming. What you are referring to is the strategy of "throw enough lies and some will stick" . This strategy is placed in effect strategically during the last few days of the campaign to limit a response . So....... no exposure just a lot of rumors, insinuations and notions on the way.

  No haters. Pulido has been supported by the DPOC till last night. The reason for no support now is that they see the power shift. Pulido has never been a good Democrat but received their support because he had the majority council.

• Dr. Lomeli,

  Mr. Benavides, MUST ANSWER these questions:

  - Did you impregnate a 20 year old women, afer a months long affair? Did she have an abortion? If yes, whose choice was this?

  - What is your stance as a Christan and a Democrat on ABORTION?

  - How do you justify campaigning on your record of helping children when you have abandonded your own son, because of your infadelity?

  I WOULD ADD:

  - Mrs. Benavides,you are a teacher of young Latino men, at a vulnerable age, what can you tell them, based on your experience?

  -Mrs. Benavides, you are a teacher of young Latina women, what advice can you give them based on your experience?

  I would WELCOME, as would Santa Ana an answer to these questions. But you will continue to deflect, deny, and LIE in order to defend David.

  He needs to address his infidelity, his LIES, his hypocrisy and MAYBE, he will be a viable canidate.

  His advisors are dead wrong by having him avoid the DEVIL in his closet.

• Carpetbagger,

  "They are completely ignorant to the rumor I had a LONG STANDING affair with a twenty year old Co-Worker, who was impregnated and ABORTED the baby!"

  Again a rumor carpetbagger???????? What kind of a person spreads rumors irresponsibly with the objective to produce pain and suffering to fellow humans. Political campaign strategy?????

  Why would voters be interested in supporting this type of campaign and it's candidate.

  dictionary definition:

  A rumor or rumour (spelling differs between American and British English) is often viewed as "an unverified account or explanation of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern" (33)[1] However, a review of the research on rumor conducted by Pendleton in 1998 found that research across sociology, psychology, and communication studies had widely varying definitions of rumor.[2]
  Thus, rumor is a concept that lacks a particular definition in the social sciences. But most theories agree that rumor involves some kind of a statement whose veracity is not quickly or ever confirmed. In addition, some scholars have identified rumor as a subset of propaganda, the latter another notoriously difficult concept to define. A pioneer of propaganda studies, Harold Lasswell defined propaganda in 1927 as referring "solely to the control of opinion by significant symbols, or, to speak more concretely and less accurately, by stories, rumors, reports, pictures, and other forms of social communication" (1927:9).[3]
  Rumors are also often discussed with regard to "misinformation" and "disinformation" (the former often seen as simply false and the latter seen as deliberately false, though usually from a government source given to the media or a foreign government).[4] Rumors thus have often been viewed as particular forms of other communication concepts.

• Is Benavides's involvement with Newsong and the sale of the Santora also a "rumor?" So he didn't go on camera asking his congregation to approve the purchase of the Santora. That is complete nonsense on his part. The Artists Village was built around the Santora and he nearly had a hand in rupturing the nature of the area. Careless. I won't have close calls like that and I am not fooled.

• "new age pastor"...... Hmmmmmm

  Are these pastors also known for a child (boy) molestation and rape or is such sodomy reserved for the catholic priests only?

  • No.

• Omar,

  Not a rumor. Video you say shows Benavidez asking for congregation approval.

  Did Pulido appose the sale of the Santora to the church? Does Mike Harrah not have a close relationship with ?

  Was the proposed sale to the church not a council issue and not reliant on Benavidez to make a decision for the Mayor and council?

  • That issue became a council issue when the Mayor was forced to comment or act on it. Don't you know about the ad hoc committee that Pulido appointed to oversee and study the case?

    The message that Pulido sent to Benavides by appointing an ad hoc committee was, You created this mess, you fix it.

    A mess was precisely what Benavides made in his attempt to convince Newsong to buy the Santora. He initiated it, not the council.

• "Orange County Democratic Party Central Committee endorsed Councilman David Benavides for Mayor"

  Seems that the rumor mills and the mudslingers just can't get a foothold, I see this as a total rejection of the slanderous unproven rumors by the Central Committee of the Democratic Party. (The insiders who would know)