Archive for the 'County elections '08' Category
March 12th, 2009, 11:20 am by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
The latest issue of Newsweek magazine informs America that Orange County is no longer the hard-core conservative wealthy Anglo enclave that’s portrayed on television shows and elsewhere. It points out that county voters, who gave George W. Bush his largest margin of victory in raw votes of any county in the nation, delivered 48 percent of their votes for Barack Obama last year.
It also trumpets the fact that Orange County’s population is - are you sitting down? - 38 percent Hispanic. Newsweek could have taken that balll closer to the goal line by adding that non-Hispanic whites are now a minority, that Santa Ana has the highest percentage of Spanish-speaking households of any large city in the country, and that the county has the highest population of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. (157,661, per census 2005-2007 American Community Survey, followed by Santa Clara County with 115,039. H/T to the Register’s census wizard Ronald Campbell.)
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Posted in: County elections '08 • Democrats • OC cities • President Obama • Presidential election | 17 Comments »
November 3rd, 2008, 3:25 pm by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
As this story explains, Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley expects more than half of all county ballots to be mailed in - which would be a first for a county general election.
As of today, the record for mail ballots - formerly known as absentee ballots - has been smashed.
The previous record, in 2004, was 397,844 mail ballots received. So far in this general election, 422,925 mail ballots have been delivered to Kelley. The final batch will arrive Tuesday. Any received after election day, regardless of postmark, will not be counted.
RELATED COVERAGE
Posted in: County elections '08 • Presidential election • absentee ballots • ballots • mail ballots • neal kelley • record • registrar of voters • vote | 6 Comments »
October 1st, 2008, 4:31 pm by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
From this story by the Register’s Cindy Carcamo:
“Forget the chicken-dinner fundraiser at a fancy ballroom. Surf City council candidate Dan Kalmick is offering up a different sort of fare to help fill his campaign coffers.
“The 26-year-old is willing to repair iPhones, computers and blackberries on the fritz. He’ll also teach selling on eBay and avoiding identity theft while browsing the Web….”
Posted in: Central County Elections '08 • County elections '08 • OC cities | 1 Comment »
June 9th, 2008, 11:53 am by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
My Buzz column today includes several items that haven’t made it into the this blog yet, including a rundown of consultant Dave Gilliard’s 4-0 record in OC races last week and Assemblyman Van Tran’s 2-6 record with his endorsements. There’s also this item on Tuesday’s record-low turnout:
Tuesday’s statewide primary, with interest undercut by the absence of presidential or gubernatorial races, resulted in all-time low turnout of the county. The 21-percent turnout of registered voters beat the previous record of 28 percent for the 2006 primary.
The county’s highest primary turnout since 1954 came in 1976, when 74 percent of registered voters hit the polls to help nominate Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. In general elections, 90 percent of the county’s registered voters turned out in 1960 and 1964.
Posted in: Assembly '08 • County elections '08 • Elections office | Post a Comment »
June 6th, 2008, 10:28 am by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
 You may have seen this item yesterday, in which newly reelected Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s chief of staff, Andrew Do, lays into me for a perceived bias.
But it could be worse. Consider the fate of Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese-language paper in the country. She would not even issue an election-win quote to them, according to Bolsavik’s blog.
That may be because Nguoi Viet ran an opinion piece claiming Nguyen had communist ties, but didn’t run her camp’s rebuttal, Bolsavik reports in this item.
Posted in: County elections '08 • Vietnamese-Americans | 2 Comments »
June 5th, 2008, 4:13 pm by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
Here’s the fleshed-out story I’ve filed on the ongoing clash between Assemblyman Van Tran and Supervisor Janet Nguyen, Little Saigon’s two highest-ranking leaders. I blogged about the subject yesterday, which attracted a heated complaint from Nguyen Chief of Staff Andrew Do.
Do’s complaint was that the blog entry was biased and that I have an ongoing bias in favor of Tran and against Janet. He expressed this in a phone message, a phone conversation, and a lengthy email which he himself described as a “diatribe.”
Click below if you want to read it.
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Posted in: County elections '08 • Supervisors • Vietnamese-Americans | 16 Comments »
June 4th, 2008, 3:27 pm by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
Assemblyman Van Tran, R-Garden Grove, said he called Supervisor Janet Nguyen today to congratulate her.
“It was a fair victory this time, without controversy,” he said, unlike last year’s special election when Tran’s candidate initially the winner before a recount and court ruling left Janet ahead by three votes. “We have to put the election behind us and be professionals and work together for the community.”
Does he see Janet as a good and effective leader for the community, with whom he will have a close alliance?
“That remains to be seen,” he said.
Indeed, many say it will take some time to heal the rift that erupted last year between Van Tran’s extensive Little Saigon network and the independent-minded Janet Nguyen.
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Posted in: County elections '08 • Vietnamese-Americans | 16 Comments »
June 3rd, 2008, 11:38 pm by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
 LAST UPDATED at 10 A.M. Wednesday
With 100% of precincts counted, we have the following results (click on links for the Register story):
First District Supervisor
JANET NGUYEN 56.6%
DINA NGUYEN 27.7%
HOA VAN TRAN 15.6%
Third District Supervisor
BILL CAMPBELL 79.4%
DONALD RITZE 20.6%
60th Assembly District (GOP)
CURT HAGMAN 60%
LARRY DICK 40%
71st Assembly (GOP)
JEFF MILLER 57.7%
NEIL BLAIS 42.3%
73rd Assembly (GOP)
DIANE HARKEY 74.5 %
MARK PATLAN 25.5%
29th Senate (GOP)
BOB HUFF 68.4%
DENNIS MOUNTJOY 31.6%
33rd Senate (GOP)
MIMI WALTERS 73.6%
HARRY SIDHU 26.4%
Click here for the story and numbers on Congressional primaries.
Click here for the story and numbers on judicial races. The winners appear to be John Nho Trong Nguyen, Debra Carrillo, Jon Fish and Nick Thompson. (Update: blogger and reader Gila Jones points out the Carrillo failed to get more than half the vote, so will be in a runoff with Kermit Marsh.)
Click here for the story on Proposition 99 winning and Proposition 98 losing.
Click here for presidential primary story.
Click here for all Orange County election results.
Continue reading the blog below for other election night reports, including plenty of local reaction to the Democratic primary results.
Posted in: Assembly '08 • County elections '08 • State Senate '08 | 4 Comments »
June 3rd, 2008, 10:16 pm by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
With the 11 p.m. update, Supervisor Janet Nguyen continues strongly toward an outright win, having 57% of the vote. More than two-thirds of the ballots have been counted in the race.
Mimi Walters (33rd state Senate) and Curt Hagman (60th Assembly), continue to roll toward GOP primary victory. So is Jeff Miller, in the 71st Assembly. Although Miller is neck-and-neck with Neil Blais among OC voters, Miller is dominating in Riverside County.
(Technical note: The timestamp at the top of these blog entries is an hour behind as it hasn’t been adjusted for daylight savings time.)
Posted in: Assembly '08 • County elections '08 • State Senate '08 | 2 Comments »
June 3rd, 2008, 9:28 pm by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
 Register reporter Deepa Bharath has been in Little Saigon tonight and filed this report from all three supervisorial camps:
Janet Nguyen walked into Azteca Mexican Restaurant on Main Street in Garden Grove at about 9:15 to loud cheers and whistles from supporters wearing white “Janet Nguyen” t-shirts. Folks in her camp had laptops on the restaurant’s tables monitoring the results. They were obviously happy with the numbers. Janet said she was thrilled and excited to see the election go her way.
Janet said she considers these elections as her job approval rating and so far, it seems as if people like what she’s done as First District Supervisor.
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Posted in: County elections '08 | 12 Comments »
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