Steve Rocco is Back
Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on January 30, 2012
Steve Rocco is back in the public eye having pulled papers to run against Supervisor Janet Nguyen in the 1st Supervisorial District. Rocco, as you may remember was elected to the Orange Unified School District back in 2004 and has since run for Santa Ana City Council, Orange County Public Administrator/Guardian, and now Orange County Supervisor.
Janet Nguyen will coast to victory if he is the only opponent for her in this election but rumors are swirling that either Jose Solorio or possibly Lou Correa will jump into this race. Hopefully the GOP will get behind her quickly and throw a lot of support her way as this seat does have a registration advantage for the Democrats.
Filing hasn’t even opened yet so we will have to wait and see who ends up being in the field after it is finalized. Fundraising will also be interesting with Kindee Durkee helping out numerous Republican candidates by draining numerous Democrats of their left over money, including I believe Solorio and Correa.
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One Who Knows said
Of course Correa’s going to run for this he can beat Solario at fundraising, and it won’t matter that he gave the BOS the middle finger a few years when he saw the opportunity to go to the Senate. Neither is Solario the sharpest knife in the drawer.
And what really won’t matter was the promise he made when in the Senate to not raise taxes, which he did. Correa is a racially-favorable candidate — in this District, competency doesn’t matter and skin color does.
Nguyen, who won by only three points in ’08 and has turned a lot of friends, contributors and supporters into enemies, is going to get creamed, and cost the OC GOP a valuable office.
Chris Emami said
I thought about your comment and why it seemed wrong and it turns out you made a few mistakes.
A) It’s spelled Solorio
B) Nguyen won by seven votes in February 2007 in the special election to replace Lou Correa. http://www.ocvote.com/live/frstsup/results.htm
C) In 2008 Nguyen smoked both of her opponents winning the election in June with 55.6% of the vote. http://www.ocvote.com/live/pri0608/results.htm#c-111
Keep da Peace said
Yeah, Chris, but look who she was tunning against. If Correa steps into the race, she’ll actually have to campaign. That could be a problem for someone with a temper and who needs to have someone text answers to hard questiins when she is on the dais.
Chris Emami said
Clearly you have some kind of a personal issue with Janet. Lou is not that popular considering his liberal positions on issues he was supposed to be moderate on.
Keep da Peace said
Not so. There is nothing personal in pointing out that she jas done a poor job of representing her district, is not as popular as you think, and has done an excellent job of promoting herself for issues that matter to the Asian community while ignoring the rest of her constituency. That’s not personal, just my view.
Chris Emami said
It looks like we are going to have to agree to disagree then.
Keep da Peace said
That’s the beauty of political discourse. Of course, after the race one of us can stick our tongue out at the other and say, “nyah, nyah, I told ya so.”
Chris Emami said
I don’t know about that. At the end of the day I think that Janet ends up winning.
Keep da Peace said
If Correa jumps into the race, I don’t think Nguyen will have an easy time of it. As a moderate Democrat, many Reoublicans will vote for him because of his record of crossing the aisle, particularly on tax and user fee matters. His efforts on pension reform won’t hurt him either. Nguyen, on the other hand, has done little to advance a clear position and has done many things such as Cal Optima to make it look like she is only out for herself and the Asian community.
Chris Emami said
I disagree. Correa sold us out when he voted to raise taxes after he promised that he wouldn’t. Republicans won’t vote for him because he raised taxes and Democrats will likely have issues with him over the recent health care deal. Penson reform, really???
He also was wiped out by Kindee Durkee which has put him in a tough position as he is not in a good spot for a race this tough.
Janet has been a solid vote on the OC Board of Supes and as a Republican in a Democrat district I am behind her and hope that everybody will circle the wagons on this one.
Judith said
What a great blog
Maureen said
Vote Rocco!
Victoria Blanchard said
I don’t know where either party stands. I hear alot against radical skate boarder Rocco who is causing havoc for the status quo which I think is good, the Board has done a LOUSY JOB no matter whether he is acting in a professional manner or not, Rocco should not make a 3 ring circus out of the meetings and point fingers, what can he do for the real orange county kids, I don’t know what Rocco stands FOR. Not one thing on the web. I AGREE THERE ARE CONSPIRACIES IN OUR COUNTRY AND OC BOARD IS CORRUPT TO THE CORE. I LIKED THE FOR SALE SIGN AND TROLL DOLL AT HIS DESK. I am against the radial homo agenda in schools and I am a Christian. I am against more taxes and I am against AGENDA 21 a UN agenda to take over the world county by county over riding Congress and everyone else. When I think of Obama, I think the T-Shirt “Oh Shit” is a good one. I like Rocco because he grew up here, not like a bunch of immigrants.