Former state Senator Lou Correa no longer has the 46th Congressional District field to himself. What has been rumored for weeks is now official – this just came over the transom from the new Jordan Brandman for Congress campaign:
I wanted you to hear the news from me first. I am running to succeed Loretta Sanchez to represent California’s 46th District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
I am running for Congress to fight for working families, help businesses create jobs, defend Social Security and Medicare, protect the environment, and ensure every child has access to a 21st century education. It is critical that Congresswoman Sanchez’s successor follow her example of commonsense leadership, and I am that person.
During my time on the Anaheim City Council, residents have come to enjoy new parks and better roads, feel safer with more public safety officers, and benefit from the Anaheim Convention Center expansion and the 1,860 jobs it will generate. As a School District Trustee, I advocated for our students, teachers, and employees to get the resources they needed in order to improve student performance and graduation rates.
This is the principled, results-oriented leadership I believe our community needs and deserves. I know this campaign will not be easy. Can I count on you to stand with me?
Please help launch our campaign:
I am ready to get to work, and I hope you are, too. Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Jordan Brandman
www.jordanbrandman.com
In an accompanying press release, the Brandman campaign touts more than 30 endorsements from local officials and points out that 41% of CD46 voters live in Anaheim and that Brandman was the top-vote getter in his 2012 council election and “both his 2008 and 2010 elections to the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees.”
It’s often overlooked that all of the conservative City of Orange west of the 57 freeway was shifted into CD46 during the 2012 reapportionment. Brandman grew up in Orange, where his family has been active in civic affairs for years and where he still has a network of relationships.
Other Potential Entrants
Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen is also looking at jumping into this race. Nguyen has become the darling of Democratic Left in Orange County. Much has been made of his very narrow defeat of long-time Mayor Bruce Broadwater, but that more a collateral effect of the Janet Nguyen for Senate Vietnamese voter turn-out machine than any political magic Bao Nguyen possesses. His demeanor is reasoned and moderate, but his politics are planted firmly on the Left. Outgoing OCEA General Manager Nick Berardino is reported to be a big booster of Nguyen; in the last few years, Berardino has shifted from traditionally supporting the most electable Democrat to backing more authentically left-wing candidates. If Nguyen enters, he will easily be the most left-wing candidate in the race.
Whither Brandman’s Council Seat?
Since Brandman’s council term ends in 2016, does this preclude him from seeking re-election if he doesn’t make it to November 2016. No, because filing for city council doesn’t open until several weeks after the June primary that will determine whether he is on the November ballot. Brandman would still be in a strong position to win re-election to the city council if his congressional candidacy doesn’t pan out.
That’s an impressive list of endorsements. For somebody running for school board in west Anaheim.
Good bye. You won’t be missed. Not sure Correa is any better but your votes for the giveaways, a cable car and other various decisions the Anaheim City Council have had in the last few weeks and years are not to be proud of. I will accept the Convention Center decision. Hope you resign your seat, so you can give full time to your campaign. Should not be able to hold your seat and attempt to run for a new one. Would like this to be all candidates. Why don’t you set an example?
Resign your seat to run fulltime? Should this apply to most of the Republican clown car running for president? How about Steven Choi? Should he resign to pursue the assembly seat fulltime? Ling Ling Chang ought to step down too, right? And Loretta Sanchez should resign from Congress to run for Senate?
Well you could see Diamond circling the wagons yesterday explaining that Bao Ngyuen is GAY and VIETNAMESE so he should be the clear favorite. He imediately started bashing any one who reminded him that ol Bao has been in his elective office for 200 days!
Now he is scared because he realized Little Siagon is NOT in Loretta’s district.
Watch the fireworks as Diamond opines on yet another place where he doesn’t live/work.
“Well you could see Diamond circling the wagons yesterday” — LIE. WEIRD, SAD, AND SOMEWHAT DESPERATE LIE.
“explaining that Bao Ngyuen is GAY and VIETNAMESE” — TECHNICALLY TRUE. I ACKNOWLEDGED BOTH.
so he should be the clear favorite — LIE. NOT A CLEAR FAVORITE, BUT COULD MAKE TOP TWO, THEN WIN. SO COULD CORREA AND BRANDMAN. SCHOTT, LESS LIKELY.
He imediately started bashing any one who reminded him that ol Bao has been in his elective office for 200 days! — LIE. DID BASH PEOPLE WHO ERRONEOUSLY THOUGHT HE WAS ABANDONING GG.
Now he is scared because he realized Little Siagon is NOT in Loretta’s district. — LIE. HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT IT.
Watch the fireworks as Diamond opines — TRUE. BUT I TRY TO BE MORE MODEST ABOUT IT.
on yet another place where he doesn’t live/work — SEMI-TRUE; I DO A LOT OF WORK IN ANAHEIM
RAW SCORE: 2.3/6. LESS .2 APIECE FOR “IMEDIATELY” AND “SAIGON,” FINAL SCORE IS 1.9/6.
PLEASE SEE R. CANTOR FOR WRITING TUTORIAL.
2:58AM? Really? Try getting more exercise counselor; you’ll sleep better at night. And let’s not admonish people for typos especially when you make them often enough. Anyone who writes does.
Bao Nguyen barely made it into office by riding the Janet Nguyen Viet voter turnout wave. And he’s already alienated a lot of Vietnamese voters. That dynamic won’t be present in CD46.
Asking Ryan Cantor for writing advice is akin to asking Greg Diamond for career advice.
Note how defensive Mr. Diamond gets in the wee hours when he can’t sleep and the scary things run through his head.
That wasn’t just playing defense, dolt; it was also playing offense. Not too difficult, either.
By the way, Matt’s understanding of the GG Mayor’s race suggests a serious lack of understanding of who supported Broadwater and who supported Bao — or what the issues in the election even were. It DOES suggest that lots of people in GG like firefighters and dislike nepotism and other forms of corruption.
“By the way, Matt’s understanding of the GG Mayor’s race suggests a serious lack of understanding of who supported Broadwater and who supported Bao — or what the issues in the election even were.”
Bao Nguyen beat Bruce Broadwater – someone who had been winning Garden Grove elections for years – by 15 votes, Greg. 15 votes out of 23,555. The single biggest factor driving turn-out in Garden Grove was the Janet Nguyen Vietnamese voter turn-out machine. And a lot of those voters also gave their votes to other Vietnamese candidates on the ballot – including Bao Nguyen.
In other words, your contention is that absent Janet Nguyen’s uber-effective turnout efforts, you believe Bao Nguyen would still have defeated Broadwater. That is, at best, wishful thinking.
The single biggest factor was Broadwater’s scandal.
Riiiight.
Turnout in an unrelated race across party lines doesn’t displace incumbents.
Scandal does.
Really, Mr. Elections Expert? Up-ballot races have no impact on “unrelated” down-ballot races? Surging turnout of Vietnamese voters, who overwhelmingly tend to vote for Vietnamese candidates up-and-down the ballot, had nothing to do with Bao Nguyen eking out a 15 vote win? It was all due to Broadwater’s son having a job with the fire department? Whatever. I realize you and your OJ comrades think elections turn on OJB and Voice of OC stories…but they don’t.
You think the main issue here was race? That Vietnamese voters have no other political ambition than identifying with a last name?
Cunningham strikes again.
You think the main issue here was race? That Vietnamese voters have no other political ambition than identifying with a last name?
Cunningham strikes again.
Don’t try twisting my words to deflect from your wrongness.
And believe me, no one in our corner thinks we’re important.
We don’t get paid.
But hey, flaunt your arrogance some more. It’s sweet.
Riiiight.
And again, Ryan: if you insist on letting your temper and emotions continue to get the better of you, and falsely characterize what I say as well as what I think, then you’ll be banned so I don’t have to bother moderating your angry eruptions. You aren’t clever; you just write ugly things.
Please ban Ryan. He’s just an attack dog who offers nothing constructive. He only comes on this blog to attack Matt, and argues for the sake of arguing. His change-the-subject style reminds me of how my teenagers argues. If he ever criticizes Tom Tait, I’ll faint.
” no one in our corner thinks we’re important”
That’s the funniest thing you’ve ever written Ryan.
You have to pity Diamond to a degree. He is DESPERATE for attention. Diamond has tun for office (and lost) THREE TIMES, sued Anaheim three times (and lost), posted a million words on the internet. I think that sums up Greg perfectly.
You don’t have to pity me at all. I’ve run for office against three rotten incumbents — Huff, Rackauckas, and Barbre — who otherwise would have skated back into office unopposed. I’m glad to have pressed Huff to the wall (NO ONE thought I’d touch 45% in that race), which identified it as competitive for this year. I’m glad to have given about 77,500 people the opportunity to express their contempt for our corrupt DA — one may wonder whether he’d be floundering quite so much if that hadn’t showed a sizable portion of the population willing to vote for someone who didn’t even have a ballot statement just to get rid of him. (With a ballot statement, 40% was probably within reach.) As for Barbre, it was a very cost-effective way to get out a strong anti-Poseidon, anti-fracking, and anti-corruption message to voters for a fraction of the cost of a mailer (and in a venue where it was much more likely to be read.)
I’m a *political activist*, you frightened child; I don’t count success in races that others have written off solely on the basis of who wins. Smart Republicans and conservatives and libertarians — as well as those on my side of the fence — have understood that for a long time. To do this, you just have to have a thick enough skin to brush off the cowardly attacks of people like you — especially those who think (based on the “Latuda” reference, which I had to look up) that I should be embarrassed to suffer from the same malady that plagued Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, John Adams and Winston Churchill.
(Also, BEYONCE and LOUIS CK! You have the NERVE to slam them for clinical depression! No wonder you’re anonymous!)
Wow. Another post midnight rant by Greg.
all three of your opponents skated back into office. You mounted no credible campaign. While you think you got a cost effective deal to issue an anti-Poseidon message, for the public at large, it isn’t resonating. Sometimes the spokesperson is so tainted that the message doesn’t matter. No one cares what you say anymore
I got 45% against the sitting Senate Minority Leader, exposing the district as vulnerable enough that your crush Sukhee Kang moved there to run this year.
I don’t think that Matt will allow me to publish a fitting response to the rest of your drivel. Happily, it drools for itself.
By the way, Matt, let’s see if we can trash your credibility as a political observer as well. Research my record in my SD-29, OCDA, and MWDOC elections. (The fundraising records for the 2014 races are online; the 2012 race, with about $13,000 raised, is with the SOS’s office.) Then give your friend’s argument about the lack of utility of my “sacrificial lamb” runs for those offices whatever degree of support you think it deserves. You at least know something about electoral politics, so if you claim that it would have been better from a liberal Democratic perspective to let each run unopposed, that could at least lead to an interesting discussion.
Greg, I don’t see how your three failed candidacies did anything to improve the political prospects for liberal Democratic candidates in Orange County. Are you claiming that Sukhee Kang based his decision to run for state Senate on your showing? Are Brett Barbre or Tony Rackauackas politically weaker due to your candidacies? Aside from simply providing voters an alternative – which Steve Rocco also does with regularity – I don’t think you really achieved anything other than spend your rent money on a candidate statement.
I think you owe Greg an apology for questioning his pivotal importance in Orange County politics.
I would give Greg Diamond a lot more credit if he actually PAID for any of these follies himself.
Instead he takes to Daily Kos begging for money?
Dude, pay your OWN way. you will be way more respected…and you and Zenger/Cantor/Nelson have the audacity to call the Anaheim City Council crooked…….
Now you’re … against fundraising?
Wow. Don’t break your fingernails scraping on the bottom of the barrel for insults.
As posted on Dan C’s Liberal OC Blog, it appears popular opinion for Suhkee Kang (another POPULAR democrat that Greg has bashed) within the party is that it will strip GD of his coveted position on the Central Committee, sending him further into oblivion.
Even those in his own party don’t care for his brand of politics. Much less his personality. I almost want this one to burn out on it’s own…….