It’s the time of the year when I get asked for my ballot recommendations.  Below is a summary of my endorsements.  I have provided a recommendation for every ballot choice I will have and have generally included those jurisdictions within the 70^th Assembly District too.  I explain my choices at the bottom of this email.  One last note: for every candidate endorsement, I require a minimum of a 30 minute face-to-face interview for those candidates who do not have a record of public service as well as for most elected officials too.  Not everyone interviewed gets my endorsement.

 

My Ballot:

 

President and Vice President: John McCain and Sarah Palin

U.S. Representative, 48^th District: John Campbell

State Senator, 35^th District: Tom Harman

State Assembly, 70^th District: Chuck DeVore

Judicial: Kermit Marsh

South OC Community College District, Area 1: David Lang

South OC Community College District, Area 3: Arlene Greer

South OC Community College District, Area 6: Thomas A. “Tom” Fuentes

South OC Community College District, Area 7: John S. Williams

City of Irvine, Mayor: Christina L. Shea

City of Irvine, City Council (vote for 3):

Patrick Rodgers

Eric Johnson

Steven S. Choi

Irvine Ranch Water District (vote for 3):

Mary Aileen Matheis

Darryl G. Miller

John B. Withers

Municipal Water District of O.C.: No recommendation

Proposition 1A: No (I wrote one of the ballot arguments against it)

Proposition 2: No

Proposition 3: No

Proposition 4: Yes

Proposition 5: No

Proposition 6: Yes

Proposition 7: No

Proposition 8: Yes

Proposition 9: Yes

Proposition 10: No

Proposition 11: Yes

Proposition 12: Yes

Proposition J: Yes

Proposition R: No

Proposition S: No

 

Other endorsements in or abutting my district that are not on my ballot:

 

U.S. Representative, 40^th District: Ed Royce

U.S. Representative, 46^th District: Dana Rohrabacher

U.S. Representative, 47^th District: Rosemarie “Rosie” Avila

State Senator, 33^rd District: Mimi Walters

Capistrano Unified School Dist. Trustee Area 5: Ken Maddox

City of Costa Mesa, City Council: Jim Righeimer

City of Laguna Hills, City Council: L. Allan Songstad, Jr.

City of Laguna Hills, City Council: Joel Lautenschleger

City of Lake Forest, City Council: Marcia Rudolph

City of Lake Forest, City Council: Mark Tettemer

City of Newport Beach, City Council, Dist. 2: Steven Rosansky

City of Newport Beach, City Council, Dist. 7: Keith D. Curry

City of Tustin, City Council: Jerry Amante

City of Tustin, City Council: John Nielsen

City of Tustin, City Council: Jeff Thomas

 

State Initiative Explanations

Proposition 1A: No.  With debt repayments, spends $20 billion to try to make a California government-run railroad.

Proposition 2: No.  Will drive farm animal operations out of California.

Proposition 3: No.  Adds $2 billion of debt costs to expand government hospitals

Proposition 4: Yes. Requires notification of parents or relatives when a minor girl seeks to have an abortion.

Proposition 5: No. Lets drug dealers out of prison early with no oversight.

Proposition 6: Yes. Brings law enforcement spending back up to what it was 15 years ago and enhances penalties on criminal gang members.

Proposition 7: No. Makes our electricity even less affordable and more unreliable.

Proposition 8: Yes. Restores the law that one person can marry one other person of the opposite sex that our State Supreme Court foolishly overturned in May by a 4-3 vote.  If this initiative fails, look for legal challenges that will pave the way for incest and polygamy.

Proposition 9: Yes. Provides reasonable rights for crime victims.

Proposition 10: No. Take $10 billion of your tax money and gives it to the same businesses that put the initiative on the ballot (where’s the FBI corruption probe on this one?).

Proposition 11: Yes.  An improvement to our current, deeply flawed process by which politicians select the voters, rather than the other way around.

Proposition 12: Yes. Provides assistance for California’s military veterans to buy houses – in all the years this program has run, it has never costs a taxpayer penny.

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