Boxer was a Supervisor. Feinsteim was Mayor.

But good point nonetheless.

Tomahawk,

Thank you for linking to Jordan's endorsement list comprised of a broad coalition of business, elected officials and community leaders.

Once in a great while, a candidate is presented for consideration who transcends politics as usual. Jordan is just such a candidate. Smart, well-versed in the issues of his district, thoughtful, committed to meaningful reform of a district long overdue for change, Jordan is the best candidate to put the interests of the district's parents and children ahead of the partisan politics you allude to in your post. He will make a difference for Anaheim Union High School District.

Go Jordan!

Jordan is as queer as a three dollar bill. If elected to the school board, he will be handing out towels in the boy's gym.

Who needs business organizations like OCBC to defend partisan Democrat staffers running for office?

If we can't even get the business community to support Republicans then we are really in trouble.

Lucy Dunn will shortsightedly support this socialist and then turn around and complain when he moves up the political ladder and kills some freeway for his enviro friends - ala Loretta Sanchez and the 241 toll road extension.

We need someone leafding the buisness community that understands that the Democrats are not friends of free-enterprise or the business community.

Tomahawk-

Yes, I support Jordan Brandman for the Anaheim Union High School district board and I know he will do a good job. I also know that he will do a better job than some of the Republicans who have served on this board over the past ten years.

Sadly, this high school district has been poorly managed and did not properly oversee their capital construction budget that was funded by local school bonds.

That fiscal mis-management occured when there were five members of this district who were Republicans. Not very fiscally responsible.

When Republicans dont act like Republicans, then we shouldn't elect/re-elect them just because they have the "R".

I know Jordan well and think he will do a great job.

He will certainly do better than those he is running against - most notably William Fitzgerald aka Denis Fitzgerald.

Maybe we should work to encourage fiscally conservative Democrats to consider joining our party, rather than trashing them when they display "true-Republican principles".

By the way, I am hosting a fundraiser for him on January 31st and would welcome all those who wish to support a fiscal conservatives to join me.

Curt Pringle

Denis Fitzgerald:

That sort of comment is absolutely not tolerated here, so I've deleted it. Do it again and you'll be sent to the Village of the Banned.

Time to Fire - extremists on either side of the aisle get no where. If you vote for someone solely based on the initial after their name, you are a fool. As the great Mayor stated above, Jordan is the best man for the job, a conservative Dem and a great pro business candidate.

So this Democrat staffer is going to be more fiscally responsible than anyone else running.

Hard to believe, but maybe so. But will he do anthing to fight agaist the SB777's of the world and all the other social engineering that goes on in our schools.

If our former Assembly Republican leader Pringle spent as much time looking for a conservative to fill this seat as he does raising money for Democrats - we might have some better Republicans to choose from.

Tomahawk, have you found a candidate to run against Democrat Sergio Contrearas, who is running for re-election to the Westminster School District Board?

Correction,

Both of them were Supervisors. Feinstein was also a Mayor according to Wikipedia as follows:

"Senator Feinstein ... was the first female President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco's first and only female mayor"

"Boxer ... ran for the Marin County Board of Supervisors back in 1972"

Curt: I usually don't agree with you, but your support of a Democrat who seems to be the best candidate out there shows me you really are interested in making Anaheim the best city possible. As a lifelong resident of the town and graduate of the AUHSD system, I commend you for that. Tomahawk, on the other hand, is a partisan hack of the worst kind.

Coming from a left-wing hack of the worst kind, that a strange insult.

Did not know that Gustavo has a "soft" heart.

Flowerzzz: Jordan is fantastic and will make a great school board member and I think he will make an even better Assemblyman when the time comes. Without redistricting reform a democrat is going to be in the 69th. Republicans should hope for one as conservative, smart and proven as Jordan.

On the other hand, everyone has given a pass to the Republican council in Aliso Viejo who has had two opportunities to appoint Republicans to replace outgoing council members in the last year and failed both times.

The GOP see Jordan as a threat. And the first thing they do when they see a threat is use abusive language and partisan rhetoric to try and destroy a person who simply wants to try and make a difference. It's not the first time and it won't be the last. If the GOP really were smart, they would do what Curt suggested - convince Jordan to abandon the Democratic Party. But please, my dear Reps, keep working your self destructive behavior. All the more to take over OC in the future!

I thought the posters here were happier with a Democrat than a Republican in a seat. There's too much money being put in seats held by Reps so that there can be no other lower level Reps that are encouraged to run for higher office. Maybe Trung can run against him. Isn't he looking for a job?

Terry Cantrell was a solid conservative Republican on the Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Trustees.

He was knocked off by decline-to-state voter Lan Nguyen in 2002 with the backing of the same crowd behind Trung Nguyen.

Sorry to burst a few bubbles, but if you just look back a few years some of those with such a "loyal Republican" reputation really don't deserve it.

Several commenters here are being completely unfair to Tomahawk and twisting his point -- which is a very valid one from the point of view of advancing Republican fortunes in central OC.

Furthermore, Tomahawk did not -- as "Anaheim Melissa" dishonestly asserts -- attack Jordan. Anaheim Melissa might take a minute and actually read what Tomahawk had to say. He made his point without rancor.

For the record, I support Jordan in this race (although I do not live in the AUHSD). I think he will make an excellent trustee in a district that badly needs excellent trustees.

I suppose one has to make a judgment call about what is more important in this circumstance: electing a good trustee or nipping a talented Democratic up-and-comer in the bud.

I vote for the former, and I agree with Curt that the preferable course is to convince Jordan to re-register as a Republican

Jubal:

You write: "I'm only bringing up this issue simply from a partisan politics angle." Glad to see you finally admit that you do not care for issues, quality representation or integrity,and that the only thing that matters is whether someone is a republican in name. Wow. The truth gets revealed in the strangest of ways - and sometime most unintentional of ways. Glad to admit you are a shill for partisanship and nothing else. Sure, you may be a nice guy, but hey, what does that matter: Partisanship (read: destructive ignorance) is all that matters.

No wonder the republican party is so screwed up.

Anon 6:00 PM -- Why don't you look at the post again before going after Jubal.

He didn't write this post, I did, and I still stand by my point.

The GOP should not give this seat to the Dems without a fight and our party needs to do a better job at disciplining Republicans who don't practice the conservative principles.

Anon 6:00 p.m.

Before accusing me of things, try enrolling in a reading comprehension course. It would make it easier to take you seriously.

THawk---While I admire your partisan zeal, your GOP/Red comrades made their bed here and now need to sleep in it. Instead of selecting runner up Brandman--highly qualified with bipartisan support-- when the vacancy arose, they picked partisan--Harold Martin, he of the Know Nothing Wing of the Republican Party.

What counts more then partisanship for a lot of people is getting the best possible officeholder in these school board races. Brandman is an extremely sharp guy, something needed in this district that has had significant problems. Curt recognizes this and is supporting him.

If people want to see the My Party or Death philosophy you seem to be promoting, they just need to look north to Sacramento or east to Mecca on the Potomac. We don't need partisan jihads in our school board races. We need good candidates. And Jordan Brandman is a good one. This district is pretty evenly divided between Reds and Blues, so it isn't the end of the world for you if you let hegemony take a rest for once.

Bladerunner -- thanks for the thoughtful comment.

It's funny to me that some are suggesting we vote for Jordan and then convince him to re-register as a Republican.

Would that somehow make him ok? If he a "socialist" and/or an "enviro" and/or in favor of "social engineering" as commenters above have suggested, would these disgusting traits become virtues if he were an R instead of a D?

This kind of unvarnished partisanship is the cause of many of the problems we have in American political life today, IMO.

Missy your point is right on.

We already have enough me-too Republicans on school boards who are nothing other than inveterate staff-stooges. Look no farther than Anaheim & CUSD. These folks are just dyed-in-the-wool liberals who keep getting endorsements, etc. just because they've got an "R" next to their name.

I'm glad you bring up CUSD. Every one of the old (and new) CUSD trustees is a Republican. So are indicted CUSD officials Fleming and McGill.

How many of the Republicans who read OC Blog would support one of the old CUSD trustees over Jordan Brandman? I don't believe the silly idea that most Republican electeds are crooks but CUSD is proof that voting for someone because they're Republican is no guarantee they'll do a good job.

And by the way, the comment that "these [CUSD] folks are just dyed-in-the-wool liberals" is plain wrong. Several of the old CUSD trustees are Lincoln club and/or former OCGOP central committee members. Liberal they ain't.

"Liberal they ain't."

Wrong, Missy! Liberal they are and were. Lincoln Club membership (if true) wouldn't make them change their spots. In fact, the Lincoln Club has a bad habit of endorsing people just because they are Republicans. Last go-round they endorsed Don Bankhead in Fullerton, one of the original authors of Fullerton's notorious utility tax in 1993 and supporter of every subsidized housing project and boohoo boondoggle to come along.

Speaking of Fullerton, their school district boards have been littered with Republicans for years, each seemingly falling all over themself to out-stooge the others in their obeissance to their superintendant.

And who keeps endorsing these flacks (apart from the teachers unions, of course)? The GOP establishment, that's who.

Liberal they are and were.

Nonsense. Give us an example of their liberal credentials. Casabianca, Draper, Benecke, and Henness are long time Republicans married to long-time Republicans. Darnold was California State President of Rotary International a few years back, which is not generally a job held by a leftie.

I've never heard any of these folks say a word that wasn't 100% in line with moderate to conservative GOP politics.

Liberal Example? I am not even that close to the CUSD issues but one that comes to mind it that huge multi-million dollar building for school administration instead of putting the dollars in building classrooms for children.

Yeah Missy, you're really missing my point - which was your point originally - party registration proves nothing.

BTW, conservatives don't vote for massive monuments to themselves while their charges are languishing in run-down portables. They don't lock step with bureacrats - they question them and their motives - knowing as they do that the civil service, whatever its alleged virtues, also has its own interests and agenda; they remember who they represent and do not come to identify with their would-be puppeteers at the expense of their constituents. CUSD is a text book case of the worthlessness of mere party designation.

conservatives don't vote for massive monuments to themselves while their charges are languishing in run-down portables.

neither do liberals, but stupid followers do, as do people whose main interest is do favors for their buddies.

They don't lock step with bureaucrats

Come now. We can all name lots of "good" Reeps who don't think for themselves. Ever heard of a guy named Shroeder?

FYI, I think the main reasons for the inept actions of the CUSD trustees (and Phleming) is (1) ego, (2) feathering one's own nests, (3) doing favors for certain important local Republicans. The latter isn't spoken about very much, but knowledgeable insiders are pretty aware of it.

Liberals have an intuitive trust of government and its employees. Conservatives don't.