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For everyone clicking-on to read a link to an article about the great Bernie vs. Biden heavyweight championship fight you may be disappointed. This is more about how we in the U.S. arrive at these gosh-darn surprising overnight voting results. People naturally vote with their pocket books and a boatload of preconceived bias yes, but they often go into the voting booth and, like throwing darts at a dartboard, vote for the name on the ballot that just reads and looks the best.
Current Election Results | OC Vote
In heretofore conservative Republican Orange County Bernie bested Biden by a comfortable margin, but my interest lay far down ballot to a non-partisan Orange County Board of Education Trustee-- Area 1 race where Steve Rocco was soundly beaten (once again) in his quest for political power. Rocco, who has a less than illustrious track record as a candidate, rose to local prominence over a decade ago when he won an election to a seat on the Orange School District Board of Education. It's a political saga of how a crazy, eccentric man-child slipped through the cracks of electoral orthodoxy.
To accomplish that, one has to first enter a time-warp back to the opening minutes of Orange Unified School District's first post-election board get-together in 2004 when fellow school board members were shocked to see a small, compact, disheveled individual with a goatee and a stocking cap resembling the late actor Bob Denver reprising his role as Maynard G. Krebs in Dobie Gillis; live and in-person at an Orange Unified School District board meeting seated alongside well-known incumbents. They may have momentarily thought it was a joke because the actress who played Zelda Gilroy (Sheila Kuehl) in that same TV sit-com was on the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. Until Steve Rocco opened his mouth. That set into motion years of madcap meetings, outrage, a recall election-- and knee-slapping guffaws, especially from those on the outside who looked at Orange County as a bunch of wealthy, uptight, close-minded, snobbish Republicans. Steve Rocco (politician) - Wikipedia
How the hell could a guy who believed there was an Orange County shadow government controlled by a cabal consisting of Albertsons supermarket, Farmer John meats and Kodak Corp. get elected anyhow? Chapman University political science professor Fred Smoller determined that to the best of his learned opinion, those same wealthy, uptight, closed-minded, snobbish Orange County voters went into the booth and saw a ballot replete with names like Manuel "lighter-than-air" Lopez, Tawanda Jackson and Mee-Luv-Yu-Lng-Time. At the very bottom of the ballot selection box was Steve Rocco, a name to the overwhelmingly conservative voters which denoted strength, "white" goodness and the American way. Think of square-jawed wrestler John Cena bursting through the boxes of Bounty tissues in that TV commercial. Who at that time ever believed a guy on a school board ballot named Steve Rocco could be someone totally nuts, terminally unemployed, in his late sixties but still living (and supported) by his very elderly mother, a person who's only mode of transportation was a 1960s era Schwinn Continental bicycle? The Schwinn Continentals | 1946 to 1982
If you'd care to delve further into the life and times of someone who seems as though they crashed to Earth in a spaceship in Roswell, New Mexico back in 1947, be my guest. But this serves as a warning for everyone to be careful who you vote for.
Current Election Results | OC Vote
In heretofore conservative Republican Orange County Bernie bested Biden by a comfortable margin, but my interest lay far down ballot to a non-partisan Orange County Board of Education Trustee-- Area 1 race where Steve Rocco was soundly beaten (once again) in his quest for political power. Rocco, who has a less than illustrious track record as a candidate, rose to local prominence over a decade ago when he won an election to a seat on the Orange School District Board of Education. It's a political saga of how a crazy, eccentric man-child slipped through the cracks of electoral orthodoxy.
To accomplish that, one has to first enter a time-warp back to the opening minutes of Orange Unified School District's first post-election board get-together in 2004 when fellow school board members were shocked to see a small, compact, disheveled individual with a goatee and a stocking cap resembling the late actor Bob Denver reprising his role as Maynard G. Krebs in Dobie Gillis; live and in-person at an Orange Unified School District board meeting seated alongside well-known incumbents. They may have momentarily thought it was a joke because the actress who played Zelda Gilroy (Sheila Kuehl) in that same TV sit-com was on the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. Until Steve Rocco opened his mouth. That set into motion years of madcap meetings, outrage, a recall election-- and knee-slapping guffaws, especially from those on the outside who looked at Orange County as a bunch of wealthy, uptight, close-minded, snobbish Republicans. Steve Rocco (politician) - Wikipedia
How the hell could a guy who believed there was an Orange County shadow government controlled by a cabal consisting of Albertsons supermarket, Farmer John meats and Kodak Corp. get elected anyhow? Chapman University political science professor Fred Smoller determined that to the best of his learned opinion, those same wealthy, uptight, closed-minded, snobbish Orange County voters went into the booth and saw a ballot replete with names like Manuel "lighter-than-air" Lopez, Tawanda Jackson and Mee-Luv-Yu-Lng-Time. At the very bottom of the ballot selection box was Steve Rocco, a name to the overwhelmingly conservative voters which denoted strength, "white" goodness and the American way. Think of square-jawed wrestler John Cena bursting through the boxes of Bounty tissues in that TV commercial. Who at that time ever believed a guy on a school board ballot named Steve Rocco could be someone totally nuts, terminally unemployed, in his late sixties but still living (and supported) by his very elderly mother, a person who's only mode of transportation was a 1960s era Schwinn Continental bicycle? The Schwinn Continentals | 1946 to 1982
If you'd care to delve further into the life and times of someone who seems as though they crashed to Earth in a spaceship in Roswell, New Mexico back in 1947, be my guest. But this serves as a warning for everyone to be careful who you vote for.
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