Wanted: Conservative To Run If Rocco Recall Qualifies

I see over on TheLiberalOC.com, Greater Orange eBlog and Orange Juice that left-wing labor layer lawyer Florice Hoffman will toss her chapeau into the ring if the recall attempt against weird OUSD Trustee Steve Rocco qualifies.

There's a certain irony in Florice Hoffman running against Rocco. After all, when Rocco ran against Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustee John Hanna last year, Hoffman was instrumental in persuading the OC Democratic Central Committee NOT to endorse Hanna for re-election.

Hoffman was mad over Hanna's past endorsement of Cong. Ed Royce, and Hoffman was the Democratic sacrificial lamb candidate against Royce last year.

Politics is a strange business.

The OUSD Board of Trustees is already utterly dominated by teachers union candidates -- an actual union lawyer is last thing we need. If the recall qualifies, I can only hope there'll be a conservative alternative to bizarro Rocco and left-wing labor lawyer Hoffman. But in the unlikely event those are my choices, I'll vote for Rocco.

UPDATE (6/23/07): A commenter said Hoffman isn't running as a recall replacement candidate. I e-mailed Hoffman and asked if she was running to be a replacement candidate in the Rocco recall if it qualifies, or as a candidate in the November 2008.

Hoffman responded that she hasn't decided yet.

ANOTHER UPDATE (6/23/07): Ms. Hoffman followed up with a second e-mail:

1. I have to move if I run.
2.  My sons do not graduate from Canyon High School until June, 2008.
3. I am an employment attorney, run my own business and not a layer[sic].
4. I am committed to public education and making sure that OUSD has great
and safe schools.
5. I do no find all this blogging constructive. I am too busy raising my
children, working and making Orange County a better place to live.

Thank you,
Florice Hoffman

Comments

[Art Pedroza]

Jubal,

Vote for Rocco? That sure worked out last time! Why don't you run (are you in the district)?

[That Marine Guy]

Heck
She's almost a Republican

That was a error on the part of that blog. She is not running against Rocco, doesn't live in that trustee area. That blog wasn't listening - they got creative with a little bit of info, without paying attention to the details. Oh dopey them!

[Go Florice, Go!]

It doesn't really matter where Florice lives, she can always move before filing.
So what if she's a Teamster lawyer - the Teamsters endorsed Nixon (they hated Kennedy after all), Reagan, Spitzer, Norby, Silva, to name a few. Her kids attend Orange schools, she's the vice chair of the Legislative Coalition, on the board of Kindercaminata, active in PTA, and was Joanne Coontz's appointee on the Orange Senior Center board. She's smart, understands education, and she has the guts to ask the hard questions. She'll care more about letting teachers teach than about hiring consultants. She's got my vote.

[Jubal]

That was a error on the part of that blog. She is not running against Rocco, doesn't live in that trustee area.

I'm going by what the Greater Orange eNews Blog reported. They follow this stuff very closely.

I'll e-mail Hoffman and ask her to clarify.

[OCNative]

Wait a minute, how can her sons attend Canyon High School if she was running for Ed Royce's 40th Congressional District? Royce doesn't represent the CHS attendance area. The address she has listed as her Congressional headquarters is in the El Modena High School attendance area, according to the OUSD attendance area map. What gives?

[Go Chapman]

We all know the politicians who move their residence solely to run for legislative office---Tom Umberg and Lyn Daucher are the most recent incarnations of the carpetbagger. But I have never heard of someone who moves their residence in order to run for a school board seat. I guess she figures Rocco is the only officeholder she can beat and so she is moving to do just that. They have districts for a reason--so that the elected representatives will have knowledge of the issues of the area they represent and the officeholder who has children will have had their kids go to schools in the area. Lou Correa had it right when he opined on this subject last year.