Joe Turner
Thursday, March 8, 2018 – 6:13 p.m.
When it comes to Gary Jeandron the political candidate, many people have described him and his campaign as lacking credibility and a real pathway to victory.
It is wholly unrealistic to think that a candidate with only $10,000 cash on hand can actually unseat an incumbent who has more than $500,000 in the bank and another seven figures in reserves that will come in the form of independent expenditures. A challenger doesn’t have to match the incumbent dollar for dollar, but you need to at least be able to put gas in your car or at least hire a real campaign manager.
That brings me to Michael Santa Cruz, Jeandron’s campaign manager. I couldn’t pick the guy out of a lineup if my life depended upon it — but I know how to spot stupid.
Now, I am going to assume Santa Cruz isn’t a liar and merely incompetent, but I will leave it to you all to draw your own conclusions.
Earlier today, I posted a piece about how Jeandron behaved like a petulant child simply because he did not get the endorsement of the Redlands Tea Party Patriots. He lashed out in the Press Enterprise referring to it as a “fringe” group of activists.
In the course of following some of the social media discussions about that piece I stumbled upon the rantings of Santa Cruz where he called Andrew Kotyuk a liar. Below is a word for word copy of his recent Facebook post:
“This is how twisted and stupid the Kotyuk camp is. Gary has NEVER been in a position to vote for higher taxes before lol he’s never been in office.”
Here is a screenshot so you can see with your own eyes.
Now, I can only assume that Jeandron has lost so many elections that even his own campaign manager cannot recall the one time that he did win. But the fact of the matter is…Jeandron was elected to the Palm Springs Unified School District.
Maybe…because Jeandron quit the only office he ever won mid-way through the term after he voted for a school bond measure and after he had completed his work on the Clinton Foundation health initiative, Santa Cruz is drawing a blank.
The fact of the matter is that Jeandron did hold elected office and he did vote for a bond — which everyone knows is a tax increase because property owners have to pay additional taxes to cover the interest on the bond.
But this is the reality of the situation when it comes to Jeandron. He is running an “amateur hour” campaign that can’t even afford to bring literature to a debate with the most hard core activists and he hired a campaign manager that doesn’t even know the basic information about the candidate he is trying to get elected.
If Santa Cruz doesn’t even know the facts about his own candidate…how in the hell can you trust anything he says about Kotyuk?
Welcome to the circus! Watch out for the clown car.
Show proof where Gary ever voted for higher taxes. Like the real voting record? Because I have Kotyuks and he’s voted and campaigned for higher taxes TWICE. Maybe you should write about that, or are YOU the incompetent Baffoon? You must be a really weak person to take money to do bias and manipulative hit pieces like this. So sad and pathetic.
Hello Michael:
Thank you for responding and demonstrating once again that you are in over your head. While I would hope that Gary would do the right thing and withdraw from the race today, him keeping you aboard as a campaign manager is the next best thing.
First, you misspelled “buffoon.” I generally try to refrain from be a spelling and grammar Nazi — but come on dude. I spelled it out in the title for you. How hard is this? Were you the guy that copied answers off the smart kid’s test in class and still got them wrong?
Second, I have not been paid for anything I have written about Andrew, Gary or Chad. I should be though because I am that fucking good. Did you actually read the Desert Sun article about Chad Mayes today? Did you see my name in it and notice how I managed to inject the anti-Mayes grassroots narrative into an article that hits the meat of his district?
I have no idea who you are and what your background is…but since you didn’t even know that your own candidate was elected to the school board I am going to assume you don’t know anything about me.
But, back in July I was the guy that exposed Chad Mayes’ affair and led the grassroots charge to topple him from leadership. In fact, you should be thanking me because the only reason Gary is in this race and paying you is because myself, Redlands Tea Party activists and other Republican activists beat the crap out of him so bad that even the CAGOP had to take the unprecedented step of calling for him to resign.
The irony is you have made more money off my blog posts than I have. We will come back to the RTPP in a second.
Additionally, ever since Andrew announced and up until this past week, I have never spoken ill of Gary in public nor have I shilled for Andrew. Ask anyone involved and they will tell you that my position has been consistent — I don’t care who it is but we must oust Mayes and to do that we need to consolidate behind one candidate.
That has been the thrust of my arguments on this race. Now that we are in the final stretch of the filing period I have spoken up and reaffirmed that position. If Jeandron had raised $200K and Andrew was at $10K I would be taking Andrew to task for diluting the vote.
As for Gary’s voting record. I don’t have a link directly at hand but if need be I can get the documentation. I was told very plainly that Gary supported a bond measure. Bonds are tax increases. Are you disputing this?
Finally, what is pathetic and weak is not anything I have written. It is the disparaging and libelous attacks on the Redlands Tea Party organization and the fine patriots leading it and working within to advance conservative principles and values. Your accusations were vile, baseless, and shameful.
If you had an ounce of honor you would walk those comments back, issue an apology, and ask for forgiveness. It was unbecoming of you and to be 100 percent sincere and genuine with absolutely no political spin or gamesmanship on my part — damaging to Gary’s campaign. The fact of the matter is that many activists inside the organization actually supported Gary and yet you attack their organization suggesting it is filled with corruption and led by cheats and frauds?
Be a man, take down the posts, and make a public statement of some kind expressing regret for your decision making.
Kotyuks voted in favor of legalizing weed. He signed petition letter to OBAMA himself supporting strict gun laws against our 2a rights. Look it up. Kotyuks so incompetent he only found 12 CCW permits Gary issued and thinks that concludes all of them lol let’s not talk about incompetence because kotyuk has a reputation of it. Like his files BK, his arrest warrant for failure to his debts, his tax lien, his current lawsuits from his very own business partner attesting to the same charges of kotyuk being a crook, a fraud, deceitful, and not fiscally responsible or ethical. Incompetent Kotyuk. You’re the baffoon. You’re the one believing and writing for an incompetent loser, who’s not even electable and is going to fail big league as he always has. Good luck.
Gary has no business problems at all, ever, no lawsuits, no tax liens, no bankruptcy, no arrest warrants, or gun law petitions for obama. Gary has a practice that is has been very successful, he just put 100,000 of his own money into the campaign (bet you kotyuk cant do that lol), and has the entire district behind. Kotyuk only has lobbyists from outside who need influence here for their own political gain. Now tell me again who the incompetent baffoons are? And liars? And crooks? Lol thought so.
I don’t give a fuck who you are. You’re a lying piece of shit! That’s all I need to know. A narcissist angry and vindictive lying manipulative sociopath. I don’t even care to read your entire statement. I see all the reports you’re posting and they are all lies. Where did Gary ever get mad over the Redlands tea party endorsement? Gary doesn’t care! I do however at the fact that the Redlands tea party are cheats and liars! And I havdon’t it all on video for your info that’s how incompetent you are! So while you kotyuk and the tea party keep lying about how Gary was angry, lazy, and whatever else. Everyone there that night is writing a statement testifying that all of you are lying! So video and witness statements from the Tran party members theirselves? I’d love to see how you prove that wrong. You’re irrelevant. And you’re doing this for free? Wow. So you’re lying for free and slandering me and I don’t even know you. You’re a real nut case to be that vindictive. What are you kotyuks offended butt buddy?
No wait, you’re Nathan Millers butt buddy. Wow. It all makes sense now.
You’re such an incompetent idiot you really are telling the district constituents to vote for failed neocon establishment politician just because his lobbyists from outside the district, who need our districts influence for theirselves, donated big money to him to take our district? That’s all? So a failed business man, with multiple current lawsuits, a bk, a tax lien, and a conservative sale out who signed a strict gun law petition for president obama is much more capable of being able to manage our budget in Sacramento but can’t even manage his own, personal or small business? That doesn’t make sense. Gary had ALL of the support in our district, everyone knows and trusts him unlike kotyuk. So you can take your little tea party endorsement and shove it up kotyuks ass even further because it doesn’t matter. They are irrelevant. We have the CRA endorsement and our very own senators endorsement. Because they know Kotyuk doesn’t have a chance in hell being elected no matter how much lobbyists bank roll him or how much his butt buddy journalists write for him, doesn’t matter what little tea party from outside the district (who can’t even vote for him) endorses him, because we are winning this district, and it is very crooked of you to pull establishment political rules to keep yourselves relevant in this district because you’re not. And Gary already filed, so there’s no backing out. You can get over it or keep crying til you melt away but we’re in this race, and we’re not going to allow an establishment group, politician, or fake newsboys journalist (no matter what truth you may have reported on Mayes-you’re a fake news journalist now) to dictate to us the matrix of this race to tell us that we are the ones who need to drop out. We’re going to let the voters decide and you can take your own accountability for splitting the vote and stop passing the buck on us. Gary put 100,000 of his own money into this campaign and Kotyuk has to raise money Andre hope he wins to have a job that pays enough to pay off his career long debts and failures. These little manipulative small time hit prices are pathetic, you don’t have anything on Gary or us and kotyuks desperate so he’s pulling out his butt buddy’s to fight for him and help him sound relevant.
You must have a small dick because these reports have compensating written all over them. Lol no life wanna be journalist who’s offended that we exposed his butt buddy as a lying crook. Facts.
Ladies and gentlemen.
The Gary Jeandron campaign is a farce. It is clearly designed to aid and abet Assemblyman Chad Mayes’ re-election campaign. Why is State Senator Jeff Stone supporting this candidate. Why isn’t this candidate addressing these baseless and libelous accusations against the Redlands Tea Party by his own campaign manager.
Will Jeandron disavow the homophobic remarks of Santa Cruz?
Why is Jeandron still in this race? He can’t even afford to print up a walking piece so his campaign manager and zero volunteers can go door to door and make voter contacts. Instead…since there isn’t a real campaign to run…the campaign manager spends his time attempting to troll opponents on Facebook.
This is an absolute circus. It is embarrassing.
Lol are you trying to convince? Or the readers? Do you even have readers? Lol I feel like you’re trying to convince me that you’re intimidating but it’s not working lol. Being a manipulative lying journalist doesn’t help you either. We already have enough fake news reporters we don’t need any fake news conservative reporters too. You’re contradicting yourself in everything you say about us as well. You have no facts about our campaign but yet make statements about our efforts. And you initially reported that Gary voted on higher taxes and now you’re reporting that you don’t know “allegedly from kotyuk” so why would you write we are lying when YOU dont even know yourself?? You’re his secret lover! Lol it’s circumstantial evidence lol why else would somebody who doesn’t have all the facts be so vindictive and angry at us for if you weren’t? You didn’t even know the facts and you’re slinging mud lol I’m sorry but if that isn’t ignorant I don’t know what is and you called ME the incompetent baffoon lol
You don’t know how to spell. You don’t even know your own boss was previously elected to a school board (even though it is on his own website). You appear to be homophobic. You don’t know how to use or express quotes.
I never used the phrase “allegedly from Kotyuk.”
The only one apparently angry and vindictive is you and your boss. Your boss slammed the Redlands Tea Party as a group of fringe activists once he lost the endorsement. And you accused them of being frauds, cheats and stealing the vote for Kotyuk.
I tried to be nice and give you an opportunity to walk back your statements…but instead of manning up and doing the right thing you have tripled down on stupidity.
Like I said…if Gary stays in the race…I hope he keeps you on board as his campaign manager. You are the original disaster artist.
And now for my next trick…. YOU’RE A JOKE.
Wow, both of you – grow up. Seriously the language, bullying, name calling and bullcrap you are all spewing makes me want to register as an independent.
Look at what you waste your time doing. Unreal. Outrageous. Childish. Try using your energies to do something productive. I personally am ashamed of you all.