Proof that Scott Winn (aka Grimace) recruited Jonathan Madison ONLY in an attempt to screw Tom Patti:
It looks like Madison tripped on his Carpetbag getting over to San Joaquin County. Grimace should have stuck to selling cookies and left #CA09 to the adults like Tom Patti.
That’s three in a week. What the hell is in the water of the 2022 election cycle!?
Meet Scott Winn.
We all knew that the political bosses in San Joaquin County would extract their price. While they successfully stopped a party endorsement of Tom Patti for #CA09 (Patti is clearly the strongest candidate out there), they could not get Jonathan Madison to 2/3.
Trick one – the time-honored, “throw members off drill” was the first thing on the menu. The vote deadlocked 12-12, then Tony Amador broke the tie in favor of expelling two members. I am not sure what the grounds were, but I was told that Chair Dwight Williams wanted to wait on making all of these moves until the next meeting. Dwight rightly called the activities divisive.
Grimace was hearing none of it.
There was also a parliamentarian who was clearly biased towards the Grimace machine in San Joaquin County. (another time-honored trick of the oligarchy of controlled failure) The Parliamentarian reliably ruled in favor of the consultants.
At the end of the day, James Shoemaker, Jonathan Madison, and Tom Patti were unable to reach 2/3.
— and yet another story for Right on Daily about the machinations of the consultant class.
The local political bosses have spoken
If you are a democrat and you want to run for AD-13, it is time to hire 3AM Communications. 3AM communications is run by two dudes in San Joaquin County that are Republicans, one of whom sits on the San Joaquin County Republican Party Central Committee.
3AM Communications is all over the reports of Democrat San Joaquin County Supervisor Kathy Miller. See 2014 here and see 2018 here see the $25,000 win bonus from the democrat to 3AM on the third page. (Note, I only linked one report from each cycle but they are all over all of them) Now Miller is running for Assembly to replace extreme left-wing homosexual activist Susan Eggman who is jumping to SD05. Miler’s two opponents are largely unfunded, but 3AM Communications was not able to get a Republican on the AD13 Ballot to help Miller clear out the field in March. Thus, Miller will be in a D vs D runoff where she is still heavily favored. It is the opinion of this blogger that any would be GOP Challenger realized that they would be volunteering to get used and not supported as Miller was to be the beneficiary of a Rep joining the AD-13 race. (AD-XX = California’s XX Assembly District)
CA-09 Candidate Tony Amador is a client (indirectly) of 3AM Communications. (CA-XX = California’s XX Congressional District)
CA-10 Candidate Marla Livengood is a client of 3AM Communications.
Both were endorsed by the San Joaquin GOP over other Republicans.
But not Republican Supervisor Tom Patti who is the only Republican in his race. Is that because Democrat Elbert Holman is running against him and happens to list 3AM Communications as his consultant? 1/6/2020 marked Tom Patti being denied an endorsement for the second time by the San Joaquin GOP.
What happened? The principal of 3AM Communications who is a member of the SJGOP Central Committee suggested a “Closed Session”. This had the effect of kicking all the candidates and staff out of the deliberation. It is also the experience of this blogger seeing closed sessions before in groups that they are done for one of two reasons: 1 people are being intimidated by outside influence or 2 the people that control the committee want to make sure it is easier to track how the members vote.
It did not stop CA-09 Candidate Tony Amador, 75 years of age from attempting to bully a 20-something staffer of Ted Howze. (The young lady is an elected member of that body and despite Mr. Amador’s wishes she was not expelled from the room) I like Tony Amador, (he probably does not like me very much anymore) but his allowing himself to be used as a tool and his behavior against a woman young enough to be his Grand-daughter is just moronic.
If you are scratching your head – allow your intrepid blogger to fill in more blanks.
3AM Communications helped Michael Tubbs (democrat) who is famous for paying gang bangers out of the City Treasury to not commit crime, (sound like the $100+ Billion in Cash to Iran?) over troubled Republican Anthony Silva. Silva was endorsed by the SJGOP at the time 3AM was helping elect Tubbs.
3AM Communications helped democrat Dan Wright win a City Council Seat in Stockton (click here for another financial report too) over Republican Steve Colangelo. Note, Colangelo was also endorsed by the SJGOP.
3AM Communications helped elect a democrat majority onto the Stockton City Council.
The difference was the $3MM worth of Charles Munger’s money that 3AM Communications and others helped direct in 2016 that changed the composition of the SJGOP Central Committee. So instead of pro-forma endorsements of Republicans, 3AM Communications now has the ability to block endorsements of Republicans at the SJGOP Central Committee – or worse get unfunded marginal candidates (Marla Livengood) endorsed for nationally targeted races.
It gets worse, 3AM Communications has also been a vendor to the California Republican Party. In essence, 3AM communications has been helping the democrats build their bench for legislative seats while the CAGOP has been getting shellacked at the polls.
Then, overlay that with these consultants purging through direct and indirect means of dissenters from two county committees to rig endorsements of hopeless candidates and you have to ask yourself if they are deliberately trying to lose.
Your Intrepid Blogger has detailed how Tony Amador has run for office and lost several times.
Several weeks ago, we covered how the San Joaquin GOP stiffed Republican Tom Patti for Supervisor, and endorsed an un-funded Trump-Hater for Congress in CA-10. We believe it had a nexus with the paying clients that the local political boss is running for election.
Here is your recruit for CA-09, He hasn’t posted in over 1,150 Days as of the writing of this blog.
So was Tony Amador pulled in to CA-09 by Tammany Hall in Stockton to punish William Martinek? Or is Tony Amador a career foil to help re-elect Jerry McNerney?
Take a look at the candidate snubbed by Stockton’s Tammany Hall? William Martinek. Check out Martinek’s website and read his story. It is pretty cool and represents a candidate with youth and potential. Tony Amador is 75, twice Martinek’s age.
Note: Only 115 Likes and note the website address.
Tony Amador has a pattern, he pulls candidate papers very late. In all of the past races I have detailed, he is filed late when there have been other more qualified Republican Candidates on the Ballot. He then wins the primary and folds up his tent in the general election. This pattern has repeated several times.
One has to wonder if Amador is a foil to clear out more aggressive and qualified Republican Candidates – winning on his ballot title (Retired US Marshall) – then laying down for McNerney three different times.
At Age 75, Amador is going after his fourth defeat.
In case you have any doubt as to weather Tony Amador should be taken seriously? Look at Amador 4 Congress, baby:
www.amador4congress.com baby. The good news is that Amador can call the local political boss – he can get Peter Kuo to translate it for him!
Large and in charge in San Joaquin County baby! (I do miss the old-fashioned McDonald’s plain cookies though…)
A few weeks ago, we covered how the San Joaquin GOP stiffed Republican Tom Patti for Supervisor, and endorsed an un-funded Trump-Hater for Congress in CA-10. We believe it had a nexus with the paying clients that the local political boss is running for election.
Welcome to CA-09. Today’s featured attraction is a 4-time failed candidate running for office trying to make it a 5th.
This would be Antonio “Tony” Amador. From Vote Smart:
Candidate, United States House of Representatives, California, District 9, 2016
Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 9, 2014
Candidate, California Assembly, District 9, 2012
Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 11, 2010
The candidate snubbed by Stockton’s Tammany Hall? William Martinek. Check out Martinek’s website and read his story. It is pretty cool and represents a candidate with youth and potential. Tony Amador is 75, twice Martinek’s age.
While I think it is awesome that Amador is still involved publicly and interested at his age, the issue is his 4 failed runs and the laziness of the political machine in San Joaquin County with regard to finding candidates. Both Grifters recruited by the San Joaquin Tammany Hall live in CA-09 and neither will have enough money to walk and chew gum at the same time in their primaries. You’d think that they would do better than a 4 time loser in his mid 70’s?
This is Tony Amador circa 2016
In years’ past I supported Tony Amador, however, once a candidate runs and loses 3 times and they keep running (A la Suzanne Jones) it is hard to view them as any more than a grifter. It is a shame actually that Mr. Amador has allowed himself to be retreaded a fifth time and this time allowing himself to be used as a tool of retribution by jilted political bosses.
The Grifter in CA-10? She actually ran for CA-09 in 2018! Prior, Tony Amador ran for CA-09 in 2014 and 2016. Are you confused yet? Don’t be, that is a whole lot of losing in San Joaquin County.
To be continued…