With former Irvine Council member Tammy Kim’s withdrawl from the ballot for the special election for Irvine City Council District 5, the endorsements for the “other Democrat” in the race, Betty Martinez-Franco, have been rolling in.
Betty has the endorsement from Congressman Dave Min, Assembly Rep Cottie Petrie-Norris and Democrats of Greater Irvine. In addition, Carolyn Inmon and Ryan Dack from the South County Community College District have endorsed Martinez-Franco.
To learn more about Betty, click here: https://www.bettyforirvine.com/meet-betty
Betty is yet another budding career politician,hoping to ride the public gravy train to ever higher public office until she too, can pay her credit card bills with unreported campaign contributions and buy some nice shit at Nordstroms. She has probably taken the DEMs women in leadership seminars and got the dirty lowdown on how to score a pair of Laboutins.
Isn’t Anthony Kuo the republican candidate in this race? Talk about a career politician.
Career Politicians of both parties have a special place in hell. They will all sit on a hot lava bench and swap stories with Joe Biden. In Hell, Biden will tell the same story over and over again, changing it slightly each time until his hellmates finally cant take it anymore and beg Satan to move him into Mass Murderer row with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Pol Pot due to his pro abortion inititives that resulted in the deaths of countless unborn human beings.
he is a Republican
I said BOTH PARTIES… lol
As a +30-year District 5 resident, I urge D5 residents vote for Betty Martinez Franco for Irvine D5 who is the SOLE Democratic candidate running against two MAGA extremists.
Betty is a 21-year D5 resident who has raised two daughters in D5 that graduated from IUSD schools (and has 1 granddaughter who’s also an IUSD student ).
Betty, who’s a small business owner, will serve with transparency and integrity to represent the interests of ALL D5 residents–no matter their political leanings.
Betty has been endorsed by Congressman Dave Min, Assm Rep Cottie Petrie-Norris, Planned Parenthood, Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense, and many others.
Vote for Betty in the April 15th special election! Visit her website for more info: https://www.bettyforirvine.com.
https://voiceofoc.org/2025/03/is-an-irvine-city-council-candidate-a-businessman-or-government-employee/
“Former Irvine City Councilman Anthony Kuo is looking to rejoin the dais in a special election for the last open seat on city council, advertising himself as a businessman on the ballot.
“But none of his campaign materials reference his day job: a manager in the Orange County Auditor-Controller’s office, where he works at least 40 hours a week according to his time cards reviewed by Voice of OC.”
Well done Voice of OC in shining a spotlight on this career politician. Kuo already takes home over $120,000 in a government position, and he also claims to run a vague business 30 hours a week — and yet he also has time to be city councilmember??
VOTE FOR Betty Martinez Franco for Irvine D5 who is the SOLE Democratic candidate running against two MAGA extremist candidates!
Betty Martinez Franco has also been endorsed by retired Congresswoman Katie Porter, retired State Senator Josh Newman, the Democratic Party of Orange County, OC Young Democrats, the Iranian Democrats of California, and many, many others — https://www.bettyforirvine.com/endorsements
DS Irvine resident and voter … Jeremy Ficarola? Jeremy’s bias, at a time when we should all be working together, is a detriment to his party. First of all, Betty has been pulled in by Kathleen Treseder…much like Melinda Lui, aka Tammy Kim the second. These are people who seek to control us. Look at Treseder’s record. 1) want all existing and new homes to be retrofitted with electric appliances…stoves, furnaces, fireplaces, dryers, etc. And if you are a senior citizen on a fixed income, too bad, you have to PAY (and it’s not cheap) to have your home retrofitted, and then purchase these electric appliances. If they can’t afford it, then they will not be able to sell their home until they can. 2) Treseder is responsible for inciting riots by telling Dems that the Republicans are coming for them (on video) 3) caused UCI students to go into a panic when Treseder announced that UCI has a huge population of undocumented students…and the list goes on as far as the issues this woman has created in Irvine. So Jeremy, I suggest you consider who you want to represent District 5 who isn’t so easily manipulated by Kathleen Treseder!
I find it hilarious to watch DEMS eat each other alive.
The far left socialist trans loving wing at war with the more
Moderate centrist DEMS that actually understand that the “big tent” they try to corral and turn into some powerful coalition is nothing but a massive collection of motley special interest – identity politics groups that really could not give two shits about your “ Identity Group/ “Victim “ community/ protected class…
As stated, the Democrat party (stop calling it the “Democratic” party please..) will continue to swirl the toilet bowl as long as the far left shot callers run the show and the more moderate elements continue to cower in fear of being ostracized for not being a “True Believer” ..
Your stances and positions are unsustainable given the paradigm shift in perception regarding what you hold dear.
Abortion? It’s not “reproductive health” .. it’s sanctioned infanticide.
Trans “ rights” ? They have all the same rights as the rest of us. Stop trying to normalize and position as a “civil rights movement” a creepy sexual fetish fueled by internet porn that is played out in public by people that demand that you play along.
Immigration? Stop trying to create an open border society where the dregs of the earth can show up anytime they choose, commit crimes and be shielded and supported by idiots that think that “perhaps they just had a bad childhood.. cut em a break “
Climate change? The left has been shouting about the end of the world for decades, yet none of the computer models have come to fruition, yet we now upend our economy to incorporate the doctrines and dogmas of what is now a new religion for atheist leftists that need a cause and raison d’ etre.
Fighting Elon Musk? The man is a hero for trying to implement fiscal reform that has been promised by every successive administration for decades, only to give lips service and do absolutely nothing. And what does he get in return? Wild false accusations and character assasination by activists that firebomb Tesla storefronts and vehicles and insane Dem reactionaries that damage the personal vehicles of innocent people in what is nothing but a progressive kristalnacht by those whipped up by the leftist propaganda machine and the MSM.
We will dismantle your precious attempt to destroy the country. If you ever regain power, you will have to try to re-implement all of your stealth programs and policies in full view of the voting public.
Good luck with that.
I missed the part where Dems are eating each other alive
check your 401K Bob
Dan, I guess you don’t quite understand negotiation. DJT is forcing all of these people back to the table. The benefits come later. You must have a problem with delayed gratification.
To quote our President…
“For decades, the United States slashed trade barriers on other countries, while those nations placed massive tariffs on our products and created outrageous non-monetary barriers to decimate our industries,” Trump said. “And in many cases, the non-monetary barriers were worse than the monetary ones. They manipulated their currencies, subsidized their exports, stole our intellectual property, imposed exorbitant taxes to disadvantage our products, adopted unfair rules and technical standards, and created filthy pollution havens.”
If you had any brains at all… you would buy on the dip.
But you are probably one of those morons that look at your portfolio of mutual funds and watch it tank fretting because the sky is falling.
When the economy is kicking ass after the negotiations have concluded and the dust settles you willnot have the balls to admit you were short sided and reactionary.
Ask yourself ” why am I am against delivering a beatdown to other countries that are screwing us over, paying slave wages and unleashing environmental havoc? ”
I thought you were the party that cares about al that stuff… LOL
Buy on the dip. Or sit it out and bitch like all the people in your bubble.
What part of the following paragraph do you not see intraparty squabbling and put downs?
” Jeremy Ficarola? Jeremy’s bias, at a time when we should all be working together, is a detriment to his party. First of all, Betty has been pulled in by Kathleen Treseder…much like Melinda Lui, aka Tammy Kim the second. These are people who seek to control us. Look at Treseder’s record. 1) want all existing and new homes to be retrofitted with electric appliances…stoves, furnaces, fireplaces, dryers, etc. And if you are a senior citizen on a fixed income, too bad, you have to PAY (and it’s not cheap) to have your home retrofitted, and then purchase these electric appliances. If they can’t afford it, then they will not be able to sell their home until they can. 2) Treseder is responsible for inciting riots by telling Dems that the Republicans are coming for them (on video) 3) caused UCI students to go into a panic when Treseder announced that UCI has a huge population of undocumented students…and the list goes on as far as the issues this woman has created in Irvine. So Jeremy, I suggest you consider who you want to represent District 5 who isn’t so easily manipulated by Kathleen Treseder!”
“Eating Each Other Alive” is simply what is known as a “Descriptive Verb”.
I’m betting you had to take remedial English in your first year of college.
Am I right Dan?
I perceived you as being able to not confuse imagery with literal meaning.
Do you condone damaging the Tesla Vehicles of innocent people Dan?
Apparently 31 percent of DEMS think its just fine?
Are you familiar with Kristalnacht Dan?
These…. are your people… LOL
The Party that “cares about people”
You are so fvcking doomed.
Vandals should be arrested; but there’s little evidence this is a coordinated attack of Democrats
LOL… Gloss over what I wrote.
31 percent of Democrats polled think its ok.
Just fine. Appropriate. Acceptable.
So if you are standing in a room with 100 Democrats, 1 out of 3 will be just fine with this.
And you guys have the nerve to characterize Conservatives as ” Nazis”…
The Main stream media and DEM Messaging say this is “resistance”.
No Dan, Its on par with what occurred in Germany on Nov 9, 1938 – Nov 10, 1938.
Powered by the same ideological hatred that spawned Kristallnacht.
These…. are your people Dan.
And this, is why you are destined to failure as a political party on a national level.
The False narratives, DNC talking points and buzz phrase mantras are simply not going to work anymore. The MSM is so discredited an loathed… they have simply been replaced as source of public opinion by technology.
Again, Dan… my point is simply, these are your people.
Proud?
Remember Dan, Buy on the DIP.
Thank me later.