I’m always happy to run ther press releases of any Democratic candidate for office on this blog regardless of how I personally feel about their electability. Lately, I’ve been doing a deeper dive into Lisa Ramirez, a Democratic candidate from Santa Ana running for Congress in CA-40 as a carpetbagger. Normally, if a candidate has held elected office and moves nearby to run for office to represent most constituents they have represented in previous elective office, I’m ok with this. But Ramirez has never been elected.
I emailed her campaign via her website Monday and left a message to a live person at her law firm Tuesday afternoon. She hasn’t called back. I don’t expect her too. She seems to be the choice of people I trust, so this post offers what I discovered by digging into her record.
- She’s pro-life. Not pro-choice. When asked a question if she supports a woman’s right to have an abortion, she says she supports Roe v. Wade. And I support the World Football League’s Southern California Sun who used to play in Angels Stadium but like Roe v. Wade, neither exists today. When pressed, she supports a woman’s right to choose if a pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. That’s not good enough period. Her husband is a minister, which might explain it. But if elected to Congress and a bill to restore abortion rights nationwide would come up, I don’t trust how she’d cast a ballot. She answers the pro-choice question the way Trump’s cabinet members answer the question, “did Trump lose the 2020 election?” It’s never a yes or no.
- She’s a landlord, yet hypes affordability. Not sure how many single-family homes she owns or what they are, but when you’re a landlord, rents need to cover your mortgage payments, property taxes and maintenance, so are the rents market rate or below market rate? What is her rental income? If you want to advocate for affordability, are you walking the walk? I’ll bet tenants would like to know where they stand.
- She’s a carpetbagger. She lives in Rep. Dave Min’s new district, not in CA40. That’s not a deal breaker, but I question her ties to CA40.
- Her voter registration shows inconsistency. She was a Democrat until she re-registered as NPP in September 2024 — weeks before election day. But she’s wants the party’s endorsement? She re-registered as a Democrat last summer prior to announcing her candidacy for CA40. Flip-flopper!
- In mid-January, she called for people to stop knocking other Democrats running for Congress in CA40 — so no going after Joe Kerr or Esther Kim-Varet; and on her Twitter/X.com account, she hasn’t. However, she hired Briana Walker a.k.a. “InMiniVanHell” on X.com as a social media/communications consultant. And Walker, who called Joe Kerr a Republican cos-playing as a Democrat in 2024, has focused her ire on Kim-Varet with attacks on Kim-Varet’s Coto de Caza home and even posting a tweet (non-deleted) criticizing another Esther Kim for participating in a community 5K with a mascot from Chick-Fil-A suggesting this Kim was an ally for the LGBTQ community. The problem with that — it’s not the Esther Kim-Varet running for Congress. Because all Asian women look alike, right? (Ran that joke by three Asian women who said that phrase before I did and approved it). Walker seems to get hired by Congressional candidates who live outside the district they run for as her last paid gig was for Joanna Weiss who lost a primary to Dave Min. And should she criticise Varet-Kim for moving into the district to run for Congress, it’s exactly what Weiss did when she rented a Newport Beach condo for Xmas 2023. Unlike her work for the Weiss campaign, Walker has not disclosed her paid relationship with Ramirez on her Twitter/X.com fed which isn’t illegal but is certainly unethical. And Ramirez needs to take responsibility for the smack-talking tweets after she posted about knocking on doors , not Democrats.
We still have time before the convention to unite around a Democratic candidate for CA 40. Kim-Varet has the most cash on hand. Kerr has the most important endorsements, especially among labor unions, and Ramirez has a smattering of CA40 endorsements and endorsements from electeds in OC who cannot vote for them. The Democrat that can win a spot in November needs to be someone who can get non-Trump Republicans, Independents, and Democrats who vote.
On Ramirez, she’s a one-issue candidate at best (immigration), weak on affordability, wrong on abortion, not a resident.
Editor’s note: I inaccurately spelled Lisa Ramirez’s last name several times in this post; I have corrected the errors and apologize for the mistakes.
Can’t believe this race baiter lib is tryna get elected. She’s just as bad as Young Kim why is she running?
So tired of liars in our politics like Ramirez !
At this point, I would say that hiring or associating with Briana Walker is disqualifying for any Democrat in Orange County. She appears to be clearly racist and she looks to be all about tearing down Democrats, not trying to get folks elected, even when the stakes are so high for those of us who care about this country.
I was sent a screen grab of one of her tweets going after Esther for paying for mobile billboards calling for Young Kim to vote to release the Epstein files only to discover that her husband’s family was in them. Now that’s accurate but lacking context. An aunt used an email list to invite people in Palm Beach to an event and Jeffrey Epstein was on that email invite list. Context matters. But if my client has asked me NOT to do something and I did it anyway, I’d be fired.
Walker has apologized but even the apology is insincere; point is, Ramierz has called for no knocking other Democrats while paying Walker to do just that.
Walker has a serious accuracy problem; a 2024 tweet asking if a political consultant with the last name “Kerr” was related to Joe Kerr; why not ask if Joe is related to Steve Kerr of the Warriors so I can get access to tix?
Additonally, she posts that Young Kim entered this country illegally. That’s not true either: No, U.S. Representative Young Kim (R-CA) did not come to the United States illegally.She immigrated legally from South Korea with her family at age 12 in 1975. Her family first moved to Guam (a U.S. territory), where she completed junior high school, then to Hawaii, where she attended high school. She later settled in California, attended USC, became a naturalized U.S. citizen, and has frequently described herself as a legal immigrant who went through the full immigration process, including holding a green card for five years before applying for citizenship.
I’d give her a class on factchecking but why bother.
I recently had an in depth conversation with Lisa about her views on abortion because I was concerned about these stories that keep circulating. She said quite clearly that she believes abortion is part of healthcare and should be a decision the woman makes on her own or in consultation with her family and/or medical professionals. I asked her about the Hyde amendment (prevents federal funds from paying for Medicaid abortions). She responded that Medicaid should pay for all healthcare and that includes abortion care.
That’s not what she told three other sources, but thanks for chiming in.
Lisa’s problem is three fold: she’s a carpetbagger who doesn’t live in the district and has never run for office. Her initial responses about being pro-life were compared to Trump cabinet appointees being asked if Trump lost the 2020 election. Lastly, she’s a single issue candidate running in a district where that issue is not likely shared by most voters.
Who is Lisa Rameriz?
Yet another candidate coming out of the woodwork, hoping to flip an 9-point Deep Red seat?
Or are you just being sparky and purposely misspelling and disrespecting Lisa Ramirez?
I’m a state delegate, with a vote in this race. I’m uncommitted to any of the candidates – and I have concerns about Lisa’s stance on reproductive health issues.
But at least have the decency to correctly spell her name when you’re denouncing her.
Transposition error fixed two days ago. If that’s all your concerned about, you haven’t Done your homework.
I thought you’d already surrendered this race to the GOP. Perry got out because he doesn’t think it’s winnable and he still has an active FPPC complaint against him for renaming a popular “march for our lives” social media account. I believe in my heart of hearts it can be won by a Democrat who can peel off non-Trump,Republicans, independents and motivated Democrats.
Ya got me Eugene; I fixed the mistake in the headline but found other consistent errors in the spelling in the text. Those corrections have been made. While you are ascertaining your vote for her, ask why she re-registered as NPP in Sept 2024
RAMIREZ is a relatively common last name, Dan.
If you need a reminder of how it is spelled, take a look at your own screenshot of her post on X where she spells it correctly. Twice.
I still see:
“deeper dive into Lisa Rameriz” Ramirez [1]
“But Rameriz has never” [2]
“but liek Roe v Wade” like
“Sje answers” She
“I’ll bet tennents” tenants
“ire on Kim-Varete” Kim-Varet
“(non-deleted) criticzing anothe” criticizing another
“should she criticise” criticize – unless you prefer British spelling
“paid relationship with Rameriz” [3]
“And Rameriz needs” [4]
“and Rameriz has” [5]
“vote for them” her [unless Lisa refers “them”]
“On Rameriz, she’s” [6]
Additionally, in your tags you list “Lisa Rameriz” and “Yong Kim”.
You corrected headline and first instance and added correct spelling in the end note, but left incorrect 6 times.
Is proofreading dead? Even my spell check picks up all of these, except pronoun choice. There are also some minor punctuation/spacing errors. I’ll let you find them.
Uncorrected errors like these (despite your claim that you corrected them) make this blog less credible each day.
Your offer of a class on factchecking is more laughable when you clearly need a class on proofreading!
Yep; thanks for the edits. My keyboard has been wiggy lately
Hey, thank you again for the edits. I had done all this two days ago and hit “update” on the edits when the browser crashed on me. So none of the changes stuck. So had to go back and do it all over again.