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City Ballot (Probably) Set-Early Analysis and Predictions on Campaign

By Timothy Myers SR. — Tim Myers

City Clerk Sarah Gorman confirms that TimBen Boydston and Laurie Ender filed their candidate papers today.  Signatures are pending verification but it looks like this is your ballot, the few but faithful voters in City Council elections:

Laurie Ender

Bob Kellar

Ed Colley

TimBen Boydston

Jon Hatami

With respect to the campaign, it is going to be REALLY fast.  It is today a mere 13 weeks minus two days until Vote Counting day.  Most of the vote by mail ballots will be returned in about nine to ten weeks.  Remember in 2010 David Gauny and TimBen Boydston had announced their candidacies for months prior to the filing deadline?  This is going to seem like a parliamentary election.

Without predictions on outcome this is how I believe the campaigns will go:

Laurie Ender will run a unicorns and sunshine campaign on how everything is wonderful in Santa Clarita and even the bad things like heroin are just an opportunity for us all to shine! Her mailers will contain pictures of smiling children, Buck McKeon or both.

According to public filings, Bob Kellar had over $100K in his campaign coffers in 2008.  For a variety of reasons this year I believe he will struggle to raise and spend $20,000.  If Bob is wise he will spend every dime available telling supporters to bullet vote for him and him only.  But  don’t worry, there will be plenty of mailers about him because….

Ed Colley will run an extremely negative and nasty campaign AGAINST Bob Kellar, and  yes, I predict it will use as its centerpiece the “proud racist” meme.  No matter how one may feel about Bob Kellar, we will probably all have stomach aches before this ends.

During 2010 TimBen had already by this time raised (fairly) substantial money, had a committee of volunteers and even proxies running around speaking on his behalf.  And don’t forget the signs!  Not much activity right now, which makes one wonder if he mails it in for 2012.

And we love Jon Hatami, and look forward to his campaign which will be energetic and entertaining if underfunded.  One thing about not having deep knowledge of City matters is that he might talk about (and already has) something different than the usual ten things for the last two centuries.

 

Comments (30)

  1. LarMccJanuary 12, 2012 at 5:02 pm
    So, who gets your vote(s) Tim? You were in the Hatami camp at one time, though things may have changed.
  2. Timothy Myers SRJanuary 12, 2012 at 5:32 pm
    I will not withdraw my vote for Hatami. Ender gets my other vote because I want her to set a Santa Clarita record and find out if Bill Reynolds and Dave Bossert’s head might actually explode.
  3. LarMccJanuary 12, 2012 at 6:11 pm
    Ender? Really? My head might explode as well. You are too much in the know to vote for her.
  4. Timothy Myers SRJanuary 12, 2012 at 6:26 pm
    Bob Kellar, bless his heart, reached his “sell by” date in 2010. Ed Colley threaten the employment of political opponents. I don’t think TimBen is serious this time. I am not going to bullet vote. That leaves Ender.
  5. LarMccJanuary 12, 2012 at 9:16 pm
    Kellar is the ONLY council member with any integrity. The man tries his best to serve the community, not himself. I have not agreed with him on some decisions, though I agree with him on most. He always tried to do what is best for the city, and that earns my respect. Ender is nothing more than Ferry’s puppet. A vote for her is a vote for Ferry. And, don’t get me started on him.
  6. RemStarJanuary 12, 2012 at 10:39 pm
    Calm down, Lar. You are dangerously obsessed.
  7. IHeartSCVJanuary 12, 2012 at 10:43 pm
    Or perhaps he’s just understandably off-put by Kellar’s company on the dais.
  8. LarMccJanuary 13, 2012 at 9:47 am
    If watching city politics makes me obsessed, then you can call me proud to be obsessed.
  9. LarMccJanuary 12, 2012 at 9:27 pm
    I’d rather write in Johnny Pride than vote Ender.
  10. Everyone ElseJanuary 12, 2012 at 6:14 pm
    Who is “we”?
  11. Timothy Myers SRJanuary 12, 2012 at 6:18 pm
    The royal “We” loves Jon Hatami.
  12. drydenfireJanuary 12, 2012 at 10:56 pm
    The guys from that KHTS radio show Jack & Rod have already endorsed Johnny Hatami. And Steve Langford is apparently coming out for him next week on The Wrap Up Show.
  13. TimBen BoydstonJanuary 12, 2012 at 8:51 pm
    Tim Meyers Sr., I am serious. I would be honored to have your support, as I have had in the past. Sincerely, TimBen
  14. RemStarJanuary 12, 2012 at 10:45 pm
    You have a great future on the city council behind you.
  15. AnnetteJanuary 12, 2012 at 10:56 pm
    TimBen you have my full support
  16. Angelo CandelabraJanuary 13, 2012 at 8:47 am
    Well and cleverly said. During the December 2006 community process for ranking applicants for the remaining year of Cameron Smyth’s term, Boydston was ranked an unimpressive 8th. After council deadlocked on the 7 higher ranked applicants, with the meeting getting late and the Christmas holidays approaching, Boydston was appointed as a placeholder. Had he approached his responsibilities with more humility and less division (in terms of style, not issue positions/votes) Boydston could have parlayed his fluke appointment into an actual political future. Instead, he behaved in the manner of his personality expected by the committee of community leaders who ranked him 8th. And it is because of this, and not his positions on past issues, that Boydston is a distant underdog in his quest to return to the city council.
  17. Phil EllisJanuary 13, 2012 at 11:04 am
    If Tim had run at the next election, as an incumbent, he would likely have won, but he honored his comittment to the council to not run in the next election. Hard not to like someone who honors his commitments.
  18. Jim FarleyJanuary 13, 2012 at 8:04 am
    TimBen, You are the clear choice, and far above the other non-incumbants, as an alternative to Ender. During your previous council tenure you showed were the best at really listening to the regular folk in the city. I’m behind you all the way.
  19. Timothy Myers SRJanuary 13, 2012 at 9:00 am
    TimBen: I will weigh that carefully, but I can’t help but think it is just time for me to line up behind the Dauphin and the minions of Northbridge, Northbridge Pointe, and Northpark as we take our rightful places as Overlords of Santa Clarita, joined post annexation by our loyal vassals in Tesoro. Canyon Country, Saugus, Old Valencia and Newhall AWAKE and grovel in our shadow!
  20. Phil EllisJanuary 13, 2012 at 11:07 am
    North Valencia has one vote, Canyon Country has one vote, Valencia/Newhall has three votes. We in Valencia proper have no need to grovel to you outlander upstarts.
  21. MikeJanuary 13, 2012 at 11:16 am
    I JoAnne Darcy the only one to ever hail from Saugus?
  22. Timothy Myers SRJanuary 13, 2012 at 1:25 pm
    That would be correct!
  23. Timothy Myers SRJanuary 13, 2012 at 1:27 pm
    Those three votes are in thrall to the one vote. And those who think that Laurie Ender is Frank Ferry’s puppet have not seen how the strings work.
  24. LarMccJanuary 13, 2012 at 6:26 pm
    So who pulls the strings? The Freemasons? The Rand Corporation? Please educate us.
  25. SplashguardJanuary 13, 2012 at 11:06 am
    Timben, I once heard that you claim to read resolutions that you vote on. If so do you also think about what you have read? Such practices might make you look like a show-off workaholic, (given the volume of the information provided on some issues,) tend to make other Council Members feel threatened, and cause the public to think you lack humility pretending to be some sort of pseudo intellectual. Will you moderate this questionable behavior, so you will seem more like a player if you are elected?
  26. Saugus SplasherJanuary 13, 2012 at 9:42 pm
    Yawn.
  27. drydenfireJanuary 12, 2012 at 9:31 pm
    i remember hatami’s campaign announcement when he said “ask not what scv can do for you, but what you can do for scv!” It seemed so moving…but oddly familiar….
  28. Timothy Myers SRJanuary 13, 2012 at 10:09 am
    Since Jon H. does not have to worry about a “misstep” losing him the election, I would advice him to do any crazy, half baked thing just to increase his name ID for a future election.
  29. PetzJanuary 13, 2012 at 4:56 am
    What does one have to do to qualify as a “write in” candidate?
  30. Ghost of Election PresentJanuary 13, 2012 at 9:48 am
    It’s tough. It’s easier to have the balls to file your papers in the first place.

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