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eLECTION Watch 2006

NON-PROFIT SANTIAGO CREEK GREENWAY ALLIANCE LISTED AS ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION FOR
KATHY MOFFAT POLITICAL CAMPAIGN WEBSITE

Orange Unified Trustee Kathy Moffat’s official political campaign “dot org” registered website has the non-profit Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance listed as the official administrative organization. Former Villa Park Mayor Robert McGowan is listed as the website Administrator and his house address on Lincoln Street in Villa Park is listed as the Administrative Address. McGowan’s telephone number is listed as the contact number.

According to Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance President John Moore, the organization is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization. Internal Revenue Service regulations prohibit 501 (c) (3) organizations from political activity (see link below).

The Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance recently has focused on a city-wide walking trails system and safe bike trails, lanes and paths in Orange. In addition, the Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance has worked with other local cities to coordinate the Santiago Creek Clean-up Day as part of the annual statewide Inter-Costal Watershed Clean-up Day. The Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance has no official ties to the Orange Unified School District.

To receive a copy of the official registration information for Kathy Moffat’s political website- send your request with your FAX Number to:
OrangeNet.News@gmail.com

For information from the IRS on 503 (c) (3) regulations CLICK ON:
http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=155030,00.html

For more information on the Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance CLICK ON:
http://www.santiagogreenway.org/

OUSD CANDIDATE PAUL-DEAN MARTIN RECEIVES 1000 SPAM EMAILS FROM KIM NICHOLS CAMPAIGN EMAIL
OUSD Trustee Area 5 seat Candidate Paul-Dean Martin received 1000 emails from his opponent Kim Nichols campaign email address. The electronic barrage shut down his personal AOL site. The email (reproduced below) had the subject: Loser with the message: “You’re going to lose this race”. It was routed though Stanford University with the political email address from Kim Nichols' political campaign website.

Paul-Dean Martin who reported the SPAM attack to local authorities and to Stanford, also contacted Kim Nichols about the SPAM Attack. Nichols relayed the following by email to ONN about the attack:
“I have not initiated any such e-mails, and as a matter of practice, use that site only to respond to e-mails I receive. When I went on to check the e-mail site after receiving Mr. Martin's complaint, there were approximately 30 or so e-mails that had been returned to that e-mail address, indicting that they were "undeliverable". They were all addressed to Paul Dean Martin. Since Mr. Martin's e-mail notifying me of the problem, I have changed my password on the site, hoping that ends the problem. If it doesn't I will delete the e-mail address completely.” Kim Nichols email 10/28/06

The other candidate in the race for the OUSD Trustee Area 5 seat is Chris Emami. The Emami political website is registered to Chris Emami and the registered email address for the site is chrisn-1255@standfordalumni.org. One of Emami’s campaign workers Chris Nguyen, who uses the email address chrisn@stanford.edu . Nguyen responded by email to an ONN inquiry about any knowledge he might have about the emails. Nguyen responded:

This is bizarre. Who would have the time to send over 1000 emails? I
have spoken to a few people about the election before; I will see if any of
them know anything about this.
Thanks, Chris
-Chris Nguyen email 10/29/06

The following is the text of the 1000 SPAM emails:
Subject: Loser
Date: 10/24/2006 2:36:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
From: kimberlee@kimberleenichols4ousd.com
To: pauldeanmartin@aol.com

Sent from the Internet (Details)
Return-Path:
Received: from rly-xk04.mx.aol.com (rly-xk04.mail.aol.com [172.20.83.41]) by air-xk03.mail.aol.com (v113.6) with ESMTP id MAILINXK34-58f453e877437f; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:36:54 -0400
Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu (smtp2.stanford.edu [171.67.20.25]) by rly-xk04.mx.aol.com (v113.6) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXK43-58f453e877437f; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:36:52 -0400
Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 507874C85E
for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost.localdomain (www1.Stanford.EDU [171.67.22.26])
by smtp2.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1510A4C71F
for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
To: pauldeanmartin@aol.com
Subject: Loser
Message-Id: <20061024213652.1510A4C71F@smtp2.stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: kimberlee@kimberleenichols4ousd.com
X-AOL-IP: 171.67.20.25
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:5:141373001:14441827
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0

You're going to lose this race!


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Paul-Dean Martin Misinformed about El Modena/Canyon
ORANGE COMMUNITY COUNCIL PTA COMMUNITY FORUM

If being on the receiving end of a SPAM Attack wasn’t bad enough, Paul-Dean Martin also was not able to be at the El Modena H.S. or Canyon H.S. Community Forums because…well you be the judge.

October 18th 10:46 AM- Paul-Dean Martin sends Christina Bayles, President of the Orange Community Council of PTA’s the following email:

Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:46 AM
Subject: Candidate Forum
The League Of Women Voters has the following posted on their web site but, El Modena has no record of this happening tonight and I have received no information about this forum. Is this still taking place tonight? If so what time and where should candidates arrive.
October 18th
Orange Community Council of PTA Candidate Forum
El Modena H.S. 7:00 pm -8:30

Thank you
Paul-Dean Martin
Candidate Orange School Board

Thursday October 19th Bayles replies that she did not see Martin’s message:
First, I must apologize for not responding sooner. I have not been at my desk today (actually Wednesday as it's already Thursday), having been at meetings and home only long enough this evening to grab a snack and leave for the Candidate Forum. If I had seen your message, sent this morning, you could have participated in the forum, assuming you were not committed elsewhere. I'm truly sorry.

After explaining how the PTA tried to contact every candidate by certified mail and trying to find out what happened, Bayles writes:
Mr. Martin, we will discover what the difficulty was, but now it's vitally important you have the necessary information so you can participate in the Candidate Forum at Canyon High School next Wednesday at 7 p.m. I sincerely hope that evening is open for you so you can be a participant at Canyon.

After rearranging his schedule, Martin went to Canyon H.S. that Wednesday night only to find no meeting. Martin then immediately called Mrs. Bayles. Martin reports the following:
I immediately phoned Mrs. Bayles who swore she told me the event was on Tuesday evening. I just happened to have a copy of here email with me and read it back to her. She apologized and said she would send out an immediate email to al involved explaining my absence from the meeting was her fault. As of Thursday morning at 10:00 I have not seen this email.

OC BLOG on Orange City Races
The OC Blog has been covering the mailers for the Orange City and Orange Unified races and keeping up on Carol Rudat. Check out the following links:

http://www.ocblog.net/ocblog/carol_rudat/index.html

http://www.ocblog.net/ocblog/orange_mayors_race/index.html

http://www.ocblog.net/ocblog/2006/10/orange_council__7.html


http://www.ocblog.net/ocblog/2006/10/orange_city_mai.html

http://www.ocblog.net/ocblog/2006/10/orange_council__6.html

http://www.ocblog.net/ocblog/2006/10/kim_nicohols_wa.html

http://www.ocblog.net/ocblog/2006/10/ousd_mailbox_th.html


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