Orange Council Mailbox: Rudat In The Mail First

Even as she is being taken to court to have her name stricken from the ballot, carpetbagging Orange council candidate is in the mail with a piece that is a combination of chutzpah, spin and preventive medicine.

You can see the mailer here.

The headline is classic spin:

"Her Roots Are In Orange..."

...even if her residency isn't!

Then there's the picture of her 1971 Villa Park High School student ID on the mailer's cover. Somehow, I don't think the Superior Court will accept that as proof of residency.

And how about the gauzy recounting of the values her father imparted to her?:

...honesty in all dealings, do the right thing when people are not watching...

Such as registering to vote in a house you don't live in so you can run for city council in a city you don't live in.

Finally the preventive medicine:

People ask me "why run for City Council and put yourself up for personal attacks?".

A good question. The mailer omits the answer Carol Rudat gave at the Orange Chamber of Commerce candidate's forum: that she's dreamed of running for Orange City Council ever since she was 12 years old. Instead, it's standard candidate pablum.

To any Orange voter familiar with Carol Rudat carpetbagging, this mail piece will evoke disbelief at her nerve. By getting in the mail first -- and presumably tapping the Rudats' considerable wealth to be in it often -- the Rudat campaign is banking on they can garner enough votes before too many Orange residents become aware of she is a carpetbagger.

I don't underestimate Rudat's candidacy. She has a very good consultant in Scott Taylor, who has built an impressive track record in Orange -- he ran Mayor Pro Tem Carolyn Cavecche and Councilman Jon Dumitru's winning campaigns. In fact, this mailer is thematically and stylistically much like the mail Taylor did for Dumitru two years ago -- heavily evoking the candidate as a deeply enmeshed in the fabric of the community.

Except in Jon Dumitru's case it was true (Jon is endorsing Mayor Mark Murphy and Denis Bilodeau for council).

Comments

[Rudat would Ruin Orange!]

If you want to know what people think of Carol Rudat ask any Real Estate in Orange or Newport Beach. Then post your answers here.

[Rudat would Ruin Orange!]

I mean Real Estate Agent...:)

[The Queen of the Weenies on the Hill!]

It's a classic American tale..rich girl grows up with everything she ever wants...marries highly paid government worker…they move to Newport Beach and get even richer…rich husband gets fired…rich wife decides to avenge his honor and run for the council seat so she can do in those dastardly men who did that terrible thing to her man…and then they both get even richer doing real estate deals with the political clout of an elected office. But will the voters buy into this scheme? We will soon see.

[The Queen of the Weenies on the Hill!]

I hope she sends that brochure to all the lowland Panthers who hate V.P.! That will get her LOTS of votes.

[Shawn Fago]

Hey look at that... Rudat was a "Weenie on the Hill" just like me.

[Wow, Shawn]

Shaw a Wennie,

Where do you live now has to be further away then Newport Beach, maybe you can run in Orange aswell as a "Write in Candidate".

[Villa Park is NOT Orange]

Anyone else notice that her whole piece lauds her heritage from Villa Park... So Orange voters should vote for her because, even though she lives in Newport Beach, she grew up in Villa Park.

Huh?

I believe some students that live in Orange attend Villa Park High School.

[The Queen of the Weenies on the Hill!]

"I believe some students that live in Orange attend Villa Park High School."

Yes that's true...and those of us that are REAL Villa Park residents hire them to wash our cars which are most often German and very expensive! Go Carol! You are one of us!

A very good piece...well done. It always ticks off the competing political consultants when they are beat out of the gate with really good mail. Most Orange voters don't read blogs, nor do they care what a bunch of political hacks think. They respond to these kinds of hometown feel good peices. I'll bet this is the first impression that most of the voters in Orange have recieved about Rudat. None of them care or understand all of this inside basbell crap that all of you rant about here.

[Hi Scott!]

So you hope, Scott Taylor.

[Strong Coffee]

None of them care or understand all of this inside basbell crap that all of you rant about here.

I think they will care when the mail about her carpetbagging starts to hit.