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Orange Council Mailbox: Rudat Fires Back At Bilodeau

Last week, Denis Bilodeau mailed out a pretty devastating mailer against Carol Rudat making it crystal clear she is a carpetbagger who lied in her candidate statement about where she's been living.

This weekend, Rudat fired back with this hit on Denis:

I asked Denis what the deal with these expenses is. According to him, the cable reimbursement was a cost savings experiment by the Orange County Water District to cut out the cost of sending materials to OCWD trustees via courier, and e-mail them to trustees instead. Some older trustees aren't wired, so to speak, and so all trustees were hooked up to the Internet to make it a general policy covering all of them.  However, since some of the older trustees aren't exactly e-mail savvy, the experiment was abandoned after a couple of months.

As for the Washington, D.C. trip, Denis was testifying before Congress and he paid his own air fare. At the Yosemite event, according to Denis, he was the invited speaker.

Even Carol Rudat's "Orange Supporters Live In Newport Beach

This mailer from Carol Rudat arrived at Casa de Jubal on Saturday:

I'm waiting for Carol Rudat to send out a mailer with her grandfather's baptismal photograph.

There's a real "thou doth protest too much" theme to Carol Rudat's campaign: "I am to from Orange. I I am, I am, I am!"

Rudat's trying to compensate for the fact that she hasn't lived in Orange for a quarter-century (and has only lived here part-time since August) by printing her parent's wedding picture accompanied by gauzy tributes to the "values that guide me" -- which only makes her look even more phony and hypocritical in light of her blatant carpetbagging and lying about her "residency."

Even the back of the mailer where she lists "City of Orange Families Endorse Carol Rudat" is a fraud: half of the people on the list don't even live in the city.

But given Carol Rudat's elastic definition of what constitutes being an Orange resident, should we really be surprised by this additional deception?

District Attorney Investigating Carol Rudat

I've been hearing for some time that District Attorney investigators are investigating the whether Carol Rudat fraudulently registered to vote in Orange -- which would also make her candidacy fraudulent. Carol Rudat's temporary attorney at the October 2 hearing stated as much.

And apparently it is true. And they are closing in on her.

More to come...

Orange Council Mailbox: Bilodeau Smacks Rudat Over Lawsuits

Denis Bilodeau put a torpedo in the water today, aimed directly at carpetbagger Carol Rudat and smacking her on her habit of suing and being sued (see images below).

Carol Rudat has been involved in 25 lawsuits since 1995. That takes some doing. You can see for yourself here.

Carol Rudat Watch: Residency, Shmesidency

Orange Park Acres (where I grew up) had an Orange council candidate forum last night at Rancho Santiago College. An attendee wrote down carpetbagger Carol Rudat's answers to some key questions (which I confirmed with another person also in attendance):

Q: "The 1st line in your ballot statement, says you've lived in Orange almost your entire adult life.  Yet, you have been registered to vote in Anaheim and Newport beach for the last 30 years.  Please explain where you live?

Carol Rudat: "Living here, doesn't mean being here.  I may live elsewhere, however, my mother lives in Orange and my husband used to work here in Orange, and to me...thats good enough."

Astounding. Carol Rudat can rationalize anything. Her ballot statement about living in Orange almost her entire adult life is a bald faced lie, and when confronted with it she just waves it off.

Carol Rudat P.O. Box: Rudat Mails Again

Lots o' mail landed at Casa Cunningham today.

Among the pile was the second mail piece from carpetbagger Orange council candidate Carol Rudat today:

I spoke with a friend who attended the Old Towne Preservation Association candidate forum last night. It was apparently a rollicking affair with a robust format. My friend said Carol Rudat devoted her 4 minute opening statement largely to attacking the competence of county government (an odd tack considering her husband is the Interim CEO of the county) and railing at how bad things are in the City of Orange (equally odd considering her husband was Orange City Manager for 10 years, until May 0f 2005).

Rudat did propose her own policy initiative last night: if elected, she'll work to create a city department to deal with the homeless problem in Orange -- another odd tack since homelessness isn't a problem in Orange.

But then again, why should I expect an out-of-towner to know that?

Carol Rudat Hearing Post-Mortem

Carol Rudat had her day in court last week, and I thought a post-mortem is in order. Rather than try to provide a lengthy blow-by-blow account (Mrs. Rudat was on the stand for nearly on hour), I'll post the transcript later this week. In the meantime, I'll blog my analysis of why I think Judge James Gray ruled as he did.

Watching Carol Rudat testify was like watching someone try not to commit perjury. As Judge Gray put it, her testimony was "evasive and cloudy, and intentionally so."

For example, during his cross-examination attorney Phil Greer asked Rudat several times if she lived at the Center Street bungalow on April 1, 2006 (the day she registered to vote in Orange). Rudat refused to give a simple, "Yes." Instead, she'd respond, "That was my intention" or "As I understand it."

"Evasive, Cloudy" Carol Rudat's Votes Will be Counted

A little while ago, Judge James Gray undid his tentative ruling not to count any votes Orange Council candidate will receive, leaving it to the voters of Orange to send this carpetbagger packing.

I have to go to the Harbors, Beaches and Parks Commission meeting, so I won't be able to write comprehensive post until later.

Justice Tentatively Served In Carol Rudat Case

I went to this morning's hearing on whether carpetbagging Orange Council candidate Carol Rudat would be removed from the ballot. It was an all attorneys show, as neither Carol nor Dave Rudat were there.

I arrived a few minutes late, as Judge James Gray was wrapping up his explanation as to why he was denying the writ to have Carol Rudat removed from the ballot. Basically, Judge Gray felt it was too late to remove her name from the ballot, because doing so would impact too many other elections and that consideration outweighed others.

Neighbor Signs Statement Attesting Carol Rudat's A Carpetbagger

Here is the supplemental filing by attorney Phil Greer, acting for Orange resident Walter Pfaff, supporting the request to have Orange council candidate Carol Rudat barred from the ballot because she doesn't live in Orange. It was filed this afternoon and includes an statement from the owner of the neighboring property that -- contrary to the Rudats' claim -- no one was living in their Orange bungalow until late July.

Judge James Gray also required Carol Rudat to file a response by 3:30 p.m. today proving she has been domiciled at the Orange bungalow since April -- when she registered to vote there. The hearing is tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.