Seems unethical people stick together: kurth2
I have the complaint by the Attorney General’s office, but at 48 pages, it is too large to download to the blog. If anyone would like it, email me and I will send it to you.
It seems that having Chris Jones as your campaign consultant is a sure bet for losing an election and getting into trouble. Just ask Paul Biane, Neil Derry, and now Don Kurth. Neil, time to find a new campaign consultant before it gets any worse.
This could be just as easily be titled, “How to sabotage your political campaign 101.” The answer is simple: Hire Chris Jones as your campaign consultant.
Jones lost three very big races where he had high profile candidates with large war chests. And for good measure, he also lost the campaign for Bertha Bea Cortes with all of his threats against grandmas and Grand Terrace’s decent citizens.
Jones was campaign consultant for Chris Lancaster, Don Kurth and Paul Biane. All three were “the candidate to beat” and in each case an underdog did just that.
Chris Jones was an unknown to iePolitics two years ago. He began sending us press releases for his candidates quite a while back and we printed many of them. Then we learned the truth about Chris Jones.
Don Kurth
We first discovered what a slime ball Chris Jones really is when he was the consultant for the Don Kurth. Combined with campaign manager Jessica Austin, the two ran the dirtiest campaign in San Bernardino County.
Jones and Austin hit the blogs using pseudonyms to disparage every opponent with outrageous claims and lies. No one ever said either was bright because pseudonyms don’t hide IP addresses and we all quickly learned what they were up to.
Jones and Austin represented the dirtiest candidate running for the 63rd Assembly District. Kurth was the only candidate to have a known cocaine habit, a history of domestic violence, or to have spent time in prison.
However, Kurth was the front runner going into the campaign and raised the most money. He also sent out the most negative campaign flyers. With all their subterfuge and fund raising he only garnered a third place showing.
Someone asked if revealing Don Kurth’s background isn’t mudslinging and therefore unethical. This is how I would answer that question about any candidate.
Anyone who applies for a job goes through a background check. The potential employer is allowed to review the results of that background check and determine based on those results if the applicant is suited to be hired.
In the case of an elected official, we the public, are the employers. We have the right to know what is in all candidates’ backgrounds before we elect them to public office. EVERYONE has skeletons in their closet and it is up to us to decide which skeletons we can live with in our elected representatives and which ones we cannot live with.
In the modern political world, well-financed candidates have checks (there is a term for it I’m still too sleepy to remember) run on themselves and their opponents to determine what can be used against them and to find ammunition against their opponents. One of the biggest mistakes candidates make is to try to hide their deficiencies or lie about them when found out. Continue reading
The 63rd Assembly District is one of two hotly contested Assembly seats in San Bernardino County. There are seven Republicans vying for the Republican nomination, six of which are actively campaigning for the seat. They are: Mike Morrell, Paul Chabot, Acquanetta Warren, Pat Gilbreath, Henry Nickle, and Don Kurth.
This was both an easy and hard decision for me, not as to whom to vote for, as I don’t live in the district, but rather whom to support. There are several very well qualified candidates.
There is only one candidate that I do not want to see win and that is Don Kurth. He was a convicted drug felon in his 20s and served prison time. Later in life he has had issues with domestic violence. He has also had some serious financial problems. But more important to me than any of that, Don, along with his campaign manager Jessica Austin, and campaign consultant Chris Jones, has run the single most unethical and dirty campaign in all of San Bernardino County. None of the three of them appear to have any ethics or integrity whatsoever. What they have done is shameful. And it would be shameful if a RINO such as Don Kurth received the Republican Party’s nod. Continue reading
The June election cycle is far from over and already my stomach is turning at the vicious tone of recent political attack ads. Though I have been largely silent over the past year while fighting my own battles, I will not stay silent when I see grave injustices being perpetrated.
I want to very publicly condemn a recent attack ad sent by Assembly candidate Don Kurth against my friend, Mike Morrell. I call on Don to publicly apologize to Mr. Morrell, and refrain from the disgusting practice of tearing down another candidate for one’s own self interest. Mike Morrrell doesn’t deserve this. I know Mike Morrell, and he is a good man. His wife and children do not deserve to be humiliated for nothing more than being successful, God-fearing people who never harmed anybody. Sometimes politics is downright disgusting. Continue reading
I am on a mission! We have three candidates running for office in San Bernardino County whose campaign consultant is Chris Jones. They are Don Kurth, Paul Biane, and Chris Lancaster and they have the three dirtiest campaigns in this county. All three need to be defeated!
Anyone with verifiable information about these three can send it to me at sharon@iepolitics.com or PO Box 2722, Apple Valley, CA 92307. Also, I can be reached at (760) 954-0280.
There is a mounting campaign—”Anyone but Kurth” seems to be the mantra. I am one of several people who have received “packages” with information about 63rd Assembly District candidate Don Kurth’s background. And from what I understand, already $250,000 has been raised to keep Don out of office. Why?
Each group has its own reasons, from HMO’s to other candidates to Republicans who fear he has so much baggage he would be beat in November. As I have time I will be posting some of the information I was sent. Continue reading
We have all enjoyed Chris Jones’, aka Taxfighter, comments on the blog. Chris, of course, is the campaign consultant to 63rd Assembly District candidate Don Kurth, San Bernardino County Second District Supervisor Paul Biane, and 59th District Assembly candidate Chris Lancaster. You see a pattern? Three sleezy candidates all hire the same sleezy campaign consultant. But this is hardly Chris Jones’ first foray into dirty politicking. He has a history . . . a long history. Here is about a campaign he ran almost 12 years ago. Fortunately for us, his candidate lost. Let’s hope his three candidates this year lose as well.
In trying to gain an edge in Tuesday’s primary election, Kellogg mailed fliers to central Orange County homes assailing candidate Ken Maddox for his “ties to a convicted child molester.”
Maddox quickly complained to the county GOP ethics committee, which set a hearing for 3 p.m. today. Continue reading
When I attended last night’s Tea Party Meet and Greet, I was not particularly surprised to see Don Kurth there with his campaign manager, Jessica Austin. I wasn’t even too surprised to see Jessica’s best friend and room mate there, Chantal Lovell.
I met Chantal a couple of years ago when I volunteered a little time at Assemblyman Paul Cook’s campaign headquarters. She is a very nice girl. Continue reading
A couple of years ago I was just getting to know a few lower-level politicos, one of them being Jessica Austin, who was serving as an aide to San Bernardino County Third District Supervisor at the time. I had been told by someone that San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos was the “dirtiest politician in San Bernardino County.” To be honest, at the time I didn’t really even know who Mike Ramos was.
I asked Jessica what the above comment meant. She indicated she wasn’t sure as all she knew about him was that he was a womanizer and cheated on his wife a lot, a whole lot. This was one of many conversations we had over the next year or so about cheating men and how much disdain we both had for men who could not keep it zipped up. We also had a lot of conversations into the early morning hours about ethics in government and politics and how there is so little of it. Jessica reminded me several times that her major included an ethics emphasis and she wanted to do her share to clean of up politics once she graduated from college. She also said that she would never work for an unethical boss. Continue reading
…The barrrio, yes…The Floor of the California State Assembly, not so much.
Any reader remember this tremendous Counting Crows song from 1994?.
Of course you do….Right?
Please say yes, or else I will really feel old…
Anyway, last night “El Caudillo” posted this wonderful Red County entry detailing how Rancho Cucamonga Mayor Don Kurth, an (ostensibly) Republican candidate for the 63rd Assembly District’s Republican Party nomination in the June 2010 primary election was gushing and salivating over the upcoming inauguration of Democratic President-elect Barack Obama and Obama’s cabinet of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hilda Soils, and Eric Holder. Mayor Kurth is in Washington to personally witness and cheerlead the first Democratic presidential inaugural in twelve years. Continue reading
Trivia question:
Which elected official in San Bernardino County is fawning over the inauguration of Democratic President-elect Barack Obama?
Is it:
No, although all would be expected and good guesses. Although this entry’s headline gave away the answer, the correct answer is “Republican” Rancho Cucamonga Mayor Don Kurth. Kurth is a prospective candidate for the 2010 GOP nomination for the 63rd Assembly District seat currently held by Republican Party incumbent Bill Emmerson.
Emmerson faces term limits and cannot stand again for re-election to the State Assembly. Continue reading
Rancho Cucamonga Mayor Don Kurth is a candidate running for the Republican Party nomination for the 63rd Assembly District. District incumbent Bill Emmerson is leaving due to term limits.
Kurth has spoken about his colorful past in overcoming an addiction to drugs and narcotics, as well as homelessness and a custodial jail sentence.
As he has moved on from his problems he encountered years ago, one incident stands out that the media may seek to address as the campaign moves forward.
Don Kurth, running as a “conservative Republican” refuses to deny a documented report accusing him of domestic violence against a romantic partner. The startling accusation was made in a sworn affidavit read to the Rancho Cucamonga City Council by the alleged victim’s 15-year-old daughter. Continue reading
Outraises all other candidates this quarter
Upland, California – Conservative candidate Mike Morrell, a 25-year small businessman and job creator, far outpaces his rivals for the Republican nomination in district-based donors. The March 17 finance report shows that he has the strongest base of local support and the best ability to encourage new voters to become involved in the Republican party. Continue reading
February 01, 2010, 10:01 AM
Republicans lose races when we nominate flawed candidates.
In 1998, we nominated Dan Lungren for Governor. The NRA and those supporting the Second Amendment so disliked him, they supported Gray Davis–and Lungren lost by 20 points.
In the 2006 GOP primary, Senator Abel Maldonado was the favorite to win the nomination for State Controller. But, due to his support of tax increases, big government, weak votes on the “life” issue, he lost. His legislative record, even then, was so poor that Assemblyman Tony Strickland was able to easily defeat him. Continue reading