Orange County Elections 1995

Councilwoman Barbara Kiley, who played a key role in last year's passage of Proposition 187, announced Monday that she will run for the 72nd District Assembly seat that Ross Johnson will vacate if he is elected to the state Senate next month. Kiley said she was asked to run by the architects of Proposition 187, the ballot measure that bars illegal immigrants from receiving welfare, public health care and public education.

Orange County Dist. Atty. Anthony J. Rackauckas on Friday asked state prosecutors to take over the election misconduct case against Republican Assemblyman Scott Baugh, placing the politically charged issue in the hands of the new Democratic attorney general. Rackauckas, a former judge who took office earlier this month, said he cannot handle the case because of a conflict of interest involving past discussions he had with two fellow judges about Baugh's situation. Atty. Gen.

GOP Assemblyman Scott Baugh and two political associates were indicted by the Orange County Grand Jury on charges stemming from a special election in November. Baugh--elected as part of the recall of former Assemblywoman Doris Allen--must face voters again March 23. SCOTT BAUGH Attorney; lawmaker Charges: Four felony counts of lying on campaign finance reports; 18 misdemeanor counts of violating state election law Maximum sentence: Seven years in prison RHONDA CARMONY Campaign manager to Rep.

An Orange County judge on Monday delayed the felony trial of Assemblyman Scott R. Baugh for three months, moving it closer to the November general election. Baugh had been scheduled to go to trial June 8, less than a week after the primary in which he faces five GOP opponents. He is accused of lying to cover up his role in a GOP effort to rig a 1995 election. Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno also postponed a decision on motions by Baugh to remove Dist. Atty.

A judge declared a mistrial Friday in the felony trial of Republican campaign aide Rhonda Carmony after jurors deliberating her fate for three days declared themselves deadlocked in favor of conviction. Carmony, 27, didn't comment as she left the courtroom with her attorney, Creighton Laz. "Imagine sitting in trial for five weeks and getting this kind of a decision," Laz said. "We thought we had a good chance to win." Assistant Dist. Atty. Brent Romney said his office will decide by Aug.

Orange County's flock of Republican lawmakers in Sacramento are so confident that Measure R will go down to defeat on Tuesday that they've already scheduled a morning-after strategy session. There might be one conspicuous no-show--newly enshrined Assembly Speaker Doris Allen (R-Cypress), who has not been on the same bus with the delegation on bankruptcy recovery or just about any other issue of late. The entire delegation has opposed Measure R with the exception of Allen and Sen. William A.

Jurors ended their first day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the trial of GOP congressional aide Rhonda Carmony, who is accused of violating state election laws while recruiting a decoy Democrat to splinter the vote in a 1995 state Assembly race.

A man who challenged and lost to Orange County Supt. of Schools John F. Dean in last November's election has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Dean of political retaliation by not renewing his contract. Darrell Opp, head of a vocational program for county schools since 1985, is seeking $5 million in damages in a wrongful-discharge lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, said Opp's attorney, Mark S. Rosen.

An Orange County Superior Court judge Wednesday dismissed a juror from the panel deciding the fate of Republican campaign aide Rhonda Carmony, forcing the jury to start deliberations again from scratch. The removal came after an unexpected two-hour hearing in the felony trial of Carmony, 27, accused of breaking election laws by allegedly helping a spoiler Democrat qualify for the November 1995 special election, in which Assemblywoman Doris Allen (R-Cypress) was recalled.

Jurors ended their first day of deliberations Tuesday afternoon without reaching a verdict in the high-profile trial of GOP congressional aide Rhonda Carmony, accused of violating state election laws while recruiting a decoy Democrat to splinter the vote in the 1995 Assembly election to replace Doris Allen.

A Superior Court judge Monday tentatively set a June 8 trial date for Assemblyman Scott Baugh (R-Huntington Beach), who faces charges he falsified campaign reports during his first campaign for office. Baugh pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Monday morning to two felony perjury counts and 10 misdemeanor violations of the Campaign Reform Act stemming from the 1995 election, which gave Republicans control of the Assembly for the first time in 20 years.

Rather than face retrial for her part in an alleged scheme to help state Assemblyman Scott R. Baugh win election two years ago, GOP activist Rhonda Carmony pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony charges, which were immediately reduced to misdemeanors. Carmony, 27, the wife of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), was sentenced to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service and was fined $2,800.

Trying to force an end to the prosecution of Assemblyman Scott R. Baugh, a Municipal Court judge on Wednesday dismissed one-third of the campaign fraud charges against the Huntington Beach Republican and then urged both sides to settle the case by Christmas. Judge William L.

Municipal Judge William Evans is expected to rule today on whether Assemblyman Scott R. Baugh (R-Huntington Beach) must stand trial on charges that he intentionally falsified campaign and financial disclosure documents in a key election for control of the California Assembly. The ruling will come almost two years to the day that voters recalled Republican Doris Allen and replaced her with Baugh, whose vote elevated Assemblyman Curt Pringle (R-Garden Grove) to the speakership.

Municipal Judge William Evans is expected to rule today on whether Assemblyman Scott R. Baugh (R-Huntington Beach) must stand trial on charges that he intentionally falsified campaign and financial disclosure documents in a key election for control of the California Assembly. The ruling will come almost two years to the day after voters recalled Republican Doris Allen and replaced her with Baugh.

A former top aide to Assemblyman Scott R. Baugh repeatedly took the 5th Amendment on Monday at the legislator's preliminary hearing in Santa Ana, refusing to testify about her part in preparing two allegedly falsified campaign documents. Maureen Werft, who served as Baugh's chief of staff and campaign treasurer, also declined to answer about half a dozen questions relating to a Baugh campaign disclosure form and his economic interest statement, which she completed.

Assemblyman Scott Baugh, who already faces an array of criminal charges stemming from his 1995 election campaign, also committed dozens of minor election law violations, an audit conducted by a state agency contends. The audit, conducted by the Fair Political Practices Commission, found that Baugh committed as many as 75 violations of state campaign finance laws. Most of the alleged violations involve shoddy record-keeping and failure to disclose information, according to the audit.

Assembly Speaker Curt Pringle's office drove the scheme to draft a bogus Democratic candidate into a critical special election that gave Republicans control of the lower house last fall, according to sworn testimony made public Wednesday. Laurie Campbell, the Huntington Beach woman who entered the race to dilute Democratic votes, told the Orange County Grand Jury that Pringle's office set the plan in motion after Republican "money backers" grew concerned that a Democrat might win.

A Republican campaign aide on trial for alleged political misconduct in a controversial 1995 special election pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single misdemeanor in another case involving a 1992 Diamond Bar City Council race. Rhonda Carmony, 26, was sentenced to three years of informal probation and ordered to pay fines totaling $13,500.