Meet Ada Briceño
Ada Briceño, recently retired head of the Democrat Party in Orange County is going to run in 2026 to replace Sharon Quirk in the State Assembly. At least that’s the story she told Voice of OC publisher Norberto Santana. He mentioned it in a story about the new Chairpersons the OC Dems and Repuglicans.
Ada’s back ground is one to give pause. Her day job is activist and agitator for Unite Here 11, a hotel worker’s union. Her activities are mostly centered around the horrors perpetrated by the Anaheim Resort hotels. This requires a lot of theater, of course, like getting arrested protesting Disney – that sort of thing.
She was the mastermind of the recent and idiotic attempted recall of City Councilwoman Natalie Rubalcava in Anaheim last spring. Merit of the charges aside, it was bad politics and a huge waste of her member’s dues. Even if the recall had succeeded (it didn’t) the Council there would have replaced her with somebody just as bad for Briceño’s members. Hundreds of thousands of dollars flushed down the drain. I presume it was an ego thing, mostly.
Less than a year before, Briceño’s union sponsored Anaheim’s Measure A, a $25 per hour minimum for hotel and event employees. The measure went down in flames by a 2-1 margin in October 2023. More hundreds of thousands wasted on the campaign, and the taxpayers picked up the tab for the special election.
Here in Fullerton her folk turned up to protest the boutique hotel/monster apartment, not because it’s a terrible project whose front men are scam artists. No, it’s because the project doesn’t include enough subsidized units for her members to live in.
If you’ve been following FFFF recently you’ll also know that Briceño must have known about the scam candidacy of Tony Castro in 2022 that deprived 5th District voters of a home-grown Latino representative. What her role may have been in the 2024 creation of the Scott Markowitz campaign fraud and the perjury therein remains to be seen, but her henchman and former OCDem Executive Director, Ajay Mohan, was involved in both.
Whether Ada knew about Markowitz or not she was all in for the deplorable Vivian “Kitty” Jaramillo, granting an early party endorsement without talking to the eventual winner, Democrat Jamie Valencia. There’s another black mark.
I can’t imagine what Briceño thinks her base would be. Quirk has been a fairly moderate Democrat, suitable for this district. She’s cozied up to the cops and established interests. That’s not Ada. And Briceño has zero name recognition in the district outside of central Anaheim where her reputation is not favorable. She’s made a lot of enemies in Anaheim. Enemies with a lot of money. She would have to rely on huge infusions of cash from the more “progressive” unions and from friends in Sacramento. Of course her tactic would be to frighten all other Dems away and waltz into office.
I don’t even know if she currently lives in the district.
Well, maybe this aside in a Voice of OC article is nothing more than a trial balloon. The 2026 primary is still a year away.
What a weird idea. She’s never been elected anything outside the OCDem Central Committee. Her name is mud in Anaheim. SOAR would pay anything to torpedo her – unless they cut a deal.
This is pretty weird.
Ali Taj must be angry at the news since he’s been trying to lock up all the Democrat endorsements. Her candidacy may give just enough space for melomanic Zahra to run for the seat. Briceno has been on the losing side of a lot more than Anaheim. She backed Sunny Park who was beat badly by Democrat Doug Chaffee. She backed Kitty who lost to Democrat Jamie Valencia. She has been on the wrong side of so many things, can’t wait to see what bad decisions she makes on behalf of Fullerton.
She did try to foist Jaramillo on us. I’ll edit the post.
Someone should ask Ada how she feels about Ahmad running against her. Would she finally abort the fraud?
Ahmad is going nowhere. It’s official. Out in 2026 and back to fake cinematography.
Can’t wait to see Bushala’s NO WOKE ADA signs all over the place!
BAD BRICENO
Barfman?
Is there a diarrhea man
She has just as many enemies in Fullerton as she does in Anaheim. She is another opportunist. We’ve had plenty of them here. Time to stop stem the tide.
Ada should have enough intellectual honest to admit no one asked her to run for this seat.
Labor unions are the single biggest impediment to progress, efficiency and effective services and products. They pray at the altar of racketeer Jimmy Hoffa and shamelessly corrupt our elections and institutions. Greedy and evil.
Under Ada Briceno’s “leadership” the OC Democrat Party became full of the most hyper fragile, over sensitive and unfun people. People like the Linda Whitakers, the Kitty Jaramillos, and the Diane Venas of the world. These entitled old retirees who only feel a moment of discomfort when their self righteousness is questioned by those intelligent enough to not walk on eggshells.
I don’t know why you included Linda Whitaker. She doesn’t seem that way.
Harpoon mea culpa. Linda Gardner. Mixed up my Linda.
Her paw prints are all over this Markowitz scam.
Ada and her OC Democrat Party endorsed Alyce Van for Stanton City Council. Alyce didn’t live in Stanton, committed fraud on her nomination paperwork, and has been arrested and charged by OC DA Todd Spitzer. Ada who called Stanton home personally gave Alyce the stamp of approval. Ada has allegedly moved to Cypress to carpetbag into Silva’s seat. Liars endorse liars.
So, where does Quirk fit in to all of this?
Find out.
The only reason people are voting for her is woke politics. But she’s not going to be a representative for anyone but herself and her own interests. The rest of the district be damned.
She has been trying to build a little machine of late. She got the school board dude pushed out but took it on the chin with the Jaramillo disaster.