I have seen some terrible ballot statements in the past. I read one from a Roseville City Council candidate written in ebonic sentence fragments, I read another one from an Assembly Candidate explaining how she was going to stop the Bildabergers and the Illuminati. These were real.

Jeff Seaton’s ballot statement makes the top five worst. (The above two are also on that list)

Seaton should have been sued over this ballot statement. Given his stellar record in Court, he’d have lost. Given the absurdities of it, he’d have lost.

Jeff Seaton passed the Bar in 1990 – he claims “36 years of experience in our legal system”. Musta flunked math class.

Seaton lists family and parenthood amongst his life’s experiences. (He forgot the Pig and the Chicken)

He also lists being a mediator and counselor in his ballot statement. (See also Schmitz vs Schmitz case – where he represented the male half, got fired then got a donation from the female half)

The most telling line is the comments about punishment for a crime being commensurate with the crime committed. Why don’t we start with Mr. Perdue who is rotting in jail, an innocent man because Jeff Seaton was wasted during the trial.

Jeff Seaton also indicated that he “strongly believes in law and order”… including railing on a rape victim until she lost the nerve to press charges or the way he treated Jennifer Minton?

“As your judge, I will strive to keep Amador County Safe” – really? Why did you take $1,000 from Dalton, why the $10k from the Casino?

However, I reserved the following line for the strongest ridicule: “I would now like to serve Amador County in a greater capacity”.

Let that sink in a second.

Law enforcement? He has done a lot of their divorces.

Veterans? He turned veteran’s day 2011 in to a campaign fundraiser.

Crime Victims? The stories are legion.

The Casino? He got $10k from them + a bonus $1k from Dalton.

The Republican Party? He got $5k from a leading left-wing law firm! He is defending the sons of the County Chairman related to their multiple issues.

The community? I guess if you’ve been to one of his pool parties. (just ask the pig)

Jeff Seaton’s ballot statement makes the top five list because I know him and his assertions in his ballot statements are gross fabrications based on what I know… and there is the small matter of his incessantly pimping his reserve military service. That part makes me angry.

Amador County – Send Seaton back to his law office so he can continue his legal (mal) practice.

In the Case of Ted and Beth Gaines – their problem is Nepotism, and a Chief of Staff whose behavior resembles Rasputin (including the control he wields over them)…

… but Nepotism is not Corruption.

Doug LaMalfa, David Stafford Reade, Dave Gilliard and their allies have leveled corruption charges against all of Doug LaMalfa’s political opponents in Placer County. It is pretty easy for them to level such charges – the record of actual evidence shows that they have had some practice.

When Gilliard, Reade and LaMalfa ran their media drill against the Placer GOP Cent Com in 2011- culminating in the public accusations of Money Laundering, Extortion, Graft and Influence Peddling in the Sacramento Bee in 7/2011… they had a familiar ring.

For starters - Dave Gilliard’s office was raided in a corruption investigation in San Bernardino County.

Second – David Stafford Reade is legendary for earning a lot of money on the side. (Beyond the $100,000k+ salary he earns as a Chief of Staff)

The Redding Record Searchlight was all over Reade for the “Double-Dipping”:

Then there’s the fundraising. Reade earned about $70,000 for collecting campaign contributions in the past few years. That means donors aren’t just supporting his clients’ runs for office but also filling the bank account of an assemblyman’s chief of staff. That veers perilously close to bribery.

Here’s the problem – the money Reade raised on Doug LaMalfa’s behalf and Jim Nielsen’s behalf could have been used to pay his own salary… whoops.

Remember John and Julie Doolittle – there were dozens of Sacramento Bee stories that pointed to Julie’s role as a commissioned fundraiser as evidence of John Doolittle’s corruption.

For as much as Steve Davey controls the Gains’ – he does not raise money for them.

All told, his DSR Enterprises has pulled in close to half a million dollars in the past half-decade as he’s traded on his bare-knuckled political acumen.

But has he traded on his official position? That would cross the line from moonlighting to graft.

Reade insists not. He says he maintains a “bright line” between campaign work and his legislative staff work. He says he’s never shown favoritism to any client who came lobbying on state business. And his direct bosses have had no objection to his side jobs, which LaMalfa even praised as advancing Republican causes (such as, say, LaMalfa’s political future).

I have to tip my Cap to Reade hauling in $500k in 6 years of mercenary work… that is capitalism at it’s finest. Ron Paul would even support legalizing that profession, too.

Is it that bright line – as Reade calls it and Doug LaMalfa’s lack of objection to his moonlighting that, in my opinion should be looked at by voters in this campaign… coming soon…

Those of you who are following this race may note a slew of letters to the editor on the Amador Ledger Dispatch website.

I have written in the past about how the newspaper gets a large part of its’ budget from the Casino. My sources confirmed that it is nearly 60%, which may well explain the editorial bias of the newspaper in favor of Jeff Seaton.

On that note, they printed a cheap shot letter to the editor that alleged that Jeff Seaton’s opponent had tax liens. Dan Hughes has tax liens – he admitted to three of them and the other three were on a corporation with the exact same name as the one he bought the assets of.

The interesting thing is that the author of the letter appears to be fake. This could well be an indication that Jeff Seaton is starting to get desperate. And, of course the allegations were patently false.

On that note, one of Seaton’s legitimate supporters got torched in an earlier post here – then I received some additional information on Mr. Seaton’s law partner. The source indicated that one of the myriad charges against Keith Morris is that he also solicited sexual favors from a female defense attorney as a Deputy D.A. The way it went was – sleep with me and I will cut your client a great deal.

What the hell is in the water in Amador County, anyway?

Earlier I put a blurb up about the Sanne case when reciting the litany of Seaton’s legal history. (Which makes the claims from letter writers about his qualifications look even more ridiculous)

There’s more.

Apparently, as is custom, when the prosecutor is sick – a fill in is assigned. Jeff Seaton knows this and in this case attempted to take advantage of it. However, the primary D.A. left copious notes in the file.

Seaton attempted to convince the substitute D.A. that a plea deal had been worked out. (A.K.A. Seaton lied while court was in session) There hadn’t been and because of the detailed notes in the file (which is apparently a rarity) the fill-in D.A. didn’t get tricked.

A second time, a different substitute D.A. had been assigned to the case. Again, Jeff Seaton attempted to claim that a deal had been made. That fill-in D.A. was ready for the trick and quickly shot him down.

The second attempt caused Jeff Seaton to get railed on by Judge Richmond. (Who was actually there that day)

I was also made aware by sources that there is a still open case to censure Seaton for his conduct in Judge Richmond’s courtroom!!!

This sort of history makes you wonder why Seaton was not sent to the Bar for an ethics hearing and what the hell Richmond’s stake in endorsing him now is!

Daily, details are flowing in about the history of Jeff Seaton, Amador County – please reject this guy.

Most of the time, people don’t pay attention to Judge races. All too often, those that are appointed Judge are done so as a payoff for service or a political favor.

Dan Maguire is just such a judge. I have been looking around at judge races in Northern California – since more and more party central committees are looking to endorse in said races.

Jeff Seaton also appears to be another that is in the same genre’ he was being looked over by Arnold’s crew for an appointment to the bench – which Arnold reneged on. (typical for Arnold)

Recently, I did some digging on Dan Maguire – a Yolo County Judge running for re-election. I found that Dan Maguire was up to his neck in abusing a non-profit to finance the Governor’s travel plans outside of campaign finance limits – and worse, Dan Maguire was involved in an apparent cover-up of the finances.

Dan Maguire is also a silver-spooner Ivy-League graduate with little or no experience in criminal law. (He had never handled a felony case before Arnold put him on the bench)

Jeff Seaton on the other hand is an Amador County Defense Attorney that defends the dregs of society and he wants to be a judge!

Jeff Seaton’s contempt for Crime Victims is legendary. Jeff Seaton even hired a child psychologist to ask questions of an eight-year-old Crime victim to devastate her!

Jeff Seaton has taken a large check from a Casino and a Santa Monica environmental law firm and is seeking the Amador County Republican Party endorsement. One of his (Jeff Seaton’s) campaign signs in in front of the house of a known sex-offender!

It appears that the expose’ on Jeff Seaton has started to resonate in Amador County based on some of the emails I have received.

There is more coming soon on Dan Maguire – but he appears to have some major issues that he has taken some effort to try and hide. Welcome to righondaily.com soon-to-be-former Judge Maguire.

There is an organization called the California Protocol Foundation – it is a 501(c)3 that is housed in the exact same address and suite as the California Chamber of Commerce.

The California Protocol Foundation appears to have been used as a conduit for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s travel expenses while he was governor.

Where does Dan Maguire come in? Dan Maguire is an inexperienced civil law attorney that Arnold appointed to the bench in Yolo County. Dan Maguire was one of Arnold’s closest attorneys in the days of his administration.

Dan Maguire is running for re-election as Judge and was appointed apparently as a payoff by Arnold for his years of loyal service as Maguire apparently never prosecuted or investigated a felony case in his legal career. (With one big exception – to be discussed later)

Archived articles obtained by this blogger show that Dan Maguire was up to his neck in a scandal (one of many that beset Arnold’s administration) related to using the CA Protocol Foundation as a conduit for paying for Arnold’s Private Jet. The totals are staggering – as much as $1.7 million a year to fly all around the world.

I am sure Dan Maguire was on a few of those flights.

Schwarzenegger’s abuse of Non-Profit rules led to ethics reform that Dan Maguire fought against.

The LA Times covered the regulator’s decisions to close the loophole.

The money quotes from the article are here:

Beginning in coming weeks, contributions to nonprofits that are directed to a specific public official will be limited to $420, making it illegal to solicit large donations to pay for chartered jets to China, Europe and the Middle East, as Schwarzenegger has done in the past.

Although the new rules might not affect Schwarzenegger’s travel plans, his lawyer (Dan Maguire) says he will have to be mindful of the regulation as he raises money for a climate summit he has scheduled for late September in Los Angeles.

Donors to the Protocol Foundation contributed more than $1 million for a similar conference last fall, state records show, including $250,000 from the Aga Khan Development Network, a charity run by the spiritual leader of Shiite Muslims. That was the largest single gift to the foundation on Schwarzenegger’s behalf in 2009, according to the records.

Under the new regulations, the Aga Khan could still pay for general production costs at the conference, but “he couldn’t pay for someone’s travel” or anything else that could be construed as a gift to an individual, said Schwarzenegger lawyer Dan Maguire.

hmmm…  Dan Maguire was Arnold’s travel agent. It appears that he used to arrange travel for the former Governor to all parts of the world while the rest of us dealing with the financial train wreck the Governor created in California.

What led to the regulators coming down on this time-honored practice and what was Maguire’s role in it… to be continued…