Saturday, August 15, 2020

Mathur crony Helen Locke running for Lang’s trustee seat

Mathur apologist Helen Locke in 2005
[See UPDATE below]

According to the Orange Juice Blog (2020 OC Vote #19: UPDATE 8/12, AEIOU Extension Races Filing is OVER!), some OC election contests have had the candidate filing (deadline) extended.

Included among these is “South Orange County Community College District, Trustee Area 1.” That's Dave Lang's area. He recently announced that he has decided not to run for reelection.

According to OJ,

FINAL* UPDATE 8/12: Incumbent David Lang did not run [i.e., did not file].  The ballot will include four candidates to replace him: Carolyn InmonHelen LockeMatt Waid, and last-minute new entry Aarti Kaushal.  Now that four-way race should improve our ratings!

Inmon was a failed Faculty Association candidate when she ran against Lang in 2008. As I recall, she has been politically active and once served as President of CCA (of CTA). I suspect that she'll be the Faculty Association's candidate this time, too. (See Bliss and Inmon in San Juan Capistrano & The Faculty Association (union) luncheon.) 


(See here for the FA's most recent newsletter.)

 

Don’t know about Wait and Kaushal.


Helen Locke? She was Director of Student Development (or "Director of Student Life") at Irvine Valley College—and a long-time close associate of Raghu Mathur

IVC Prez Roquemore fired her back in 2013 (see). Not sure why. 

To provide a sense of Locke's perspective as Student Life Director, I'll mention one detail. I do believe it was under Locke's watch that the college showed the kids a movie in the name of diversity and multiculturalism. It was an odd choice. At the time, Rebel Girl opined:
[T]he college underwent its “changes” and so-called “multicultural programming” was taken over by people who imagined Yul Brynner’s “The King and I” offered relevant lessons in assimilation for college students. Say no more, though Rebel Girl could say plenty.

I’m told that Old Guard unionist Ray Chandos has been instrumental in Locke's candidacy.


Like Chandos, Locke is seriously bad news. Check out this old video:

Helen Locke and Ray Chandos, among others, defending Raghu Mathur, 2005

I enjoy her inarticulate and utterly humorless deportment  


P.S.: There's a Matt Waid who is or was on the staff of the Dean of Students at CSUF. He's described as "Coordinator, Student Conduct." His LinkedIn page can be found here.

There's a "Risk Finance Manager" named Aarti Kaushal, working in Irvine. See here. She has a bachelors in public administration and a masters in special education. See her bio on Building Connected Communities.

HERE ARE THEIR CANDIDATE STATEMENTS:



SEE ALSO

 Rebel Girl Has a Dream: The Girl Can't Help It, DtB, Monday, January 16, 2006

UPDATE (11-9-20):
She lost to the Democrat, Inmon:

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did Helen "retire" from IVC?

Anonymous said...

Impressive we have more than one candidate. And save for Locke, they all seem pretty good!

Things are looking up.

Anonymous said...

So strange that she is running.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting this information. I got my copy of the OC Sample Ballot & Voter Information Guide, which only featured Locke and Inmon but not Waid and Kaushal.

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