They say that nature abhors a vacuum. I’m not sure I know exactly what that means, but that’s what they say.

And when I hear that line I immediately think of the way our little corner of heaven – the north part of OC – has been the object of desire for political infiltrators from other parts of the County – Hell , other parts of the world – looking to feather their nests by means of elective office. There seems to be a vacuum here that looks so darn inviting to the politically ambitious they just can’t resist letting themselves get sucked into it – moving, or pretending to move here to run for office.

So let’s check it out.

Back in 1992, a  woman named Julie Sa popped up out of nowhere to run for the Fullerton City Council. She ran a slick and very expensive campaign and nobody checked on her residency status, her past bankruptcy, or anything else – mostly because nobody expected her to win, which she did.

Julie spent 8 years on the council displaying her unintelligible English and her total ignorance of, well, of everything. Folks soon figured out that she was using her position on the City Council to promote herself over in Korea, where apparently honorific titles really open doors. Oh yeah, we finally learned that she didn’t live in Fullerton at all, but in some expansive compound in up in the Chino Hills that had its own helipad.

By 2000 the jig was up and Sa finally seems to have realized the whole thing was just too darn much trouble. She quickly vanished from the scene and has not been heard from since.

Jump ahead, now to the year 2009. State Senator Dick Ackerman had been termed out and was directing his attention to illegal lobbying. But when a State Assembly opportunity arose up north, he and his wife Linda immediately pretended to move from their guard-gated mini-mansion in Irvine to some dude’s rumpus room in Fullerton’s Raymond Hills. Mrs. Ackerman was completely unqualified to run for anything, but hey, north OC, this flowering bud’s for you:

Well, she got her clock cleaned and quickly was seen again shopping at the Costco in Irvine.

The next year showed that carpetbaggery was sickeningly on the rise. The departure of Chris Norby for Sacramento left a vacancy in the County’s 4th Supervisor District. Into the breach leaped Harry Sidhu who lived in an “elegant estate” – his words – in the affluent Anaheim Hills.

This bozo pretended to live in a run-down apartment out on Lincoln Avenue in Anaheim; when that fraud failed, he cooked up a second fake “home” that looked more plausible, but was just as empty.

Into the same election jumped another Anaheim Hills political climber: the endlessly amusing princess, Lorrie Galloway.

Galloway faked not two, but three addresses in Anaheim, all staged with beat up furniture borrowed from the thrift store she owns. She lost, too, and was no doubt relieved to get that ratty sofa back into stock for her customers.

In 2014 we were treated to candidacy of Young Kim, a would-be Assembly creature who was also said to have conjured up an apartment address to run. Well, she beat an actual resident by spending an obscene amount of money to do it.

And now another Irvine denizen sees us as his main political chance. Sukhee Kang, co-author of amazing disasters in Irvine, wants to represent us in the State Senate. See, Sukhee and his pals Larry Agran and Beth Krom wasted a quarter of a billion dollars on Irvine’s Great Park debacle and were responsible for assorted other idiocies including the $16 per ride iShuttle. With his record you would think we would see Sukhee silently slink off into a well-deserved obscurity.

But no, Sukhee will not fade away! As long as it is possible, these political parasites live on, trying to latch onto any host in the body politic dumb enough to let them attach themselves.

Our record fighting this virus is mixed. But we’re not giving up without a fight. Our goal is get Sukhee back to Irvine where he belongs.