Nothing is quite so annoying as the Perpetual Candidate. This is the pathetic creature who wants to become a career politician, but just can’t seem to get the traction.
The Perpetual Candidate runs for office whenever, and especially where ever he or she can. And thus the spectacle of those clueless clowns whose only real faculty seems to be exercising an eye to the main chance.
Sad Sukhee Kang, formerly mayor of Irvine is one of these characters. In 2004 he ran as a stooge on the Larry Agran ticket, and thanks to Agran’s slimy direct mail scams (mail produced by “Kenny The Printer” whom, Sukhee swore – under oath – he learned about through the yellow pages), he was elected to the City Council.
In 2008 it was his turn to run for Mayor of that sea of beige stucco. Lo and Behold! The Machine put him into that office where he was re-elected in 2010, and where he continued to preside, if in name only, over the slow demise of all those Great Park promises, happily signing all the blank checks they kept putting in front of him.
In 2012 Sukhee’s vaulting ambition got the better of him, and Agran, too. He bolted Agran’s Triumvirate of Error and ran for Congress. He was thoroughly thrashed by his opponent and the end of 2012 saw sorrowful Sukhee out of office.
But Sukhee was bitten by the political bug, and that virus is virulent indeed when it strikes the right host. The politician gets used to the sycophancy, the hollow praise and the bootlicking; like a black-tar heroin junky he always wants more.
He’s gotta have it.
2014 must have been a year of making phone calls to the Sacramento Democrat string-pullers, because in 2015 he moved to Fullerton and declared his intention to try to represent north Orange County and part of eastern Los Angeles County in the California State Senate – a long, long way from Irvine.
If you’re counting that’s five elections in a little over ten years.
And that doesn’t count what appears to have been some sort of abortive run for Irvine City Council in 2014, proof of which is depicted, here.
Most people would be a bit ashamed to pull the sort of blatant carpetbaggery Sukhee is trying, but to the poor person infected with the professional politician bug, shame does not enter into the equation, for that is the first of his moral senses to go. He really can’t help himself, and so it is our job to give Sukhee a helping hand.
From here it all looks the same…
In this case we will be more than happy to send sad, shameless Sukhee back where he came from.
November 6, 2015 at 8:03 pm
Oh my God! Another Harry Sidhu.
November 7, 2015 at 7:28 am
A very good comparison. What is sort of tragic is the fact that the less they have to offer, the more they lust after elective office.
November 7, 2015 at 7:37 am
Naw, dat boy don’t shoot up no smack, no matta how good good. He likes him sum sweet purple drank tho’.
November 7, 2015 at 8:49 am
Honest Abe blogging from the grave here. Now that Sharon Quirk Silva has endorsed this hapless idiot, I can’t wait to see who else she endorses. A breathless Fullerton waits for the announcement. I will remain mostly silent today, just like Suhkee did while the good people of Irvine were robbed blind.
November 8, 2015 at 9:50 am
Abe, an endorsement from Quirky-Quirk means next to nothing since she was told who to endorse by the Dem Machine in Sacramento. These were the same idiots that told her to support the transgender bathroom nonsense that cost her re-election. She has and always will toe the line for the party hierarchy. Ans that’s one reason she won’y get that old seat back.
November 8, 2015 at 10:20 am
Well, in honor of that Dem Machine in Sacramento headed by Anthony Rendon the new Speaker of the Assembly, I just want to say, “Ay Dios Mio!”.
November 8, 2015 at 9:53 am
Ditto, Lou Correa.
Of course he can afford to offend north Orange County. Sharon Quicksilver can’t. Her endorsement of the Irvine carpetbagger is going to cost her votes in the Primary she can’t afford to lose.