3-Time GOP Candidate 4Congress in Court for Thefts From Hotels, Comedians, Phone Company & Mercedes

[Ian David]

3-Time GOP Candidate for Congress in Court for Thefts From Hotels, Comedians, Phone Company and Mercedes Dealer

Delecia Holt, 48, of Aliso Viejo, ran as a Republican in special elections to replace Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach), who left Congress in 2005 to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-San Diego), who left Congress in 2006 for prison after pleading guilty to accepting $2.4 million in bribes. Holt launched a campaign to run in another San Diego congressional district last year.

"Ethics reform begins with me," she told attendees of a Rancho Bernardo Republican Women's Federated luncheon in March 2006. "I am the only candidate that has pledged not to accept a salary for the first year of service while in Congress."

But the "Republican with a heart," whose bio further identified her as an author, businesswoman, philanthropist, sociologist-researcher and intelligence security analyst, is in a Santa Ana courthouse this morning fighting accusations that she wrote bad checks, stole a Mercedes Benz from a local car dealership and defrauded Orange County hotels, four comedians and a telephone company.




Online financial contribution records indicate Holt's campaign raised $300,000, with more than $87,000 coming from the candidate herself, in the 2005 race. She got 110 votes, or 0.1 percent of those cast. She doubled those numbers in her April 2006 campaign to serve out the remaining seven months left in Cunningham term, garnering 261 votes or 0.2 percent of those cast. Unfortunately for Holt, 15 other candidates got more votes than that, including Brian Bilbray, the Republican who would ultimately win the seat in a runoff.

More:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/delecia-holt-gop-congress-thie/

[marmar]

1. "Republican With a Heart" = "Boulder with a Brain"

nt

[nykym]

2. Geeee! I don't understand how

she lost. She certainly has the republican work ethic nailed down. What went wrong? I guess the other candidates had longer rap sheets!

[Soylent Brice]

3. defrauding anybody/anything is the republican way.

K&R