What a stupid move to have the tar and feathers on her fingers. How petty. He is collecting a pension from OCERS precisely because he retired as a fire captain after 34 years of service. Does Esther have any advisors experienced with campaigns? This is just too rookie an error to go unnoticed. Sorry, she is not ready for prime time.
She also recently dragged the local dem clubs on her IG. To her credit, while the clubs are largely populated by Boomers, what she misses is that not only do they show up to the meetings, they show up to walk for candidates, donate to candidates and tell their friends to vote for candidates. And guess who their friends are? That’s right. Other boomers. Said another way, the age demographic that consistently shows up to the polls.
Fingers crossed that Lisa Ramirez beats out Young Kim or Ken Calvert. It’s a long shot for sure, but if a Dem can win Trump’s home district, then maybe it’s not so far-fetched after all.
I think the retired firefighter is the less risky choice. He can get the necessary Republican votes. An immigration attorney might win, but it’s definitely riskier!
Agree to disagree. People want to see candidates that are willing to have skin in the game and while Joe has been in the community for years, Lisa Ramirez is on the front lines of the immigration fight. To me, that says if she’s fighting here, she’ll fight nationally too!
Lisa Ramirez is a hypocritical fraud who lives in a multimillion dollar home in a gated community in Santa Ana outside of the district, and most of her income is from renting out single family homes that she bought as investments. 40% of her campaign funding last period was self funded. Oh and she doesn’t support Roe v. Wade.
Lisa CHANGED HER PARTY REGISTRATION from Dem to independent just after Kamala was nominated in 2024.
Does that sound like a viable candidate to go up against Kim and Calvert?
Yah and EKV carpetbagged to Coto de Caza (another high end gated community), has self-funded over half a mil, is up to her 5th or 6th campaign manager because she can’t read a room to save her life, and to my knowledge has already closed her “local business.”
But sure, tell me more about hypocritical frauds, MVPatriot.
All of the dem candidates including Kerr Ramirez and varet live in multimillion dollar homes in gated communities. But only Kerr and varet live in the friggin district they are running to represent. Ramirez not living in the district (and she never has lived inside the new CA 40) is technically legal but totally disqualifying.
Doesn’t matter “where she came from” AT ALL. That line of argument is not only idiotic but ignorant, especially in CA 40 which consists majority of Riverside County which NONE of the dem candidates are from or have ever lived in.
BTW Young Kim and Ken Calvert ALSO do not live inside the new CA40 district. Only Kerr and Varet do
As a retired public affairs executive I can say that, well, I’m a retired public affairs executive. That doesn’t mean I don’t do consulting, or writing, or something. It means I retired from being a public affairs executive. Just like Mr. Kerr retired from being a fire captain. I’ve now wasted enough time on this ludicrous subject. I’m stopping. Esther should, too.
There’s this thing called election laws and it clearly says that you have no idea what you’re talking about
See CCR Tit. 2, Sec. 20716.
(h)(4) A candidate may not use the word “retired” in his or her ballot designation if that candidate possesses another more recent, intervening principal profession, vocation, or occupation.
Ok Maybe Varet Patriot. We know that is you, Joseph. No one cares about this tedious bureaucratic pencil pushing when she literally accepts money from her far right hate group funding relative Nina Rosenwald who is in the Epstein Files begging him for money post conviction! Maybe go PATRIOT about that instead of running cover for a zionist shill who is shook by a fireman.
The fact that she doesn't think this makes her looks desperate or threatened by her opponent's experience in fire country shows how out of touch she is! She is in Esther Kim La La Land where everyone who disagrees with her is a terrorist or a crook, even while she accepts money from far right relative Nina Rosenwald who funded hate groups and was in the Epstein Files. Maybe she realized 'various small fires' doesn't sound that great in OC after Saddleback looked like Mordor a few years ago.
She accused me of “spewing lies” on her social media ad blitz and when I asked her to please correct me - crickets. I just said she was married to a Sears Roebuck heir and moved here to run for Congress. I urged people to wait until AFTER the primary to donate so we could give the winner the most money possible to flip the seat. Now the spoiled spoiler might split the votes and we get 2 MAGAs on the November ballot. 😡
Esther is a mess. When I heard her speak last summer I asked her if she would work to end the genocide in Palestine when she made it to Congress. She immediately FREAKED OUT and started telling I was part of the problem and being "divisive." Me being divisive? For asking if she would stand up for all the innocent civilians being murdered by a fascist government? She was implying also that it was related to Jewish folks (as if I was being antisemitic) and how we should be concerned about violence against Jews. Of course I condemn violence agains Jews! What in the world!?? You can condemn violence being done to more than one group. She was clearly riled by a simple question and I am not voting for someone who is just plan rude and mean to a constituent asking a question.
Then, with some googling, I found that she didn't even live here until she decided to run and comes from gobs of money and is married into the Sears Roebuck family. She is not someone interested in helping the average person.
It’s laughable that she has the nerve to talk corruption when she quite literally thinks she can use her money to bully people into silence. Her husband has a PAC by the way. Shomer PAC
I am a Gen X voter and am concerned about who the Millennials and Gen Zs will support in this election. They are the future! I like all the candidates, but honestly I think Esther’s family buying a second home in Coto is unrelatable to the “affordability” context of this election. Joe Kerr has good messaging and experience, but no way will he get the younger voters. Lisa Ramirez is smart, can speak to all levels of economics, demographics, as well as solutions to current issues. I am excited about her candidacy, even though the Dems are a long shot in this race.
Most young people hate Esther. We don’t care if she won’t take AIPAC money. She doesn’t need to. She’s married to the Sears fortune heir who has his own PAC. His family is so wealthy that his aunt, Nina Rosenwald, is in the Epstein files asking Epstein for a donation to the Gatestone institute
very bold of you to mock Elizabeth for her music career when she has played the BBC and then was ABUSED physically and railroaded legally by a multimillionaire record label smear campaign to protect their abusive artist (who still imploded the band) over a decade and a half ago. She also is a disabled activist who still goes out on the street to protest, which is where Esther's campaign manager shoved her post ovarian surgery.
And by the way she just made a song with a founder of Third Eye Blind.
That’s rich coming from a coastal elite who is out of a Portlandia skit pretending to relate to the common person. Coming from the womanwho married a guy for money and to claim Jewish proximity for victim card 😂 F OFF - signed a real Jew
Good enough that you’ve heard of it apparently. Yeah, really disproving that it’s not Esther or Joseph. Absolutely nobody else in this comment section knows who I am except maybe Jeff and I highly doubt he would make it an account called MV patriot to troll his own comment section
Good enough that you’ve heard of it apparently. Yeah, really disproving that it’s not Esther or Joseph. Absolutely nobody else in this comment section knows who I am except maybe Jeff and I highly doubt he would make it an account called MV patriot to troll his own comment section
Esther is a lot of what is wrong with politics. If she's going down, she's dragging everybody down with her. Screw the issues, lets just try and create drama and smear everybody else. And this is honestly what I hate about the Democratic party, it gets too splintered and everybody ends up destroying each other in the process. It is dumb.
hahaha coherent! lmao she said the biggest threat to the Dems (in a published article) is that Dems dont suck up to Israel enough! Imagine saying that after a full blown genocide, billions wasted and Mamdani taking NY in a landslide. She is a complete moron carpetbagger. Her (now ex) campaign manager also shoved my post surgery gf who is five ft one after Esther mocked her sign of Jesus at a La Paz protest that said "don't fund Israel". She closes her galleries in weird ways and house hops like a frog jumping lilly pads. How is she going to stop ICE when she doesn't even ever connect them to IOF training? She's a laughingstock and a hypocrite sitting on a huge Sears fortune from her beta Lurch husband.
I was on the fence that you were Esther until you said this. Jfc, you just can't control yourself, can you? Do you realize this is not the type of person we need representing us in DC? Well, I'm here as a constituent telling you it is not. This is embarrassing behavior, to say the least.
not gonna get affordable rx prices with a candidate who doesn't care that all our $ goes to universal health care and endless weapons for a settler apartheid state!
Esthers husband Joseph Varets aunt, Nina Rosenwald, who has donated to Esther’s campaign.
The Abstraction Fund is a national, tax-exempt private family foundation run by an heir of the Sears-Roebuck fortune, Nina Rosenwald. Rosenwald builds upon her grandfather Julius Rosenwald’s remarkable legacy of philanthropy — he served as a key bulwark of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, and provided critical assistance to Jewish refugees fleeing Europe for the United States., Unlike her family’s legacy of serving social justice, Nina Rosenwald has used the Abstraction Fund to fuel some of the country’s most vitriolic, paranoid, and toxic anti-Muslim institutions. The Abstraction Fund’s primary beneficiary is the Gatestone Institute, which she founded and where she serves as president.
The Gatestone Institute is an anti-Muslim hate group of which Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton served as chairman. Many of the Abstraction Fund’s grantees include conservative and pro-Israel groups, such as Turning Point USA and the Central Fund of Israel. From 2014 to 2016 the Fund had access to more than $4 million in revenue. It funneled 75 percent of this, nearly $3.2 million, toward anti-Muslim hate groups, including $1.87 million to the Gatestone Institute and $742,000 to the Middle East Forum. Through its grantmaking capacity, the Fund has fueled an “alliance between the pro-Israel mainstream and the Islamophobic fringe” that ranks among the most disturbing examples of the way in which American philanthropy is institutionally connected to the Islamophobia network.
She is about as stupid and desperate as the Republican candidate for judge who challenged his opponent with a foreign sounding name for hiding it by using their middle initial instead.
hahaha you think she needs to take AIPAC money when her family member right winger NINA ROSENWALD WHO FUNDS ANTI ISLAM HATE GROUPS like Gatestone and IS one of her donors and her whole heap of zionist relatives (including her very problematic husband) are literally shadowing her campaign to try to manipulate congress to stay pro Israel?
Well, I could be wrong and I'm happy to admit it if that's the case… It could be the family connections I read about. In any case, I could write volumes on AIPAC and genocide… it's being live streamed every day, but you can ignore it if you want
Nope. Im one of your ig followers my name is Audra. @audee1213 blasphemy a fellow dem thinks your vitriol for Kim Varet feels like a Stein supporter ala 2024, right?
What a stupid move to have the tar and feathers on her fingers. How petty. He is collecting a pension from OCERS precisely because he retired as a fire captain after 34 years of service. Does Esther have any advisors experienced with campaigns? This is just too rookie an error to go unnoticed. Sorry, she is not ready for prime time.
Esther’s main advisor is Orrin Evans, the same advisor who helped Tran beat Michelle Steel, so yeah
Esther's main advisors are probably Gin and Tonic
Maybe he should run instead.
She also recently dragged the local dem clubs on her IG. To her credit, while the clubs are largely populated by Boomers, what she misses is that not only do they show up to the meetings, they show up to walk for candidates, donate to candidates and tell their friends to vote for candidates. And guess who their friends are? That’s right. Other boomers. Said another way, the age demographic that consistently shows up to the polls.
Fingers crossed that Lisa Ramirez beats out Young Kim or Ken Calvert. It’s a long shot for sure, but if a Dem can win Trump’s home district, then maybe it’s not so far-fetched after all.
I think the retired firefighter is the less risky choice. He can get the necessary Republican votes. An immigration attorney might win, but it’s definitely riskier!
Agree to disagree. People want to see candidates that are willing to have skin in the game and while Joe has been in the community for years, Lisa Ramirez is on the front lines of the immigration fight. To me, that says if she’s fighting here, she’ll fight nationally too!
We are talking about CA40
Lisa Ramirez is a hypocritical fraud who lives in a multimillion dollar home in a gated community in Santa Ana outside of the district, and most of her income is from renting out single family homes that she bought as investments. 40% of her campaign funding last period was self funded. Oh and she doesn’t support Roe v. Wade.
Lisa CHANGED HER PARTY REGISTRATION from Dem to independent just after Kamala was nominated in 2024.
Does that sound like a viable candidate to go up against Kim and Calvert?
SNORT MVPatriot.
Yah and EKV carpetbagged to Coto de Caza (another high end gated community), has self-funded over half a mil, is up to her 5th or 6th campaign manager because she can’t read a room to save her life, and to my knowledge has already closed her “local business.”
But sure, tell me more about hypocritical frauds, MVPatriot.
All of the dem candidates including Kerr Ramirez and varet live in multimillion dollar homes in gated communities. But only Kerr and varet live in the friggin district they are running to represent. Ramirez not living in the district (and she never has lived inside the new CA 40) is technically legal but totally disqualifying.
Doesn’t matter “where she came from” AT ALL. That line of argument is not only idiotic but ignorant, especially in CA 40 which consists majority of Riverside County which NONE of the dem candidates are from or have ever lived in.
BTW Young Kim and Ken Calvert ALSO do not live inside the new CA40 district. Only Kerr and Varet do
“Idiotic and ignorant.” Sounds like someone is projecting.
Also, it’s not technically legal. It’s legal.
As a retired public affairs executive I can say that, well, I’m a retired public affairs executive. That doesn’t mean I don’t do consulting, or writing, or something. It means I retired from being a public affairs executive. Just like Mr. Kerr retired from being a fire captain. I’ve now wasted enough time on this ludicrous subject. I’m stopping. Esther should, too.
There’s this thing called election laws and it clearly says that you have no idea what you’re talking about
See CCR Tit. 2, Sec. 20716.
(h)(4) A candidate may not use the word “retired” in his or her ballot designation if that candidate possesses another more recent, intervening principal profession, vocation, or occupation.
Ok Maybe Varet Patriot. We know that is you, Joseph. No one cares about this tedious bureaucratic pencil pushing when she literally accepts money from her far right hate group funding relative Nina Rosenwald who is in the Epstein Files begging him for money post conviction! Maybe go PATRIOT about that instead of running cover for a zionist shill who is shook by a fireman.
A brain is a terrible thing to waste
too bad you'll never know.
Weak..
The fact that she doesn't think this makes her looks desperate or threatened by her opponent's experience in fire country shows how out of touch she is! She is in Esther Kim La La Land where everyone who disagrees with her is a terrorist or a crook, even while she accepts money from far right relative Nina Rosenwald who funded hate groups and was in the Epstein Files. Maybe she realized 'various small fires' doesn't sound that great in OC after Saddleback looked like Mordor a few years ago.
She accused me of “spewing lies” on her social media ad blitz and when I asked her to please correct me - crickets. I just said she was married to a Sears Roebuck heir and moved here to run for Congress. I urged people to wait until AFTER the primary to donate so we could give the winner the most money possible to flip the seat. Now the spoiled spoiler might split the votes and we get 2 MAGAs on the November ballot. 😡
Esther is a mess. When I heard her speak last summer I asked her if she would work to end the genocide in Palestine when she made it to Congress. She immediately FREAKED OUT and started telling I was part of the problem and being "divisive." Me being divisive? For asking if she would stand up for all the innocent civilians being murdered by a fascist government? She was implying also that it was related to Jewish folks (as if I was being antisemitic) and how we should be concerned about violence against Jews. Of course I condemn violence agains Jews! What in the world!?? You can condemn violence being done to more than one group. She was clearly riled by a simple question and I am not voting for someone who is just plan rude and mean to a constituent asking a question.
Then, with some googling, I found that she didn't even live here until she decided to run and comes from gobs of money and is married into the Sears Roebuck family. She is not someone interested in helping the average person.
It’s laughable that she has the nerve to talk corruption when she quite literally thinks she can use her money to bully people into silence. Her husband has a PAC by the way. Shomer PAC
https://shomerpac.org/
I am a Gen X voter and am concerned about who the Millennials and Gen Zs will support in this election. They are the future! I like all the candidates, but honestly I think Esther’s family buying a second home in Coto is unrelatable to the “affordability” context of this election. Joe Kerr has good messaging and experience, but no way will he get the younger voters. Lisa Ramirez is smart, can speak to all levels of economics, demographics, as well as solutions to current issues. I am excited about her candidacy, even though the Dems are a long shot in this race.
Most young people hate Esther. We don’t care if she won’t take AIPAC money. She doesn’t need to. She’s married to the Sears fortune heir who has his own PAC. His family is so wealthy that his aunt, Nina Rosenwald, is in the Epstein files asking Epstein for a donation to the Gatestone institute
Kerr also owns a multimillion dollar home in Coto.
Ramirez owns and lives in a multimillion dollar home in Rocking Horse Ridge, a gated community in Santa Ana which isn’t even in the district!
Ramirez ALSO owns several other homes in OC that she rents out as investments — landlords like her are the main reason OC housing prices are so high!
Maybe you didn’t know any of these facts?
Ramirez btw also changed her voter registration from Democrat to independent right after Kamala was nominated in 2024 fyi
Ok. Lisa’s campaign is the only one I’m excited about right now. I’ll support whichever Dem candidate makes it through the primary.
Joe can defeat the republicans
So you don’t support Roe v Wade? Because Lisa does not.
Um, bye now.
Total Clownery. Does she really want to open the topic of corruption? How are her multiple defunct galleries doing?
How’s your sad failed music career doing? Seems like you have a lot of free time
very bold of you to mock Elizabeth for her music career when she has played the BBC and then was ABUSED physically and railroaded legally by a multimillionaire record label smear campaign to protect their abusive artist (who still imploded the band) over a decade and a half ago. She also is a disabled activist who still goes out on the street to protest, which is where Esther's campaign manager shoved her post ovarian surgery.
And by the way she just made a song with a founder of Third Eye Blind.
You two are beyond parody
That’s rich coming from a coastal elite who is out of a Portlandia skit pretending to relate to the common person. Coming from the womanwho married a guy for money and to claim Jewish proximity for victim card 😂 F OFF - signed a real Jew
Good enough that you’ve heard of it apparently. Yeah, really disproving that it’s not Esther or Joseph. Absolutely nobody else in this comment section knows who I am except maybe Jeff and I highly doubt he would make it an account called MV patriot to troll his own comment section
Apparently, Esther's husband is a big enough fan that he had to lurk your music page stories constantly until you blocked him! LMAO
Good enough that you’ve heard of it apparently. Yeah, really disproving that it’s not Esther or Joseph. Absolutely nobody else in this comment section knows who I am except maybe Jeff and I highly doubt he would make it an account called MV patriot to troll his own comment section
Morgan says you are famous tho 🤡
How would you know I am a musician based off my profile on here? You wouldn’t. You’re pathetic. Go back to your hag of an inlaw on the Epstein Files
Esther is a lot of what is wrong with politics. If she's going down, she's dragging everybody down with her. Screw the issues, lets just try and create drama and smear everybody else. And this is honestly what I hate about the Democratic party, it gets too splintered and everybody ends up destroying each other in the process. It is dumb.
Esther is the ONLY candidate for ca40 who actually has published a coherent issues page
Www.estherkimvaret.com/priorities
The other dem candidates are all word salads and blurry talking points on repeat
hahaha coherent! lmao she said the biggest threat to the Dems (in a published article) is that Dems dont suck up to Israel enough! Imagine saying that after a full blown genocide, billions wasted and Mamdani taking NY in a landslide. She is a complete moron carpetbagger. Her (now ex) campaign manager also shoved my post surgery gf who is five ft one after Esther mocked her sign of Jesus at a La Paz protest that said "don't fund Israel". She closes her galleries in weird ways and house hops like a frog jumping lilly pads. How is she going to stop ICE when she doesn't even ever connect them to IOF training? She's a laughingstock and a hypocrite sitting on a huge Sears fortune from her beta Lurch husband.
we need affordable rx prices! so you can get back on your meds
I was on the fence that you were Esther until you said this. Jfc, you just can't control yourself, can you? Do you realize this is not the type of person we need representing us in DC? Well, I'm here as a constituent telling you it is not. This is embarrassing behavior, to say the least.
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00894915&contributor_occupation=Governor&two_year_transaction_period=2026
Hi “Elel” 👻
not gonna get affordable rx prices with a candidate who doesn't care that all our $ goes to universal health care and endless weapons for a settler apartheid state!
my meds are black coffee. i'm good. not the one w brain rot from glazing a mean girl who just wants to do absolutely nothing like her pal cory booker.
She needs to quit and let the only centrist, Joe Kerr go up against Calvert.
I'm sure she wrote all of it herself. 🤔
One would think a candidate whose campaign is entirely social media would know about "the Streisand effect."
https://islamophobia.org/past-anti-muslim-activities/abstraction-fund/
Esthers husband Joseph Varets aunt, Nina Rosenwald, who has donated to Esther’s campaign.
The Abstraction Fund is a national, tax-exempt private family foundation run by an heir of the Sears-Roebuck fortune, Nina Rosenwald. Rosenwald builds upon her grandfather Julius Rosenwald’s remarkable legacy of philanthropy — he served as a key bulwark of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, and provided critical assistance to Jewish refugees fleeing Europe for the United States., Unlike her family’s legacy of serving social justice, Nina Rosenwald has used the Abstraction Fund to fuel some of the country’s most vitriolic, paranoid, and toxic anti-Muslim institutions. The Abstraction Fund’s primary beneficiary is the Gatestone Institute, which she founded and where she serves as president.
The Gatestone Institute is an anti-Muslim hate group of which Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton served as chairman. Many of the Abstraction Fund’s grantees include conservative and pro-Israel groups, such as Turning Point USA and the Central Fund of Israel. From 2014 to 2016 the Fund had access to more than $4 million in revenue. It funneled 75 percent of this, nearly $3.2 million, toward anti-Muslim hate groups, including $1.87 million to the Gatestone Institute and $742,000 to the Middle East Forum. Through its grantmaking capacity, the Fund has fueled an “alliance between the pro-Israel mainstream and the Islamophobic fringe” that ranks among the most disturbing examples of the way in which American philanthropy is institutionally connected to the Islamophobia network.
MV Patriot needs to get a life.
She is about as stupid and desperate as the Republican candidate for judge who challenged his opponent with a foreign sounding name for hiding it by using their middle initial instead.
Oh, and AIPAC money!
Fake news. Check FEC before you repeat BS.
Kerr actually DID take $ in 2024 from 2 pro Israel PACs, Esther has not taken any and said she will not. Again, check FEC search, it’s free.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it either way, but seems you do yet you have the facts backwards.
hahaha you think she needs to take AIPAC money when her family member right winger NINA ROSENWALD WHO FUNDS ANTI ISLAM HATE GROUPS like Gatestone and IS one of her donors and her whole heap of zionist relatives (including her very problematic husband) are literally shadowing her campaign to try to manipulate congress to stay pro Israel?
Joe has said he won't take money from AIPAC
But he already took the $ you clueless dope
Well, I could be wrong and I'm happy to admit it if that's the case… It could be the family connections I read about. In any case, I could write volumes on AIPAC and genocide… it's being live streamed every day, but you can ignore it if you want
So you take time out of your day to post crap on line when you have zero idea what you’re talking about. Got it.
Nope. Im one of your ig followers my name is Audra. @audee1213 blasphemy a fellow dem thinks your vitriol for Kim Varet feels like a Stein supporter ala 2024, right?
Jeff youre so disappointing…
This can only be one person