CALIFORNIA
Orange County Weekly
By Gustavo ArellanoSat., May 19 2012 at 8:51 AM
Just got word that Tom Fuentes–a titan of local politics for forging the Orange County Republican Party into the freaks that they are today, and a gnat of a man for his role in the Catholic Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandals–passed away last night after a long battle with cancer. He was 63.
The best that can be said about Fuentes is that he was colorful–if, by colorful, you mean you enjoyed a man who helped put poll guards outside Latino-heavy precincts during a 1988 election that cost Fuentes, Curt Pringle and others $400,000 in a civil judgement, or someone who once opined, “I can tell you the registration of the people in the house by observing the neatness of the lawn, what cars are in the driveway…and whether there is a leaky oil can in the driveway.”
Funny!
The worst that can be said about him is the truth: that he helped to protect pedophile priests.
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