Every Picture Tells A Story~Abelardo Gomez, Junior Andrade and The Election Judge



Cameron Park Election Judge Confers with Abelardo Gomez and  Junior Andrade

We were given a tip on Friday, July 27, the last day of early voting that vans of elderly, disabled and mentally-challenged voters were being delivered to the Cameron Park polling place.  On the way over there we got a call from Zeke Silva.  He had the police report and the pictures we requested concerning the incident when the politiqueras attempted to herd his father into a van at a nursing facility.  We agreed to meet with Zeke at the Cameron Park polling place.  

Once in front of the polling place, the Election Judge came out to ask us what we were doing there, noticing the camera Nena was holding.  She said we could not be in front of the polling area with a camera.  Even though we promised to take the camera back to our truck(and did), she quickly made a call.  In a few minutes, Election Administrator Roger Ortiz showed up, quickly followed by a Cameron Country Sheriff.  The discussion that followed has already been chronicled in this blog, so I won't repeat the story.  We left after an hour with no vans pulling up.

We did not quite make it home before receiving a call from Silva:  "Jim, as soon as you and Nena left, the vans started coming in again."  We raced back to Cameron Park, speculating that SOMEONE in the polling place was tipping off the Hernandez, Masso and Gomez politiqueras when we were there.  That is why the picture above may be significant.

After the Election Judge thought we had gone for the day, she walked out through the Cameron Park gate to consult with two members of the Gomez camp.  The Gomez, Masso and Hernandez camps had set up tents and barbecue just beyond the Cameron Park fence.  Today I received a comment that identifies two of the the individuals in the picture.  I'm still waiting for Roger Ortiz to give me the name of the Election Judge(I'm told she works for Ernie Hernandez.)

Here is the quote I received:

"The guy next to Abelardo(Gomez) talking to the lady(Election Judge) is Junior Andrade his compadre. The Andrades are scum that brag about having poiticians in their pockets. They run several arcade estsablishments and bankrolled Gomez for protection of their arcade businesses. Luis Saenz should close all the arcades,...the Andrades gave alot of money to Carlos Masso also. They are people that do not know what an honest living is."

What the comment above alleges would confirm our speculation above that there was some sort of collusion between poll staff and the unethical three camps mentioned above.  Also at the Gomez tent were two well known politiqueras, Margarita Ozuna and Herminia Becerra. Joining Junior Andrade and Abelardo Gomez was Carlos Masso.  

Margarita Ozuna and Herminia Becerra with Masso and Gomez