Registered Sex Offender appointed as Chairman of Contra Costa Peace and Freedom Party
In July 2010, Steven Bruce Orcutt was appointed as County Chairman of the Peace & Freedom Party Contra Costa Central Committee by the only member of that organization to be elected in the June primary, Sherri Borgg, Peace and Freedom candidate for Board of Equalization when she was filling vacancies on the county committtee. The appointment can be seen by clicking on www.peaceandfreedom.org and the going to the section on "county committees" . What is a feminist-socialist political party like Peace and Freedom Party doing appointing someone like this Runninghorse monster to any sort of leadership role?
Orcutt is apparently now claiming that his arrest and conviction for molesting the 14 to 15 year old was a police set-up, an issue he never raised at trial where his defense counsel was able to plead him down to a single misdeameanor from the initial four felony charges.
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For the announcement of Steve Orcutt's appointment as county chair of the Peace and Freedom Party of Contra Costa County, the party's own website is the source http://www.peaceandfreedom.org . After the page pops up, click on county committees and scroll down to Contra Costa.
The fact that Orcutt uses the name Frank Runninghorse and tries to pass himself off as a Native American on various college campuses is disgusting. It is especially insulting to Leonard Peltier, the party's nominee for President in 2004 as well as to those Native Americans who have actively worked for Peace & Freedom Party previously such as Joel Meza and Robert Chacnaca.
Runningmouth (as he is also known) has previously claimed to be a member of the long gone International Workers of the World, better recognised as the initials IWW. Steve asserts that he is a member of the IWW's Frank Little Club - a two or three member group, that tries to take over leadership of local Bay Area movements by coming in and shouting down those concerned about serious issues.
I am interested in finding the police report on Steve Orcutt's arrest in 2005 which lead to his conviction as a sex offender. Anyone know what jurisdiction it happened in? Maybe Contra Costa County where he lives in Concord and attends Diablo Valley College for over 20 some years.
See the implications of Steve Orcutt, Scott Catamas, and Robert Leo St. George's escapades as sex offenders
Let the chair of the party C.T Weber know that you oppose this appointment. Email C.T. at and cc: and
He took the lead in helping to sideline the protest into an alley along the side of the Fairgrounds where the Tea Party event was, where the police then blocked everyone off and no one could hear them -- classic. I'd heard from a woman in the earlier protest with mostly Labor people that they did the same thing to them.
Frank appeared on the scene just before the march and made himself busy handing out signs, organizing everyone, handing out some kind of flier, and standing on the crate to pose as a leader -- he was an "instant organizer" who then helped lead the group down the path the police wanted them to go down to neutralize them.
He also misled a local 9/11 group here in the Bay Area in getting them to buy a copier that he kept at his place, and then he used for his own work. He would show up to table at events totally stoned, his eyes all red, and with fliers that were utter nonsense, scribbles, basically.
Either Runninghorse preys on activists for his own reasons, or for the reasons of others, but in the end, you don't know his agenda, he uses a fake name and has a prison record.
Is this the person we want leading our college activists around?
From May 2010. Old story.
He preys on young people at colleges who really want to make a difference but ends up turning most of them off to activism. And if you really know him personally you really cant claim with a straight face you dont think his conviction was justified. I have talked about it with several former Frank Little Club members as well as P&Fers and none of them were surprised. Why the hell would you not care he molested a child?
If you really want to see P&F completely fall apart do keep supporting him. If you really want it to grow stop defending a scumbag like him. Really what is you agenda?
What's wrong with the sex offender system is that someone who gets caught patronizing an experienced street prostitute who told him that she was over 18, gets caught up in the same category as someone who targets innocent kids. She was no victim of him but of her own life when she decided to get into prostitution.
As to the accusation of child porn I haven't heard of this before and consider it hearsay.
I rented his backyard shed in the nineties, and he was indeed a scab tile setter. He alienated most of the Frank Little Club cadre in the early nineties, and many have tales about his misogyny and megalomania. He is a classic narcissist and a chauvinist of the old new-left mold.
One of the best sources of information about Orcutt/Runningmouth is the blog written by Jan Tucker a long time peace activist and a licensed private investigator from Los Angles. Jan's exposed Orcutt's sordid crimes in the Detectives Diary blog at http://www.JanBTucker.com
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/08/18775938.php
...and still, members of the P&F party enabling this petty fraud!