UPDATE: Sources report that Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez is going to run for reelection this November. There has been some debate about whether or not Measure D, which allowed her to run for a third term, would allow her to run for two more. Alvarez is essentially challenging her detractors to sue her if they want to remove her from the ballot. There is precedent for similar measures to grant incumbents a new set of terms – which means that Alvarez could run twice more. She has been on the City Council for three terms – twelve years. Only Mayor Miguel Pulido has been there longer. Go Claudia!
“The city of Santa Ana has sought an outside legal opinion on whether Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez — who is thought to be termed out of office next year — can run for a fourth term on City Council, Santa Ana’s interim City Manager Paul Walters confirmed this week,” according to the Voice of OC.
Prior to the passage of Measure D in 2008, Santa Ana City Council members could only serve two consecutive four-year terms. The successful campaign for Measure D — which was run out of Alvarez’s home — added another four-year term to that limit.
The theory is that Measure D restarted Alvarez with a fresh set of terms. That means she can run again. That is what the City of Santa Ana’s outside counsel is verifying.
I thought the Santa Ana City Council wasn’t going to pursue this – but I am glad they are doing so. Say what you will about Alvarez but I think she is smarter than the rest of the Council Members – and she has the huevos to stand up to the Usual Suspects. For that I am glad.
If she gets to run again, she will win, hands down. I doubt the Usual Suspects will even find someone to run against her. Mark my words. Hate her all you want, but she has always garnered the most votes of any of the Council Members. She is currently the longest tenured Council Member, although Mayor Miguel Pulido has been in office much longer than she has.
Four more years of Alvarez will surely drive the PBID crowd nuts – their promoter, Archer Altstaetter, regularly rips her on Facebook. Keep it up Archer. Sooner or later she will handle you, the way she took care of Councilman Carlos Bustamante. Why don’t you ask Carlos how it worked out for him when he went after her?
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What are you asking us for? Because the city can no longer afford to pay outside contractors to do polls to find answers to their questions?
Does it matter which Latina/Latino will drive the city into the ground?
I am personally against the term limits so it does not matter to me.
If you Admin, and the rest will vote for realty not for race the prop."D" wouldn't matter long time ago.
So if you like what she is doing vote for her or if you are stupid vote for her too but do not expect any changes in Santa Ana. Only more deficit.
"The council, (Alvarez) said, is making progress on addressing Santa Ana’s problems; and the longer term limits “gives us four more years to continue to work on that progress.”
“I think we’re going to be in great shape in Santa Ana,” she added."
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/measure-167620-city-council.html
"Santa Ana has sought an outside legal opinion on whether Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez — who is thought to be termed out of office next year — can run for a fourth term on the City Council .."
Michele Martinez chimes in: "I would also like to know if I have two more terms."
http://www.voiceofoc.org/oc_central/article_86436100-05c4-11e1-804f-001cc4c03286.html
Alvarez in 2012!!!
Four more years!!! Four more years!!!!
Looks like I would need to fundraise more money if Alvarez is running again.
Mill,
Are you running on batteries?
There is old Bohemian cliché: When the game is best stop playing.
That was clearly evident in the Hitler issue and will manifest it self next for years and same goes for Walters and Pulido.
They may actually lose their pension spiking privileges.
I like Claudia and her brashness, but she ought to think long and hard about usurping the will of the voters. There is no basis for her to seek another term under Measure D and having the city expend precious resources on her behalf is beyond the pale. Her attempt to remain on the council reminds me of athletes who cannot let go and refuse to retire when their time has passed. Please Claudia, do the right thing and do not seek another term in office or you will force the city to spend money on the lawsuit that will eventually challenge your indefensible position.
Well the new lines for Santa Ana city wards have not even been drawn yet.
If you want to shake things up, redraw the lines in a manner that puts 2 to 3 current council members in to the same ward and open up 4 of the 6 to some fresh meat.
And for those who think term limits are good, mooooo, you bunch of cattle. I told you so.