Brett Franklin

https://youtu.be/z-Ld4FJTra0 Loretta Sanchez must surely regret walking away from a safe House seat a few years ago, when he ran instead for the U.S. Senate and got trounced by Kamala…

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Diverse? No! The last time someone tried to change our City Council elections from at large to ward specific the effort failed, primarily because white voters were told that the…

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Now OC GOP Chairman Scott Baugh is singing a different tune - in the wake of the overwhelming defeat of the Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, by President Barack Obama.…

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City of Santa Ana, Downtown Orange County Community Alert: 2012 UNOFFICIAL LOCAL SANTA ANA ELECTION RESULTS SANTA ANA, CA (November 7, 2012) – In an effort to keep Santa Ana…

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[caption id="attachment_30761" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Two winners - Mayor Miguel Pulido and President Barack Obama[/caption] As expected, Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido is winning handily tonight.  The O.C. Voter Registrar has…

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Santa Ana Mayoral challenger David Benavides wasn't on the ballot two years ago, as he had no opponent for his City Council seat.  The last time he appeared on the…

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Former Santa Ana Council Member Brett Franklin continues to lead in polling for Ward 3, despite the fact that there are quite a few candidates running for that seat, including…

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The Santa Ana City Clerk, Mary Huizar, sent me the Santa Ana Council and Mayoral candidates' new campaign finance reports today.  You can read them all by clicking here.  …

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The inside baseball set has assumed that Santa Ana Planning Commissioner Eric Alderete is going to win in Ward 3, in November's election.  However an unpublished poll shows former Santa…

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[caption id="attachment_29005" align="aligncenter" width="386"] Robert Hammond, promoting the GOP[/caption] Orange County's Democrats are generally clueless, but this past June they were particularly out of sorts.  They inexplicably gave Orange County…

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[caption id="attachment_25750" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Council Candidate Karina Onofre and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez[/caption] The Republican Party of Orange County's Endorsement Committee met tonight to consider a number of endorsements of local…

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Santa Ana Ward 3 candidate Eric Alderete is hosting another fundraiser - but this time it is going to be held in Los Angeles, not in Santa Ana, at the…

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Estela and Angelica Amezcua pulled papers today to run for the Santa Ana City Council, in Wards 1 and 3.  It initially appeared that they were running for each other's wards,…

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[caption id="attachment_27981" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Editor's Note: This picture is not doctored. This is John Palacio.[/caption] I am hearing from multiple sources today that SAUSD Trustee John Palacio is inexplicably considering…

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UPDATE: Council Member Sal Tinajero has pulled papers to run against Mayor Pulido this November.  Chisme has it that Benavides will be pressured to get out of the race ASAP.…

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