Santa Ana Councilman Vince Sarmiento pulls papers to run for Mayor too
Santa Ana Councilman Vince Sarmiento has reportedly pulled papers to run for Mayor of Santa Ana, hours after State Senator Lou Correa also pulled papers. There is still no word…
Ballot Measures
Civic Affairs
David Benavides
Lou Correa
Marijuana
Michele Martinez
Politics
Sal Tinajero
Santa Ana
Vicente Sarmiento
The Santa Ana City Council runs for cover as they reject their own raise proposal
The Santa Ana City Council unanimously rejected their own ballot measure proposal, which was Agenda Item # 65A, to give themselves what amounted to a 700% pay raise. We have…
2014 Elections
Angelica Amezcua
Civic Affairs
Crime
David Benavides
Drugs
Marijuana
Michele Martinez
Miguel Pulido
Politics
Roman Reyna
Sal Tinajero
Santa Ana
Vicente Sarmiento
Three Council Members seek to ban medical marijuana collectives
Three Santa Ana City Council Members, including Michele Martinez, David Benavides and Angie Amezcua have placed an 85A item on the agenda for this Tuesday's City Council meeting, regarding medical…
Why isn’t Sarmiento running for Mayor instead of Reyna?
With the promise of a grass-roots campaign, Councilman Roman A. Reyna has announced he is running for mayor to unseat Miguel Pulido, who he said has grown out of touch…
Annual Relay for Life of Santa Ana set for April 12 at Santa Ana College
City of Santa Ana Community Alert: JOIN HONORARY CHAIR COUNCILMAN VINCENT SARMIENTO & CITY ELECTED OFFICIALS AT THE ANNUAL RELAY FOR LIFE OF SANTA ANA SANTA ANA, CA (April 10,…
Carlos Bustamante
Civic Affairs
David Benavides
Michele Martinez
Miguel Pulido
Politics
Sal Tinajero
Santa Ana
Vicente Sarmiento
Exclusive – Mayor Pulido responds to latest unfair VOC slam on him
[caption id="attachment_25907" align="aligncenter" width="300"] OCEA boss Nick Berardino has a grudge with Mayor Pulido[/caption] The Voice of OC is reporting that Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido voted for a $1.35-million…
2014 Elections
Civic Affairs
David Benavides
David Cavazos
Michele Martinez
Miguel Pulido
Politics
Sal Tinajero
Vicente Sarmiento
Why is the Santa Ana City Council messing around with the Mayoral elections?
Is it desperation? Santa Ana Council Members Sal Tinajero and Vince Sarmiento placed an odd 85 A item on tonight's City Council agenda: DIRECT CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS…
Yes, we paid to send three Councilmen to Portland to look at streetcars
Can you believe it? Our city is broke but on August 28, 2013, "officials from Santa Ana conducted a one-day site visit to learn more about the highly successful transit…
Angelica Amezcua
Civic Affairs
David Benavides
Michele Martinez
Miguel Pulido
Roman Reyna
Sal Tinajero
Santa Ana
Vicente Sarmiento
Poll – Who is the worst Santa Ana City Council Member?
[cardoza_wp_poll id=10] We recently took a look at the official City Calendars of each of our Santa Ana City Council Members. Now it is time to vote! Which one of…
Councilman Sarmiento’s calendar shows that he keeps a very full schedule
We have been looking this week at the publicly posted official calendars of our City Council Members, for the month of June, 2013. So far we have determined that Council…
2014 Elections
Alfredo Amezcua
Angelica Amezcua
Civic Affairs
Claudia Alvarez
Elections
Janet Nguyen
Michele Martinez
Miguel Pulido
Politics
Sal Tinajero
Santa Ana
Term Limits
Tom Daly
Vicente Sarmiento
Santa Ana Political Chismes – Sarmiento for Supervisor?
I had a long talk this afernoon with a Santa Ana insider who had some amazing chismes for me. I was expecting that perhaps Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido would…
Civic Affairs
David Benavides
Michele Martinez
Politics
Sal Tinajero
Santa Ana
Tom Daly
Vicente Sarmiento
Santa Ana Political Chismes – is a new City Manager on the way?
So many chismes! The big one I am hearing is that the Santa Ana City Council is preparing to hire a new City Manager at a special meeting next week,…
David Benavides
immigration
Labor
Latinos
Michele Martinez
Politics
Roman Reyna
Santa Ana
Vicente Sarmiento
Big turnout for Santa Ana’s May Day March
Santa Ana's May Day march was a huge success. The theme of the May Day March was immigration reform. There are only two immigrants left on our City Council today…
Deputy City Manager Jill Arthur being investigated for misconduct
Santa Ana Deputy City Manager Jill Arthur was placed on administrative leave this week pending a city-commissioned investigation into allegations that she engaged in misconduct following a traffic accident, according…
Civic Affairs
David Benavides
Michele Martinez
Miguel Pulido
OCTA
Orange County
Politics
Santa Ana
Transportation
Vicente Sarmiento
Another damn Streetcar
From the OC Politics Blog Lurking in the back of the OCTA's Measure M Wasteful Boondoggles Projects File is another streetcar project in Santa Ana. It's not as expensive (for…