Connect to Council’s next meeting is on 9/28, in Santa Ana’s Ward 6
Connect to Council is holding what they call a "Resource Event" on Wed., Sep. 28, at 6 pm., for the neighborhoods in Ward 6, which include: Riverview West Windsor Village…
What if Bustamante were still on the state’s anti-harassment commission?
When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced, back on Jan. 2, 2008, that he was appointing Santa Ana Carlos Bustamante to the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, I could not believe…
Is Bustamante qualified to serve as an O.C. Public Works manager?
Santa Ana Council Member Carlos Bustamante once told an audience at a fundraiser (for his failed Supervisorial campaign) that his life was like Forrest Gump - a movie character who…
Carlos Bustamante’s last stand was an epic fail
Does Santa Ana Council Member Carlos Bustamante realize he is up for reelection next year? He sure isn't acting like it. He went off on the Latino residents and businessmen…
Santa Ana artist Theo Hirsch explains why Alvarez was right about Chase
Santa Ana artist and musician Theo Hirsch unloaded on the Republicans and fake liberals who have been attacking Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez this week, in a hard…
How can Alvarez be anti-Semitic when her ancestors faced a Holocaust too?
I got a phone call tonight, on my cell phone, from a young lady who said that Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez should "learn English" and "go back…
2012 Elections
Elections
Fountain Valley
Janet Nguyen
Latinos
Orange County
Politics
Republican Party
Santa Ana
Vietnamese
O.C. Supervisors add Fountain Valley’s Viet voters to Nguyen’s 1st District
The O.C. Board of Supervisors approved by a 4-1 vote a redistricting plan this week, that was put forward by Board Chairman Bill Campbell. The plan moves a portion of Fountain…
Santa Ana Political Chismes: Will Brandman be the next O.C. Clerk-Recorder?
Jordan Brandman went to work for Tom Daly, the O.C. Clerk-Recorder, in January of this year, as his "Director of External Affairs." Yes, that sort of government job usually comes…
2012 Elections
Anaheim
Claudia Alvarez
David Benavides
Democratic Party
Elections
Jose Solorio
Latinos
Michele Martinez
Orange County
Politics
Republican Party
Sal Tinajero
Santa Ana
Santa Ana continues to dominate redistricted 69th Assembly District
Santa Ana will continue to dominate the 69th Assembly District, in the latest redistricting proposal that is now headed for public comment. The new district map includes all of Santa…
Anaheim
Democratic Party
Elections
Garden Grove
Janet Nguyen
Little Saigon
Loretta Sanchez
Orange County
Politics
Republican Party
Santa Ana
Vietnamese
Little Saigon gets redistricted into two congressional districts
The last round of redistricting deliberations has split Little Saigon into two Congressional districts - and then splits the Viet vote even further by putting Fountain Valley into a third…
2012 Elections
2014 Elections
California
Democratic Party
Elections
Jose Solorio
Orange County
Politics
Republican Party
Santa Ana
Will Silva and Solorio face off in the redistricted 34th State Senate District?
The final proposed redistricting of the 34th State Senate District is now headed for the public comment phase, but I doubt it is going to change much. The new district…
ESPN says that Mexican soccer fans are the best sports fans in the U.S.A.
Fans of the Mexican National Soccer Team, known as "El Tri," are the best sports fans in the U.S.A., according to a new column in ESPN Magazine. These fans travel…
2012 Elections
Democratic Party
Elections
Jose Solorio
Labor
Politics
Republican Party
Santa Ana
Vince Sarmiento
What if Vince Sarmiento doesn’t run for the 69th Assembly District?
I am hearing that there is a chance that Santa Ana Council Member Vince Sarmiento may not run for the 69th Assembly District after all. Apparently it is going to…
O.C. Fair says “Let’s eat!”
Urging the U.S. government to go on a spending diet, the Republican politicians on the Orange County Board of Supervisors turned down a shot at $10 million in federal funds to…
You can pay $250 to be a “Single Bamboo” at Janet Nguyen’s “Taste of Asia”
Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen, a Republican, is a creature of habit, if nothing else. She is holding her Third Annual "Taste of Asia" fundraiser on Thursday, June 30, at…