Leading Assembly candidate Michele Martinez lands big endorsements

While the Disney Company, through the SOAR PAC, has been propping up Tom Daly’s lame campaign for the 69th Assembly District, he is being outworked by his leading opponent – Santa Ana Councilwoman Michele Martinez.  Just look at the endorsements she has racked up thus far:

  • Assemblyman Ben Hueso
  • Assemblyman Roger Hernandez
  • Assemblyman Ricardo Lara
  • Assemblyman Henry Perea
  • Assemblyman Jose Solorio
  • Ret. Senator Martha Escuita
  • Ret. Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez
  • Ret. Assemblyman Alberto Torrico
  • Santa Ana, Mayor Miguel Pulido
  • Santa Ana, Councilmember David Benavides
  • Santa Ana, Councilmember Sal Tinajero
  • Santa Ana, Councilmember, Vince Sarmiento
  • Garden Grove, Councilmember, Dina Nguyen
  • Garden Grove, Former Councilmember, Mark Rosen
  • Brea, Councilmember, Ron Garcia
  • Lake Forest, Councilmember, Kathryn McCullough
  • San Juan Capistrano, Councilmember, Laura Freese
  • Montebello School Board, Gerri Guzman
  • Cudahy, Mayor Josue Barrios
  • El Monte, Councilmember, Joseph Gonzalez
  • Bell Gardens, Sergio Infanzon
  • Southgate, Jorge Morales
  • Hawthorne, Mayor Protem, Alex Vargas
  • Hawthorne, School Board, John Vargas
  • Santa Ana, Planning Commissioner, Eric Adelrete
  • Santa Ana, Planning Commissioner, Patrick Correa
  • Santa Ana, Planning Commissioner, Sean Mill
  • Santa Ana, Housing and Redevelopment Commissioner, Lynnette Verino
  • Santa Ana, Housing and Redevelopment Commissioner, Monica Garcia
  • Santa Ana, Parks and Recreation Commissioner, Ken Nguyen
  • Santa Ana, Parks and Recreation Commissioner, Max Madrid
  • Santa Ana, Youth Chair Commissioner, Jonathan Espinoza
  • Santa Ana, Environmental and Transportation Commissioner, Don Cribb
  • Santa Ana, Environmental and Transportation Commissioner, Kim Olson
  • HOPE, PAC
  • (Partial Listing)
Impressive!  And I hear she has a good shot at landing the endorsement of the California Assembly Latino Caucus.
Martinez notes on her website that “the newly reapportioned Assembly district is extremely diverse- it has a population that is 78.3% Latino, 9.7% Asian and 1.5% African American (2010 Census). ”  All the more reason to elect Martinez, not Daly.
Click here to get involved in her campaign and click here to contribute to the effort.
What about the other Democratic candidate?  Well, Julio Perez continues to be unknown in the district and the Disney Company took away his biggest campaign issue when they settled their contract with their hotel workers.  Game over for Perez!
Art Pedroza Editor
Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.
Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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  • "Waste of time as usual. I bow out for today"...... Hmmmmm

    When you get bored with your OJB Nelson, just bow in any day.

  • Haha, Kafkaesque. Do you know that's my very favorite writer, Fiala?

    Meanwhile Art makes as little sense as ever. I sound like Tom Gordon and McEwen --- because I think the word "diverse" should have a definition?

    Never mind, I rebow out

    • No, because you don't think Santa Ana is diverse. I have heard Gordon say that many times. Like McEwen he pines for a time when the city was indeed not diverse. Well, that ship sailed a long time ago...

  • See, it's so difficult to have an intelligent conversation with you. I am not CRITICIZING Santa Ana when I say that the word "diverse" doesn't exactly apply to it. It is an overwhemlingly Latino city, and good for it! I just care about words having meaning.

    • Sure Vern. Well if you and your Brea pal Diamond succeed this diverse city will end up being represented by Tom Daly in the Assembly. I hope you can live with that.

  • I thought we were past this:

    You love that this is a Latino district yet you are working with Perez, a candidate who cannot win – and who could hand Daly the election by splitting the Latino vote?

    Art, explain how you think Perez could split the Latino vote and allow Daly to win given the new Top Two primary system?

    Do you understand that there is no longer a Democratic primary?

    If Santa Ana had a strong Republican candidate who could poll maybe 30% of the vote, you might have a point -- but it doesn't. I'm not afraid of Michelle being in the primary, because I think that Julio will get more votes and be in the final two against either her or Daly (probably Daly.)

    If there are three candidates in a race now and one gets 100,000 votes and one gets 7 and one gets 4, the Top 2 -- with the 100,000 and 7 -- go into the general election. How many times do I have to explain this to you?

    So: again, even if Julio were the weaker candidate (as he is not), how does his presence knock Michelle out of the Top 2?

    P.S. I liked how when I got you dead to rights on the Solorio thing you said it was "not worth debating." Maybe not, but it goes into my "Art gets it wrong" file.

    So could you please explain how you think that

    • Are you kidding? The Republicans might still recruit someone with good name ID (Lucille Kring?) who could indeed get enough votes, with a three way Dem split, to make the top two. The GOP knows that this is the year to do it as Obama is a huge anchor on all the OC races. Needless to say, Obama is losing all of Orange County this time. And the White House too probably.

      So yes, Perez could cost us big by splitting the Latino vote and putting Daly and some Republican on the general ballot. At that point who knows? Daly could win even if Latinos don't show up, but the GOP does have a shot at this district, particularly because of Obama's weakness and because Latinos won't show up in the general if Daly is the candidate.

  • Ha. One could become a "connoisseur of the fold." Meaning appreciating the various ways that various windbags fold after realizing they can't hold up their end of an argument. How rarely do they ever admit they were wrong? Why, very, very rarely.

    • Windbags? There is no bigger windbag that your pal Diamond, who says in 5,000 words what anyone else can say in 500.

  • "Haha, Kafkaesque. Do you know that’s my very favorite writer, Fiala?"...... Hmmmmm

    That figures!

    Every pseudo intellectual snob aspire to be Kafkaesque.

    Do you know that Kavka (crow) was not really any writer and his existentialistic opinions were published after his death?

  • There is no bigger windbag that your pal Diamond, who says in 5,000 words what anyone else can say in 500.

    Ha ha, some truth there. Still, you been talking nonsense.

  • "See, it’s so difficult to have an intelligent conversation with you. I am not CRITICIZING Santa Ana when I say that the word “diverse” doesn’t exactly apply to it. It is an overwhemlingly(SIC) Latino city, and good for it! I just care about words having meaning."....... Hmmmmm

    Reiterating Nelson, Art is using correctly “diverse” it is you who must find different expression for what ever you want to say, you moron mongoloid.

  • This comment long confirms my impression that Art understands at most 10% of what I say.

    Hey, Art, this suggestion is serious: if they do recruit a Lucille Kring for a suicide mission, just run as a Republican yourself and split the GOP vote. I might even, God help me, send you a check. That way two Dems still get in. See how that works? It's Abel Maldonado's world, we just live in it.

    (That's a little under 80 words; let's see you say it in 8. Oh, heck, 10.)

    • Yes I know that you think you are superior to everyone else. Lord knows what you really think of Latinos in general.

      Why would I run and risk splitting the Latino vote further, in an open primary? Now who isn't making sense?

      Tell you what, why don't you and Vern do something that is actually useful and find someone to run against Supervisor Janet Nguyen? There is a race your pal Julio could actually win...

  • Greg,

    I don't think you really want to know what I think about you and your "Gender".

    All I said was I like Michelles Moxie, and I distrusted Julio.

    Trying to discredit legitmate opinions, pretty chicken.

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