Meet Angie Oliver – Santa Ana’s new Ward 3 Council Member

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• umm, is that legal to do that?

  • Yes, if she re-registered in time.

• Maybe "Angie" Oliver is "Carpetbagger"?

  • I doubt it. She barely exists on the Internet and does not appear to even have a Facebook page.

• "Carpetbagger" barely exists on the internet and does not have a facebook page. silly.

  • But he knows how to comment on blogs and he appears to be very well informed about local politics. This Angie character doesn't appear to have much of a clue but she won anyway

• So Angie is being characterized as a clueless character?

  She is going to be the most powerful person in all of Santa Ana! So she better get a clue. The "council majority" will be demanding that she works with them. And Pulido will be demanding that she works with him. Angie Bird is now in the Catbird Seat.

  • She's a teacher so of course she's smart. And she'll be smart enough to stay away from the ding dongs on the Council, but she has a lot to learn in a very short time. Luckily Alvarez will be advising her.

• I am not Angie, She's better looking.

  But, now that I see her husbands picture, I know who they are.

  Hopefully she operates as a free thinking independent and doesn't get sucked in to the cancer that is Benavide's.

  Look for Vince to lean more center. Maybe Michelle too as she see's her lights fade.

  I am done with this for a while, (2-0 Perez and Benavides DENIED), although Roman might deserve some bashing now and again.

  Unlike Art Lomeli, I am all about the city and the neighborhood and protecting it from phonies.

  Call the LIARS line if you have a canidate.

• As a mother I'm so happy that Angie was able to win. My sister teaches with her and says she's the greatest.
  She had the fire in the belly to win that Eric sadly lacked. Eric reminds me of another past Santa Ana candidate and lawyer named Glenn Mondo who ran for City Council several times and lost. Glenn realized at some point that he was better working behind the scenes in politics and is now a judge. Maybe Eric could meet with Glenn and find out how he did it. Not everyone is cut out for elected office buy there are always rolls for good voluteers.

  Angie will be on the City Council until 2024 (3 4 year terms) so I suggest we all support her and give her the love she deserves.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwy9f1LrTwo

  • I could not disagree more with your statement regarding Eric. Eric busted his ass during this campaign and worked very hard. When he was not working at his day job he was busy walking precincts.

    The comparison to Mondo is a very poor one. Mondo assumed that he had the election in the bag and figured because he had locked up all the traditional support that he did not have to work. Ted Moreno, the candidate that beat Mondo, simply outworked him.

    If you want to compare someone to Mondo, I would go with Tino Rivera. Tino kicked back and assumed victory while Michele Martinez worked to win.

    Eric worked very hard and ran an excellent campaign. He did everything right and this outcome is simply illogical.

    We shall see what Mrs. Oliver is made of and what kind of councilmember she will be very soon. I wish her the best in this huge undertaking and hope she is up to the task.

    Make no mistake about it, Eric Alderete is an asset to the community and someone this council would have benefitted greatly from.

    • Angélica Amezcua is a wonderful person, as her husband and friends attest.

      However, personal character is not the key issue here.

      The chief issue is that Angélica is now in a position to make crucial policy decisions impacting Santa Ana residents for the foreseeable future.

      Her inaccessibility during the campaign robbed me and other Santa Ana residents of the opportunity to gauge her vision and assess her views on issues and policies.

      Her campaign silence was simply irresponsible and has now brought forth this avalanche of post-election scrutiny. Do not blame the public.

      Soon enough Angélica will have no choice but to communicate her views and make policy choices. I hope she can do a better job communicating her vision and policy preferences, rather than continue relying on friends and family to vouch for her personal character.

      Peace.

• This blog's addy-name is misleading. No mention of political platforms, agendas, city vision, budget discourse in this article. Only what you "somehow" "surmise" and "suspect" about another victim on your undesireables list. A trash-dig rant might've been tolerated months ago. Please, your readership respectfully implores you to, at least, orient both your black permanent marker's wide-nib and neon yellow highlighter's broad-tip with the voters' compass: Forward.

  • How would anyone know anything about Angie's position on the issues? She never communicated any of that during her campaign. That said, I am looking forward to finding out what she is all about.

  • Doris,

    Would you happen to know anything about Mrs. Oliver's platform, agenda, vision for the city or what she wants to do in regards to the budget? If you do please share it.

    Mrs. Oliver surely did not inform the voters as to what her agenda was. However I will remain cautiously optimistic that she has one in place and has an idea about what she is getting into.

• My name is Robert Oliver and Angelica Amezcua is my wife. Though the political blogosphere is not known for constraining itself to the boundaries of fact and fiction and are best ignored, I believe this post warrants a response.

  My wife's name is Angelica Amezcua, not Angie Oliver. The name on her birth certificate and passport is Angelica Amezcua. The name on every paycheck she has ever received from SAUSD reads Angelica Amezcua. The name on the grant deed of our house (a public record) reads "Robert Oliver and Angelica Amezcua, husband and wife as joint tenants." The name on her auto registration is Angelica Amezcua. The name on our water bill from the City reads Angelica Amezcua. In short, Angelica has kept her maiden name ever since we married, to this husband's chagrin.

  It should come as no surprise to anyone that Angelica is referred to as "Angie" to those who know and love her. Indeed, this blog's author assumed that I go by the name of Rob, rather than my given name Robert (I do not, by the way).

  To suggest that Angelica somehow "changed" her name for political expediency, however, has no basis in fact. Yes, I consider my family the Oliver family, and yes, if you call our home the message on the answering machine informs you that you have reached the Oliver residence. But that does not change the fact that Angie refers to herself as Angelica Amezcua as a matter of course, and not for political gain or motive.

  Two minor factual corrections. First, I no longer work at AlvaradoSmith. I left my partnership there two months ago to re-start my own practice, though Ruben Smith and many of the great people who work there continue to be good friends of ours. Second, our sons are 9 and 12--just thought you'd want to know.

  I would also take issue with attempts to paint her election campaign as a "prank" or as some pawn in political infighting between the Mayor and the Council, but I do not think such unfounded opinions warrant the dignity of a response. I would simply ask Mr. Pedroza and readers of this blog to get to know Angelica and to give her a chance to develop a record that you can either support or criticize.

  • Maybe someone should tell the Morrison Park Neighborhood Association that she goes by Angelica Amezcua.

    From the MPNA newsletter: "Robert and Angie Oliver moved from South Santa Ana to North Santa Ana in September."
    Did you have them make a correction in the next edition of the newsletter Robert?

    • Confused Voter,

      No, nor do I feel compelled to do so.

      Best,

      Robert

  • I notice that you and Claudia Alvarez both got your JD's from Loyola Law School. Did you know Claudia from school Robert?

    • Hank Gathers (fond memories of him, BTW):

      I did know Claudia in law school, she graduated a year ahead of me. I haven't seen her since. Our paths diverged after law school (I practiced in downtown L.A.), and we lost touch.

      Best,

      Robert

      • Robert,

        First let me offer my congratulations to your wife and welcome you both to life under the microscope of Santa Ana politics.

        I think a lot of folks are trying to figure out who Angelica is alligned with and there are rumors that it is Claudia. There is nothing wrong with that. Claudia was a great councilmember and there is nothing wrong with being associated with her.

        BTW, I too loved those LMU teams with, Hank, Bo, Jeff Fryer, Tom Peabody, etc... There is a great article in the current edition of Sports Illustrated about them.

  • Why isn't "Angie"replying to this blog instead of her husband??? It's going to be a long four years for Santa Ana residents.

  • All I had to go one Robert was that neighborhood newsletter that mentioned you both. Other than that your wife completely failed to communicate with Santa Ana's voters during her campaign. She blew off all of the candidate forums. She did not send out any campaign mail. She doesn't even have a campaign Facebook page - a free resource by the way.

    It will be a simple matter for me to check with the Voter Registrar to see how Angie filed to vote and under what name, previously.

    As for your employment, you might want to ask your old employers to remove you from their website.

    Finally, it is hard to treat your wife's campaign as anything other than a successful stunt. Again, she did not campaign. But by the grace of God, and good luck, she won.

    I have no axe to grind with her by the way. I am hopeful she will be an improvement over the out of touch and disgraced Bustamante. But if you think that I am going to ignore her then you have another thing coming. She is now a public official. We will be watching and hoping that she at some point decides to communicate with her public.

• If you seriously believe she goes by Angie Oliver all you have to do is ask all her current and past students. She is kind down to earth and very intelligent women. Her father would collect cans and carton after loosing his job at the sugar cane factory that closed many years back. Student loans paid for her education. Most of her 20 or so nephews graduated or had some form of post secondary education including schools like Cornell, Stanford, Cal State Fullerton, UCR, Concordia and Syracuse. To say she goes by Oliver is an insult to the Amezcuas. Most of her brothers until a few years back were employees of Steelcase.

• You are absolutely correct Mr. Oliver.
  "Angie" is not going to be a pawn.
  She is now going to be the most powerful
  person in Santa Ana.
  And the blogs should be ignored! haaaa hhaaaa.

  • We had over 5,000 Page Views yesterday.