Karina Onofre has announced that she is running for Ward 5 on the Santa Ana City Council, which is currently represented by Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez, who has apparently termed out after serving for three four year terms. Alvarez reportedly is going to sue to get on to the ballot.
Onofre works for a fellow named Mike Dalati, at Santa Ana Property Management, a company that manages rental properties. She is also apparently the publisher of Mundo Latino Magazine, but their website appears to be defunct. You can however learn a bit about this publication at this link. Onofre states on that website that “Our goal with MUNDO LATINO WORLD magazine is to Strengthen Latinos & the Whole WORLD in unison with tips on healthcare, eating, excercising, love poem.” I have never seen nor heard of this magazine but apparently Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez gave her an award for publishing it. Sanchez must have dug those love poems!
She is a graduate of Pennsylvania’s Allegheny College, according to her campaign website. Curiously her Facebook page says she lives in Mission Viejo (she has since changed that and upgraded to the new Facebook Timeline). She definitely grew up in Santa Ana and she is very proud, as she should be, of her record as a student.
Onofre claims to be a Democrat who is strongly conservative on some issues, but she does not elaborate as to what those issues might be.
Onofre is a fresh face and has an interesting background, but the harsh reality is that she won’t be the only one running for Ward 5. SAUSD Board Member Roman Reyna will probably enter the race, especially if Alvarez can’t run again. And Reyna will very likely win.
Reyna has the support of Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido and Council Member David Benavides. I am pretty sure most of the Council will line up behind him. Reyna used to work at the Santa Ana Boys and Girls Club and he now works at the Santa Ana YMCA. He goes to church locally and has a lot of friends in the city. He will be a force to be reckoned with as a Council candidate.
Onofre, I think, would be better served running for the SAUSD School Board.
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"I’ll vote for onofre because anybody who runs against a pulido hack has my vote but if she wins how long will it take for her to start worshipping at the alter of the tiny dark lord like so many before her?"........ Hmmmmmm
Very soon, mateo!..... unless she has a loaded mentor who is after the dark lord.
It appears to me that someone wants to make a crack into the Santa Ana's Pandora box.
Could it be the catalytic force which will bring down Pulido and Walters??
Remember that any big-shoot like Sheriff Carona went down on lying to the investigators not based on the original allegations.
Therefore, a reasonable accusation can start a self destructive process.
There is so much corruption in the city of Santa Ana, I can’t fathom it… Claudia Alvarez is breaking the law, abusing her power as district attorney, and using the tax payer's money to file a law suit to get permission to run for fourth term.
What happened to Democracy???? It’s like George W. Bush filling a law suit to run for 3rd term. This is insane and I'm very disturbed that our council women Alvarez think that she is above the law.
Santa Ana city council already changed the law to allow Pulido to run for unlimited terms, which is mind boggling..
Are we in the United States of America?? Where are we???
Anyone?? Please HELP!!!! I'm moving out of Santa Ana
"Santa Ana city council already changed the law to allow Pulido to run for unlimited terms, which is mind boggling.."
James,
It was the voters of Santa Ana that put in place the system that we currently have in which the Mayor, whomever it is, has no term limits. The Santa Ana City Council had nothing to do with this change allowing unlimited terms for the Mayor.
The first person elected under this system was Dan Young, not Miguel Pulido.
I stand corrected, I meant to say that the CITY COUNCIL already Amended their TERM LIMITS by adding on another term -at exactly the same time Claudia Alvarez was on her way OUT! She pushed for MEASURE D -read it everyone!!! This Measure D allowed her to stay for an additional four years back in 2008! and NOW she wants to stay longer???? What exactly is she in it for? What is she self appointing to her paycheck that she doesn't wanna let go of??? It makes you wonder, why she wants to claw on to an overheated seat.... What is she GETTING out of it?
May be the new council member can shut this meth bar down
XXXX w edinger
Santa Ana 92704
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