One of Rosie Avila’s pastors is running for the SAUSD School Board

Jeffrey K. Morris, a pastor and teacher at Calvary Chapel’s Bible College Extension Campus, in Costa Mesa, apparently filed late on Friday to run for the Santa Ana Unified School District’s Board of Trustees.

I could not find much information about Morris online, and he doesn’t appear on my list of frequent Santa Ana voters.  Click here to listen to some of Morris’ audio Gospel lessons.

Former SAUSD Trustee Rosie Avila has been attending Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa for many years.  Avila is known for her anti-immigrant views.  She is closely allied with Lupe Moreno, another Republican migrant basher who appears on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of anti-migrant nativists.  Click here to watch a video of Avila railing against the donation of books in Spanish to the SAUSD.

In related news, you can now read the candidates’ statements of the SAUSD incumbents, Audrey Yamagata-Noji and John Palacio, on the O.C. Voter Registrar’s website.  I copied the statements as well and am enclosing them below:

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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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