Assemblyman Tom Daly won’t be getting a free pass in the June primary election after all! Santa Ana Unified School District Trustee Cecilia “Ceci” Iglesias will be challenging him as will a lady I never heard of named Sherry Walker.
Iglesias was the top vote-getter when she ran for the SAUSD School Board in 2012. She previously gathered 10,000 nominating signatures when she ran for Congress as an independent in 2010. She is now a Republican.
Daly, when he was Mayor of Anaheim, earned a reputation for being anti-Latino. He also was unfriendly to Anaheim’s motel families, who had nowhere else to go. And as OC Clerk-Recorder he made a real mess of things, hiring friends, wasting money and doing nothing to improve service.
Daly has done nothing to distinguish himself in the State Assembly.
Can Ceci beat him? You bet. The 69th Assembly District is the most Latino district in Orange County and the primary election is an open one.
Iglesias works for a State Senator, Mimi Walters, and I don’t know that any other local elected official gets out in the community to the extent that she does.
People have bet against Iglesias before but she has proved them wrong. I think she can win and I will enjoy watching her beat Daly!
Wait, so she is planning on leaving us empty at the SAUSD not even halfway into her term? Say what you say about her involvement in the community, but she hasn’t even gotten started with anything worth recognizing at the district. At least Reyna had the honor of finishing his term before moving on to city council.
There are plenty of good candidates available for the school board should she move on. And she could do a lot for the district as a State Legislator.
What are the “juicers” going say? A qualified female, Latin who represents the district (in their make believe world) better than the old white man.
This paints Julio Perez in an interesting light. Is he just another upward mobile Democrat pretending to care about Santana Ana? Or is/was he trying to affect change. Now that his organization is bankrolling Sacred, maybe he fancies himself a Kingmaker! Albeit from a rented bedroom on N. Baker!
Look forward to this battle.