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Solorio to run for the Rancho Santiago Community College District’s B.O.E.

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Democratic Party, Education, Elections, Jose Solorio, Politics, Santa Ana 1 Comment

Assemblyman Jose Solorio chose not to run against Supervisor Janet Nguyen in November, but he announced this afternoon, via email, that he is running for Area One of the Rancho Santiago Community College District’s Board of Education.

Solorio’s wife is a public school teacher, I believe at Santa Ana’s Valley High School. This would seem to be a good fit for him but it is a part-time job. He has not yet announced what his other employment plans will be.

One hangup for Solorio is that he voted in the past year to de-fund the County of Orange to the tune of about fifty million per year. He was promised by Assembly Speaker John Perez that the State Legislature would find a way to return that money to the County of Orange. That never happened and the County ended up in a lawsuit with the State of California. If the State prevails the money will have to come out of the County’s education budget. Continue reading→

O.C. BOE candidate Pedroza signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Art Pedroza, Bond Measures, California, Education, Orange County, Politics, Santa Ana, Taxes 6 Comments

PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 2, 2012
Contact: Art Pedroza, Candidate for the Orange County Board of Education, Area One
Phone#: (714) 606-7622, Email: artpedroza@votepedroza.org

SANTA ANA – Art Pedroza, a teacher at Cerritos College and the leading candidate for the Orange County Board of Education, has signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

Pedroza said, “I have never ever supported a tax increase and I have steadfastly opposed every local and state bond measure.” Continue reading→

Who is Kenneth K. Nguyen?

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Education, Fountain Valley, Orange County, Politics, Santa Ana, Vietnamese 10 Comments

Who is Kenneth K. Nguyen? He is one of several candidates for the Orange County Board of Education, Area One, in the June primary. But what do we really know about him?

We know he serves on the Santa Ana Parks and Recreation Commission, which he listed as his occupation on his ballot statement. And he appears to have been the owner of a company called Keynet Corp., in Fountain Valley. Continue reading→

Elizondo was forced to change his ballot designation as he is not a teacher

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Democratic Party, Education, Eleazar Elizondo, Elections, Orange County, Politics, Santa Ana Leave a comment

I reported on Thursday about O.C. Board of Education, Area One, candidate Eleazar Elizondo’s comments to an OC Weekly reporter about how teaching adults is not teaching. Now that OC Weekly article has been published and his comments are as ridiculous as the reporter indicated when she called me. But even worse for Elizondo, the true story about how he arrived at the awful ballot designation of “Public Affairs Consultant” has now been revealed.

I recall that Elizondo, when I ran into him on the last day of the filing period, at the Orange County Voter Registrar, desperately called an attorney, on his cell phone, and asked the unknown lawyer to be his campaign attorney. I wondered then why in the world he needed a campaign attorney. Well, now we know. Continue reading→

OC Board of Education candidate Elizondo slams adult education

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Art Pedroza, Democratic Party, Education, Orange County, Santa Ana 5 Comments

I just got off the phone with a reporter from the OC Weekly. She called to tell me that one of my opponents, Eleazar Elizondo, a liberal Democrat who once worked for U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, doesn’t think I should be able to call myself a teacher because I work in Adult Education, at Cerritos Community College. Well that is interesting – apparently Elizondo is not aware that the Orange County Department of Education is heavily involved in Career Technical Education for adults!

Here is what the O.C. Department of Education has to say about this on their website: Continue reading→

Did Nguyen and Baugh pull Hammond out of the race for the 69th A.D.?

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Anaheim, Art Pedroza, Democratic Party, Elections, Janet Nguyen, Julio Perez, Michele Martinez, Orange County, Politics, Republican Party, Santa Ana 2 Comments

An OC GOP insider gave me the scoop tonight on what really led to Republican Robert Hammond quitting the primary race for the 69th Assembly District – at the very last minute, last Friday, which was the filing deadline for that race. Hammond ended up pulling papers for the Orange County Board of Education’s Area One.

What my source told me was pretty much what I expected. Hammond did not come up with this scheme himself. Apparently Supervisor Janet Nguyen and OC GOP Chairman Scott Baugh were the ones that advised him to leave the Republican Party of Orange County hanging, with no candidate in the 69th A.D. Continue reading→