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Re-elected and Newly elected Board Members Officially Installed  Mr. Rob Richardson and Mr. Jose Hernandez will serve another term on the Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education after…

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Public OpinionPoll Results Who is Santa Ana's most powerful politician?  U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez certainly made her case this year by helping to elect Anaheim Council Candidate Jordan Brandman and…

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[caption id="attachment_30395" align="aligncenter" width="280"] Valerie Amezcua[/caption] Regardless of whether or not you are a supporter of Valerie Amezcua, the daughter of failed Santa Ana mayoral candidate Alfredo Amezcua, you have…

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[caption id="attachment_28989" align="aligncenter" width="163"] The Team Benavides consultant, John Palacio, lost his tug of war with Mayor Pulido[/caption] What a night.  To sum it up, Mayor Miguel Pulido won easily.…

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Did anyone see this coming?  Somehow Angelica Amezcua, an unknown schoolteacher who did not file a candidate's statement, did not buy signs or mailers and did not campaign, won in…

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[caption id="attachment_28984" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Valerie Amezua, David Benavides and company - but no Eric Alderete[/caption] Santa Ana mayoral candidate David Benavides and his supporters would like us to think that…

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It has become increasingly obvious that the so-called "Santa Ana Spring" is actually a collection of Santa Ana politicians with different axes to grind, who have come together as their…

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Santa Ana code enforcement officer Sergio Verino has dropped out of the race for the SAUSD School Board.  Remaining candidates include the two incumbents, Jose A. Hernandez and Rob Richardson,…

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[caption id="attachment_27981" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Editor's Note: This picture is not doctored. This is John Palacio.[/caption] I am hearing from multiple sources today that SAUSD Trustee John Palacio is inexplicably considering…

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This year's Santa Ana City Council elections were a mixed bag.  On the one hand, mayoral challenger Alfredo Amezcua proved he could run a serious campaign - but he lost…

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Manuel N. Gomez, retired UCI vice chancellor for student affairs, pictured with Susan V. Bryant, retired UCI vice chancellor for research and professor of developmental & cell biology PRESS RELEASE:…

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SAUSD Trustee Audrey Yamagata-Noji blew off the Orange County Register's candidate questionnaire, as did challenger Jeffrey K. Morris.  I turned in my answers, which are now available online at this link,…

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The O.C. Register has published their voter guide, online, at this link. One of the candidates for the Santa Ana Unified School District, Jeffrey K. Morris, did not bother to…

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Yamagata-Noji pandered for votes at the Fiestas Patrias parade Things have been rather quiet in this year's Santa Ana Unified School District Board elections.  This year, as opposed to two…

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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…

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