Eight days after the Oct. 5 filing deadline, finance disclosure
statements for the Voter Assistance Guide have been tough to
find.
Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido skips out on debate hosted by the
South Santa Ana Merchants Association.
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A Vietnamese broadcaster claims Salem Communications shut him
down for tough talk against state Assemblyman Van Tran and his
campaign for the 47th District U.S. House seat. Tran and the
station manager say that’s not true.
Since first being elected nearly two decades ago, Mayor Miguel
Pulido has put together a well-oiled political operation in Santa
Ana. But in the year of the Bell scandal, his latest challenger is
banking on the public taking a more skeptical view of the Pulido
machine.
If Election Day passes with no union endorsement, it would be
unprecedented. But the fact that it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t
mean it won’t happen.
City Council candidate Rick Sandzimier is alleging that local
political activist Joe Holtzman hit him with his vehicle late
Friday.
Janet Nguyen and Van Tran have slugged it out in recent years.
However, with Tran in a tight congressional race against Democrat
Loretta Sanchez, and Republican Party pleas for unity, the two came
together Saturday.
Supporters of a ballot measure for dedicated infrastructure
improvement funds say unions want to kill it. Opponents, meanwhile,
call the measure a Republican ploy.
Councilman Devin Dwyer rails against a newspaperlike slate
mailer opposed to the measure, which would set aside 15 percent of
the city’s general fund for infrastructure maintenance.
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