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Rep. Sanchez endorses Solorio for the 34th State Senate District

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Loretta Sanchez at the Fiestas Patrias Parade

For Immediate Release: September 19, 2014

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CONGRESSWOMAN LORETTA SANCHEZ ISSUES ENDORSEMENT STATEMENT FOR JOSE SOLORIO IN STATE SENATE RACE

Congresswoman Sanchez Says She and Solorio Agree on Making College Access and Affordability a Priority

Santa Ana, CA – Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez issued a formal endorsement for Jose Solorio as her choice in the 34th State Senate District. Sanchez’s endorsement is key in the district which includes a large portion of Congresswoman Sanchez’s district. Congresswoman Sanchez’s district includes all or parts of Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Anaheim and Orange.

“I’m supporting Jose Solorio because we both believe in fighting to protect everyone’s right to a good education. Jose and I believe that higher education should be a real option for all students. As a State Assemblyman, he wrote laws to help eliminate price-gouging on school textbooks. He also fought to protect $35 million for local schools and championed efforts to cut college tuition up to 40% for middle-class families,” says Congresswoman Sanchez. “I recently introduced the ‘Middle Class Chance Act’ to combat increasing college costs by helping students pay for college with a strengthened Pell Grant.” Continue reading→

Supervisor Janet Nguyen fails to vote for ethics standard again

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Janet Nguyen in prison garb

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 9, 2014

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SUPERVISOR JANET NGUYEN FAILS TO VOTE FOR ETHICS STANDARDS – AGAIN

Nguyen Is Only Supervisor & Only OCTA Board Member To Abstain On Vote

SANTA ANA – Orange County Supervisor and OCTA Board Member Janet Nguyen, once again failed to support any form of ethics standards by abstaining from an OCTA vote yesterday on an Code of Conduct that applies to Board Members and employees.¹

“Supervisor Nguyen has developed a pattern of either voting ‘no’ or ‘abstaining’ from any votes relating to ethics for elected officials and government employees,” observed Jose Solorio, former State Assemblyman and candidate for State Senate. “Which part of OCTA’s Code of Conduct does she disagree with? The limit on gifts or favors, the prohibition of workplace harassment, or is it the relationship with contractors and use of OCTA assets? She can’t keep skipping out on these types of votes and expect to hold the public’s trust,” Solorio continued. Continue reading→

34th Senate District candidate forum set for Sep. 10 in Newport Beach

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34th District Candidate Forum

The Orange County Public Affairs Association is hosting a “34th Senate District Candidate Forum” featuring Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen and former State Assemblyman Jose Solorio on Wednesday, September 10, 2014, at 11:30 am, at the Pacific Club, located at 4110 MacArthur Blvd., Newport Beach (includes parking).

This event will be moderated by former Real Orange TV News Anchor Ed Arnold.  The event is sponsored by Time Warner Cable and Curt Pringle & Associates. Continue reading→

Solorio’s 34th S.D. campaign to launch with “Super Saturday” on 9/6

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Jose Solorion and DPOC Interns

Team Solorio with Key Supporters

The Jose Solorio campaign for the 34th State Senate District is hosting “Solorio Super Saturday,” their Fall Campaign Kick-Off, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, from 9 am to 2 pm, at their Campaign Office, located at 1325 W. Warner Ave., in Santa Ana.

The Fall campaign kick-off will include breakfast snacks, lunch from Maggiano’s, precinct walks, phone banking, lawn sign pick up and deliveries, and DJ music. Continue reading→

New radio ads rip Nguyen for ethical lapses and for undermining Prop. 13

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Cartoon Janet Nguyen

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 28, 2014

SOLORIO FOR STATE SENATE CAMPAIGN RUNS SECOND ROUND OF RADIO ADS IN EARLY EFFORT TO HIGHLIGHT OPPONENT’S ETHICAL LAPSES AND VOTE FOR LOOPHOLE AROUND PROP 13

Two New Radio Commercials Discuss Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s Fine by AG’s Office and FPPC For Taking Illegal Campaign Contributions and Her Vote To Circumvent Proposition 13 Protections by Charging Seniors Extra Paramedic Fees

SANTA ANA – The Solorio for State Senate Campaign announced today that they are running another round of early campaign commercials in heavy rotation on local radio to point out opponent Janet Nguyen’s ethical lapses and her effort to circumvent Proposition 13 taxpayer protections by voting for paramedic fees for seniors and people requiring “advanced life support.”

The campaign kicked off their effort in early August by initially running two other radio ads that highlighted Supervisor Nguyen’s use of taxpayer dollars to benefit herself and her inner circle. This second round of radio ads started running late last week. Continue reading→

Early Solorio radio campaign ads highlight Nguyen’s questionable spending

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Cartoon Janet Nguyen

SOLORIO FOR SENATE CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF EARLY WITH RADIO ADS HIGHLIGHTING OPPONENT’S SPENDING HABITS

Two Different Radio Commercials Discuss Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s Use Of Taxpayer Dollars To Benefit Her Office and Inner Circle

SANTA ANA – The Solorio for State Senate Campaign kicked off their fall election effort this week with two different campaign commercials that are running in heavy rotation on local radio criticizing opponent Janet Nguyen for using her Orange County Supervisor county office budget to benefit herself and inner circle.

The radio commercials point out that Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen: Continue reading→

Jose Solorio’s campaign has $625K on hand to beat Janet Nguyen

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Jose Solorio

For Immediate Release: July 31, 2014

For More Information Contact: Maria Unzueta – mobile: (657) 464-4742

JOSE SOLORIO FOR STATE SENATE CAMPAIGN STARTS GENERAL ELECTION WITH OVER $625,000 CASH-ON-HAND

Campaign Raises Additional $300,000 During Recent Primary Campaign

SANTA ANA – The Solorio for State Senate Campaign announced today that after raising more than $300,000 during the recent June Primary time period, it will report a total of $625,211.34 cash-on-hand on its semi-annual campaign finance report which is due on July 31. Former State Assemblyman Jose Solorio is running to replace outgoing State Senator Lou Correa in the 34th State Senate District.

“Our campaign’s momentum has grown dramatically over the last few months and I am very humbled to have a large and very diverse group of donors from business, labor, Democrats, and Republicans,” said Solorio, who presently serves as a President of the Rancho Santiago Community College District Board of Trustees. “The response to our fundraising effort has been incredible and we are fully on track to fund our aggressive campaign plan in its entirety for this fall.” Continue reading→

The June Primary Election’s turnout data bodes ill for Solorio and Quirk-Silva

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Lou Correa and Sharon Quirk-Silva

The O.C. Register asked four experts to analyze the results of this year’s June Primary election, to sort out who did and didn’t vote. The experts included our friend Scott Lay, the publisher of aroundthecapital.com.

What they concluded was:

  1. Rich, educated people vote more.
  2. Independent voters are less likely to vote in primaries.
  3. Seniors vote more.
  4. Ethnicity can influence turnout. (ie. Latinos don’t vote but Asians do)

Continue reading→

Solorio calls on Supervisor Nguyen to return tainted campaign contributions

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Janet Nguyen has already taken to wearing prison stripes

Janet Nguyen has already taken to wearing prison garb

For Immediate Release: June 16, 2014

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Jose Solorio Calls on Supervisor Janet Nguyen to Return Tainted Campaign Contributions

The Last Thing the State Senate Needs is Another Politician with Ties to Corruption

Santa Ana, CA – After reading OC Weekly’s recent article, “Little Saigon Politicians Linked To Alleged Police-Tied Loan Sharking Operation,” State Senate candidate Jose Solorio is calling on opponent Supervisor Janet Nguyen to return campaign contributions with possible connection to corrupt activities.

Supervisor Janet Nguyen, 1st District, has received campaign contributions from Kevin Khanh Tuan Do, owner of Do Construction and Design, Inc., who was arrested in August 2013 for loan-sharking and bribing a Westminster police officer, Anthony Duong Donner. Do reportedly made a loan to a small business owner and used Donner to enforce the payments. Donner, while in uniform and on duty, frequented the victim’s place of business to intimidate her and enforce payments, in exchange for free rent at Do’s residence.[1]  Continue reading→

Who will replace Janet Nguyen in the First Supervisorial District?

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Chris Phan and Carol Quyen Ngo

Chris Phan and Carol Quyen Ngo

It appears that the vultures are already circling in the 34th State Senate District where Democrat Jose Solorio got blown out in this month’s Open Primary by Republican Janet Nguyen.  It wasn’t close but Solorio will now advance to the November runoff – and no one at this point thinks he has a chance to win. The politicians have taken note of the blood in the water and at least one of them, Garden Grove Councilman Chris Phan, a Republican, is telling everyone that he is all in. The special election to replace Nguyen after she packs her bags for Sacramento will be held in February of next year and it will be a winner take all election – no runoff! Continue reading→

Pulido lawyers up – should the Council Members do so as well?

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Mayor Miguel Pulido

Mayor Miguel Pulido

Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido has received at least $25,000 in contributions toward a legal defense fund that he established in January as he is being investigated by the state’s political watchdog agency, according to the OC Register.

The “Miguel Pulido Legal Defense Fund” was set up in January, shortly after City Attorney Sonia Carvalho began investigating a real estate swap involving Pulido that ethics experts say looks like a bribe and could have violated state conflict of interest laws, according to the Voice of OC.

My sources tell he that a few of the Santa Ana Council Members may want to set up legal defense funds of their own.  One pajarito in particular told me last week that the FBI is looking at conflict of interest by the Council Members with regard to real estate development on Bristol and Seventeenth and at the property formerly known as the Honer Plaza which is now called the Bristol Marketplace. Continue reading→

Jose Solorio has twice as much campaign cash on hand as Janet Nguyen

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Janet Nguyen in prison garb

I ran into two of the three candidates for the 34th State Senate District today at the Memorial Day event at Fairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary in Santa Ana. Former Assemblyman Jose Solorio, who is currently the President of the Rancho Santiago Community College District’s Board of Trustees, was involved at the start of the program, when he introduced the young lady who won a poetry contest with an entry about Betsy Ross. Supervisor Janet Nguyen was there as well. She spoke later in the program.

Solorio was comfortable and relaxed. He sat in the RSVP area next to Santa Ana Chief of Police Carlos Rojas. Nguyen on the other hand was visibly nervous as she clutched the podium, and her speech was stilted and poorly enunciated. She kept saying, for example, “de-mock-acy,” instead of “democracy.” And she referred to “men and women” she repeatedly said “men and woman.” It was quite awkward.

Perhaps Nguyen was a bit nervous about the news that “Solorio has the money lead as of the end of the most recent campaign finance filing period, which extended from the March 18 through May 17. Solorio had about $580,000 to spend at the end of the filing period, whereas Nguyen’s campaign had about $283,000 on hand,” as reported by the Long Beach Press Telegram. Continue reading→

Solorio Senate campaign seeking volunteers and interns

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Jose Solorio

TEAM SOLORIO VOLUNTEER & INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

The Solorio for Senate campaign is looking for talented, committed people to work with us on a cutting-edge political and community organizing campaign. With the June primary only a few weeks away, they are looking for additional volunteers and interns to join their team. Star volunteers and interns will also have priority for paid campaign positions openings.

Job Duties

The primary objective of our volunteer and intern program is to participate in voter contact (via phone banks and door-to-door canvassing) for identification, persuasion, and
engagement. Continue reading→

The OC Firefighter’s union appears to have paid off Janet Nguyen

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Janet Nguyen and OC firefighters who paid her off

The county firefighters union had donated $4,000 to county Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s state Senate campaign, according to the OC Register.

That didn’t please OC GOP Chairman Scott Baugh, who has a policy of not issuing party endorsements to candidates who accept union money. But apparently there is a loophole as the Baugh edict applies only to local,non-partisan offices. Continue reading→

Solorio’s campaign for the 34th S.D. to host an Open House this Saturday

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Jose Solorio Open House

Jose Solorio’s campaign for the 34th State Senate District is hosting a Campaign Open House this Saturday, May 10, 2014, from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, at 1535 W. Warner Ave., in Santa Ana.

There will be food, good company & sign-up opportunities for the Solorio for State Senate and Vote for Vets campaigns.

Solorio’s Biography: Continue reading→