Overheard: “Is this guy the Colonel from KFC?”
One of the funniest campaign mailers I have ever seen arrived in my mail box today, from Mark McLoughlin, a Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustee who is running for re-election in Area 3. He went full raza!
The flier is in Spanish and it erroneously states that McLoughlin is an educator. no he isn’t! His opponent, Dave Chapel, actually is an educator. McLoughlin is just a suit with zero experience as an educator. Continue reading
Tony Tapia has launched his campaign website, for Area 3 on the Rancho Santiago Community College District’s Board of Education.
Tapia is the only candidate running for Area 3 who actually has business experience. He helps to manage a family business and he also works as a construction laborer, out of a trade hall here in Santa Ana. Continue reading
Tony Tapia and State Senator Lou Correa
UPDATE: Santa Ana Council Member Sal Tinajero’s sister, Myriam Tinajero, has pulled out of the race for the Rancho Santiago Community College District’s Area 3. The remaining candidates include Santa Ana Redevelopment and Housing Commissioner Nelida Mendoza-Yanez, LAUSD asbestos inspector Thomas Gordon and Construction Laborer Tony Tapia, for Area 3 of the Rancho Santiago Community College District’s Board of Education. Mendoza-Yanez ran for the Santa Ana City Council in 2006, losing to David Benavides. She got over 10,000 votes in that election, according to Smart Voter. Continue reading
OC GOP Central Committee Member Thomas Gordon has pulled papers to run for Area Three of the Rancho Santiago Community College District. He is thus far the only candidate for that office.
The RSCCD elections have changed this year – they will be area-specific. This should make it easier for candidates to win.
Gordon has previously run for: Continue reading
I have received evidence that Al Amezcua, an attorney who is a candidate for Mayor of Santa Ana, did not live in Area 1, when he was serving on the Rancho Santiago Community College District.
Amezcua registered to vote, at the time, at his office address on Broadway, which is south of 17th, in Santa Ana. That address is in Area 1. However he was living at an address on Memory Lane, in Morrison Park, which is in Area 3, as see in the above graphic.
Nativo Lopez, a former SAUSD Trustee who Amezcua helped to recall, is in jail right now for registering to vote at his office in Los Angeles while he was still living, and voting, in Orange County.
When Amezcua abruptly quit the RSCCD Board we all wondered why. Now we know. Someone must have found out what he was doing.
Amezcua is now registered to vote, again, out of his office address, as we disclosed in a previous post this week. And it looks like his son is a registered Republican! How odd.
For whatever reason the mainstream media is ignoring this story, even though I emailed it to reporters at the L.A. Times and the O.C. Register. I also sent it to a friend at the O.C. Weekly. No response.
I think it was summarily dishonest for Amezcua to play this shell game, and to keep on doing it now. Should he drop out of the mayoral race? I think so. We’ll see where this goes. City Hall insiders tell me that the FPCC and the Secretary of State will be looking into this.
Amezcua has not yet pulled his papers although several other candidates have, including Mayor Pulido.