Month: June 2012

In this election, we face a choice between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy. The path Mitt Romney and his Republican allies want to take us down is exactly the one that led us to the 2008 crisis. We have to reject those policies and embrace the President’s vision of growing the economy, not from the top down, but from the middle class out.

While the final counts narrowed there were no changes in results once the Orange County Registrar of Voters completed it’s counting of primary election ballots on Thursday. The late charges towards second place by Julio Perez in the 69th Assembly District and Joe Dovinh in the 72nd Assembly District were not quite strong enough to overcome the election night results.

Yesterday afternoon, Obama for America’s Policy Director James Kvaal posted a blog item explaining how Mitt Romney’s new “repeal and replace” health care plan would once again allow health insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions and create millions of new uninsured Americans.

Yesterday, the Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Alert blog pointed out what has to be one of the better displays of Republican hypocrisy in recent months. Commissioner Michael Ward (R-Orange County) received the most compensation for time served, $68,400 in per diem.

The United Artists of Santa Ana yesterday announced that the Irving Church NewSong, which was in escrow to purchase the historic Santora Building in downtown Santa Ana, had withdrawn from escrow.

For those of us hoping for a successful come-from-behind victory (for 2nd place) in the 69th and 72nd Assembly district contests, Tuesday brought only disappointment. From where I sit, it looks like success will be a bit too high of a hurdle to clear.