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ORANGE COUNTY, CA – The Orange County Labor Federation (OCLF) announced their endorsement of Santa Ana Mayor, former City Councilmember, and business owner Vicente Sarmiento this week. The union joins a growing coalition of endorsers composed of elected officials, community leaders, and other labor and political organizations.
“I am honored to be the Orange County Labor Federation’s choice to represent their more than 200,000 working men and women who, from building new housing units to delivering the mail to performing in theater productions, improve our Orange County community every day,” Mayor Sarmiento said. “I look forward to continuing to partner with the Orange County Labor Federation and their members to give working people and their families a voice on the Board of Supervisors.”
The Orange County Labor Federation represents 80 Orange County-based unions from every sector of the labor movement. Member unions include multiple local chapters of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, the American Federation of Teachers, the Communication Workers of America, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Office and Professional Employees International Union, Service Employees International, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. California Nurses Association, United Food and Culinary Workers Local 324, and American Postal Workers, among others, are also members of OCLF.
A full list of Mayor Sarmiento’s endorsers includes:
· Orange County Board of Supervisor Katrina Foley
· Santa Ana City Councilmember Johnathan Ryan Hernandez
· Santa Ana City Councilmember Jessie Lopez
· Santa Ana Unified School District Trustee Carolyn Torres
· Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustee Sal Tinajero
· Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustee David Crockett
· Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustee Zeke Hernandez
· Tustin City Councilmember Letitia Clark
· Tustin City Councilmember Rebecca “Becky” Gomez
· Anaheim City Councilmember Dr. Jose F. Moreno
· Anaheim Union High School District President Al Jabbar
· Anaheim Elementary School District Trustee Paolo Magcalas
· Anaheim Elementary School District Trustee Ryan Ruelas
· Anaheim Elementary School District President Juan Alvarez
· Garden Grove Unified School District Trustee Walter Muneton
· Ocean View School District President Gina Clayton Tarvin
· Zeke Hernandez – Board of Trustees for Rancho Santiago Community College
· Cooperative Campaigns OC
· Planned Parenthood
· United Food and Culinary Workers Local 324
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Raised in Santa Ana and Central Orange County, Vicente Sarmiento attended local public schools, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and earned his Law Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He proudly returned home to Santa Ana with his wife Eva to raise their family, start his own Santa Ana-based financial law practice, and serve as a city councilmember and the current mayor of Santa Ana. |
