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News of Mitt Romney’s evasiveness and lack of political courage is spreading. Over the last few days, Mitt Romney has refused to tell the American people where he stands on critical issues ranging from the DREAM Act to job creation, taxes and deficit reduction. It’s clear that Romney either fundamentally misunderstands these policy issues or lacks the political courage to tell the American people what he’d do if elected.

The Anaheim City Council will be discussing today the extension, for two years, of another giveaway of future Bed Tax revenue to a luxury hotel developer. According to the staff report, the developer could receive up to $44 million dollars in Bed Tax revenue over a 15-year period after the property opens.

On Friday afternoon June 15th President Barack Obama hosted a reception to celebrate Pride month, as he has done for the past three years. “You have every reason and right to push loudly and forcefully for equality,” the President told the assembled LGBT advocates and allies.

The only thing certain about a close election is that whether or not anyone has officially decided to seek a recount, the rumors start the moment the election results are certified. As soon as Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley certified the results of the June 5th Primary Election, I started hearing rumors that a recount was going to happen in the 69th Assembly race.

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.