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Seems everyone wants to stand in the spotlight with Loretta and Bill

October 14, 2010 10

Over the past several days it seems that every elected democrat is claiming that they, along with Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-47), are inviting people to attend a rally in Santa Ana. In some cases, they are making it look like they are hosting, or co-hosting, the event. The Democratic Party of Orange County (DPOC) sent out an email blast, announcing the rally, but they had the intellectual honesty not to claim it was their event.

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Silencing Critics of Van Tran on Little Saigon Radio – Where have I heard that before?

October 14, 2010 3

Yesterday, Norberto Santana, Jr. of the Voice of Orange County wrote a story Controversy Surrounds a Now-Silent Little Saigon Radio Show that reported on a radio show on Vietnamese language radio that has gone slient because of a mysterious requirement allegedly imposed on all program producers preventing criticism of individuals or public officials. If I didn’t know better, I would think we were somewhere in communist Vietnam., or maybey just the cahmbers of the Santa Ana City Council (snark). Santana reports:

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Citizen’s group sues City of Santa Ana over One Broadway Plaza changes

October 14, 2010 2

A Coalition for Accountable Government Ethics (CAGE) filed suit against the City of Santa Ana, charging that the City acted in violation of law by amending the voter-approved initiative/ordinance without submitting the question to a vote of the public. Simply put, CAGE is claiming that the City Council did not have the authority to amend the One Broadway Plaza Development Agreement, because the agreement was part of the voter approved initiative, Measure A.

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Tran ducks his record in debate with Sanchez

October 14, 2010 4

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Assemblyman Van Tran faced off tonight in two half-hour debates taped at the KOCE studios in Huntington Beach. The first of the debates aired on KOCE and the OC Channel Wednesday night and the second will air tomorrow in the Real Orange time slot and will be rebroadcast several times on the local Orange County public broadcating station. The Sanchez campaign sent out the following statement after the first debate was aired.

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OC Labor Walk/Rally Special Guest Barbara Boxer

October 13, 2010 0

The Orange County Labor Federation will be holding its Big Orange County Walk on Saturday, October 16, 2010. Special Guests will be Senator Barbara Boxer and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.

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More Election Trail Cat Fights

October 12, 2010 0

And I thought that the spat between Nelson ans Sidhu was a good example of a silly election season. Below we have some stories reported over the past couple of days by the Orange County Register about campaign trail shenanigans.

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Nelson threatens to sue Sidhu for talking about Nelson’s failed pension spike

October 11, 2010 1

You know it’s crazy election season when candidates start threatening to sue over what they say about each other. That is what seems to be happening in the 4th Supervisor’s District contest between Shawn “I got caught trying to spike my pension” Nelson and Harry Sidhu. Chris Jones of Sidhu’s campaign sent out this release on Monday.