By the filing deadline of August 10th at 5:00 pm (and the August 14th late deadline), four candidates had filed to replace retiring William Dalton as Garden Grove mayor. In alphabetical order of last name, the four mayoral candidates and their ballot designations are as follows: • Bruce Broadwater – Councilmember • Myke Cossota – Business Owner • Sherry Runnells… Read more →
This is an update from a RedCounty.com piece http://redcounty.com/content/farmers-governor-can-you-hear-me-now written in February 2012. Following the recent vote to pass billions in State Bond funding for the first phase of High Speed Rail construction in the Central Valley, farmers, businesses, and residents of Kings County continue to fight the State over the largest, and most ill-conceived, transportation project in the history of… Read more →
I just celebrated half a million page views over at RedCounty.com, just in time for the investors to pull the plug, and the site is going dark. A few contributors and I have created this new site, which admittedly needs work. I will try importing the best of old RedCounty posts over here, with updates to bring them up to… Read more →
In Fullerton, 12 candidates have filed for the three open Council seats. Incumbents Bruce Whitaker and Travis Kiger are expected to retain their seats. Whitaker had been elected to the City Council in 2010, and was not subject to the recent recall of three other Council members in June. Kiger, a former Planning Commissioner, was elected to serve the remaining… Read more →
I filed a lawsuit this week. Frankly I am as surprised as you are. I am used to reporting events, not creating them. But in researching Anaheim Council candidate Steve Lodge in an effort to determine who he is and what makes him tick, I found some issues that I simply did not want to let pass. So I filed… Read more →
Friday, August 10th, was the last day for Anaheim candidates to file papers for the two open Council seats being vacated by termed-out members Lorri Galloway and Harry Sidhu. The field is significantly smaller, and a lot less interesting than expected, with only nine candidates running. Biggest disappointment: Mike Brennan and Robert Nelson formed Committees to run, but in the… Read more →
NOTE: This article has been cross posted from Anaheim 2060. Recently, the ACLU sued the City of Anaheim under the California Voter Rights Act, asserting that the city’s large Latino population is effectively shut out of the political process. The ACLU has asked the court to force Anaheim into adopting some type of district system, where city council members must… Read more →
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