Mayor Miguel Pulido won a decisive victory over his opponents in Tuesday’s election but will take the oath of office next month considerably weakened. He was elected with less than 50 percent of the vote, he’s lost his closest allies…
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Santa Ana Spring Fails To Unseat Mayor Pulido
by Chris Prevatt • • 13 Comments
While preliminary results show that 52.6% of Santa Ana voters preferred someone other than Miguel Pulido to be their mayor, they again couldn’t rally behind a single candidate to push Miguel Pulido out of the saddle and away from the reigns of city power.
There’s a Reason We Call This Silly Season
by Chris Prevatt • • 5 Comments
Every two years we get bombarded with campaign mailers and political speeches from candidates and elected officials we didn’t even remember existed. They tell us who they are and who they want to be for the term in the office…
Haunting Antics in Santa Ana Mayoral Race
by Chris Prevatt and Dan Chmielewski • • 7 Comments
The contest for mayor in Santa Ana between David Benavides and Miguel Pulido has been heating up for weeks. That heat has brought the cauldron of Santa Ana politics to a boil… The most haunting antics of Mayor Pulido’s supporters was a phone call placed the other day to the wife of David Benavides.
Committee Supporting Pulido Misleading Voters
by Chris Prevatt • • 20 Comments
A committee Supporting Miguel Pulido For Mayor 2012 has dropped another piece of mail today in support of their favored candidate. That, in and of itself, isn’t news. What is news is the content of the mailer.
Pulido Gets Hit With Negative Mail in Santa Ana
by Chris Prevatt • • 14 Comments
The most closely watched mayoral contest in Orange County is between Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido and Councilman David Benavides. Santa Ana mailboxes recently received a hit piece against Pulido from an independent expenditure campaign, Stand Up Santa Ana Coalition. The mail piece asks “Why…
OC Register Editorial Board Endorsements give a leg up to Republicans who decline Union Money/Endorsments
by Dan Chmielewski • • 13 Comments
I check out the OC Register’s editorial pages daily as they cycle through interviews with candidates for office and then note their endorsements in editorials. To my surprise (not), endorsements are typically granted to Republican candidates who follow the Baugh…
