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Economic Justice is on the Ballot this Recall Election
With the California Governor Recall Election tomorrow, Claudia Lazaro argues the importance of economic justice.
With the California Governor Recall Election tomorrow, Claudia Lazaro argues the importance of economic justice.
Why we’re opposing the recall of Gov. Newsom.
Before the protests, before the urgency, Santa Ana Police Department already ranked among the worse in California. Photo Credit: Ben Camacho
Today we are happy to endorse The Party of the People Slate for the Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Orange County in the March 3rd primary.
Chispa is excited to endorse Carolyn Torres for Santa Ana School Board and Manny Escamilla for Santa Ana City Council Ward 4.
If showering the department and its police officers with money is supposed to improve safety, the desired outcome has failed to materialize.
Excerpt: Lawsuit by former SAPOA boss, John Franks and Laura Franks, alleges he was forced to resign as union president for refusing to participate in the union’s successful election scheme that supported city council candidates in exchange for their pledged to vote for the removals of then-City Manager David Cavazos and then-Chief of Police Carlos Rojas.
We challenged Councilmember David Penaloza to defend his vote for the $25M Police Contract. See the letter we sent him to learn why. Photo Credit: City of Santa Ana.
On February 5th,the Santa Ana City Council wrote a $25.6 million blank check to the Santa Ana Police Officers Association (SAPOA) in the form of a new contract, despite having no money in their pockets to approve the largest police pay raise in decades with a vote of 4 to
In 2016, the Santa Ana Police Officers Association (SAPOA) spent over $400,000 that allowed them to place two of their three favored candidates on the Santa Ana City Council, alongside the mayor. This year, they’re already set to outspend themselves; they ended June with $462,000 in the bank, and inched