I ran into State Senator Lou Correa the other day while attending a groundbreaking ceremony at the Logan Barrio. We had a chance to chat for a few minutes and he reminded me that he was the only Latino legislator to oppose the tax increase proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and State Senate President Don Perata.
Kudos to Senator Correa for sticking to his guns – he is perhaps the only Legislator in Sacramento who can be trusted to do the right thing, special interests and partisans be damned.
Correa also told me that he is opposing Prop. 8. I wasn’t happy when we found out a few weeks ago that Correa accepted a campaign donation from Howard Ahmanson, the rightwinger who is bankrolling Prop. 8. Clearly Ahmanson’s money didn’t buy Correa’s vote.
However, Correa is supporting Prop. 4, the ballot measure that establishes parental notification if a minor daughter has, or wants to have, an abortion. This position pits Correa against Planned Parenthood, the powerful non-profit organization that is opposing Prop 4. But the O.C. Register recently came out in favor of Prop. 4, so Correa is in good company.
Correa truly stand out compared to other local Latino legislators. Assemblyman Jose Solorio is working to reelect Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, who is anything but a progressive. Solorio is even backing SAUSD School Board candidate Rob Richardson, a Republican allied with the dreadful Rosie Avila. You will never see Correa do something like that!
And Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez just doesn’t get involved in many local affairs. She does a good job in Congress, but that’s about it. When it comes to leadership, Correa trumps her, hands down. We saw that in fact a year ago when Correa held a town hall meeting regarding the fatally flawed Santa Ana Renaissance Plan. The City of Santa Ana shelved that plan shortly thereafter to repair it.
If only more of the local Democrats in central Orange County were like Lou Correa. Instead we are stuck with a pantry full of dreadful Pulido hacks. How very sad. What a missed opportunity for the Democratic Party of Orange County!
I am reminded that the DPOC did not do much for Correa the first time he ran for the Assembly, against Republican Jim Morrissey. Correa barely lost. Two years later he finished Morrissey off.
Correa doesn’t shrink from tough battles. He had his hands full with Republican Lynn Daucher in 2006. He beat her even though she had the help of Assemblyman Van Tran and his “Trannies.” There has been some noise that she will take on Correa again in 2010. Bring it on! If anything Correa will win by an even bigger margin two years hence.
The real question is where does Correa go from here? I could see him running for Congress if Sanchez ever gets tired of serving in the House of Representatives. And he might be the only Orange County legislator who could run for a statewide office and expect to win.
In the year of the maverick, Correa stands alone as an example to his party of what can be done when a politician gives a damn about the people he serves.
Everyone grab a hold of something solid…..I don’t want anyone to fall down and hurt themselves.
Lou is a great guy!
I support Lou even if we disagree sometimes, he is one of the only real leaders (especially among those rascals in the D party) we have up there in Sac.
He does deserve both our respect and support!
Congress, Gov., Senate, any would be better than we have.
Dreadful Rosie Avial ! ? Your comment ” …..Correa truly stand out compared to other local Latino legislators. Assemblyman Jose Solorio is working to reelect Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, who is anything but a progressive. Solorio is even backing SAUSD School Board candidate Rob Richardson, a Republican allied with the dreadful Rosie Avila. You will never see Correa do something like that! …….” is truly an example of ignorance on display.
It doen’t get any better than Republican Rosie Avila ; her record, beliefs, and positions on the issues of the day put her far and above Loretta ‘ Snachez Your Taxez ‘ any day.
What a breath of fresh air Rosie Avila is. You’ll never see Rosie being protested by teenagers for holding a porno fundraiser for Bill Clinton as Loretta Sanchez did as a sitting Democrass Congresswoman.
You’ll never see Rosie Avila neglecting to protect the District from crime and false ID’s sales of every kind as Loretta Sanchez does.
You’ll never see Rosie Avila saying about Bill Clinton ” He’s been a good President…” as Loretta Sanchez did in the Orange County Register the day after the Starr report came out in 1998, two years after it was revealed that
Bill Clinton signed a twisted waiver giving the Communist Chinese missile vibration technical assistance through Loral Corp. , this against the objections of the Defense dept. Bill Clinton should be in jail for treason.
Loretta Sanchez has done everything unhealthy and wrong imaginable that one can do for the district. Gangs increased exponetially under her watch; she is directly responsible for it because of the things she has WILLFULLY NOT done that are within her ability and scope to propose and do. Do not be decieved by liberal propaganda media.
See the L. A. Times article done in 1999 on the problem of overcrowded Santa Ana and the unacceptable problems realted to it.. At the time , the population was a whopping 600,000 ; a figure the Times said was more than any city in O.C. The Times stated that the problem brought the attention to the fore to the point a Convention was palnned at the time for many officials on many levels to address it. Where was Sanchez ? Sanchez is not mentioned in the article.
Rosie Avila defends and accomplishes great things on behalf of the future of Children. She has a stellar record that any person can see at her websites :
http://www.rosieavila.com
http://www.rosieavila.com/blog
http://www.voterosie.com
On every issue Rosie Avila stands in the spirit of the constitution – promoting the peace , tranquility, and general well being of the citizenry. Loretta Sanchez the opposite.
” You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
– Jesus Christ
V eagle , David K.
No, instead Rosemarie gets Chuck Smith and his Calvary Chapel thugs to rail about gays at school board meetings. Avila is a joke–and I ain’t no Loretta fan.
Gustavo,
Well said! Whatever good works Rosie has been involved in are canceled out by her continued attacks on gays. And I know for a fact that she is THE candidate of choice for the Minuteman crowd.
Did you know that she was appointed to serve as Tan Nguyen’s alternate on the OC GOP Central Committee? You remember Tan – he wrote that crazed letter trying to scare Mexican American voters away from the voting booths? Pajaritos of a feather…