Who is Sue Perez and why is she challenging Senator Correa?

 Sue Perez’ husband Ed appears in a video, above, touting Democratic Anahim Councilwoman Lorri Galloway

Update:  It would appear that Anaheim Councilwoman Lorri Galloway may be involved in the selection of Sue Perez as the challenger to Senator Lou Correa.  Sue’s husband Ed appears in the video above whre he gives a testimonal to Galloway.  Is Sue’s campaign payback by Galloway?  She famously endorsed Republican Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher against Correa a few years ago.    Galloway also put Ed Perez on the Anaheim Planning Commmission!  And Sue Perez interviewed Galloway twice on her TBN show.  See this link and this link.  Back to our original post:

Oh my. Apparently the OC GOP cupboard in central Orange County is so bare that they have had to recruit an unkown Latina with zero political experience to run against popular State Senator Lou Correa, according to Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham over at the Red County blog.

Jerbal wrote “The anointed candidate appears to be Sue Perez, who yesterday signed ace consultant Dave Gilliard to run her campaign. I don’t know too much about her yet other than she live sin Anaheim and has been the host for several years of a public affairs program on Trinity Broadcasting Network.”

LOL! Gilliard is about the biggest Mexican hater amongst the local GOP consultants. He is known for mailers that blame immigrants for everything. If Perez did indeed hire him, you can expect her to be in the Minuteman mold of past GOP Senate candidate Lupe Moreno.

Supervisor Janet Nguyen and GOP congressional candidate Quang X. Pham both refused to run against Correa, who since his close victory over former Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher has developed very strong ties in the Orange County Vietnamese community.

I tried mightily to find information about this Perez character. She is not on Facebook, Linkedin, or Plaxo. That should tell you something. And she has not run for anything before. Now suddenly she is running for the State Senate. What a joke!

Apparently Perez is a part time host at the infamous Trinity Broadcasting Network. She hosts a show called “Joy in Our Town.” It looks like she is one of sevearl part time hosts of that show.

According to Zoominfo, Perez used to be the CFO of the Heritage Forum, a theater in the round that used to managed by the City of Anaheim. I could not find a current reference to her on their website.

However, I did find evidence that someone named Ed Perez also works for the Heritage Forum. His email is listed as edperez@heritageforum.net. Ed and Sue are also listed together on a document related to a charity event in Anaheim.

And an “Ed Perez” is listed as a former Anaheim Planning Commissioner, on the website of the EP Development Corp. The fellow’s bio says he ran for Congress in the 34th Congressional District. He got whacked by Democrat Grace Napolitano in 1998, by 67% to 28%. Sue can expect to lose by a similar margin to Correa!

This guy must be Sue’s husband, as the head of the Heritage ministry gave him $200 when he ran for Congress, according to this link and this one. I wonder why the OC GOP didn’t just run Ed against Lou? Why drag Sue into this when she has zero experience in politics?

Zoominfo also identified Sue Perez as having been the Executive Director of Heritage International, Inc. There are a lot of companies with that name – I could not find any reference to Perez on any of their websites. There is, coincidentally, a Heritage Family Fellowship ministry that uses the Heritage Forum as their church. They also do not list Sue as an employee.

However, a pajarito found proof that Sue is indeed involved with this ministry, which the O.C. Register reported in June of this year that this ministry was in default of their $5 million loan. According to this link, she is the administrative contact for the Heritage ministry’s website. It even lists her email as sueperez@heritageff.net.

But she is a minister of sorts. She has a master and a doctorate in ministry from Friends International University. Perez also has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, from Cal State Long Beach.

Recruiting a nutter to run against Correa makes no sense. He is not a liberal Democrat. He has in fact a lot of support from local ministers in his district. And Correa is not a doctrinaire Democrat.

“Three legislators – Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria; Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, and Assemblywoman Alyson Huber, D-El Dorado Hills – voted against their party more than 15 percent of the time,” according to the Sacramento Bee.

Think about that. Correa is one of three mavericks in Sacramento – he is popular in his district, and he has massive political experience as a former Assemblyman and County Supervisor. The question isn’t will he win, but rather how few votes will this Perez character garner?

She is so unknown that we could not even find a picture of her online! A true disaster in the making.

I wonder why Jerbal didn’t just recruit his wife, political consultant Laura Saucedo-Cunningham, to run against Correa? It would have been great fun trashing her campaign! Instead, we will have to laugh as Perez goes down in flames…

Does the OC GOP brain trust, such as it is, think Latino voters in Correa’s district are so stupid that they would vote for some random Republican Latino over Correa? Really? What a bola de pendejos! Latinos in central Orange County know the Republicans hate them. Remember what happened to Santa Ana Councilman Carlos Bustamante when he ran for Supervisor? Tanked!!! Perez will do even worse…what a waste of time!

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