The next Santa Ana City Council meeting might be a little more tense than usual.  Long-time directly elected Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido has endorsed Councilman Jose Solorio over Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez for the 69th Assembly District (one of Orange County’s two Dem Assembly seats, the other is the 56th which only takes in Buena Park).

While Pulido is not a powerhouse in Dem politics, he certainly has respect among the voters.  There have been dueling polls on the race that show dramatically different results.

According to a new release from the Solorio campaign–Jose is polling slightly ahead of Alvarez:

A recent poll of likely Democratic voters in the 69^th showed Solorio with a slight lead over Alvarez.  Just last week in the Los Angeles Times, the publisher of the California Target Book, which analyzes assembly races said, "It’s really a tossup between Alvarez and Solorio, and I’d give a slight nod to Solorio."  

[Alan Hoffenblum] is a well connected consultant and as publisher of the Target Book he keeps up with these sorts of things.  Both Solorio and Alvarez will probably see mid-six figures in independent expenditures from Sacto.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.