From My News LA
Two Orange County races in Tuesday’s election may hold the key to Democrats holding supermajorities in the Assembly and state Senate.
Citizens vote on Election Day at Fire Station #71 in Alhambra, Los Angeles County, on November 6, 2012 in California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Republican Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen and Democratic Rancho Santiago Community College District Board President Jose Solorio have battled bitterly for votes in the 34th Senate District, with each side casting aspersions on the other’s ethics.
Fellow Republican Long Pham, who received 15.4 percent of the votes in the June primary, last month announced he would begin an effort to recall Nguyen from the Board of Supervisors. It’s a longshot, as he needs to collect 22,000 valid signatures, but it sparked more finger-pointing between Nguyen and Solorio, a former assemblyman.
Solorio tipped reporters that Pham would confront Nguyen before the Orange County Board of Supervisors, prompting Nguyen’s camp to claim the Republican was working with the Democrat to embarrass Nguyen.
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