Never underestimate Loretta Sanchez.
Yesterday, the Sacramento Bee reported that the veteran Orange County congresswoman opened a bank account for a 2014 campaign to become California's governor.
But is Sanchez, OC's lone congressional Democrat, serious about a race four years in the future?
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Sanchez Chief of Staff
Adrienne Elrod told
The Orange County Register's
Dena Bunis today that the
congresswoman needed to move about $3,300 from her inoperative Sanchez for Governor 2010 account into a new one based on campaign finance rules.
Bunis asked Elrod if Sanchez's move also meant that her boss thought Republican Meg Whitman would be the incumbent in 2014.
Nope, said Elrod. Sanchez “totally suppports” Jerry Brown's campaign.
In November, Sanchez–the second-ranking Democrat on a powerful House Homeland Security Committee–faces Republican Van Tran for the congressional seat that includes Santa Ana, Garden Grove and Anaheim. Tran, currently a state assemblyman from Little Saigon, is hoping that Vietnamese voters and anti-incumbent sentiment will sweep him into office. Sanchez, however, has been immensely popular in the Vietnamese community.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
