Nowadays, even arranging a debate involving Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is controversial.
Orange Juice blog is reporting that “supporters of independent congressional candidate Cecilia Iglesias are up in arms” about KOCE-TV's decision to exclude Iglesias from next week's debate.
The
blog post, written by Santa Ana political activist and school board candidate
Art Pedroza, encourages people to protest at the station's Huntington Beach headquarters and send e-mails to KOCE officials including
Ed Arnold, who is expected to moderate the debate presently set between Sanchez and her Republican challenger
Van Tran.
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Polling has shown that Tran, a Little Saigon state assemblyman, is within the margin of error of pulling a shocking upset.
Iglesias, a newcomer to politics, doesn't yet factor in any polling and Sanchez's supporters have suggested she is a fake candidate planted by clever Republicans to suppress Latino votes from Sanchez in what could be Orange County's closest election contest on November 2.
Pedroza disagrees, writing, “Let our voices be heard . . . Send a message to TranChez . . . Remind KOCE we pay for their public radio [sic] . . . Show your support for [Iglesias].”
In announcing the debate, KOCE officials did not mention Iglesias.
–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.
