Loading ...If the Republican Party is to somehow regain a foothold in California then the party is going to have to start winning legislative races. Redistricting has created a few opportunities in legislative districts that now lean purple, such as Orange County’s 32nd and 34th State Senate Districts.
While the OC GOP’s cupboard is fairly bare of Latino candidates for the 34th State Senate District, two of them have emerged for the 32nd State Senate District, which includes part of Orange County’s City of Buena Park – Downey Mayor Mario Guerra and businessman Noel A. Jaimes.
Here are the rest of the candidates thought to be running for the 32nd State Senate District:
- Sally Havice (Democrat) – Former Member, State Assembly
- Tony Mendoza (Democrat) – Former Member, State Assembly
- Noel A. Jaimes (Republican) – Businessman
- Dr. Sandra Salazar (Democrat) – Trustee, Cerritos CCD
- Tom Calderon (Democrat) – Former Member, State Assembly
- Kevin Perez-Allen (Democrat) – Non-Profit Executive/Community Activist
- Jay Chen (Democrat) – Member, Hacienda La Puente USD
- Mario Guerra (Republican) – Councilmember, Downey
Cities in CA State Senate 32:
- Artesia
- Bellflower
- Cerritos
- Commerce
- Downey
- East La Mirada
- Hacienda Heights
- Hawaiian Gardens
- La Habra Heights
- La Mirada
- Lakewood
- Montebello
- Norwalk
- Pico Rivera
- Santa Fe Springs
- South Whittier
- West Whittier – Los Nietos
- Whittier
- Buena Park
Guerra, who emphasizes that he is on the moderate side of the GOP, is a successful small business owner, having co-founded Scanlon-Guerra-Burke. Today, operating as SGB-NIA, his partner firm is one of the largest insurance brokers in California.
Guerra was not a fan of the term-limits law that will evict him from his city council office in Downey in 2014. In fact, early in his first term Guerra led a movement by Downey council members to overturn the law voters passed in 1993—the one establishing a firm two-term limit that prohibited officeholders from ever again, according to Greater Long Beach, which also reported that:
At Guerra’s suggestion, Downey council members created a ballot proposition—Measure G—that would have extended the office-holding limits to three consecutive terms (12 years), after which council members could sit out a term and then run again.
Voters responded to Guerra’s plan on Feb. 2, 2008, by going to the polls and crushing it. Measure G was rejected on 67.04 percent of cast ballots.
Noel A. Jaimes is a 35+ year resident and local businessman that believes in “Honest, Responsive Government,” according to his Facebook page. He ran unsuccessfully for an Assembly seat last year, garnering over 49,000 votes according to Smart Voter.
Former Assemblyman Tony Mendoza, a Democrat, has collected $52,428 in campaign contributions for the 32nd District so far this year, according to the Downey Patriot. Financial reports also show that Mendoza’s 2014 committee made a $66,000 loan to his failed campaign for Central Basin Water District last November.
Elected to the 56th Assembly district in 2006, Mendoza served three consecutive terms in the state Assembly until he was termed out in 2012. Prior to his career in Sacramento, Mendoza served three terms on the Artesia City Council, where he became the youngest mayor at age 26.
Tom Calderon is one of three brothers who form a powerful political machine in the San Gabriel Valley and southeast cities. Charles (Chuck) Calderon has served for 22 years in either the state assembly or senate and is currently the assemblyman from the 58thAD. The youngest brother, Ron Calderon, is now a state senator (30th SD); he has served in the state assembly or senate for the last ten years, according to Central Basin Corruption.
Tom Calderon has the shortest public political resume of the three; from 1998 to 2002 he was a state assemblyman. In 2002, he took a big leap for an official with so little experience and ran for state Insurance Commissioner, coming in a weak third in the Democratic primary. Afterwards Calderon returned to his career as a secretive, political wire-puller with a number of clients with special interests.
Sally Havice, who won a seat representing the 56th Assembly district in 2000, is now a professor of English at Cerritos College. However, Havice, the only female in the race, has launched “Havice for Senate 2014” and held her first campaign fundraiser last weekend in Bellflower.
Non-Profit Executive Kevin Perѐz-Allen has also decided to run in the newly created 32nd District. He is a Democrat with past experience working in the State Legislature, according to Los Cerritos News.
Dr. Sandra Salazar is a member of the Cerritos College Board of Trustees. She is also a family physician.
Jay Chen is a former Congressional Candidate who also serves on the Board of Education for the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.
Nearly 49 percent of the district’s voters are registered with the Democratic Party. The best a Republican could hope for would be to make the Top Two in the Open Primary. Winning the General Election would only be possible of the Republican were to pick up independent votes, third party votes, and a few crossover Democratic voters.
The Primary Election is set for June 3, 2014.
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This is why most residents of Downey WON’T be voting for Mario A Guerra for State Senate District 32.
To: Mario A. Guerra
We the residents of Downey can no longer trust our police department due to the illegal acts committed by Mr. Guerra.
Mr. Guerra is under investigation for illegally ordering and purchasing police badges for himself and several other Downey city officials. I for one didn’t know deacons were sworn in to uphold the constitution of the United States and needed to wear police badges?!?!
Mr. Guerra, you are not a police officer!!
Why do you need a Downey police badge, Mr. Guerra??
Why are you impersonating a police officer??
That is illegal!!!
Who authorized the illegal purchase of these police badges? Who wrote and signed the authorization letter for this purchase to take place not once but twice? The Downey Police chief himself said that he had no knowledge of this and that he had not authorized such purchase. So again, who wrote and signed the authorization letter to make these purchases??
Mr. Guerra, that’s who!!
That was wrong Mr. Guerra and we the residents of Downey demand answers now!!
As a Downey resident, I should be able to trust our city PD but you Mr. Guerra have engaged in such unlawful activity that it has caused for great concern in trusting who we interact with when we summons the police.
How will my 17 year old daughter know that she is being pulled over by a real Downey police officer while driving? It could easily be someone impersonating one who you illegally issued a police badge to, don’t you think? I would say so since now most if not all police badges that you illegally purchased have gone missing! God only knows who is identifying themselves as police officers with those badges!
Attention Downey police officers, please be prepared to show 3 forms of identification when engaging in a traffic stop thanks to Mr. Guerra!!
Mr. Guerra is a disgrace to the city of Downey. Look up the word corrupt in the English dictionary and there my friends you will find a photo of Mr. Guerra with that corruption looking smirk on his face.
To see more details into Mr. Guerra’s illegal activities, go to this website http://downeywatchdog.com
Website built and kept up by many Downey residents who have had enough.
Mr. Guerra has NO chance in winning the Senate seat. He will be defeated by his Democratic opponent.
Oh by the way Mr. Guerra, quit calling me asking to vote for you and quit sending me mailers that state the word Democracy on them as to try and confuse me. It will NOT work!!
I am proud to be Democrat!!
Sincerely,
We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not Forgive
We do not Forget
Expect Us
“The Corrupt Fear Us”