Who Will be The Seventh Member of Irvine’s City Council?

Who Will be The Seventh Member of Irvine’s City Council?

Betty Martinez-Franco was in the lead in the special election to fill a vacancy on the Irvine City Council, according to initial results posted by the OC Registrar of Voters Tuesday night.  Martinez-Franco held 47% of the vote as of 9:30 p.m. Former Councilman Anthony Kuo was in second place with 42.5% of the vote, trailing behind by over 300 votes. Council hopeful Dana Corneleus trailed far behind both candidates with 698 votes tallied for her …

Betty Martinez Franco leads race for Irvine City Council Fifth District seat in early returns Tuesday night

With polls closed and the first wave of mailed-in and in-person ballots counted, Betty Martinez Franco was leading the race Tuesday night, April 15, to represent Irvine’s Fifth District on the City Council. The OC Registrar of Voters won’t update counting again until 5 p.m. Wednesday. Martinez Franco runs a boutique public affairs firm and holds a master’s degree in public administration from USC. She was leading the race at the end of the night…

Looking Like Betty Martinez-Franco for Irvine’s District 5 Council Seat – The Liberal OC

Betty Martinez-Franco As of this morning, Better Martinez-Franco is poised to be Irvine’s First Latina City Council member.  She has 3,031 votes to Republican Anthony Kuo’s 2,742.  HOA board member Dana Cornelius has a little more than 10% with 670. Credit here goes to the Democratic Clubs in Irvine for knocking on doors in what’s typically a low-turnout special election.  Kuo got lots of dough in IEs but one mailer likened him to President Trum…

KUOWATCH: Will Irvine elect another Live-Nation Republican tonight? [Update – looks like Betty!]

Desultory live-blog of a race with no options we're rooting for... The post KUOWATCH: Will Irvine elect another Live-Nation Republican tonight? [Update – looks like Betty!] first appeared on Orange Juice Blog.