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14 politics stories from Santa Ana. Straight from the Juice feed, newest first.
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Mayor Valerie Amezcua's election-night lead has shrunk to 140 votes over challenger Dan Shimell, and Orange County is still counting ballots.
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Mayor Valerie Amezcua opened with just over 50% in the first ballot drop, but later tallies showed challenger Dan Shimell closing the gap and moving ahead. The count is not final.
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A council debate over police became a shouting match about 911 calls, family and police union money, as a viral arrest keeps the Santa Ana Police Department under scrutiny.
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Jackie Cordova, a 54-year-old U.S. citizen, says she was monitoring immigration activity before dawn Thursday when agents chased her down, sprayed her and arrested her. DHS has not explained what happened.
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In a sit-down with Juice Unlocked, the mayor said critics who felt she moved too slowly on ICE are right. She also pushed back on officials who claim they got ICE out of Santa Ana.
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On the Juice Unlocked podcast, Santa Ana's mayor said she has nothing bad to say about Bass, but she did not let a comment about her city slide.
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On the Juice Unlocked podcast, Santa Ana's mayor pushed back on critics who say her public safety approach comes down to arrests, saying residents simply want to feel safe at home, at school and at the store.
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On the Juice Unlocked podcast, Amezcua said she takes more heat than the mayors before her, including over her hair and makeup. Two months later, she is trailing in a tight reelection race.
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Santa Ana's mayor sat down in the Juice Unlocked studio for a wide-ranging interview on her childhood, the city's future, immigration enforcement and her bid for another term. The full conversation runs about 74 minutes on YouTube.
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In an interview clip, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass pushed back on Santa Ana's offer-help-or-arrest approach to homelessness, saying L.A.'s jails have no room and are already full of people with mental illness.
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Santa Ana Councilman Johnathan Hernandez criticized mayoral candidate Dwayne Shipp's "The only ICE I support" graphic, saying people's lives are not a joke and asking what Shipp would actually do about ICE.
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Dwayne Shipp, a city commissioner running for Santa Ana mayor, says he was turned away from the backstage area at the city's Chicano Heritage Festival because he was wearing campaign gear.
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Asked on a Juice Unlocked livestream whether he would run, the Santa Ana councilman said he was "absolutely running for mayor," then said police are running the city and criticized Mayor Valerie Amezcua.
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An immigration judge dismissed the deportation case against a Santa Ana landscaper whose arrest outside an IHOP went viral, but the Department of Homeland Security says it is appealing.
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