{"id":52522,"date":"2022-09-19T15:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T22:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52522"},"modified":"2022-09-19T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T22:57:46","slug":"orange-county-register-endorses-ashleigh-aitken-for-anaheim-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52522","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Register Endorses Ashleigh Aitken for Anaheim Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anaheim, CA<\/strong> \u2013 Anaheim, CA \u2013 The Orange County Register has endorsed Ashleigh Aitken\u2019s campaign for Anaheim Mayor. Aitken, a former federal prosecutor and the candidate for Mayor running on a reform platform, has secured endorsements from a diverse coalition of supporters, which also includes Anaheim firefighters, paramedics, and municipal employees.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the endorsement in their Sunday edition, the Register called for a \u201cclean sweep\u201d at City Hall. They wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;For mayor, we endorse Ashleigh Aitken. An attorney and long-time Anaheim activist, Aitken is a moderate Democrat committed to fiscal restraint. Most importantly, Aitken\u2019s the unabashed reform candidate. \u201cThe former mayor and his tightly knit \u2018cabal\u2019 were allowed to run roughshod at City Hall, and create a culture of intimidation for staff, management, concerned residents, and the smaller business community,\u201d she told us.<\/p>\n<p>Her main challenger, Mayor Pro Tem Trevor O\u2019Neil, talks a good game about his conservatism \u2014 on issues ranging from rent control to pension liabilities \u2014 but defends various giveaway deals and has a penchant for describing subsidies as incentives. Looking at the campaign donations O\u2019Neil has returned is telling \u2013 from the Chamber of Commerce and leaders of the Angels.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim, CA \u2013 Anaheim, CA \u2013&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52523,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52522\/revisions\/52523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}