The Rocklin Police Officers’ Association has endorsed small business owner and community volunteer Greg Janda for Rocklin City Council.“After careful consideration of your background, the RPOA welcomes the knowledge and experience you could bring to the Rocklin City Council,” the organization said in its endorsement. “We believe your community involvement combined with your business background, make you a unique candidate with a clear vision for the City of Rocklin.”“I am honored to have the support of Rocklin law enforcement,” Greg said. “Rocklin is known as a safe city and we owe that to the hard work of law enforcement. As I have said throughout my campaign, public safety is a core responsibility of local government and one that I will work to properly fund as a Councilmember.”Read more »
The Placer County Republican Party will hold its first-ever convention on Aug. 18 to endorse candidates for local offices in Placer County.The convention replaces a process where endorsements had been decided by the 27-member Placer County Central Committee. Under this new process, each Central Committee member can appoint up to 10 delegates to participate in the convention.Read more »
Thinking of running for office and don't know where to begin? Look no further. The Placer County Elections office offers several free candidate workshops in June and July.
Check out this link to learn more.
Former Auburn Mayor Hank Gonzales has filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the City of Auburn, asking how much in taxpayer funds were spent on the City’s recent lawsuit against Measure A Opponents (Labrie vs. Board of Supervisors, et al.).“Taxpayers deserve to know how much of their money was used to keep them in the dark about Measure A, and to try and silence the perfectly valid concerns of four former City Mayors and the County’s leading taxpayer advocate,” Gonzales said. Read more »
Linda Park, a Roseville Joint Union High School District board member, announced today that she will not run for the 6th Assembly District seat. That means the 6th Assembly race comes down to two viable Republican candidates: incumbent Beth Gaines and Sacramento attorney Andy Pugno, the author of California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California.
Democrat Reginald Bronner is also running in the heavily GOP district. But with Park dropping out, and therefore reducing the Republican vote to two candidates, Bronner has less of a chance of making the top two candidates and going on to the General Election in November.
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