Santa Ana voters rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed for noncitizen and undocumented resident voting by a wide margin, 62% to 38%, in yesterday’s election, with 100% of precincts reporting, according to the Orange County Registrar of Voters.
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“Our campaign has now set the trend against noncitizen voting and discovered the keys to future victories in similar ballot measures across California and beyond,” said James V. Lacy, who organized the campaign against Measure DD, as it was known in Santa Ana. “The key to victory in the campaign is to elevate citizenship, and the crown jewel possessed only by citizens – their precious right to vote.” Lacy, a former General Counsel in the Reagan Administration, has been a statewide advocate and litigator in opposition to noncitizen voting measures across California.
Measure DD was placed on the ballot by a divided 4-3 vote of the Santa Ana City Council, who unlawfully tried to influence the outcome of the measure by placing prejudicial language in favor of it on the ballot. An Orange County Superior Court Judge ruled against the City to remove the biased wording, in response to a lawsuit filed by Lacy. The Judge’s Order is available here. Last week, the City paid Lacy and other plaintiffs over $35,000 for their attorneys fees in bringing the successful “public interest” lawsuit to correct the ballot measure language.
After winning the lawsuit, Lacy, with financial support from the conservative advocacy organizations United States Justice Foundation and Policy Issues Institute, organized “Santa Ana Citizens for Voting” with the assistance of Pasquale Talarico, a Santa Ana resident, who managed the campaign against Measure DD, which placed 1,500 street signs against the measure, and included social media and direct mail advertising. Opponents of Measure DD also included the Orange County Register editorial board, the Santa Ana Police Union which spent $9,000 on a mailing against the measure, and prominent citizens including the Mayor.
The reader has to understand without the long term born and raised US citizens who have Hispanic last names it never would have gained the massive victory.
So much for not understanding the issue of citizenship and willing to stand up for the nation where they were born and raised.
The next question becomes when are the law and order, small government believing voters going to get it? Voting D is a lost cause. They better stop, force open elections instead of Top 2, because the late Great State is now a second rate banana republic and the only hope and chance is to kick the Socialist out .
I’ll ask it again, voting D? Why? Are you that stupid?
YEP – those of us of immigrant parents, grandparents – we KNOW what it meant to them to become US Citizens!!!! We KNOW what being a US Citizen means!! It was pounded into us by our parents and grandparents. 🙂
So now it is the responsibility of the same voters to remove from office those who initiated the initiative.