CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 3, 2010 | Jean Merl and Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times
The embattled incumbents in California congressional and legislative districts sweating out the ballot counting Tuesday night included Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez, who in preliminary returns was pulling ahead of wth Republican Assemblyman Van Tran for a central Orange County seat, and Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack, who was fending off a strong challenge from Democrat Steve Pougnet in a Palm Springs-based district. In Northern California, two targeted Democratic congressmen were trailing their GOP challengers early in the ballot counting.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 3, 2010 | By Jean Merl, Los Angeles Times
Ever since her headline-grabbing upset of conservative Republican icon Rep. Robert K. Dornan back in 1996, Rep. Loretta Sanchez has won reelection in her working-class district by wide margins. Now, however, Republicans believe they stand a fighting chance of unseating Orange County's only Democratic member of the House. Armed with years of local political experience, strong ties with the area's ascendant Vietnamese American community and the backing of Republicans in Washington and around the nation, Republican state Assemblyman Van Tran is giving Sanchez her first serious challenge in more than a decade.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 25, 2010 | By My-Thuan Tran, Los Angeles Times
Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez found herself in hot water this week after she said in a Spanish-language interview that "the Vietnamese" and Republicans were trying to take control of her seat. Sanchez, who is up for reelection, was put on the defensive after her main opponent, Assemblyman Van Tran (R-Garden Grove), a Vietnamese American, jumped on the issue and called her statements "offensive" and "divisive. " The tiff highlights the political dichotomy of central Orange County, where two big voting blocs are Latinos and Vietnamese.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 22, 2010 | By Jean Merl, Los Angeles Times
Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack of Palm Springs has a new title these days: "Patriot. " That's the term leaders of the National Republican Congressional Committee are using for House members they believe to be most vulnerable to a Democratic challenge this fall. Rep. Jerry McNerney, who wrenched his Northern California district from GOP hands four years ago, is a " Frontline Democrat," the name the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has bestowed on its party members facing strong challenges.
NATIONAL
September 13, 2009 | Richard Simon
At a time when congressional travel is coming under new scrutiny, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) has the distinction of taking more trips at taxpayer expense than anyone else in the California delegation. In the last 3 1/2 years, she visited the South Pole, snorkeled at Australia's Great Barrier Reef and joined world leaders at a security conference in Munich, Germany. She met with Darfur refugees in Sudan, attended a "legislators' dialogue" with European Parliament members in Slovenia, delivered a speech on transportation security in France and inspected anti-terrorism defenses in Genoa, Italy, and Mombasa, Kenya.
OPINION
November 20, 2008 | PATT MORRISON
When was the last time you read a baby announcement on the Op-Ed pages? Exactly. So this is obviously more than baby news. It's about how far we've come, and where we may still fall short. California Congresswoman Linda Sanchez is pregnant. Ordinarily, this would not make headlines, except to the Sanchez family and maybe in a newsletter to the 39th Congressional District in southeast L.A. County, which just elected her to her fourth term.