{"id":619,"date":"2026-05-12T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:00:43","slug":"tom-steyer-courts-latinos-in-santa-ana-a-young-voter-wonders-if-its-just-a-show-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Tom Steyer courts Latinos in Santa Ana. A young voter wonders if it\u2019s just a show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When a friend asked if Tom Steyer could stop by my wife Delilah\u2019s downtown Santa Ana restaurant, I had to explain to her who he was.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=617\">Another sales tax hike? Rising costs a concern for L.A. voters in healthcare measure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not political apathy in my honey\u2019s case. She\u2019s just exhausted from running her small business, Alta Baja Market, in these inflationary times. She\u2019s one of the 16% of undecided voters in a recent California Democratic Party poll \u2014 a group that may determine which two candidates for governor face each other in the general election. <\/p>\n<p>Delilah agreed that Steyer could visit on Saturday  after I told her that many of our friends support the billionaire\u2019s progressive platform. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitics is your job, not mine,\u201d she joked as we drove to Alta Baja and I named the other major candidates. The only ones she had heard of were Antonio Villaraigosa (\u201cI liked him as mayor, but he needed to keep his pants on,\u201d referring to his extramarital affairs) and Katie Porter (\u201cSome of my workers like her, but I don\u2019t know what she\u2019s done\u201d). She might be the last person left in the Golden State who hasn\u2019t seen any of Steyer\u2019s television and YouTube ads.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign seems to have stalled in the polls even as he has spent more than $150 million of his own money amid doubts from some voters about whether they want a billionaire to lead the state. <\/p>\n<p>So a visit to Santa Ana, the heart of Latino Orange County, was a good move. At Alta Baja, he could talk to my Mexican American wife and other blue-collar Latinos.<\/p>\n<p>When rival Xavier Becerra came to O.C. a few weeks ago, on the other hand, he appeared at a private fundraiser attended mostly by professional Latinos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want someone who tells us where our taxes are going and treats this country like a business, and we\u2019re not wasting money,\u201d Delilah said. She\u2019s a socially liberal and fiscally conservative Democrat who has been especially angered by President Trump\u2019s deportation deluge, which left the streets of downtown Santa Ana empty for months last summer. \u201cBecause right now, our government is a hot-ass mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I asked what questions she had for Steyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo insurance had to cover all the disasters that happened with the fires,\u201d Delilah replied. \u201cSo why is everybody else having to pay for it? And what are you <i>really<\/i> gonna do to help the state?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She paused. \u201cTom is a Democrat, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delilah prepared for Steyer\u2019s noontime stop as if it were any other day. She has fed the likes of U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer and former Speaker of the Assembly Anthony Rendon. Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is a fan of Alta Baja\u2019s blue cornbread; Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee held a meet-and-greet there when she ran for president two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know who should ask questions?\u201d Delilah said after she set the till for the day. \u201cAngela.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That would be 19-year-old Alta Baja employee Angela Nino, who will be voting in her first election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019ll always be telling me, \u2018Did you see the debate? Did you see the debate?\u2019 And I always say, \u2018No, I\u2019m too tired to watch.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Nino soon clocked in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuess who\u2019s coming, Angela?\u201d Delilah said before looking at me. \u201cIs his name Tim or Tom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like I agree with some of his things, but he\u2019s a billionaire,\u201d said the Orange Coast College student and Santa Ana resident when I asked about Steyer. \u201cHis answers at debates have been pretty broad so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delilah smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re the future, girl, so ask him anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost everyone who came in as we waited for Steyer was a campaign worker or volunteer. Former state Controller Betty Yee, who ended her campaign for governor last month and endorsed Steyer, sat at a table with her husband. Orange County Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento, who initiated Steyer\u2019s Santa Ana visit, thanked Delilah for the opportunity. He has known her since the start of his political career on the Santa Ana City Council nearly 20 years ago, <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a city where our residents were criminalized because of ICE, our downtown suffered because of construction, and all this on the heels of a pandemic,\u201d he told me. \u201cThese are the folks Tom needs to listen to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarmiento\u2019s staffer got his attention. Steyer was here.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate strolled in with a videographer and photographer. He wore his usual casual billionaire outfit \u2014 white-and-cardinal Nikes, jeans, checkered shirt with rolled-up sleeves and a colorful Southwestern-style fabric belt.<\/p>\n<p>Steyer went straight to the counter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre <i>you<\/i> running for governor?\u201d he cracked while shaking Delilah\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew you were a smart woman!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He listened with wide eyes and a stern face as Delilah complained about a years-long light-rail project in front of Alta Baja \u201cthat has been worse for businesses here than COVID.\u201d Insurance rates have gone up 30% in the last year alone, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=615\">California\u2019s Democratic incumbents face primary challenges from political newcomers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, look, that\u2019s my whole thing,\u201d Steyer responded in his low, gravelly voice. \u201cI\u2019m willing to take on the big corporations who are ripping off California. And they\u2019re all spending a lot of money against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the Steyer I\u2019ve heard on too many commercials: pugnacious, compassionate but spouting a whole bunch of boilerplate. Delilah smiled weakly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate that,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we need more of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then she waved Nino over. Usually shy, the architecture major now channeled her inner Lesley Stahl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you have to be governor in order to do something while you have billions of dollars?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Steyer didn\u2019t flinch as he explained how he has funded ballot propositions and nonprofit initiatives to fight for a more equitable California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019ve been able to do something, but what I see in California \u2014 and what Delilah and I were just talking about \u2014 is big corporations actually run the state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s true,\u201d Nino conceded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to take on the big corporations that are screwing everybody. And you can really only do that as governor,\u201d Steyer continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to tax the billionaires, is that correct?\u201d Nino asked next, as Steyer nodded. \u201cHow come on some [campaign disclosure] forms, it shows that your billions are in different [countries] besides in the U.S.?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The candidate vigorously shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might have investments outside the United States, but there\u2019s nothing I\u2019m doing to not pay \u2014 I pay full California and American taxes on everything, promise. There\u2019s a lot of ways I could avoid taxes, but I don\u2019t. And so, anything that I\u2019m doing overseas is not to avoid taxes. \u2026 I give you my word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One more from Nino!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd how can the people trust billionaires when currently they have been very disappointing towards us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand why people are skeptical,\u201d Steyer replied. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t be more skeptical than I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He argued that other moguls \u201care supporting every other candidate. Those people <i>hate<\/i> me \u2014 like, they think I stand for something really bad, which is making them pay their fair share,\u201d referring to a proposed November ballot initiative that would impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires like Steyer (he supports the measure).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they\u2019re right,\u201d Steyer concluded. \u201cAnd so it\u2019s like, they hate me, and that\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nino stayed silent. Delilah thanked Steyer, who was off to visit other local businesses owned by friends of ours. He bought a bottle of ros\u00e9, posed for photos with Delilah and Sarmiento and went off \u2014 but not before a staffer adjusted the back of his collar.<\/p>\n<p>Delilah and Nino went back to prepping lunch orders. What did they think about Steyer?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I\u2019m so skeptical,\u201d Nino said. \u201cI don\u2019t think he has enough experience as some of the other candidates, and I feel like he could have been more into detail about his policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What about you, honey?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGracious, very kind and not pompous, which is what I would expect from most politicians,\u201d Delilah said. \u201cI like that he heard out Angela \u2014 that\u2019s important [that] politicians listen to the next generation, and I think everybody should be doing that. But I wasn\u2019t satisfied with my insurance question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we don\u2019t know if this is a performance,\u201d Nino added, drawing a playful gasp from Delilah. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen, like, throughout the years, many political people go into, like, regular [businesses] to seem like, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re relatable to the people. We know your struggles.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=613\">After exile, California tribes could help oversee ancestral redwoods again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo they really?\u201d Delilah interjected.<\/p>\n<p>Nino frowned. <\/p>\n<p>They could just be putting on a show for the cameras, she said. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to Santa Ana, the heart of Latino Orange County, was a good move for Steyer. 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