Correa Questions ``Los Angeles'' Angel Bus Advertising.SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , Calif. -- Orange County Supervisor Lou Correa Luis Correa (born 1958) is a California Democratic Party politician. He is serving his first term as a member of the California State Senate, representing the 34th Senate District. has asked the Orange County Transportation Authority The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is the public sector transportation planning body and transit service provider for Orange County, California. Its ancestor agencies include not only the prior Orange County Transit District but also such diverse entities as (OCTA) to discuss the advertising on OCTA buses by the "Los Angeles" Angels of Anaheim. The Angels won the World Series in 2002 as the Anaheim Angels. The team added Los Angeles to its name after last season. The City owns Anaheim Stadium, a facility the Angels lease from the city. Anaheim has sued the Angels to prohibit the name change. Correa sits as a director on the 17 member transit board. "Orange County has always promoted its Anaheim Angels, but Arte Moreno apparently isn't interested in promoting Anaheim or Orange County," said Correa. The Angels are large purchasers of advertising on the buses. The buses are "wrapped" on the sides and rear in ads. The OCTA operates over 800 buses and carries 210,000 riders daily throughout Orange County. Viacom Outdoor is the advertising agent and will secure $9.4 million in guaranteed advertising revenue with the OCTA this year. Currently, the advertising contract prohibits alcohol and cigarette related advertising on buses. "The OCTA needs to decide if it wishes to accept any name other than the Anaheim Angels on Orange County buses," stated Correa, "This is a bus we need to be ahead of, not behind." The OCTA Board of Directors will discuss the Angel advertising issue at its next meeting on March 28th. "We have plenty of advertisers who believe that the Orange County market is highly desirable, and even preferable to Los Angeles. Real Angel fans live here, work here, and deserve some respect from Angels' management," said Correa. Raised in Anaheim and a graduate of Anaheim High School Anaheim High School is a public, four-year (grades 9 through 12) high school in the city of Anaheim, California, United States. Anaheim High School was first established in 1898, which makes it the oldest of nine comprehensive high schools in the Anaheim Union High School District. , Correa has lived in Orange County and Anaheim most of his life. He served in the California State legislature The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California. It is a bicameral body consisting of the lower house California State Assembly, with 80 members, and the upper house California State Senate, with 40 members. from 1998-2004. He was elected to the Orange County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. last year. |
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