{"id":4818,"date":"2017-05-26T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.aitkenlaw.com\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2017-05-26T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T19:43:00","slug":"voiceofoc-ashleigh-aitken-anaheim-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2017\/05\/26\/voiceofoc-ashleigh-aitken-anaheim-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Reiff: Lawyer Ashleigh Aitken Planning Run for Anaheim Mayor (not for DA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As Published on VoiceofOC<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reiff: Lawyer Ashleigh Aitken Planning Run for Anaheim Mayor (not for DA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By: Rick Reiff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4819 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ashleigh-Aitken-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Reiff: Lawyer Ashleigh Aitken Planning Run for Anaheim Mayor (not for DA)\" width=\"258\" height=\"322\">Trial lawyer Ashleigh Aitken, daughter of one of Orange County\u2019s most influential [individuals], is planning to run for mayor of Anaheim next year.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure was made by Ashleigh\u2019s father, Wylie Aitken, at a taping of the \u201cInside OC with Rick Reiff\u201d public affairs program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a proud citizen of Anaheim, she has been very involved in Anaheim city issues, and she\u2019ll be shortly opening up a committee to run for mayor,\u201d Wylie Aitken said.<\/p>\n<p>Current Mayor Tom Tait, a Republican, is term-limited out in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Wylie Aitken said Ashleigh, a former federal prosecutor and past president of the Orange County Bar Association, has also been approached \u201cby numerous people\u201d about running for the embattled county district attorney\u2019s office next year. That race has been shaping up as a battle royal between two established, but also controversial, Republicans, incumbent DA Tony Rackauckas and county supervisor Todd Spitzer.<\/p>\n<p>But Wylie said Ashleigh\u2019s \u201creal focus\u201d is the mayor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>Ashleigh Aitken, 41, has been seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party. Retired Orange County Employees Association head Nick Berardino has referred to her as a \u201cfuture governor of California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She is an attorney, along with her father, husband and two brothers, in the family law firm, Aitken Aitken Cohn. She has three daughters. Ashleigh is a director and former chair of the Orange County Fair Board.<\/p>\n<p>Wylie Aitken mentioned Ashleigh\u2019s planned run at the end of a show focusing on his career as a prominent trial lawyer, community leader, [and] philanthropist\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voiceofoc.org\/2017\/05\/reiff-lawyer-ashleigh-aitken-planning-run-for-anaheim-mayor-not-for-da\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Published on VoiceofOC Reiff: Lawyer Ashleigh Aitken Planning Run for Anaheim Mayor (not for DA) By: Rick Reiff Trial lawyer Ashleigh Aitken, daughter of one of Orange County\u2019s most influential [individuals], is planning to run for mayor of Anaheim next year. The disclosure was made by Ashleigh\u2019s father, Wylie Aitken, at a taping of&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2017\/05\/26\/voiceofoc-ashleigh-aitken-anaheim-mayor\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[70,82,83,84,97,98,99,100,408,488,626,671,848],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-aitken-aitken-cohn","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-mayor","tag-anaheim-mayor-2018","tag-ashleigh","tag-ashleigh-aitken","tag-ashleigh-for-anaheim-mayor","tag-ashleigh-for-mayor-2018","tag-inside-oc","tag-mayoral-race","tag-politics","tag-rick-reiff","tag-wylie-aitken"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}