{"id":1654054,"date":"2022-09-22T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T01:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1654054"},"modified":"2022-09-22T21:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T01:05:20","slug":"incumbent-mayor-running-for-election-in-costa-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/incumbent-mayor-running-for-election-in-costa-mesa\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbent Mayor Running for Election in Costa Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fincumbent-mayor-running-for-election-in-costa-mesa%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1654054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>John Stephens, who was appointed mayor of Costa Mesa in 2021 to replace Katrina Foley when she was elected to the Orange County Board of Supervisors, is running for mayor in the upcoming Nov. 8 election. His opponent is former state Sen. John Moorlach.<\/p>\n<p>Stephens has a history of public service and said he enjoys giving back to the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a politician, it\u2019s just my way to serve the community. It\u2019s no different than when the community needs somebody to coach softball,\u201d Stephens told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/23\/stephens-headshot-2022-e1663892913217-1200x1438.jpg\"><\/a> (Courtesy of John Stephens) <\/p>\n<p>Stephens served on the city council from 2016 through 2020, followed by a brief stint on its planning commission shortly before becoming mayor. He\u2019s additionally served on the city\u2019s pension oversight and animal services committees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find this community service very rewarding \u2026 it puts me in a position to do some real good and really understand what the community needs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As chairman of the Orange County Homelessness Task Force while a councilman in 2018, Stephens helped establish what\u2019s known as a Bridge Shelter, which now provides 70 beds for homeless individuals in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Due to lawsuits, Costa Mesa police had been prohibited to remove homeless camping in public areas before because they didn\u2019t have enough shelter beds.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of the new shelter, police can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofcostamesanews.com\/new-point-in-time-count-shows-20-percent-less-homeless-individuals-in-costa-mesa\/\">enforce rules against encampments<\/a> in the city.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2022 point in time count, the number of homeless dropped in Costa Mesa by 20 percent, which Stephens said is one of his biggest accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I am most proud of in my public service was establishing our Bridge Shelter in 2018,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the city also has also adopted what\u2019s known as a housing first model\u2014which allows a homeless individual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Stephens, who was appointed mayor of Costa Mesa in 2021 to replace Katrina Foley when she was elected to the Orange County Board of Supervisors, is running for mayor in the upcoming Nov. 8 election. His opponent is former state Sen. John Moorlach. Stephens has a history of public service and said he enjoys [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1349,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}