Curtis L. "Curt" Pringle (born June 27, 1959), is a politician from the U.S. state of California. Pringle, a Republican and onetime Speaker of the California State Assembly, is currently Mayor of Anaheim, California, Chairman of the California High Speed Rail Authority (http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/about/curt-pringle.htm) and runs his own public relations and lobbying firm.
As a young man, Pringle ran, unsuccessfully, three times for a seat ...
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Curtis L. "Curt" Pringle (born June 27, 1959), is a politician from the U.S. state of California. Pringle, a Republican and onetime Speaker of the California State Assembly, is currently Mayor of Anaheim, California, Chairman of the California High Speed Rail Authority (
http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/about/curt-pringle.htm) and runs his own public relations and lobbying firm.
As a young man, Pringle ran, unsuccessfully, three times for a seat on the Garden Grove City Council. In 1986, while working for his parents' drapery business, Pringle ran unopposed for the Orange County Republican Central Committee, which is the controlling organ of the county Republican Party. In 1988, the Republican nominee for Pringle's Assembly district, freshman incumbent Assemblyman Dick Longshore, died the day after the June primary election, and under California law the central committee members were charged with selecting a replacement. They chose Pringle.
Pringle won the election in a mild upset,...
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