BP helps OC Supervisor Candidate Achieve Goals

Rose Espinoza has been a successful mayor in La Habra and a community leader within Orange County for years.  She is now hoping to serve as one of our county supervisors.  Branding Personality is working behind the scenes to help Rose achieve her goals. You can learn more about her political movement on her website.  You can learn more about her as a person here.

Marieke: If you didn’t do this career, what would you do?
Rose: I switched careers in ’06 to what I really wanted to do which is transition the program I founded, Rosie’s Garage, into it’s own non profit.  That was completed in 2008. Second, was to finish the units needed toward my bachelors.  Almost there. And third, run for OC Board of Supervisor, 4th District in June 2010.

MH: Sounds very ambitious! Have you always been this driven? Where did you grow up?
RE: I grew up in a migrant camp set up by the La Habra Citrus Association for families whose head of household worked for them picking lemons, oranges, and avocados.  It later became known as the ‘Red Camp’ because all the homes had a red tinge to them.  Rent was cheap, $7 a month. We had plenty of backyard space for a vegetable garden, a goat (for goats milk), chickens, fruit trees and a clothesline.  We had plenty of yard on both sides and in front of the home.  Growing up with 7 more siblings, we would need the space for all sorts of kid games. Showers were not taken at home but rather at the Red Camp communal center. Dad didn’t like that and soon built a shower addition to our home. And, most importantly, we had an outdoor bathroom, a flushing one.  It was an ‘Opie’ kind of life.

MH: Who was your idol growing up?
RE: I wasn’t allowed to stay for any of the high school activities like football games and pep rallies, etc. but one year, our high school had a concert at our high school football stadium. Three Dog Nite was going to perform at our high school!  How much better does it get!?  Don’t ask me how I got my parent’s permission to attend the concert. I couldn’t believe it, I was attending a real concert!  After that evening, Three Dog Nite became my favorite idol for the rest of my high school years.

MH: If you could have a super power, what would it be and why?
RE: The ability to read the mind of people, then I could know what my opponents in the OC Supervisor race are thinking.
Wouldn’t that be nice!