{"id":478515,"date":"2026-09-28T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478515\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:14:08","slug":"anaheim-california-mayor-responds-to-allegation-she-called-staffer-a-dirty-mexican-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478515\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim, California Mayor Responds to Allegation She Called Staffer a \u2018Dirty Mexican\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken denied accusations of racially and sexually inappropriate comments and said the claims should be investigated. According to a Sept. 11 letter from chief of staff Berenice Ballinas to City Hall, the Anaheim mayor Ashleigh Aitken allegations include a racial slur and remarks about sexuality. The Los Angeles Times reported the letter on Sept. 21.In a Thursday Facebook statement, Aitken said she did not use the slur and has supported LGBTQ communities, while noting personnel privacy limits. The letter also cites comments about a Disneyland worker and references former city manager Jim Vanderpool. The New York Post reported residents demanded her resignation at a recent council meeting. Aitken is up for reelection next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken denied accusations of racially and sexually inappropriate comments and said the claims should be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,19740,187235],"class_list":["post-478515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-ashleigh-aitken","tag-inappropriate-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}