Slate mailers are interesting things. Since they're basically a way for various candidates annd initiatives to share the cost of voter communication, they're valuable tools for down-ballot candidates for local offices that have lots of voters but lack built-in fund-raising constituencies.

Slates usually identify with a particular party, philosophy or issue, in hopes voters will think the listed candidates are so associated.

One of the major slates is "Continuing The Republican Revolution," which prominently displays the familiar Republican elephant logo. Thus, it's interesting to see, among the eight local candidates listed, two liberal Democrats!
Brian Conley is the incumbent in Rancho Santiago Community College District Area 1. He's a liberal Democrat.

The other is Orange Unified School District candidate Florice Hoffman, another liberal Democrat who's political activism is better described as aimed at repealing the Republican Revolution, and who's candidacy is mostly funded by the local teachers union.

Then again, if by "Continuing the Republican Revolution" we're talking about the big government Republicanism of the GOP Congress during the Bush years, then maybe Hoffman and Conley fit right in.