Election day is here — and there’s still no word of the results of any investigation into Jorge Lopez’s complaint that incumbent Assessor Webster Guillory gathered his signatures inside of the Assessor’s office — from his direct employees — while many of them were at work.
In last week’s article, I predicted that the DA’s office would not expedite any report, given that an early finding of wrongdoing might lead a runoff between GOP-endorsed candidate Claude Parrish and Lopez, while a late finding would improve the odds of a runoff between Parrish and Guillory — with Guillory then perhaps being forced to end his campaign prematurely.
Lopez has learned that more people are coming forward in response to inquiries to respond to the story — including inquiries from the DA’s office — and that they have corroborated key points of the account.
It’s a shame that voters won’t have known that before going to the polls today.
Some watchdog! He only wakes up and barks when he wants something!
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
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