Election Day (and Afterwards) Open Thread!

By
Greg Diamond
– November 8, 2016Posted in: "The OC", Fresh Juice
Arturo Ferreras (Ana Dist 4), Dr. Jose Moreno (Ana Dist 3), Josh Newman (State Senate 29), and Ed Lopez (NOCCCD) celebrate at Kamala Harris's GOTV rally.

Candidates Arturo Ferreras (Ana Dist 4), Dr. Jose Moreno (Ana Dist 3), Josh Newman (State Senate 29), and Ed Lopez (NOCCCD) celebrate at Kamala Harris’s GOTV rally.

You know, this is a pretty great year for local candidates!

Put what you see, what you hear, and what you think into comments.  The floor is yours!

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.)