Weekend Open Thread: Vampires are Tenacious Critters

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Lenore Albert has announced that she is running to replace her ally and benefactor Eric Bauman as California Democratic Party Chair.

Goodbye to 2018, which showed once more that everything she touches turns to radioactive gold.

She is still in Chapter 13 bankruptcy, still suspended from the practice of law, and was just denied a certification by a federal judge that she could appeal a portion of a lawsuit (brought against me and Vern, among many others) without paying fees that would normally be made available to her if the claim has been meritorious.

But no recitation of her greatest hits is complete without this:

The sequel is rarely as good as the original. And in the original, Lenore got eight votes out of thousands cast.

I put her odds at winning the race to replace Bauman, who resigned after the publication of several charges involving sexual harassment and physical assault, at somewhere below 30%. Somewhere way below.

This is your last Weekend Open Thread of the year. Don’t squander it! Blah blah blah with discretion, decorum, dignity and debonairness.


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.)