Hey, BREA! Which Treasurer Candidate Was Just Busted for a DUI Hit & Run? And Who Stole Ed Royce’s Endorsement?

By
Greg Diamond
– October 24, 2016Posted in: Fresh Juice

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Brea's appointed Treasurer and candidate for election to the position Rick Rios with Councilmember Steve Vargas.

Brea’s appointed Treasurer and candidate for election to the position Rick Rios with his friend and patron Councilmember Steve Vargas.

As the news that Brea’s Treasurer (and candidate for be elected to that position) Rick Rios had been busted for a DUI-Hit-and-Run came late on Thursday afternoon, just before City Hall closed for a three-day weekend, we want to make sure that you see our story about it.  (His signs are still more than three sheets to the wind, even though his website is down.)  We’ll have more on that … but also much more, as Brea seems to be suddenly awash in political news (as well as in unpredicted rain.)  For example:

  • Who falsely claimed Ed Royce’s support for a set of school board candidates opposed to a school bond ballot measure, as featured prominently in a mailer you probably got this past weekend,  that Royce says was done without his knowledge or consent?  (Is there some sort of law about this?)
  • What State Senate candidate’s campaign has been spending boatloads of money rehashing faked or misleading stories about her opponent?  (Hint: is it scandalous that someone mentions “underwear” to someone whose family then worked with the Joe Boxer company?  This lying-lying candidate and her Dishonest PR strategist guy hope that you’ll think so!)
  • What blowhard was recently canned from your Planning Commission for biting the hand (to the bone) that appointed him — and does that appointer now regret some of his votes last year to shovel public money at his appointee’s patron?
  • Does Dwight Manley hate Kids — or does he just hate being made to pay his own fair share of property taxes?  (After all, YOU have money TOO!  Why pick on the wealthy property owner who last year gobbled down a huge government handout?)

So much to tell you this week!  But the short version is: YES ON K, NO ON L, MARICK FOR COUNCIL, RE-ELECT THE SCHOOL BOARD, AND VOTE FOR A TREASURER CANDIDATE WHO WASN’T JUST ARRESTED FOR A DRUNKEN HIT & RUN!

More later!

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.)