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[Ed. Note: Just a reminder that anonymous attacks on other people will be deleted (although it may be sort of eventually.) Your chances of not having something deleted — and maybe even added to the text of this very post! — will be better if you are either heartfelt (if you’re so inclined) or really, really funny. And we mean “really funny” by OUR standards, not yours.]
Sub-resolution: I will not spend all day on Jan 1 looking at high-resolution photos of Ultima Thune. Maybe.
This is set to appear at 2018-12-31 at 23:45 with 15 minutes left in the year. If you are still online at that moment, then … well, nothing, actually. Just have a good New Year’s Day and New Year!
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.)
*OK, 2019 Resolutions? Maybe, try to be less authoritative about things, maybe try to keep all the priorities in proper perspective, maybe limit the rhetorical conclusions in the arguments at hand, maybe a kinder and gentler form of dialogue, maybe using the knowledge that is to be found as a reason for discussion, maybe making less of stupid personality traits and more about the strongest issues to face our society. Well, maybe..
but then, what fun would that be? Nevermind, just keep doing what you have been doing…it seems to be working!
In 2019 I will continue to focus on enlarging our network of “Blue voters” across the region. As member of the SBCDP Executive board overseeing building our blue pipeline through programmatic Candidate Development and Campaign Operation strategy, I will seek out and identify promising future leaders who represent the residents of San Bernardino County, (just over the hill from ORCO if you look through the curtain.)
I will strive to increase dialogue and enforce action by our elected representatives to drive legislation that benefits all of us, including an end to homelessness, health care and education for all, affordable housing, creating a living wage, an end to gender and racial discrimination, protection of open space like Tres Hermanos and Coyote Hills, and work to strengthen and protect our social security and Medicare insurance programs, to name just a few.
Thanks Jim! Well stated!
[Conflict noted: Jim and I are on the same slate of candidates for ADEM position in AD-55, but while I endorse him for that position I did not solicit this comment or know about it in advance of its posting.]
*OK, and just one more caveat: Make sure that all those recruited do not fall prey to Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Agra, Big Chema and the entire Medical Industry! Remember, these folks are corrupt and want to corrupt anyone elected, no matter the party affiliation!