19/05/2024
Ten years ago on the OJ Blog, our June Primary endorsements – read by over 5500 readers (people love our voting guides, written mostly by Greg.) Lots of interesting historical stuff to look back on here, MOST NOTABLY: The corrupt JANET NGUYEN, in the middle of her second full (and disastrous) term as OC Supervisor, was first running for State Senator. (Successfully.) We all pretty much agreed with Zenger that she was “the biggest menace to good governance in this County.” But some of us said to each other, “Well maybe if she gets ‘kicked upstairs’ we can be rid of her in the County – what damage can she do in the Senate minority?”
And Zenger responded, with admirable prescience, “In Sacramento she can only do the ol’ shakedown routine and follow toe the party line. However, she will be poised to COME BACK to the County and try to do more damage.” And hey – here she is again ten years later in 2024, trying to get her grubby hands back into the County. We can’t let that happen! (Vote Frances Marquez!)
Aside from that, this was the year that Greg Diamond ran against Tony Rackauckas for DA because nobody else would. Greg is still proud of that race, and making the lamentable DA and his supporters spend money they hoped not to have to. Check it out:
SHORT VERSION Vern here. Greg obviously put a lot of thought and research into this guide, and on the races I'm familiar with I MOSTLY agree with him. And in the others I would CAUTIOUSLY trust his judgment. But I think for this to be a useful voters' guide, I need to condense it up
