Sunday, August 9, 2009

Don Wagner enters the Assembly race

Gosh, I leave for a coupla days, and then shite happens!

A blogger friend tells me that Don Wagner has issued an announcement. It appeared on Friday on the local Red County blog:

Donald Wagner Enters AD 70th Assembly Race

[Allan Bartlett of RC identifies the following as a “press release from Don Wagner:]
Irvine Attorney and Community College District President Enters Race

IRVINE- Attorney and Community College District President Donald Wagner has kicked off his campaign to replace termed out Assemblyman Chuck Devore to represent the 70th Assembly District.

Wagner's strong conservative message of change away from the current fiscal recklessness in Sacramento, and his long history of effective government leadership, has already earned the Wagner campaign a number of endorsements from conservative education leaders, the Family Action Pac, and Republican voters and community activists throughout Orange County.

"I believe that the State Assembly is simply not doing the job we are paying it to do," said Wagner. "By raising taxes and allowing spending to get out of control, the State Assembly is not putting the needs and concerns of the citizens of California first."

Wagner has hired Duane Dichiara and Jason Roe of Revolvis Consulting. Long time conservative activist John Fugatt is already aboard the Wagner campaign as its treasurer. Grassroots volunteers and fundraisers are also in place as the campaign kicks into high gear. Wagner will later this month report more cash on hand for this race than his primary opponent, Tustin Councilman Jerry Amante, who has been running for more than eight months yet reported less than $12,000 cash on hand at the close of the last reporting period.

Wagner and his wife Megan have three children, and have been residents of Irvine since 1991. He is a graduate of UCLA and the University of California, Hastings College of Law. Wagner has been elected to three consecutive terms on the Board of Trustees of the South Orange County Community College District since 1998, and currently serves as the Board's President. Wagner also founded the Orange County chapter of the Federalist Society, a nationwide organization of lawyers, law professors, and judges.

Interesting factoids:

Don has run for Assembly (the 70th) before, though with little success. He's just too peevish a being. See 2004 campaign website. "Corporal punishment in the lower grades work [sic]," opines the Donster. (See Q and A.)

According to Politics, Revolvis Consulting, which launched only two months ago, “will specialize in general consulting and direct mail with an emphasis on targeting Latino voters, a fast-growing demographic and one essential to future Republican success.”

John Fugatt is (or was) the Executive Director of “Christian Coalition of California,” which is, of course, affiliated with the notorious Pat Robertson-founded “Christian Coalition.”

Nice tats

I'M ABOUT to leave my beauteous suite here at the San Luis Obispo Days Inn (on Monterey). Been here for the wedding of an old pal—who happens to have been among my very first students at Irvine Valley College back during the Reagan Administration! (Fall 1986)

Lovely wedding. Lovely bride. Nice tats. Took pics, but don't have the technology to show them here.

SLO is one of the great Cal towns. I'd love to stay and explore, but...

Gotta go. Stay cool!

The band: the excellent Tres Gatos

P.S.:

I was mystified by 100 Miles' comment, and then I got to thinking: Hmmm, Could it be that the word "tats" refers to something other than tattoos?

The Urban Dictionary gives two meanings: first, "tats" refers to tattoos. Second, "tats" is a synonym for, um, well, tits. (I did not know that.)

Actually, what I said works both ways, but I meant only the first. (Pace, M!)

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