The 35th Senate District is set for a Special Election on April 11th. Diane Harkey is moving fast and hard toward a win.
You don’t have to take my word for it, Alicia Robinson is the political reporter at the Daily Pilot, the Newport Beach/Costa Mesa paper. She writes, "But while Dana Point City Councilwoman Diane Harkey has been showing her face at various city council meetings and racking up big-name endorsements, Huntington Beach Assemblyman Tom Harman’s campaign seems to be missing in action."
Harman’s response: "Right now I’d say it’s kind of the lull before the storm," With the election just 13 potentially unlucky weeks away, there is no lull. There is constant motion and non-stop fund raising.
Harkey, a Dana Point city councilwoman and super-successful businesswoman has already ponied up six-figures of her own money and pledged more as needed. She has also been 
endorsed by just about every major taxpayer group as well as the Orange County Young Republicans, OC Lincoln Club and now California Young Americans for Freedom according to a release sent by Cal-YAF chairman Brandon Powers (see attached release below).
Discounting a six-year incumbent legislator with sizable name ID would be bad strategy, and not something Harkey co-consultants Newport Beach based Scott Hart and Sacramento based GBW&A are doing (my research firm is polling for Harkey’s campaign). But clearly the momentum is moving in Harkey’s direction.