Just call this the follow-up to the follow-up on the breaking FlashReport news about Steve Danon’s foray into the 3rd District County Supervisorial race.
I just got off the phone with Danon.
The significant question, of course, was not whether he’s taken steps to run (which he clearly has — see the post of yesterday), it’s whether he will stay in, even if incumbent Supervisor Pam Slater-Price runs for a sixth term in 2012. Given her office’s comment earlier today that Danon told them he would only run if Slater-Price does not, as well as the clear ‘and she IS running’ statement, this story might have been short-lived.
But — and I mean that — here’s what Danon had to say:
"They misunderstood. I’m 100 percent in. I’m hearing from a lot of folks, who have encouraged me to run, that 20 years on the Board of Supervisors is more than enough."
Well, I would say that seems to clear things up pretty nicely.
Can you say dust-up? How about donnybrook? And, we all thought presidential races started early.
UPDATE: The UT polblog picks up the story, and gives credit to the FlashReport with a link to this post.
UPDATE 2: Slater-Price’s chief of staff reponds.