It took just shy of 15 hours between the time lurid recordings of now former Assemblyman Mike Duvall were played on network television and his abrupt resignation from office. Now the voters of the 72nd Assembly District will be facing an imminent special election to fill the vacancy in this seat, and as with most special elections, this race promises to be quote a donnybrook.
Let’s first “set the table” by making sure that FlashReport readers around California understand that the 72nd District may be one of the most conservative districts in the state. It’s heavily Republican and despite a decent showing by Barack Obama last year (where didn’t he have a good showing in California?), the voters of this inland, North Orange County seat are overwhelmingly conservative. A great many of the Democrats in this district are “Reagan Democrats” – so look for most of the action in this race to be on the GOP side of the isle. This despite the fact that in a special election like this, all of the candidates appear on the special primary ballot (probably to take place in November), with the top vote getters of each party going on to a special general election if no single candidate gets 50%+1 of the votes cast.
As of now there are two announced candidates on the Republican side of the isle (a number of others have been talked about, but have not committed to a run) – Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby who actually announced his candidacy just hours after Duvall resigned his office, and Republican National Committeewoman Linda Ackerman, who announced her candidacy late last week.
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September 21st, 2009 at 12:00 am
Dick Ackerman was a Richard Riordon clone, at best, when it came to gun rights. At a critical time for CA gunnies, Ackerman wasn’t a whole lotta help.
So I’d be glad to see his wife turn into toast against Norby. Norby’s been standing up for gunrights & CCW against Sheriff Hutchens and her OCSO Surveillance Sturm Troopers.
One of these days CA Republicans will actually want the gun vote enough to do something for us besides issuing nice “we support you” statements and a few No votes.
Time to starty carrying some achiveable bills, folks. The NRA and CRPA team would love to work with you in formulating *passable* incremental legislation. I’m hoping Chris Norby won’t change his stripes when he moves to the Assembly.
Bill Wiese
San Jose, CA