Neel Before … Jerry Brown?
OK, technically Orange County’s sort-of-own Neel Kashkari just took out papers — what I call “pre-filing” and because OJB is the only outlet that pays attention to the Registrar of Voters Candidate Filing Logs with insane regularity, we of course have the story first. (At least Google didn’t say that anyone else has it first.) Even pre-filing costs money, and Kashkari did it today — and it’s the first evidence that he actually found his way to the Registrar of Voters office. And, by the way, it puts him ahead of Jerry Brown, who should either stop dithering and pre-file or just announce outright that he’s waiting until everyone else has unalterably committed to another race — and then inform us that his wife, Ann Gust Brown, will run instead. You read both here first! We OWN this story!
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
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