Michelle Steel won a seat in Congress last November, so now there is a special election to replace her on the OC Board of Supervisors, and voting ends March 9.
Orange County Supervisor Candidates Discuss Public Safety
With the race for the Orange County Board of Supervisors’ second district seat less than two weeks away, The Epoch Times reached out to the five candidates to ask how they would act as supervisor on some of the county’s biggest concerns.
Each candidate was asked, “How would you improve public safety?”
Kevin Muldoon
Newport Beach Mayor Pro Tem Kevin Muldoon said that if elected, he would work to make sure law enforcement personnel had the adequate tools to keep the county safe.
“I have a record of supporting law enforcement,” Muldoon said. “We must fully fund public safety and ensure that law enforcement personnel have the equipment and training they need to keep our neighborhoods safe.”
Orange County Supervisor Candidate Tests Positive for COVID-19
A frontrunner for the Orange County Board of Supervisor’s vacant District 2 seat has tested positive for COVID 19.
Former Sen. John Moorlach “has mild symptoms and remains in high spirits,” the Republican Party of Orange County said in a Feb. 24 email to its members.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Sen. Moorlach and his family during his recovery. … For the safety of his staff and volunteers, he will continue to lead his campaign remotely.”
Moorlach is among five candidates campaigning for the Board of Supervisor’s District 2 seat, which became available when former supervisor Michelle Steel was sworn into U.S. Congress Jan. 3.
Four running against John Moorlach for a seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors react to his testing positive for the coronavirus and open up about testing and vaccinations.
Good morning and welcome to the TimesOC newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Feb. 24. I’m Carol Cormaci, an editor new to this rotation with my colleagues, editor John Canalis and reporter Ben Brazil, to bring you the latest roundup of Orange County happenings.
It’s great news that, as of Saturday, Orange County hospitals had reported seeing a 45% reduction of COVID-19 patients arriving at their doorsteps over the previous two weeks. But the fits and starts of getting the vaccines to as many in the U.S. as possible, a promise most recently hindered by transportation issues caused by last week’s extreme weather conditions across the country’s heart, have been dispiriting to many.