All the ballots have been counted in the 37th Senate District special election, and former Supervisor John Moorlach is the winner. Either Moorlach or Assemblyman Don Wagner had to garner 50%-plus-1 to win the election outright and avoid a May run-off. Moorlach inched over that threshold after the final update on Election Night with 50.4 percent of the vote. There ...

The unofficial final results are in and (barring the highly improbable) former OC Supervisor John Moorlach has defeated Assemblyman Don Wagner, 50.4% to 44.1%: Moorlach raised a competitive warchest, but was out-raised and out-mailed by Wagner. However, 20 years as a county elected office gave Moorlach a significant voter recognition advantage district-wide, magnified by the compressed time-frame of a special ...

This came over the transom from the Don Wagner for Senate campaign: Friends,  Tomorrow is a big day for Team Wagner and I hope you’ll join me in being a part of it.  With only a few days to go before the special election on Tuesday, this is one of our last opportunities to take Don’s message of limited-government conservatism ...

Less than a week to go until the March 17 special election for the 37th Senate District, and the mail continues to pour in. Former OC Supervisor John Moorlach continues to be pounded by independent expenditure mailers. The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association IE Committee send out two mailers in the last couple of days.  This hit piece:     ...

The Mail Keeps Coming According to the OC Registrar of voters, 48, 389 vote-by-mail ballots have been returned, out of 260,063 VBMs issued to date. Keep in mind, VBMs will likely account for 70% of the ballots cast in the special election for the 37th Senate District. And so the mail keeps coming in.  On Saturday, we received this mailer from ...

Another day, another round of updates on the 37th Senate District special election… National Rifle Association Endorses Don Wagner The Wagner for Senate campaign today announced the National Rifle Association has endorsed Assemblyman Wagner’s candidacy: NRA ENDORSES WAGNER FOR STATE SENATE Encourages members to support the “Gun owners choice” for SD 37 IRVINE – The National Rifle Association (NRA) has ...

Another independent expenditure landed in 37th Senate District mailboxes yesterday:   This mailer is from the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association Independent Expenditure Committee (which so far has spent $29,875 on this race) and the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (AOCDS) IE Committee (which has spent $14,965 thus far). The bad blood between Moorlach and the AOCDS goes back ...

Two more mail pieces arrived at Casa Cunningham on Saturday: one from the Wagner campaign and one from the Moorlach campaign (our first voter contact from his campaign):             Here is the Wagner piece:           Both comparison pieces lead with endorsements from a Republican group and tout their respective conservative stances and ...

Where do things stand in the special election for the vacant 37th Senate District seat (which includes Anaheim west of the 57 Freeway)? Thus far, the communication to voters has come almost totally from the Don Wagner for Senate campaign in the form of mail, phone banking, precinct walking and cable TV advertising. Although vote-by-mail ballots went out almost two ...

This came over the transom from the Don Wagner for Senate campaign: IRVINE LEADERS UNITE BEHIND WAGNER’S STATE SENATE BID Council Majority Backs Wagner Over Moorlach IRVINE – Irvine Mayor Steven Choi, Mayor Pro Tem Jeff Lalloway and Councilwoman Christina Shea announced today their support of Assemblyman Don Wagner’s campaign for State Senate. “As a longtime resident of Irvine, Don ...