OC Republican Leaders Split on Who Should Win Supervisor Race, With Voting to Start Soon
Feb. 1, 2021
From left: Republican county supervisors Don Wagner and Andrew Do are backing Kevin Muldoon for the supervisor s seat, while OC Republican Party Chairman Fred Whitaker and Supervisor Lisa Bartlett are backing John Moorlach. Do also has endorsed Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
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With voters set to start casting ballots in less than two weeks, a major split has emerged among Orange County’s top Republican leaders over who should win a hotly contested, coastal county supervisors’ seat.
SACRAMENTO As intensive care units filled and coronavirus cases surged over the holidays, Carmela Coyle invoked a World War II-era quote attributed to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to rally her own troops: If you re going through hell, keep going.
Coyle is head of the California Hospital Association, and her troops are the highly paid hospital executives she represents. Throughout the pandemic, as in the December memo in which she quoted Churchill, she has employed battlefield rhetoric to galvanize their massive political and financial clout.
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That s because Coyle believes hospitals are quite simply in battle conditions a sentiment she has impressed upon the state s top health care officials.
SACRAMENTO
As intensive care units filled and coronavirus cases surged over the holidays, Carmela Coyle invoked a World War II-era quote attributed to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to rally her own troops: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Coyle is head of the California Hospital Association, and her “troops” are the highly paid hospital executives she represents. Throughout the pandemic, as in the December memo in which she quoted Churchill, she has employed battlefield rhetoric to galvanize their massive political and financial clout.
That’s because Coyle believes hospitals are quite simply “in battle conditions” a sentiment she has impressed upon the state’s top healthcare officials.
California shed 52,200 jobs last month as virus cases surged
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Rogers, who has worked at San Jose Improv for decades, sprays on an artwork in his San Jose yard.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Steve Rogers, below, says having more time for his art has been an upside of losing work in the coronavirus pandemic. Above: The San Jose Improv employee works on a piece featuring the actress Awkwafina for his series “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.”Photos by Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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San Jose Improv employee Steve Rogers of San Jose holds a piece of art he made before affixing it to a spray-painted background.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less