Hard-Fought Orange County Supervisor Race Winds Down
Orange County Board of Supervisors candidates were gearing up for election night Tuesday night as officials prepared to count ballots.
With polls closing at 8 p.m., the Orange County Registrar of Voters will provide its first unofficial results announcement at 8:05 p.m., spokesperson Jackie Wu told The Epoch Times.
Candidates for the vacant District 2 seat include: Costa Mesa Valley Mayor Katrina Foley, Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo, Newport Beach Councilman Kevin Muldoon, former state senator John Moorlach, and tax attorney Janet Rappaport.
Moorlach, who is also a former District 2 senator, jokingly The Epoch Times that he was on “pins and needles” as far as the results, but added he has received plenty of election day support.
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.
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Like other cities in Orange County and around the world, Newport Beach is not alone in its experiences in a year shaped largely by the ongoing pandemic and sweeping shutdown orders.
The city saw beach closures, tragedy, new members of its City Council, a presidential visit, an agreement for a homeless shelter and the cancellation of a time-honored Christmas tradition as part of a number of events that rocked 2020.
Here are some of the top stories of Newport Beach in 2020:
A woman prays at a makeshift memorial for Lakers legend Kobe Bryant outside Pelican Crest, the gated community in Newport Coast where Bryant lived with his family. His daughter Gianna, 13, died with him in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.