Democratic Club
by Mary Larson
LW contributor
In the latest available report from the Orange County Registrar of Voters, Leisure World Democrats and their supporters were still recorded as having cast 486 more “no on the recall” votes than LW Republicans and their supporters had cast for yes.
The vote in both Orange County and statewide was similar tothatinLeisureWorld. Turnout by Republicans fell well below expectations. Only about 4.5 million voted to recall Newsom.
••• The LW Demcractic Club will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at noon via Zoom. Plans for this meeting center on the current controversies surrounding the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
The featured speaker for the next meeting will be District 2 Supervisor Katrina Foley. She is the first Democrat woman elected to the Board of Supervisiors in Orange County. Foley became Costa Mesa’s first directly elected Mayor in November 2018. She was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2021 to fill the balance of a term vacated early when Republican Michelle Steel ran for Congress. Foley will be on the ballot again in June 2022.
••• The Democratic Club’s voter information booth located outside Clubhouse 6 will continue to be open on the first Tuesday of October, November and December from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
A legislative update that LW Democratic Club members should be aware of is that California legislators have passed Senate Bill 380, which would extend the life of and improve access to the End of Life Option Act. The governor has until Oct. 10 to sign the bill. The act, first implemented in 2016, gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less life expectancy the option to request a prescription for medication, that can be used to peacefully end their suffering.
LW Democrats should also be aware of the two environmental groups that have sued the Regional Water Quality Control Board over its decision to grant a permit for Poseidon Water’s desalination plant proposed for Huntington Beach.
••• LW Democrats and supporters who are interested in more in-depth, up-to-date reporting on the issues are invited to subscribe to the club’s free electronic newsletter. Email democraticclubsblw@gmail.com or call the editor, Mary Larson, at (562) 296-8521.
