Moreno gets most votes in last 10 years but second worst percentage and Daly also got most votes.

The party and (to a lesser extent) the unions overlooked the race after Norby stomped her in the primary (in which she didn’t actively compete.) She had to prove herself to them over and over — until the combination of Loretta Sanchez’s influence and Quirk-Silva’s own hard work led the Speaker’s office to take its own poll — and lo and behold Sharon they found really did have the good chance to win that she had claimed. Quirk-Silva’s campaign had set the stage, then came the IEs and the paid-walkers and they just worked their butts off to close the deal. (All those new registered voters helped.)

While I was in the middle of the online wars regarding the campaign, I’m still puzzled by them. The FFFF blog never seemed to make SQS a priority — perhaps in part because they were so focused on Jan Flory and because I was serving as even more of a lightning rod than I had intended. I don’t know if Tony Bushala just abandoned Norby or what, but he did not bring his online A-game. (I have my suspicion, but I’m not going to share it.)

I’ll say one thing for Norby: he would not have dismissed Quirk-Silva as “a political neophyte, whose claim to fame was socks for the homeless.” You have to be pretty tuned out to think that about Sharon.

If it makes people feel better to think that this was just a bad GOP candidate, though; that’s fine with me. Your hubris is my gain. This is naturally a Democratic district — and with Sharon organizing it now, working as hard as she did during the campaign, it’s going to stay that way. (You’ll always have Coto!)

Norby’s sole mission as a supervisor was to blindly vote to hand over El Toro to the City of Irvine with no questions asked and no strings attached. Never mind, that every single city in Norby’s district soundly defeated the phony “Great Park” measure. Since he got 80% of his donations from South County denizens, his loyalty was only to them, not his new constituents. He could care less about creating jobs for his constituents.(El Toro Airport would have created 100,000 direct and indirect jobs.) Perhaps that is why he now is out of a job. He can now feel what his angry constituents have felt for years.

Myopic South Orange County NIMBYs did not just kill a chance for economic stimulus and air transportation improvements for Orange County, they have also infected the entire state of California with the norby.exe virus they created. They picked a RINO who had a lot of questionable character flaws. Sure enough he was vulnerable to eventually being picked off by tax hungry Democrats, which just happened. Thanks to South County puppet RINO Chris Norby losing what was a very safe Republican assembly seat and being the last line of defense against tax hungry Democrats, they now have a super majority for non-stop tax increases. Even if Jerry Brown tries to show some rare fiscal prudence, his vetoes will be overridden by Democratic super majority with absolutely no checks on their power.

Who ran the campaign. It appeared to most, if not all (except for Greg Diamond) that it was Chris’ race to lose.

That’s what he did.

I am stunned! I find the arrogance of his campaign to be representitive of EVERYTHING that is wrong in politics. He had experience, the name recognition, the machine, yet he got beaten by a political neophyte, whose claim to fame was socks for the homeless????

It boils down to this: Either Chris Norby was clueless or his campaign advisors incompent. I don’t know, perhaps he had out of town advisors who didn’t understand the district, maybe they were inexperienced, perhaps it was fraud.

But he blew this. Plain and simple.