Yesterday, a fellow by the name of Anthony Stewart Pinkston pulled a signature-in-lieu petition for the 72nd Assembly District.  While obscure candidates often pull papers and even file, Pinkston’s candidacy seems a bit odd.

He has pinkstonforcal.com as his web site on the Registrar of Voters’s Candidate Filing Log, and the whois search on his web site’s domain name reveals that he registered pinkstonforcal.com on January 18, 2012, but it’s registered to a residence in Newport Beach, which is squarely in the 74th Assembly District.  Furthermore, Pinkston’s Facebook profile indicates that he lives in Newport Beach.  Why is a Newport Beach resident running for the 72nd District, which includes Westminster, Fountain Valley, Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Midway City, most of Garden Grove, half of Huntington Beach, and a sliver of Santa Ana?

I can’t recall a carpetbagging candidate who wasn’t at least a viable candidate.  We’ve all seen candidates with zero chance of winning run for office, but how often do we see them carpetbag?  Is Pinkston just a crazy carpetbagger, or is he someone’s carpetbagging stalking horse?