By MATTHEW FLEMING, OC Register
Here’s an unexpected result from the 2014 midterms:
Potential candidate for Orange County Supervisor, Garden Grove council member, Chris Phan. (Photo from the city of Garden Grove)
The potential for musical chairs on Orange County’s Board of Supervisors.
On Tuesday night, Supervisor Janet Nguyen won her bid to represent the 34th District in the California Senate. She’s replacing Lou Correa, who was termed out.
So guess who is expected to run for Nguyen’s job?
Correa.
And guess who Nguyen replaced when she got the county supervisor job back in 2007?
Again, Correa.
But Correa, a Democrat from Santa Ana, is only one of several expected to run for Nguyen’s seat.
Other potential candidates include Chris Phan, a Republican councilman from Garden Grove, who has already announced his intentions, and Nguyen’s former chief of staff, Andrew Do.
An election to fill Nguyen’s seat figures to be held in early 2015, and it will involve a broad swath of the county’s electorate. The 1st District includes Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Westminster and Fountain Valley.
According to County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley, a special election costs the county about $1.40 per voter. With some 216,000 voters in the district, the cost of filling the seat figures to be more than $300,000.
The supervisor job, which pays about $143,000, is part of a five-member board that oversees the county’s $5.4 billion budget, which pays for services like the Sheriff’s Department, the District Attorney’s Office, public health, mental health, parks, roads and other infrastructure.
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