Biggest Loser: Tom Wilson

I know its a bit early for a winners/losers piece but I just couldn't wait to proclaim Supervisor Wilson the biggest loser of this campaign.

Everyone knew Cassie DeYoung was going to lose.  So no surprise there.  And apparently she is so rich that the several million she spent really doesn't mean anything to her family.

But Tom Wilson lost big.  He refused to endorse Pat Bates and then danced the whole night long with Cassie without ever officially endorsing her.  But posing in pictures with outfit changes, long walks on the beach gazing into one anothers eyes was ok with him.

I don't discount Tom Wilson's services on the Board of Supervisors nor his role in helping to defeat the airport (although Spitzer did a lot more to kill it than Wilson).  However, I am very glad to see Wilson go and replaced by such a great policy maker and all around likable candidate like Pat Bates.

Supervisor Wilson, you have ended your career on the Board much in the way you started and served.  With a certain ambiguous approach to public policy and political campaigns.  One that produced unremarkable results.

Comments

[Rudat's a loser too isn't she?]

Can't you make Tom Wilson and Carol Rudat Co-Biggest losers?

[Santa Ana Police & Fire Unions Lose Big!]

The Santa Ana Police and Fire Unions are having a VERY tough time getting candidates elected in that city. They will only have supported two out seven councilmembers once Solorio moves to the Assembly. Might be a good time for contract negotiations!! I don't think future candidates will worry about getting those endorsements!

[Thomas A Gordon]

The police & fire endorsements are just "political payback" in return for taxpayer giveaways.

Michelle Martinez and Sal Tinajero won without the endorsements, hate mail, or abuse of the public trust.

[Laer]

How about Tom, Rudat and the enviro/greenie factions? They couldn't pass X, they lost Huntington Beach and Newport Beach, and the stalwarts who aren't afraid of development, like Bankhead in Fullerton and Moore in Brea, win big.

[Comandante Agi]

don't forget about Don Rumsfeld!

[Hanna]

According to the Daily Pilot, Wilson did support DeYoung which, really is his prerogative.

http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2006/11/07/politics/dpt-suprace07.txt

Wilson has thrown his support to DeYoung, with whom he worked on environmental issues as a member of the Orange County Coastal Coalition, a group of local elected officials, which he founded, and against a commercial airport at the former U. S. Marine Air Base in El Toro.