Rusty Strait | Senior Reporter
Yogi Berra would be dancing at the ballot boxes if he were around today because, up and down the ballot, it will be déjà vu all over again in November around Southern California. There will be so many run-off elections you would think Diamond Valley Lake was overflowing. I attended one of those down to the last vote election night parties tossed on election night by Riverside County Fifty District Supervisor Jeff Hewitt in Calimesa, along with two members of the Hemet City Council, neither of whom are running for anything at the moment.
There were candidates and elected officials from other districts who showed up to support Jeff as the television screen was set up to reveal election results. There were cheers and lots of hoopla with each result. Late in the evening, Hewitt and Guittierez were in a virtual tie and apparently headed for a run-off in November.
The current Fifth District Supervisor and the Mayor of Moreno Valley will be going at it this fall. Gutierrez, Mayor of Moreno Valley (with a war chest of several hundred thousand dollars), will duke it out with Hewitt, the current Fifth District Supervisor who doesn’t begin to have that kind of campaign financing but has a lot of door to door support. Will money win or will “what you see, is what you get” going to prevail for a second time around the Libertarian candidate who happens to be the incumbent? That was the discussion going on at Hewitt’s election night party.
If enthusiasm voted, there would be no doubt. However, you, the lowly voter out there in the boonies, will be the final judge. We, at the Hemet/San Jacinto Chronicle, take no sides. May the winner take all and neither come away with nothing more than superficial damages. Just sayin’
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