After serving six years on Costa Mesa’s planning commission with two years as its chair, Robert Dickson, a senior paralegal with an emphasis in environment and land issues at the law firm Latham & Watkins thought his time with city service was over.
But he decided to run for the Costa Mesa City Council in the upcoming Nov. 8 election, he said, because he feels it has become too partisan with six out of its current seven members strongly identifying as Democrats.
