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Personal Ambition in Politics Can Do More Harm Than Good

Personal Ambition in Politics Can Do More Harm Than Good
A voter completes a mail-in ballot at a Ballot Party at a private residence in Laguna Niguel, Calif., on Oct. 24, 2018. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
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The demographics of Orange County are certainly changing. This once conservative stronghold is moving from a strong red to a shade of purple. So, when someone does something that can move it to blue and those individuals are in the Republican Party, others are bound to react or intervene. And in the past week the family fight went to Republican insiders, with shots being fired from all directions.

John Moorlach
John Moorlach
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John Moorlach is the director of the California Policy Center's Center for Public Accountability. He has served as a California State Senator and Orange County Supervisor and Treasurer-Tax Collector. In 1994, he predicted the County's bankruptcy and participated in restoring and reforming the sixth most populated county in the nation.
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