Local News in Brief : Central County : Would-Be Nominees to Be Screened Today
Ten prospective candidates hoping to succeed the late Assemblyman Richard E. Longshore as the Republican nominee in the 72nd Assembly District will be publicly interviewed today by a special GOP blue-ribbon panel.
The seven-member committee, headed by state Sen. Edward R. Royce (R-Anaheim), will meet at 9 a.m. in the Lassen Room of the Doubletree Hotel in Orange.
Marcia Gilchrist, administrative assistant to Royce and also one of the seven committee members, said Friday that each of the 10 would-be GOP nominees will be allowed to speak for five minutes. After each candidate’s presentation, committee members will ask questions.
Later, Gilchrist said, members of the Orange County Republican Central Committee who may be in attendance will be allowed to speak briefly but not ask questions.
The Central Committee will select the party’s official candidate, Gilchrist said, in the following process: The blue-ribbon panel will meet at 6 p.m. July 21 at the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa to recommend a nominee to the Central Committee. The Central Committee will than meet at 8 p.m., in the same hotel on July 21, and take a final vote.
Longshore, of Santa Ana, died of pneumonia the day after he won the June 8 Republican primary in his district. He was first elected in 1986.
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