Countywide : Roth Expected to Reveal Plans for Reelection

Orange County Supervisor Don R. Roth is expected to announce tonight that he will run for reelection next year in the 4th District.

The 67-year-old Roth, who was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1986, is expected to make the announcement at a $125-a-person cocktail party at Disneyland Hotel. Most political observers say they believe Roth will not be opposed in the June, 1990, election.

Roth, a former Anaheim mayor, is one of three supervisors whose terms will expire next year. Supervisor Harriett M. Wieder had already announced that she will seek a fourth term on the board. But Supervisor Thomas F. Riley, the current board chairman, remains undecided about his political future.

Roth is a member of the Orange County Transit District board, the Local Agency Formation Commission and the county’s Sanitation District board. His district includes Anaheim, most of Orange, La Palma, Buena Park and some unincorporated pockets.

He also serves on the California-Nevada Super-Speed Ground Transportation Commission, a 16-member commission created in 1988 by the two states’ legislatures to see whether a high-speed train link with Las Vegas is feasible. Roth and the city of Anaheim are vigorously seeking to have Anaheim chosen as the California starting point for such a rail line.