Liberals vs. Corporate Masters

My knowledge of Sonoma's five county supervisors is limited. Each makes around $130,000 a year and has one employee, which makes them job creators. All five are Democrats--this is a blue county--and three of the five are progressives. The other two are Corporate Masters. You can tell which is which by whether they talk with unions or try to destroy them. It's unusual for the liberals to be a majority, and the next election may change that.

To some extent this might depend on the fate of Supervisor Efren Carrillo, who was caught with his pants down, literally, by the police while drunk, pathetic and apparently about to break into the home of a young woman not interested in him.  Carrillo is a Corporate Master. If he goes to jail, I figure his seat will be up for grabs, much like his underwear.

Mike McGuire, one of the three supervisors who respect unions, is running for the state senate, and he will win. That leaves a  supervisor's seat open. At least five candidates are in the open primary, including Healdsburg City Council Member Tom Chambers, a centrist independent Democrat who rides a good bicycle, Deb Fudge, a long-time liberal office holder who once lost an election for this post by a few hundred votes, and James Gore, a former Washington wine lobbyist, who may be Fudge's main opposition. Fudge has the backing of many Democratic incumbents, and Gore has the backing (I assume) of the county wine barons, the anti-union folks, and the anti-science voters. Gore has refused to take a position on fluoridated water. Perhaps he hopes that if the liberals' teeth fall out, gumming food will weaken their will to vote. 

At stake is which camp will have the majority of supervisors in the county. The Republicans will pour money and influence into the campaign, hoping to get corporate newspaper endorsements, hoping to elect their favorite Democrats. That's how they roll in these semi-rural parts.