Leslie Daigle Fights For Her RIGHT To Be Mayor

According to my super scientific survey, it's a tie between current Mayor Ed Selich and current Mayor Pro-Tem Leslie Daigle for Newport Beach's next appointed mayor.

So the Daily Pilot has weighed in with their own article about Daigle possibly being passed over for the Big Seat too now. Here's my previous take as well.

Well...according to even Daigle herself, she's already assuming that she's going to be passed over.

“It is ironic that while nationally, young and/or women elected officials are advancing, just the opposite may be happening in Newport Beach,” Daigle said.

Of course Daigle is saying this after being a Planning Commissioner for ONE (maybe TWO) meetings before getting Appointed to the Dais over many, many other MALE City's Leaders ...most of which who were (and still are) fixtures in Newport Beach's Business (President of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce) and Political (Planning Commissioner, Parks Beaches and Recreation Commissioner) activities.

It's fascinating that Newport Beach's last female Mayor Jan DeBay says that she,

"...doesn’t think the so-called glass ceiling is holding Daigle back"

While Former Mayor Evelyn Hart was more...delicate about this issue by suggesting that a Mayor needs two years (in reference to another 1 year Mayor Selich term) to get anything worthwhile done.

“I think that Leslie Daigle would make a fine mayor; however, I do see some real advantages of having a mayor for two years,” Hart said. “If a mayor wants to try to really accomplish something, there’s no way they would be able to do something in one year’s time, so I think I see more of an advantage of having a two-year mayor.”

But I don't remember her, or anyone else for that matter, saying this when Steve Rosansky was Mayor, when Don Webb was Mayor, when John Heffernan was Mayor...

So Daigle the Great continues by saying...

“We have a time-honored tradition of rotation,” Daigle said. “Whether the mayor has done a good job or bad job, this is our system.”

Interesting how Daigle considers it her RIGHT to be the next Mayor as opposed to a PRIVILEGE.

And I'm not too sure the City of Newport Beach should have someone in the Big Seat who feels as though it's her RIGHT to be Mayor.