Donald P. Wagner

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Don Wagner
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Chair of the Orange County Board of Supervisors
Assumed office
January 10, 2023
California's 68th State Assembly district election, 2014
Primary election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Donald P. Wagner (incumbent)35,22369.7
Democratic Anne Cameron15,29730.3
Total votes50,520 100.0
General election
Republican Donald P. Wagner (incumbent) 66,445 68.4
Democratic Anne Cameron30,74931.6
Total votes97,194 100.0
Republican hold

Orange County Board of Supervisors

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Supervisor Wagner successfully brought together four large entities to negotiate the reopening of a public resource known as Irvine Lake for shoreline fishing. [5] The Orange County Register named him one of OC's Most Influential People in 2019 in recognition for his leadership at the Board. [6] Wagner stated public safety is also a top priority of his. In 2020, he identified and allocated funding to process a 30-year sexual assault kit backlog at the County of Orange, which led to the prosecution of a longtime sex offender and several individuals placed on national sex offender registries. The County had over 1,500 unprocessed rape kits and is set to complete testing by the fall of 2021. [7]

Orange County Board of Supervisors 3rd district special election, 2019 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Donald P. Wagner 30,240 42.0
Democratic Loretta Sanchez 26,70837.1
Republican Kristine "Kris" Murray5,3387.4
Republican Larry Bales3,9125.4
Republican Deborah Pauly3,8475.3
Republican Kim-Thy "Katie" Hoang Bayliss1,3661.9
Republican Katherine Daigle5970.8
Total votes72,008 100.0
Republican hold
Orange County Board of Supervisors 3rd district, 2020 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Donald P. Wagner (incumbent) 80,544 52.3
Democratic Ashleigh Aitken 73,33447.7
Total votes153,878 100.0
Republican hold

Political ratings

COVID-19 vaccine comments

In April 2021, Wagner inquired about whether COVID-19 vaccines contained "tracking devices" in response to constituents and public commentators making claims falsely asserting so. This led to public controversy with people accusing Wagner of promoting these claims. In response, Wagner has denied that this was the case and stated that he does not believe in "vaccine conspiracies," while demanding retractions from various media outlets and individuals for publishing what he asserted was "misinformation." Several media outlets later updated their stories by verifying sources, including a quote from Dr. Chau, who made a clarifying statement that his reaction was at the public commentators and not at Wagner. [12] [13] [14] [15]

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  2. 1 2 "Municipal Election History 1971 to Present". Irvine City Clerk's Office. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "2010 primary" (PDF). elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov.
  4. ↑ Sacramento Bee, California Assembly General election results Archived November 6, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Everybody's happy today: Irvine lake reopens to public
  6. ↑ Most Influential: Meet Orange County's 100 top influencers for 2019
  7. ↑ O.C. moves to clear backlog of unprocessed rape kits
  8. ↑ "Election Results Archives - Third Supervisorial District Vacancy Election - March 12, 2019". Orange County Registrar of Voters.
  9. ↑ https://www.ocvote.gov/sites/default/files/elections/pri2020/data/sov-web.pdf
  10. ↑ "Assembly Member Donald P Wagner (CA)". vote-smart.org. Project Vote Smart . Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  11. ↑ "NRA-PVF | California". nrapvf.org. NRA-PVF. Archived from the original on November 4, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  12. ↑ "'There is not ... period': Doctor tells California official there's no tracking device in Covid shot". NBC News . 29 April 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  13. ↑ "To @thedailybeast, @HuffPost, @TheWrap, @bubbaprog — Dr. Chau and I request a public retraction of the misinformation and a clear explanation of our positions. We are concerned your sensational stories may cause some individuals to further avoid the vaccine". Twitter . 29 April 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  14. ↑ "Was an Orange County Supervisor Seriously Concerned About Vaccine 'Tracking Devices'?". SNOPES . 29 April 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  15. ↑ "Orange County official asks doctor about vaccine tracking device to debunk conspiracy theory". The Hill . 29 April 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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