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Olga Diaz is a U.S. politician. As of 2010 [update] , Diaz is a member of the Escondido City Council.
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Olga Diaz is a U.S. politician. As of 2010 [update] , Diaz is a member of the Escondido City Council.
Diaz graduated from Santa Clara University where she successfully got a Bachelor of Science and Commerce degree in public accounting. Following her graduation, she was wanted by a global accounting firm called PriceWaterhouseCoopers. She continued to serve her alma mater by doing Institutional Research for it. [1]
Diaz is a founding member of the Route 78 Rotary Club and a former member of the Escondido Sunrise Rotary Club. She owns two coffee shops in Escondido. [2] She no longer owns The Blue Mug.
Diaz is married to Neil Griffin, a former marine police lieutenant who is currently a crime novelist. They have four children. [3]
Although she has been a California resident her whole life, she is notable as the first Latina and a liberal Democrat elected to the generally conservative council. [4]
Diaz had unsuccessfully run in the 2006 city council election. [5] She won in November 2008 with support not only from urban areas with a liberal voting pattern, but also from affluent areas that normally vote for conservatives. [6]
Diaz's election to the council changed the majority position of the council on immigration issues. The Escondido City Council had become known as the "city without pity" for illegal immigrants. [7] But as a result of Diaz' election, discussions about implementing controversial immigration laws ended. [8]
In 2014 Diaz unsuccessfully ran against GOP incumbent mayor, Sam Abed, in Escondido's mayoral election. [9]
In 2020, Diaz ran for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. In the March 3 primary, she finished in third place with 26% of the vote, trailing incumbent Supervisor Kristen Gaspar and former Obama administration official Terra Lawson-Remer, who won the November general election. [10]
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