How Jim Righiemer Lost the Election

Here's the election results for the 2010 Costa Mesa city council elections.

JIM RIGHEIMER 12,997 31.7% WENDY LEECE 11,572 28.2% CHRIS MCEVOY 10,846 26.4% SUE LESTER 3,881 9.5% CHAD W PETSCHL 1,721 4.2%

Now, looking at the numbers it's pretty clear that more citizens voted against Jim Righiemer than for him. Jim actually lost the election.

That must be bother him. One way he seems to cope with this rejection is to focus on a single bit of information. In his words "Don't rewrite history. More than $200,000 was spent to discredit me in the past election. Most of it by the police association and the fire dept union". The first three words are telling. Jim believes that the voters of Costa Mesa just didn't know the truth, that there were lied to and just couldn't think for themselves.