CANDIDATE STATEMENT

ORANGE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT DIRECTOR, DIVISION 5
LESLIE DAIGLE       AGE: 52

Businesswoman/City Councilwoman

Our demoralizing drought requires that our water board spend its time and energy on its core mission: Assuring that Newport Beach and Irvine will have abundant, clean and affordable water. Conservation is commendable, but a strategy based on scarcity won't meet our area's growing water needs. Board members should be a voice and force for new water sources.

The drought requires us to get back to basics. I will stop the board from spending time and your money on other things like wasteful, frivolous, and costly lawsuits, or pursuing the construction of a power plant near a residential area.

No candidate can match my record on water issues critical to maintaining our economic and environmental quality of life. During my ten years on the city council, I have been a non-partisan champion of successful, multi-agency projects to improve water quality in Upper Newport Bay, Newport Harbor and along our coast.

I am endorsed by the Mayors of Irvine and Newport Beach.

My leadership has been acknowledged by public officials as diverse as Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein and Republican Congressman Ken Calvert for my work to clean up surface water facilities.

It's time for a change. I ask for your vote.