After serving six years on Costa Mesa’s planning commission with two years as its chair, Robert Dickson, a senior paralegal with an emphasis in environment and land issues at the law firm Latham & Watkins thought his time with city service was over.
But he decided to run for the Costa Mesa City Council in the upcoming Nov. 8 election, he said, because he feels it has become too partisan with six out of its current seven members strongly identifying as Democrats.
“I hope that I win this race, but even if I lose, I think raising awareness of the issues that are causing a great deal of concern to my neighbors is important,” Dickson told The Epoch Times….