Alameda County supervisor Haggerty leaves GOP

[RandySF]

http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/10/alameda-county-supervisor-haggerty-leaves-gop/

Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty of Dublin has switched his party registration from Republican to Democrat. He handed in his new registration card at the annual Alameda County Labor Council BBQ over Labor Day weekend.

To those who know Haggerty, this is not a major ideological shift. He is a well-known moderate.

The move also puts him in a far better political position to run for higher office one day. No Republican holds a partisan elected seat anywhere in the Bay Area and Haggerty has expressed interest in the past in running for the state Assembly.

[demosincebirth]

1. How did he get elected in this democratic stronhold? is beyond me.

[damntexdem]

2. When I moved to San Francisco, there was a GOP state senator for my district.

He was more liberal than his Dem opponent in the first election I was there -- so I voted for him. And he switched to the Dem party during the ensuing term.

On the other hand, arch-conservative Quentin Kopp always ran as an independent in partisan elections (this was back in the 1980s).

[marmar]

3. Alameda County had a Repug supervisor? Sometimes the world makes no sense.

n/t

[RandySF]

4. Dublin is not San Francisco or Oakland.