Voter Game Plan Part 4: What you need to know about the key Orange County races
Imperfect Paradise
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In the fourth installment of our Voter Game Plan series, we cover a number of hotly contested primary races in Orange County. These include races for jobs that determine how the county spends billions of taxpayer dollars, to another that oversees the county’s education system, serving nearly a half million students. Plus we dive deep into two OC races where multiple candidates are facing troubling allegations. LAist reporters Jill Replogle, Elly Yu and Yusra Farzan have been covering the OC primaries and join the show to share their reporting.
Content Advisory: This episode contains graphic imagery about workplace sexual harassment allegations against an Orange County candidate around the 25:11 mark. Listener discretion is advised.
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| 0:38.0 | You're listening to Inperfect Paradise I'm Nereida Moreno. |
| 0:43.2 | All month long on our voter game plan series, we've brought you highlights about the top |
| 0:47.5 | races for the June primary election. This week on the show, for the final installment in our series, |
| 0:53.2 | we're focused entirely on key races to watch in Orange County. |
| 0:58.7 | We'll cover hotly contested races for major positions that control how the county spends billions of taxpayer dollars, |
| 1:06.4 | a job that oversees an education system of nearly a half million students, |
| 1:10.7 | plus two races where troubling |
| 1:12.9 | allegations have been made against candidates. These jobs can be overlooked but hold a lot of power, |
| 1:18.7 | and there can be potential for abuse, especially when that power goes unchecked. |
| 1:23.6 | OC supervisor Doe used a secretive process to award millions to his daughter's nonprofit |
| 1:30.0 | without disclosing his family relationship. The voters, of course, have the ability to check that |
| 1:36.1 | power during an election. Joining us on Imperfect Paradise to discuss their coverage of the |
| 1:41.3 | OC races are reporters Jill Replagal, L.E.U. and Yusra Farsan. |
| 1:47.0 | We'll start with Jill, who is covering the three OC Board of Supervisors races. Hey, Jill. |
| 1:52.2 | Hello. |
| 1:53.4 | Jill, what does the Board of Supervisors do? |
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