Posts Tagged: candidacy

The art of the concession speech

Stunned supporters of Hillary Clinton await her Election Night concession speech in November 2016. (Photo: YouTube)

by CHUCK MCFADDEN posted 06.12.2018

It’s an art form that no one wants to get really, really good at.  Perhaps that’s because no one wants to practice it. It starts with “…a few minutes ago, I telephoned…” You guessed it.  Concession speeches.

State Sen. Rod Wright, an Inglewood Democrat who once headed the powerful Governmental Organization Committee, was sentenced Friday to three months in jail and banned for life from holding public office for lying to the public and election officials about his true place of residence.