A typical state Assembly district includes about 400,000 people. So what are the odds that two major-party candidates would live three doors apart?

With this week's announcement by Camarillo Democrat Warren Harwood, a Pleasant Valley School District trustee, that he intends to run for the 37th Assembly District, it appears that could be the case in Ventura County next year.

Harwood lives three doors down from Republican Jeff Gorell, the only announced GOP candidate in the race.

Oddly, they do not know each other.

When I interviewed Harwood on Monday, I asked if he knew anything about Gorell. He replied that he knew him only by name.

Gorell said when he heard the news of Harwood's announcement today he suspected it could be his neighbor because he was that a neighbor, whose name he did not know, had run for school board last year. After some investigation, possibly over the back fence, his wife confirmed the suspicion.