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Posted on 06/07/2006 11:00:04 PM PDT by calif_reaganite
June 7, 2006
Dear Friend,
From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you for all that you have done on behalf of my candidacy for the office of Lt. Governor. Last night’s election was a resounding victory for our campaign, making it the top vote-getter on the Republican ticket, and placing us in a commanding position against John Garamendi. Garamendi narrowly won the Democratic nomination after a bitter and expensive primary election. He enters the general election behind in the polls and flat broke. By contrast I enjoy an 11-point advantage in net voter approval according to the Field Poll and begin the campaign with $1.5 million in the bank thanks to 33,000 individual donors.
I have never begun a contested general election with such a lead and I am very grateful for everything you did to get us there. For the first time in 28 years we have a strong likelihood of restoring the Lt. Governor’s office to Republican stewardship. It is my intention to use the office as the powerful engine for policy reform that it once was, amplifying and articulating the Republican policies of the Schwarzenegger administration and pressing comprehensive plans to bring state spending under control.
Meanwhile, never in my lifetime has there been a clearer choice to be decided by the people of California – a choice between a leadership team with a proven record of reducing the taxes and regulations that are crushing working families and a leadership team with a proven record of increasing those burdens.
Nevertheless, I expect it to be a rough and difficult race. Garamendi savaged Jackie Speier in the primary and I expect him to do the same to me in the general election. But I take great confidence in the fact that the Field poll reports that I have the highest level of opposition party support of any statewide candidate. There is no doubt that the policies and principles that you and I share – and that form the foundation of this campaign – resonate across a wide political spectrum of California voters, including a great many rank and file Democrats and Independents.
I have found that they are just as sick and tired as we are of rampant illegal immigration, of local officials seizing our homes for the private profit of their politically well-connected friends, of environmental extremists offering only the rationing of shortages and miseries, and the endless calls for tax increases to feed the insatiable appetites of union bosses.
And I will do everything that I can to rally them to the Republican vision of secure borders, of a renewal of our traditional American rights, of abundance and economic opportunity and, in a word, of freedom.
To do so, I will need your continued support.
Here are three ways you can help:
1. Please consider contributing $200, $100 or whatever you can afford online at http://www.helptom.com/donate.htm. This is truly a grassroots race that will rise and fall with your support.
2. Our donor base is already the biggest of any statewide candidate. You can help strengthen it further by having your friends and relatives contribute to our campaign.
3. The Internet is a tremendous resource for our grassroots efforts. Please send this email out to 10 of your friends and encourage them to sign up for the E-Team online at http://www.helptom.com
Once again, thank you for your sacrifices and dedication to our cause. I am looking forward to working closely with you as this great debate over the future of California begins in earnest.
Best wishes, Tom McClintock
McClintock BUMP
Woo hoo!! Go McClintock!!
Tom McClintock is a good man. Way to go!
All right, let's get him in next to the Governor!
Tom McClintock is a great man and will go on to accomplish great things for the people of California. I'm sending in my donation.
TOKEN OR UNCONTESTED RACES * Tom McClintock 1,423,175 93.7% * Arnold Schwarzenegger 1,394,365 89.9% * Bruce Mc Pherson 1,288,251 100.0% * Richard "Dick" Mountjoy 1,272,501 100.0% * Chuck Poochigian 1,262,358 100.0% * Steve Poizner 1,235,986 100.0% CONTESTED RACES * Claude Parrish 739,858 56.1% * Tony Strickland 553,635 40.2% LOSERS OF CONTESTED RACES Keith S. Richman 579,964 43.9% Abel Maldonado 510,311 37.1%
* Tom McClintock 1,423,175 93.7%
* Arnold Schwarzenegger 1,394,365 89.9%
Sigh.. if only he'd had more votes than Arnold last time...
Go Tom! ~ Go Arnold!
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Who found it necessary to write Richard "Dick" Mountjoy?
That's the way it's always been on the Secretary of State's site, and that's how it was labelled on the ballot.
Very encouraging results from CA.
BTTT
Touting the fact, that McClintock got a few more votes than Arnold in the Republican primary qualifies for "the most ridiculous item of the day" -- and continuing to post it as evidence of something, is even more ridiculous. This is only in a PRIMARY, among REPUBLICANS and it doesn't change the fact that Republicans are vastly outnumbered in CA, and nobody can get elected to a statewide office without votes from Independents and Dems.
I won't even get into the details, that Arnold had three people running against him in the R primary, each of which got around 3 % -- many of them probably from the "protest votes" of FReepers from right here, and McClintock had ONE opponent, and some close to 10% of the Republicans voted for that guy.
For the record, I did vote for McClintock -- I think protest votes are counterproductive.
So touting that McClintock got a few more votes in the R primary than Arnold is ludicrous, and it's not doing any good for McClintock either.
What you need to focus on is how to get independents and Dems voting for Arnold and McClintock so they can win in November. I am posting the demographics again, for those who insist on ignoring REALITY in CA.
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CALIFORNIA VOTER AND PARTY PROFILES
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/JTF_VoterProfilesJTF.pdf
"The Democratic Party currently has an advantage of 1.4 million voters over the Republican Party (7.1 million to 5.7 million) or 9 percentage points (43% to 34%), according to the Secretary of State.
Among those most likely to vote in this year’s elections, Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 7-point margin (44% to 37%), while 15 percent of likely voters are registered as independents.
... the fact that independents are more likely to lean toward Democrats than Republicans (42% to 28%) tends to work to the disadvantage of the GOP in statewide elections."
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"It is my intention to use the office as the powerful engine for policy reform that it once was, amplifying and articulating the Republican policies of the Schwarzenegger administration and pressing comprehensive plans to bring state spending under control."
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Thanks for highlighting it, doodlelady. For the umpteenth time for the "tone-deaf": TOM IS SUPPORTING ARNOLD AND IS RUNNING WITH ARNOLD.
Tom could have it tough against Garamendi who is a well-known and well-liked Democrat.
Who's touting anything? Pointing out that people voted for McClintock but voted against Arnold is significant, and I don't particularly care if its "good" for either of them. Ridiculous would have been comparing the # of Dem voters in this election to the # of Rep voters in this election since their votes are uncorrelated being a primary. But the number of Rep voters is fixed for these results, so if more voted for McClintock than Arnold, it says something.
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