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 nights 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. Governors 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
Tom might be, but the great majority of freepers ain't.
Quote of the Day
"When it comes to Angelides, it would be hard to single out his biggest liability because he's a walking Achilles heel... Arnold and his Karl Rove-trained wrecking crew will tear the guy apart, atom by atom... he won't know what hit him."
- - Democratic strategist Garry South, quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle, on Phil Angelides (D) chances against California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R). South worked for Steve Westly (D), the loser in this week's Democratic gubernatorial primary.
But do ignore there is a large undercurrent of dissatisfaction across party lines against your fair-haired boy.
I am full aware of the Democrat-Republican-Independent/Third Party demographics in this state, and you, like all RINOs, fall into the same trap of interpretting that as an indication that we have to have the most weak-kneed watered down empty suit as our candidate against the leftist extremist the Democrats put up.
I again have to remind you, in 2002, with little-to-no money from the party, the conservative Tom McClintock managed to bridge that demographic gap and came 0.3% points away from defeating the well-funded Steve Westly for Controller, while the more liberal Republican Bruce McPherson received the more attention and financial backing, but lost to the infamous Cruz Bustamante by a 7.4% margin.
So how much more pandering with Schwarzennedy will have to accomplish to get his negatives down amongst the coveted Democrats and independents? Enquiring minds want to know? :-)
GAAS:358:06
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
06/06/2006
Governor Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments:
Henry Aguilar... appointed to the California Council on Criminal Justice... no salary. Aguilar is a Republican.
Walter Allen... appointed to the California Council on Criminal Justice... no salary. Allen is a Republican.
Cliff Allenby... appointed to the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board. ... no salary. Allenby is registered decline-to-state.
John Avila... appointed to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training... no salary. Avila is a Republican.
Cheryl Bly-Chester... appointed to the State Mining and Geology Board. ... compensation is $100 per diem. Bly-Chester is a Republican.
Terri Carbaugh... appointed to the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board... compensation is $114,191. Carbaugh is a Democrat.
Connie DaMant... appointed assistant director of legislation at the Department of Aging... compensation is $74,064. DaMant is a Democrat.
Richard Friedman... appointed deputy director for the Division of Financial Assistance at the Department of Housing and Community Development... compensation is $121,572. Friedman is a Democrat.
Robert Garcia... appointed chief deputy director for the Department of Social Services.... compensation is $118,284. Garcia is registered decline-to-state.
Jeffrey Heller... appointed to the California Architects Board... compensation is $100 per diem. Heller is registered decline-to-state.
William Herms... appointed assistant director of legislation for the Department of Parks and Recreation... compensation is $95,000. Herms is a Democrat.
Jerry Lenthall... appointed to the California Council on Criminal Justice... no salary. Lenthall is a Republican.
Elizabeth Lopez... appointed to the California Service Corps... no salary. Lopez is registered decline-to-state.
Marilyn Lyon... appointed to the California Architects Board... compensation is $100 per diem. Lyon is a Republican.
Michael Merino... appointed to the California Architects Board... compensation is $100 per diem. Merino is a Republican.
Richard Oules... appointed to the California Council on Criminal Justice... no salary. Oules is a Republican.
Jerry Powers... appointed to the California Council on Criminal Justice... no salary. Powers is a Republican.
Michael Sobek... appointed to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training... no salary. Sobek is an American Independent.
Kristin Triepke... appointed deputy cabinet secretary in the Office of the Governor... compensation is $80,004. Triepke is a Democrat.
Josh Valdez... appointed to the Health Policy and Data Advisory Commission... compensation is $100 per diem. Valdez is a Republican.
Bill Zachry... appointed to the Fraud Assessment Commission... compensation is $100 per diem. Zachry is a Republican.
deputy cabinet secretary in the Office of the Governor... compensation is $80,004.
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Is this the gal that gets the coffee and donuts for everybody?
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the appointment of Preston DuFauchard as commissioner of the Department of Corporations.(snip)
DuFauchard most recently served as assistant general counsel for Bank of America, supervising securities litigation related to mergers, investment banking and broker dealer operations from 1997 to 2005. He was previously a partner in the law firm of Landels, Ripley and Diamond from 1995 to 1997 and the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison from 1992 to 1995. DuFauchard was an associate for Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison from 1984 to 1992. He has served as a member of the board of directors for the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco since 2003 and as a judge pro tem for Alameda County Small Claims Court since 1999.
DuFauchard, 49, of Oakland, earned a Juris Doctorate degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University. This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $123,255. DuFauchard is a Democrat.
When Maria speaks, Arnold listens?
Excuse me, I had to see who ran my doorbell. It was illegals looking for yardwork! I kid you not. Repeat, I'm dead serious!
Now, where was I....oh yes, I'm donating to Tom and I hope everyone else will too!
Good for him. I hope he has plenty of opportunity to influence the Governator.
ROFL! An hourly occurence in some areas.
In our area, since so many homes are empty during working hours, they actually have the nerve to have fancy brochures printed, advertising their yard maintenance businesses. The phone numbers are always NEXTEL cell phones.
I like the fancy brochures! These guys just had a knapsack on their back and a leafblower in their hands!
Have I mentioned how much I love the guy that invented the peephole for the front door?
So much for "open and honest".
The Austrian, too, is a weasel.
I look forward to hearing them debate.
Tom's calm sensibilities are irresistable, but you're right ~ it's not going to be a cakewalk.
Tom is running WITH Arnold, not against him.
Well good! Because some people on here just refuse to see what happened in the past and care even less about this discrepancy in the future! They just continue to try to tell us that McClintock is impossible to elect in this state.
Those of us who refuse to lie down in front of that statement like it was the steamroller of political fact, (which it certainly has never been) are then bored to tears with bilious browbeating till we just get fatigued from the ignorant barrage and go do something else till the bull smell clears from the politically polluted air! (so to speak)
I went back and read this again... and I'm sorry but I've become conditioned to believe this will all come to naught for Tom!!! The borrowing and spending mold growing old all over sillyassed Schwartzenegger's body is going to make this a mere daydream for Tom I'm afraid...
Whataya think? Maybe???
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