Tom McClintock is a self-aggrandizing, pompous _______!!!
Posted on 10/01/2003 3:26:45 PM PDT by South40
Gubernatorial candidate pays a visit to Sun City
Despite running behind schedule, Republican gubernatorial candidate and State Sen. Tom McClintock showed up at Sun City Roseville on Monday evening, keeping his promise.
Rumors continue, speculating McClintock will drop out of the race and lend his support to Arnold Schwarzenegger, currently the front-runner in the recall election, which takes place Tuesday.
McClintock assured Sun City Republicans he would remain in the race for governor despite his position in the polls.
“It’s a commitment I ma-de from day one,” he said. “I intend to stay on that course.”
At first it didn’t appear McClintock would show for his 6:45 p.m. appearance.
He had a previous enga-gement in Lo-di. But at 7:15 p.m. Lisa Buescher, his deputy campaign manager, appeared to announce he was tied up in traffic and was on his way.
Nearly an hour after his scheduled appearance, McClintock was in the building.
While waiting, Sun City Republican President Carole Vallencourt conducted an open forum with the audience. Comments ranged from one person questioning why the former surgeon general is supporting Proposition 54, to another commenting they didn’t want to wake up with Cruz Bustamante as governor.
Another person was accusing the Republicans of going for a celebrity. Earlier in the day the state GOP voted to endorse Schwarzenegger.
Once on board at the Sun City Roseville Lodge Ballroom, where a good share of the 357 members of Sun City Republicans were waiting, McClintock explained his plans for California. He warned there is a common sense of danger in the state, one of a crisis.
“I look back when the state was a land of opportunity,” he said. “I lived there, you lived there. It’s our generation’s responsibility to get that state back.”
He talked to the crowd and answered questions, departing after about a half hour stay.
Sun City resident Alan Campbell felt the visit was beneficial.
“He clarified a lot of things,” Campbell said. “He is a man of principle, integrity, knowledgeable, and firmly believes he can win the election. Based on his principles, I feel when the truth is there the right things will bet done.”
Betty Mefmier sees a man who can take charge. “At his point we need a true leader, someone that can straighten this state out,” said Betty Mefmier.
McClintock may get the vote of Tom Schlarb. “He was honest, direct, candid and didn’t deviate from any of the questions,” Schlarb said.
McClintock accused Gov. Gray Davis of allowing government spending to explode by 40 percent over the past four years, saying the state has failed massively in every field for which is it responsible, causing the state’s economic downfall.
“We have an opportunity in eight days to restore that land of opportunity,” he said.
McClintock said he would lower the vehicle tax on his first day in office. He notes that the Davis administration tripled the vehicle license fee in June without legislative approval.
On the same day, McClintock said he would void the electrical contracts Davis got the state into and bring the price of electricity down to more reasonable levels.
He would also recommended lowering California’s worker’s compensation cost and replacing it with a program like Arizona.
“Those can be done before lunch on the first morning in office,” he said.
McClintock said California has the highest worker’s compensation cost in the nation, while Arizona has one that works and costs one-third less that California’s.
He has pledged to call a special session of the legislature and give it 30 days to pass Arizona’s worker’s compensation law, slashing worker’s comp costs by two-thirds and reversing the flow of jobs across the state line.
“I’d swap Arizona’s workers compensation plan and replace California’s with it,” he said.
McClintock said he has the highest “net positive” of any of the major candidates on the ballot, meaning people agree that he is the most capable person to become governor. But he can’t win if people are not voting for him.
“A vast majority of people prefer me, but don’t think I can win,” he said. “That’s what puts us in a ‘Catch 22’ situation. The only appeal I make is to vote your conscious.”
He deserves all the ridicule he gets and more.
Stone me.
McClintock said he has the highest “net positive” of any of the major candidates on the ballot, meaning people agree that he is the most capable person to become governor. But he can’t win if people are not voting for him.
“A vast majority of people prefer me, but don’t think I can win,” he said. “That’s what puts us in a ‘Catch 22’ situation. The only appeal I make is to vote your conscious.”
Boy this Campbell is delusional.
What principles, he is lying like a McClinton. His integrity is in the toilet.
Tom McClintock is a self-aggrandizing, pompous _______!!!
Apparently, you took care of that already.
Gee wiz, Tom comes off as staying the course here, but you (R)nold Groupies shouldn't feel left out at all.
Your guy is right on course as well!
If you don't mind my saying so.
Exactly!
And enough of you Schwarzenheads have whizzed on my boots about MacClintock, I' am not about to change my vote now.
If MacClintock is wrong, I don't want to be right.
The parenthetical addition to the title is a classic example of quoting someone out of context. He was saying that OTHER PEOPLE didn't think he could win. I'm not from California, and have no say in the matter, and don't know much about it at all. I'm just pointing out the context of the quotation.
Thanks, although I think the only ending this Infiltration Unit wants is acquiring power. All of our lamentations and suffering will be far more easily ignored after victory than they were to "debate the issues" before so.
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