Posted on 05/07/2020 11:39:44 AM PDT by Mark
On Tuesday, May 12, there will be a special election to replace former Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill in California’s 25th Congressional District.
Hill was forced to resign in October of last year after acknowledging inappropriate sexual relations with a staffer — and a throuple of other reasons — but we don’t have time to get into that.
The runoff will pit Democratic Assemblywoman and attorney Christy Smith against Republican fighter pilot Mike Garcia.
For some strange reason Smith has used the fact that Garcia was a military pilot against him in the campaign — as if that somehow makes him unqualified to hold elected office.
Most recently, Smith attacked Garcia’s qualifications in an Indivisible Day of Action Video Call on April 25 with supporters.
Here is the transcript of what Smith had to say about Garcia’s credentials:
Smith: “It is what it is. Did you guys know he’s a pilot? I … you know … it had escaped me.” (Laughter)
Unidentified man: “I read about it on his campaign website.”
Unidentified woman: “He’s a pilot?”
Smith: “Yeah.” (More laughter)
Unidentified man: “And of course, the clown who lives in the White House … you get his endorsements.”
Smith: “I sent to my team, we both logged on because we had to do this virtual coin toss and I texted my team and I’m like, ‘OK, he’s got pictures of planes behind him and I’ve got constitutional law books.’ (more laughter) … The irony was …”
Unidentified man: “I love that being a pilot gives him experience and knowledge in international affairs.” (more laughter)
Smith: (Giggling) “Yeah, it is …”
Unidentified man: “You know, Amy McGrath is a former fighter pilot.”
Smith: “But she’s not qualified. Yeah. Great.”
Just to be clear, Mike Garcia graduated first in his class at flight school, earned perfect scores in advanced jet training and flew F-18 Super Hornets off an aircraft carrier in a combat zone.
Christy Smith is qualified to sit in the emergency exit row on Delta.
Good for you, Christy. Enjoy that extra leg room.
The idea that airplane pilots, or military personnel, are too dumb to serve in elected office is not only insulting, it’s crazy.
If being a trained fighter pilot makes you unfit for office, how do you explain George H. W. Bush, John McCain and George McGovern?
OK, OK, three incredibly bad examples. But you see my point.
Agree with them or not, none of those guys were stupid.
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Democrats, late-night comedians and the media tried to convince the public that then Texas Gov. George W. Bush was so slow he needed to be watered once a week.
But Terry Nelson, a Republican strategist and political director of the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection campaign, told me that those charges never stuck.
“In 2000, the Gore campaign made a serious mistake by condescendingly suggesting that Gov. Bush wasn’t as smart as Gore. That flew in the face of what voters instinctively knew about Bush once they knew he had been a fighter pilot of one of the country’s most advanced combat jets during the Vietnam War. It didn’t make sense and Gore’s smugness really backfired,” Nelson said.
It should also be noted that for generations scores of people have moved to California to design, build and fly planes that helped our country win wars, transport people around the globe and fundamentally change the way the world operates. They aren’t dim, and many of them are also Christy Smith’s constituents.
While not everyone is a lawyer (yet), other professions shouldn’t be disqualified from holding public office.
Smith’s sneering disdain for the honest work of her own voters not only makes her sound ignorant, it makes her uniquely unsuited to represent those people in elected office.
Here’s hoping that Christy Smith’s slimy attempt to take down a Navy pilot crashes and burns.
John Phillips can be heard weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. on “The John Phillips Show” on KABC/AM 790.
Thank you. Nice reporting
All Were brave pilots
Sorry. I misread your first post.
U.S. House CA-25
MAR 8-11, 2020
500 LV
39% Smith
43% Garcia
Garcia +4
From wonder boy Natey Silver(he of the hilarious hair)
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/house/california/25/
Amy McGrath is the Democrat taking on The Turtle.
[George H. W. Bush was a Navy pilot flying the Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger Torpedo plane, it also carried bombs but was not designed as a dive bomber (i.e. like the Douglas Dauntless) off the the aircraft carrier San Jacinto.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichijima_incident#Incident
Newsweek called him a wimp, for not being man enough to become a liberal.
https://news.yahoo.com/called-george-bush-wimp-cover-newsweek-wrong-140012335.html
To prove that he wasn’t a wimp in the liberal sense, Bush went back on his “Read my lips, no new taxes” pledge. He paid the price in 1992.
how do you explain George H. W. Bush, John McCain and George McGovern?Too liberal. Everyone knows that.
“Bush went back on his “Read my lips, no new taxes” pledge. He paid the price in 1992.”
No Zhang, we paid the price because Billy Blythe, the man who couldn’t keep his dick in his pants, was elected in 1992!
If McCain had destroyed two more US jet fighters, he would have been an ACE!
Or our secrets in the United States.
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