I thought it rather impressive that when Eric Roach, a successful businessman and Republican running in the CD 50 donnybrook turned in his nomination papers, he handed over in excess of 5,000 signatures.
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March 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I’d be curious to know how much each of those sigs were bought for. If Mr Roach has spent about $2 million or so, that would equate to roughly $400 per signature, right?
March 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
The $2 million going toward votes not nomination signatures!
If you think having a ground game in five or six weeks is impressive, you should check out today’s photo of the candidate walking precincts in the rain!
http://www.EricRoachforCongress.com
March 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Its almost as impressive as hiring a high priced lawyer to file a frivolous lawsuit to effect an election democrat/ACLU-style!!
March 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Greg, the lawsuit was filed because Bilbray is a federal lobbyist for a living, but listed consultant as his occupation. A judge decided he is BOTH. But I thought it was a fair case to make. Court challenges aren’t just for the ACLU – after all, when I was Executive Director of the State Republican Party, we took the ‘open primary’ to court (ACLU style?) and defeated it!
March 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
For folks in San Diego it smacks of an ACLU tactic. When the city put prop A on the ballot to try to save the Mt. Soledad cross, the lawyers on the other side sued because they didn’t like the ballot wording. They lost their case and the initiative passed by 75%. This is very similar to the Roach lawsuit. Why not worry about your own ballot designation. The judge says he is a consultant, AND a lobbyist. Well did you really need a judge for that? Why does Roach assume HE gets to be the one to decide which one Bilbray uses? All I’m saying is suing over ballot wording/desingnation is an unsavory tactic that has backfired in a recent San Diego election.
March 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I think Greg misses a couple of points. Mr. Bilbray started with “advocate” and then changed it to “consultant” when we said it should be lobbyist, since he is a registered Washington lobbyist.
The one who is REALLY upset with what Eric is doing is liberal Democrat Francine Busby who could only get 40% in this Republican district. She and national Democrats figured she had a pretty good chance of pulling off an upsent if Republicans tried to replace a disgraced congressman who took bribes from Washington lobbyists with a Washington lobbyist as their nominee!
Eric Roach is going to ensure that this does not happen and Republicans will keep the 50th district safely in the win column for 2006!
March 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I think you are a little bullish on the prospects of a guy who is in 4th place in at least two different recent polls. If he succeeds in going negative and taking out Bilbray it only ensures that either Kaloogian or Morrow walk away with the nomination.