Posted by Jon Fleischman at 12:00 am on May 01, 2009 2 Comments
State Senator Tom Harman has rolled out some endorsements in his
campaign for the GOP nomination for Attorney General.
Predictably, Harman has the support of many of his colleagues in
the State Senate — Dennis Hollingsworth, Tony Strickland, Mark
Wyland, Mimi Walters, Dave Cox, Roy Ashburn, John Benoit, Bob
Dutton, George Runner, Jeff Denham, and Bob Huff.
We’re happy for the Senator — no doubt all of those endorsements
will be helpful.
That said, we would be the FlashReport if we didn’t take the
opportunity (when given) to point out an "oops" — so here it
is!
The release from Harman heralded that "Conservative Senate
Leaders" have endorsed Harman. That said, it took us about
two seconds to pick out the liberal Republican among those
listed. Did you catch it?
If you didn’t, it’s State Senator Roy Ashburn. For years,
Ashburn was a conservative stalwart. But in what may be a
defense of term limits, the last couple of years, Ashburn has taken
a left hand turn away from a commitment to free-market economics
and the idea that government is too big and spends too much.
Last summer he… Read More