Posted by Jon Fleischman at 12:00 am on Jun 03, 2010 1 Comment
Tom Campbell has put up a new ad worth 30 seconds to
watch. He makes the case that you should vote for him
because an LA Times survey says that voters support him over
Barbara Boxer. This argument is totally not-compelling to
me. While people should feel free to vote for Campbell if
they like his positions on the issues, I am still suffering from
post traumatic stress disorder from having served as Executive
Director of the California Republican party in the 2000 election
cycle when Campbell was our nominee for U.S. Senate against Dianne
Feinstein. Campbell made all of the same arguments then as he
is now about why he thinks he has the best chance of winning.
Why didn’t he win in 2000? Turns out Campbell, who is a nice
guy, is a lousy fundraiser. I wonder how a poll would show
him doing against Boxer after a few months of being out-spent
twenty to one? I would find it more compelling if
Campbell could articulate in a commercial what he is going to do
differently in 2010 than he did in 2000…
Let me make it clear — I like Steve Poizner. He’s
personable,
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