McClintock ran as Arnold’s Lt. Gov in 2006. Arnold offered him no support at all. Together they got 60% in the Calif recall election-2003.
Arnold could have done the party a big favor had McLintock won with him. Arnold could have resigned at some point and given the job to a real conservative but he made too many statements beforehand regarding his problems with the ‘hard right’.
No way any Rino’s gonna get away with that again.
It’s sad because Arnold just might have been a conservative when he called for the special election-2005. He put up 5 truly conservative propositions. All failed. Special election means low turnout. The conservative could have carried it but our voters didn’t show up for him. These folks were dumb enough to go for the flash in 2002 when they nominated Bill Simon Jr. who had only his name to run on-a joke.
I was a big fan of conservative McClintock in that early 2000s era.
In the summer of 2002, Davis got the Los Angeles District Attorney to indict William E. Simon & Sons (Simon's father's company) for fraud in a pay telephone business. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury found the company guilty and ordered the company to pay $78 million in damages for fraud and other misconduct. Davis then used this lawsuit to bash Simon's credentials as a successful businessman in negative campaign ads.
Simon lost the election for Governor, and a few months later the appeals court overturned the verdict and nullified the penalty.
A year later, Davis was thrown out of office in the recall election for massive "pay-to-play" schemes.
-PJ