Posted on 10/11/2023 7:17:30 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Baseball great Steve Garvey announced Tuesday that he is running as a Republican to be the next senator from California. He enters a crowded race currently dominated by Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
“Our campaign is focused on quality-of-life issues, public safety, and education,” Garvey said in a statement. “As a U.S. Senator, I will serve with commonsense, compassion, and will work to build consensus to benefit all of the people of California.”
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At least he has name recognition.
I wish him well but if he gets to the U.S. senate he’s going to be marginalized by the Dems and RINOs who run the place.
Cindy Garvey will come up in the news(again). Then there’s the 2 women he knocked up. Delayed his political career.He’ll need to finish in the top 2 in the June primary. That’s 8 months.
Give him credit for coming forward and stepping up. Most voters are too young to remember him.
Lazy reporting. 6 or so is not “crowded” in CA. By memory I thing there were about 25 on the ballot on our last Senate race. With his name and Star power I’ll go ahead and give
Him a 70% chance of the GOP vote coalescing behind him, with the rate vote split enough for him to get through the jungle primary. After that, could be. The voters in this state like celebrity candidates. See Reagan, R., and Schwarzenegger, A., the latter elected well after the state turned blue
Cyndy Garvey played a lot of victim ‘cards’, and it’s hard to say how much was true, and how much was for attention. She kinda disappeared in the 1990s.
If you bring up Steve’s background just in general...I doubt if more than 30-percent of the state’s voters know anything about the guy (even his baseball career). That’s how much or how little value the ‘Steve Garvey’ brand may carry.
I heard him interviewed on John & Ken’s radio show yesterday- he does not speak well and at times seemed at a loss for words. I was not impressed. He will be up against a number of very well-prepared and slick politicians like Schiff (who, unfortunately, will most likely win the seat).
Garvey’s name carries recognition with those of an older cohort - I doubt either of my kids know anything of him (32 and 29).
“At least he has name recognition.”
If you are a baseball fan and over age 50.
And for those over age 50 baseball fans in N. California, Garvey may not be all that popular.
For all the positive votes he may get in Southern California, he will get a substantial number of negative votes in the Bay Area, where he was hated. I
As a life time Giants fan, I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. People outside the state don’t realize how desperate the GOP position is here. There’s more than 4 million of us, and our no-name candidates typically don’t make it out of the jungle primary (which is why the jungle primary was enacted.) I’m concerned about the poster who said Garvey was inarticulate in an interview, but we need someone with a name is we’re going to have any chance to get out of the primary
Cindy Garvey was a psycho. I remember reading an article where Steve asked the equipment manager to call the hospitals in Philadelphia. Cindy called just before a game and said one of their daughters was in an emergency room there. Wasn’t true and the equipment manager backed up Steve’s story.
Cindy’s spill-the-guts problems were spelled out in People Magazine. Steve may have been too concerned with his image to pay attention to his marriage. Still he showed a lot of class when it was over, unlike Cindy. Again it may have been his image he was concerned about.
Second, I get it that he's trying to capitalize on his celebrity but do the majority of voters remember who Steve Garvey is?
Third, someone explain to me how Schiff hopes to get this Senate seat after Newsom appointed the black abortion zealot.
Does he think she'll simply step aside and not run? Or is he simply running this campaign to collect donations, which he can keep, fully understanding that he has no chance?
Someone on this forum educate me here what's going on.
Those who remember him either vote Republican anyway or they’ve moved out of state.
Song and dance man George Murphy, linguist S.I. Hayakawa, decathalete Bob Matthias, plus all the ones who didn’t win: Gary Coleman, Caitlyn Jenner, etc.
Eric Early is the conservative choice and was in…early.
Probably but a fringe celebrity Republican probably has a little better chance to win a state-wide election in this lost hellhole than a serious Republican politician. Still basically zero.
I remember seeing Steve Garvey play minor league baseball with the Spokane Indians, back when Spokane was the Dodgers' AAA affiliate.
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