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Tom Campbell wants to be Gray Davis (kinda)
SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 4/22/9 | Shane Goldmacher

Posted on 04/22/2009 8:22:09 AM PDT by SmithL

Tom Campbell, the former state budget director and Republican congressman exploring a bid for Congress, recognizes that he's financially overmatched against his mega-rich opponents Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman.

But, in an interview with ABC News, he sees a path to victory in the GOP primary.

"A three-way race is exceptionally more achievable,

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: California; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: cagop; rino; tomcampbell
Tom Campbell is a LOT like Gray Davis.
1 posted on 04/22/2009 8:22:10 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Should read another bid for congress. Campbell has been in congress before.


2 posted on 04/22/2009 8:23:42 AM PDT by svcw (There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who know binary and those who don't.)
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To: SmithL

He’s a nice man. I’ve had a few drinks with the guy, and his chief staff was an old pal.

However, TC is no blessing for CA. It needs someone made of sterner stuff. Some one capable of saying “no!”

Hmmph. That’ll be the day.


3 posted on 04/22/2009 8:26:37 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
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To: SmithL; calcowgirl

Ah-nold makes Davis look like Reagan, so that would be a decided improvement.


4 posted on 04/22/2009 6:26:56 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: SmithL
Tom Campbell, the former state budget director and Republican congressman exploring a bid for Congress, recognizes that he's financially overmatched against his mega-rich opponents Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman.

So now Campbell, Poizner, and Whitman are all running for Congress?

And McClathcy wonders why it has problems. ;-)

5 posted on 04/22/2009 7:24:00 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

One of these days, assuming all of these folks actually stay in the gubernatorial race, I’d like to put together a list of their positions.

I’ve never liked Campbell. He helped craft part of Arnie’s terrible fiscal policy. He now tries to tout Prop1A as a real spending cap when it is a total sham that does not cap spending and increases taxes by $16 billion. He’s on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, the 25 million acre land grab that Arnie put in place (after Gray Davis vetoed it twice). Campbell is also a big proponent of the National Popular Vote, Open Primaries, and a host of other things (that I can’t recall right now).

That being said, we have three liberal Republicans vying for the GOP nomination. Combine that with Arnold’s destructive terms as Governor, I don’t think we have a chance of “winning.”


6 posted on 04/22/2009 7:29:38 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)
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To: calcowgirl

I see Garamendi is out of the running for Governor (presuming he wins Tauscher’s seat). So it looks like the rodents will have either the past-his-prime (was he ever in his prime) Moonbeam vs. that little pr*ck from San Francisco. Between those two and the liberals on the RINO side, California is gonna continue to get f**ked in the rump worse than a twink patron at a Castro District Bathhouse in the ‘70s.


7 posted on 04/22/2009 7:38:54 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

You forgot Tony Villar

But I agree with your conclusion — and mine (no way to “win”)


8 posted on 04/22/2009 7:59:57 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)
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To: calcowgirl

Of course, who does Salty Tony take more votes from in the primary, Gruesome Newsom or Moonbeam ? Actually, Moonbeam would be better off without the creep from SF, since they all hail from the same cesspool. Alcalde Salty can grab the Lower Alta California vote. He gets in and can declare himself dictator for life and make the official language Swedish.


9 posted on 04/22/2009 11:36:18 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: calcowgirl; fieldmarshaldj

I envision a Governor Villar as an epic disaster waiting to happen.


10 posted on 04/23/2009 4:04:55 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: SmithL
I've listened to Tom Campbell on Hugh Hewitt's program plenty of times.

He seems like a nice guy but very much a "go along to get along" type of Republican.

I think he should go back to selling cars and let somebody who wants to be a Republican run for office.

11 posted on 04/28/2009 10:19:40 AM PDT by AreaMan
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