Posted on 01/26/2010 7:38:43 AM PST by SmithL
Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore wants to be the Scott Brown of California - a conservative GOP state legislator who vaults to the U.S. Senate in a state dominated by Democratic voters.
Like Brown, DeVore could tap into a network of Tea Party supporters and others who distrust President Obama and blame him for adding to the nation's spiraling debt. A Field Poll released today finds that 28 percent of registered California voters identify with the group.
This is the first time the poll has measured attitudes about the Tea Party movement, which began a year ago and gained stature after Brown's upset victory over Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, in last week's special election for the Senate seat that Sen. Edward Kennedy held for 46 years.
On the heels of Brown's grassroots success, Tea Party organizers spent last weekend strategizing about other high-profile national races.
"The California Senate race is on their target list, and they see Chuck DeVore as the person who could win the race," said Brendan Steinhauser, director of federal and state campaigns for Freedom Works, a Washington, D.C., organization that has promoted the movement's rallies and hosted the strategy session.
Should DeVore fail in the primary against Republican candidates Tom Campbell and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, the Tea Party could throw its support to Fiorina against three-term incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer, Steinhauser said.
"Whatever happens, they're not going to sit this one out," he said.
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Well Chuck you are going to need to find another gear.
I know CA friends who’ve never heard of the Tea Party movement and more who have been told its just made up of Rednecks.
If the electorate is that dumb that they don’t see the value in Chuck, too hell with ‘em, let the state sink into the abyss it brought on itself in its quest to be a Socialist Utopia.
Go Chuck Go!!
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