For GOP Senate candidate Chuck DeVore, tilt to the right came early

Sacramento Bee ^ | 4/5/10 | Jim Sanders

[SmithL]

Assemblyman Chuck DeVore wasted no time after his Republican caucus conceded to a three-year package of tax increases last year totaling $18 billion – he promptly resigned as minority whip.

"It was untenable for me," he said.

That snapshot reflects one side of DeVore, a fierce advocate of cutting taxes, not raising them.

But like a Rubik's Cube, there are many twists to the personality of the Irvine Republican fighting Carly Fiorina and Tom Campbell in the June 8 primary for the right to face Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in the fall:

• A stir-things-up campaigner, DeVore has surprised Fiorina with challenging phone calls while she was on radio talk shows, and he was sued for altering the lyrics of a Don Henley song, "All She Wants to Do Is Dance," to a ditty critical of Boxer, "All She Wants to Do Is Tax."

• A self-described geek in high school, DeVore was the guy who read the Wall Street Journal while buddies scoured baseball box scores. He lettered in football and basketball, although he was so rail-thin as a freshman that friends feigned concern during windstorms, joking, "Grab Charlie so he doesn't blow away."

• His mother, Sharron Gill, remembers him vowing as a fifth- or sixth-grader to become president someday. He was so unbendingly honest that after receiving a haircut and finding himself about a dime short of the amount due, he promptly walked home and back again, a mile or two, to repay the debt, she said.

...'A great big Boy Scout'

To Democrats rankled by DeVore's votes against same-sex marriage, driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, an $11 billion water bond and landmark greenhouse gas-emissions reductions, DeVore is a symbol of right-wing rigidity.

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[EagleUSA]

To Democrats rankled by DeVore’s votes against same-sex marriage, driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, an $11 billion water bond and landmark greenhouse gas-emissions reductions, DeVore is a symbol of right-wing rigidity.
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Yeah, what is wrong with this guy?? He wants to stand against all the things that have destroyed the soverignty, identity and economy of California -— what is wrong with him anyway??? And now he wants to stop tens of billions more in spending that the state does not have? What is wrong with this person??