[FairOpinion]

"While she is relatively unknown, Marin has secured the help of an impressive circle of Republican fund-raisers, including Los Angeles area auto dealer Bert Boeckmann and Stockton developer Alex Spanos.

Casey, another former Bush appointee, at the Small Business Administration, is trying to position herself as the high-tech candidate. She boasts two advanced degrees from Stanford University, is the former mayor of Los Altos Hills and for 10 years served as a lobbyist for the biotech industry. She has the support of a long list of California business leaders, including venture capitalist Tim Draper, Intuit co-founder Tom LeFevre and Charles Schwab, founder of the stock brokerage that bears his name.
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Marin and Casey sound like interesting candidates too.

The major question is who can beat Boxer?

[ElkGroveDan]

Marin and Casey sound like interesting candidates too.

Since Marin and Casey have not starred in Hollywood action movies, expect either of them to go the way of other statewide liberal GOP nominees. The most recent one that comes to mind was Tom Campbell whose so-called fiscal conservatism appealed to a mere 34% of Californians.

[TheAngryClam]

No.

Casey is an also-ran, who, depsite trying very hard to build momentum since announcing her intention of seeking the seat in early 2002, has generated little in the way of endorsements or funding.

Rosario Marin is an utterly affirmative action candidate. Ask yourself, would someone whose major experience in politics is as a disability activist and mayor of a city of only 85,000 people generate anything like the support Rosario has if her name were "Rose Martin?"

Kaloogian is the best of a sorry lot, although Jones is probably who I'm going to end up voting for.

[counterpunch]

I would like to see David Drier take on Boxer. He got a lot of good exposure supporting Arnold during the recall, and he's very personable.

I'm not so sure Republicans should be running Bush administration people in California. While I think Bush has a decent shot at California in '04, we are very independent, rebelliously so, and Washington meddling never goes down well.