Posted on 02/13/2004 1:11:20 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
(Sunnyvale, CA) - February 13, 2004 - Republican Senate candidate Toni Casey is please [sic] to accept the endorsement of the WISH List, the nation's largest political fundraising network for Republican women.
"I'm very excited to have the support of such a prestigious organization as the WISH List," said Casey. "It is another sign of the growing momentum behind my campaign, another sign that my message of real immigration reform and fiscal responsibility is taking root."
"Toni Casey is a highly-qualified, impressive candidate who offers California Republicans an excellent choice for US Senate," said Pat Carpenter, WISH President.
Toni Casey was a senior presidential appointee of President George W. Bush at the Small Business Administration. She is a three-time Mayor of Los Altos Hills and holds an MBA and MS from Stanford University. She has been a consultant to high-technology executives, owned and managed several small businesses, and represented bio-technology firms to the state legislature. Her wide breadth of experience in business and government at local, county, state, and federal levels best qualifies her to serve California in the U.S. Senate.
From Open Secrets:
Date Amount Recipient Party 09/09/92 $ 250 Eshoo, Anna G Dem 06/18/93 $ 250 Emily's List 11/02/93 $ 250 Emily's List 01/11/94 $1,000 Eshoo, Anna G Dem 02/25/94 $ 400 Emily's List 03/31/94 $ 600 Robb, Charles S Dem 04/27/94 $ 250 Murphy, Marsha Jean Rep 06/01/94 $ 250 McEnery, Tom Dem 06/02/94 $ 250 Blanchard, Chuck Dem 09/01/94 $ 250 Mineta, Norman Dem 10/19/94 $ 250 McCurdy, Dave Dem 10/25/94 $ 200 Blanchard, Chuck Dem 09/29/95 $1,000 Clinton, Bill Dem 10/25/95 $1,000 Eshoo, Anna G Dem 11/03/95 $ 500 Campbell, Tom Rep 11/03/95 $ 250 Lofgren, Zoe Dem 03/13/96 $ 500 Murray, Willard H Jr Dem 04/15/96 $ 250 Zimmer, Dick Rep 08/24/96 $ 250 Zimmer, Dick Rep 07/17/97 $ 250 Lofgren, Zoe Dem 10/02/97 $1,000 Technology Network Federal PAC 11/06/97 $1,000 Golding, Susan Rep 04/02/99 $5,000 Technology Network Federal PAC 04/10/99 $1,000 Campbell, Tom Rep 06/30/99 $1,000 Bush, George W Rep 08/23/99 $ 500 Snowe, Olympia J Rep 10/19/99 $ 500 Eshoo, Anna G Dem 10/03/00 $ 500 Cunneen, James F Rep 05/02/02 $1,000 Wish List 06/30/03 $2,000 Bush, George W Rep
But Casey isn't one to stick with the herd (if by herd you mean Democrats). After all, the Virginia native who picked up two master's degrees from Stanford in 1974 switched alliances from New Dem to Republican.
At one point, toward the end of former President Bill Clinton's last term, he invited Casey and other local notable Dems to the White House for dinner. Clinton possibly didn't realize at the time that Casey was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention that year. Subsequently, fightin' President G.W. Bush appointed the turncoat Casey to head up the U.S. Small Business Administration's Intergovernmental Affairs Office in D.C.
Word has it that Friday, March 21, was her last day there. This frees her up to give her career plans a good hard think. And if it turns out that Casey can't whip up enough support to battle Boxer for her seat, Eye would like to reassure her that other opportunities exist. One tip: Boxer is looking to hire an assistant for her San Francisco office. "Working knowledge of federal public policy issues is desired but not required," according to her help-wanted ad on Craigslist.
A true "convertible" or maybe a "taint'. In any case some one who puts career goals way, way ahead of political philosophy.
From the archives of the Los Altos Town Crier
You can detect a Southern drawl when new Los Altos Hills mayor Toni Casey speaks. That's because she's from Virginia. Along with her accent, she's brought her own brand of Southern hospitality - and just a bit of controversy - to the town she's called home the past 25 years.
Casey is a widowed, single parent. She has two children, Alison, a senior at Mountain View High School, and Patrick Carson Casey, who attends college in Steamboat Springs, Colo.
For the last five years, Casey has been a lobbyist representing companies in the bio-technology field. She works on both the federal and state level.
She said she enjoys being a lobbyist because it gives her the opportunity to understand government better.
Casey came west in 1972, after receiving a bachelor's degree at Emory University in Atlanta.
In 1974, she earned her master's degree in business administration and a master's in health care from Stanford University.
She took a couple of months off to help secure the passage of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Association) and put together two rallies for local representatives Anna Eshoo and Norman Mineta before he retired.
Casey has been to the White House several times and in the company of President Clinton on more than one occasion. When Clinton was governor of Arkansas, Casey hosted a cocktail party for his presidential campaign at Nan and Jack Horton's house in Los Altos Hills.
She also made the front page of the San Francisco Examiner when she was pictured with Clinton during his recent trip to San Francisco for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
An apparently loyal and then single Democratic activist who may have earned a pair of kneepads.
San Jose Business Journal
January 26, 2001Was that Los Altos Hills councilwoman Toni Casey sitting down front in the viewing stands at President Bush's inauguration?
It sure was. She was in D.C. for a long weekend of festivities that included black-tie events and candlelight dinners.
"It was fabulous," she says. "It was a wonderful experience."
Readers may recall that Ms. Casey was until recently a Democrat. Not a yellow-dog Democrat, certainly, but a centrist Democrat -- so centered, in fact, that she was involved in the Democratic Leadership Council back when Bill Clinton was the governor of a small southern state. Arkansas, if we remember correctly.
Ms. Casey helped arrange some of Mr. Clinton's first visits to Silicon Valley.
Last month, she was a guest at the White House on Dec. 19, along with Larry Stone, Santa Clara County assessor, and a yellow-dog Democrat if there ever was one.
Today, though, Ms. Casey calls herself a DLC Republican.
"We are centrists," she says. "We want fiscal responsibility, are concerned about the environment and want a social safety net. We're not against the social issues that the Democratic Party has traditionally stood for, but we want less government, more effective government and more local control."
She's hoping President Bush will move his party as far to the political center as President Clinton moved his party.
"I see similarities in Bill Clinton and George Bush in that they are bringing the two parties closer to the center," she says.
Other valley people seen in the nation's capital during the inauguration festivities: Floyd Kvamme, the venture capitalist; Nancy and Jack Horton of Horton Drywall in Cupertino; Suzzane and Jim Salata of Garden City Construction in San Jose; and Harry and Brenda Mittleman of Menlo Park.
What was the biggest challenge facing an inaugural guest?
"Packing," says Ms. Casey. "Thinking of all the right clothes."
I agree. Here's my perspective of the four candidates from a conservative viewpoint on a scale of 1 to 10.
Kaloogian = 10 A conservative with an uphill battle because of name recognition. Just the tonic that both California and the United States needs. A good balance to Carl Rove.
Jones = 6 A basic conservative but also a politician willing to bend to accomplish incremental advances. Jones will be fighting Rove during the primary and Boxer and the DNC during the general election without support from the White House. If elected, Jones will probably be classified as a moderate and will probably compromise with Rove to maintain some authority.
Casey =1 A career opportunist who will say or do anything to be elected to public office. Casey is basically a Democrat who quickly realized that she would be shut out within her own party trying to meet her career goals
Marin = 0 A Mexican nationalist who would be a disaster for California regardless of your political affiliation. Marin is an apolitical, sharp cookie whose primary interest is advancing the cause of "her people" and has willingly used the Republican Party to accomplish her aims.
So will Bill Jones. After all, that's what Boxer did to Matt Fong in 1998.
But, since there aren't any debates, I agree that Jones looks like he will win, and Casey/Marin are pretty much unknown to most Californians.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Who I wouldn't vote for dogcatcher.
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