Posted on 10/17/2004 1:29:55 AM PDT by Jimbaugh
First of all, I'm not sure what the qualifications for a "purist" Republican are. It's pretty subjective word.
Secondly, the moderate and conservative Republicans are not the ones who fail to be team player. Give me an example. I can give you many where the left-leaning Republicans are not the team player. Tom Campbell ran against Konnyu in the 80s, then he got full support in the general. But no one was allowed to run against him.
In 2002, I called my county central committee to volunteer. I was told not to bother promoting Bill Simon, to concentrate on Bruce McPherson.
In 2002, Simon beat Riordan in the primary. He lost by less than 5%, which could have been closer if Riordan backed Simon and campaigned for him. Of course, Simon campaigned for and supported Schwarzenegger in 2003. Simon would also have gotten a lot closer if the CRP had actually supported him in 2002. Instead, they took their ball and went home. Instead, the White House found out that top CRP officials started a group called "Republicans for Davis."
In 2002, McClintock lost the closest race in CA history, trying for controller. Did the party give 1 cent to their best chance for getting a statewide Republican in 2002. No, they'd rather have NO statewide Republicans than give him even a small contribution. That is really the best example. Think about it: if the CRP put just a bit of money in that race it wouldn't have been shut out in 2002. But no.
Riordan, the Godfather of left-leaning Republicans donated exclusively to Democrats. I can't find one Republican he donated to before 2003, but he was one of the top donors to Gray Davis, and also gave money to Feinstein, Boxer, John Burton, Maxine Waters, etc. He's the kind of team player we need more of, right?
Steve Poisner is now running for AD21 campaigning against President Bush.
Toney Casey is a RINO (Moderate) that would sell out her own mother.
Bill Jones has run an anemic campaign, as if he doesn't really want the job. Sometimes, people become candidates to establish new business connections with party contributors. Jones strikes me as such a candidate. The only reason he has even a small chance is that Barbara Boxer has such low approval ratings.
Ping-ping-ping!!!
Probably Parsky's pick, seeing as he did it to Bill Simon, making him dump Sal Russo and take Rollins or go without any CAGOP money.
Edward J. Rollins is a political commentator for CBS News and a strategic consultant. He was most recently the Co-Chairman and Campaign Manager of the Ross Perot Presidential Campaign.
WOW this is a great surprise!!!
With her long campaign over, Whitman should have been able to breathe a sigh of relief. But, just a short time after the votes were in, Rollins told the press that the reason they had won was because they had paid African-American ministers to suppress the vote among their parishioners. "We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' We said, 'That's fine ó don't get up on the Sunday pulpit and preach. We know you've endorsed him, but don't get up there and say it's your moral obligation that you go on Tuesday to vote for Jim Florio,'" Rollins was reported as saying in Time. Money was also supposedly paid to election workers in Democratic neighborhoods (who were supposed to be getting people to the polls) to stay home. Rollins bragged that these measures were key in Whitman's election to governor.
His comments unleashed a furor of responses from many people, most notably black ministers. Edward Verner, head of a Newark black minister's organization, commented in Time: "To suggest that the black vote or the black church is up for sale is a racist lie." Whitman herself was appalled, and claimed that her manager's statement was an unequivocated lie. Rollins soon retracted his statements, telling People that his remarks were "an exaggeration that turned out to be inaccurate." However, a federal judge ruled that an investigation would be necessary. Whitman assured the voters that she would agree to a new vote if any illegalities were uncovered.
Rollins's wife, Sherrie, claimed in People that her husband "feels awful about this furor he has created. He did not intend to hurt anyone. He feels so badly for Christie. He did not want to taint her victory." It turned out that no proof could be found to substantiate Rollins's initial claims, and by November 29, 1993, the Democrats abandoned their campaign to have the election results decertified. On January 12, 1994, state and federal investigators ended their investigation into the campaign and deemed Whitman innocent of the charges.
"Don't let the hullabaloo over the alleged antivoting activities of campaign manager Ed Rollins blind the nation to the significance of Christie Whitman's victory last month in the New Jersey gubernatorial election. She won on character and substance," Malcolm Forbes asserted in one of his magazine's editorials. After the election, Whitman went right ahead with her daring tax-cut proposals, even declaring that if they didn't work, she wouldn't run for reelection.
This guy has obviously got to go.
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