These are the targeted explanations aimed squarely at Republican voters. A glance below the surface shows an alternate agenda:
McClintoch, having a small base and little funding needs the CAGOP financial and organizational support to run for statewide office. He has experienced, first hand, the damage the CAGOP can do to their own it they deem the candidate to be a "maverick" or uncooperative.
McClintock's campaign reasoned correctly that even if the CAGOP stood on the sidelines next November his chances for winning were not good and that his candidacy was doomed to repeat of the 13% showing if the CAGOP sabotaged him again.
The consequence was a deal with the devil, or in this case, the CAGOP. McClintock would support the CAGOP mantra during the special election cycle in return for their financial support and cooperation in the upcoming statewide elections. As part of that deal McClintock was given free, statewide exposure by the CAGOP in the guise of support for their "reform" agenda. A good deal for both the CAGOP and the McClintock campaign....
But not for conservatives.
Conservatives now have one of their own publicly implying that Prop 76 will stop the borrowing when in fact it won't, just as was the case with the duplicitous promises made during the Prop 57 campaign by these same folks and even worse, Prop 76 itself authorizes more borrowing. At a minimum, an additional $5B so that the Schwarzenegger administration, with the tacit approval of the CAGOP, can continue to propose increases in state spending at at time when the state desperately needs to cut spending.
Such is politics but truth is often a casualty.
Excellent illumination of the truth and the awful saga of CA's malignant GOP top brass. I sure wish it would stop so I could feel good, once again, about CA's Grand Old Party!!!
"McClintoch, having a small base and little funding"
Mispelled name, incorrect data re base and funding.
I'd say you don't like Tom, so all your posturing about what he is doing is just your OPINION - and has nothing to do with facts.
McClintock, the rock, and the hard place--up close and personal.
A pact with the devil, as it were. I have a lot of respect for Tom, and it's hard for me to believe he would do this. But then I have an almost limitless capacity to be surprised at these things.
If this can in any way be verified, I believe it will cause McClintock a great deal of future support.