Francine Busby "You don't need papers for voting" (VIDEO)--"You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help." Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for congress in the 50th district...
Posted on 06/18/2006 10:28:15 AM PDT by OKIEDOC
When is a loss really a win? It's a common practice, trying to spin a political defeat into a victory. But in the case of the race to fill Randy "Duke" Cunningham's seat in the House of Representatives, the silver lining might not be that hard to find.
snip NOW PAC organizers worked on the Busby campaign, reaching out to voters across the county. The NOW PAC put Hays in San Diego prior to the April 11 Special Election, and sent her and another organizer Monely Soltani there again in late May to work on the run-off vote, held concurrently with California's state-wide primary. Hays, a veteran of many feminist congressional campaigns put her organizing skills to work and rallied voters and volunteers for the race. Soltani, utilizing her bilingual skills, organized phone banks and canvassed in the heavily Spanish-speaking area of Escondito. "After years of being shut out here by the Republican Party, the Democrats finally had some money and a great candidate, and were very energized to elect Francine," said Barbara Hays NOW's Director of Organizational Development and long-time field organizer. "Unfortunately, there just wasn’t a high enough turnout."
snip Although it is disappointing when a strong feminist candidate loses a close election, there is a bright side to this story. Busby received 45 percent of the vote—15 percent greater than her party's registration. And even in this conservative stronghold, a district that voted 55 percent for George W. Bush in 2004, Bilbray couldn't even garner 50 percent of the votes. Additionally, all the hard work of the campaign will strengthen the organized political movement to counter the right wing in that area. No doubt this newly energized base will result in electoral victories at the local and county level.
The fact that the Republican Party felt compelled to step in to help Bilbray, and ended up spending $5 million on his campaign in the final weeks, not to mention sending an estimated 150-200 "volunteers" (many of them experienced staffers from Capitol Hill) to help turn out the vote, bodes well for our chances in November. With that kind of machinery behind him, Bilbray should have been able to scare up a more resounding victory. If the Republican Party has to prop up all of its candidates to such an extent, even in districts that voted overwhelmingly for Bush, it is clear that there will not be able to raise enough funds to protect enough districts to sustain their majority. It will be interesting to see if the Republican Party is able to duplicate this massive effort in 30 or more contested races across the country next fall.
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On an ominous note, the immigration issue was used in this district to provoke racial and ethnic tension, and this may be a preview of coming electoral contests. Bilbray's right-wing message to voters was one of "no compromise" on the immigration issue, and in a district bordering on Mexico, this hard-line message apparently resonated with some voters. We fear that Bilbray's win will bolster anti-immigrant sentiments and we will hear a message of intolerance from other Republican candidates in the fall.
The article speaks clearly the different kinds of malicious vitriol that Americans who love this country have to face from extremist left wing socialist groups.
The bleeding heart liberal femiNazies by their very own words are bigoted against all males, especially those living in America.
Men, in their fanatical biased opinions, should be relegated to cages and used only as an occasional sperm donor.
Notice how this numbskull twit throws up the real issue (scare tactics on immigration) as to why Busby lost big time.
By their very words, Busby should have shellacked any Republican.
Why she did not win speaks volumes of why their kinds of inane candidates are rejected by most THINKING voters casting a ballot.
These nitwits just can not except the fact that Busby, like John Kerry and Al Gore was not a good candidate for public office.
Candidates with extremist liberal views of America scare most traditional Americans.
I love this. I hope they keep thinking of their losses as wins, and pretty soon there won't be any of them left in office!
Only when your opponent's the loser.
Apparently it resonated with 55% of them - including the other conservative, border security first, candidates.
I'll tell you this much for free, it's not a win for your guy/gal if you're starting an article about the election this way.
the immigration issue was used in this district to provoke racial and ethnic tension
Awwww, poor baby. I guess your party will no longer protest the war or anti-abortion positions because, you know, they would provoke "tenstion".
LOL. Talk about De Nile. They might as well be in Egypt for all they seem to know.
That can be answered with a Kerryism: "The loss was really a win."
Funny, I hope for the same anti-illegal immigrant sentiments. Note that they omitted illegal from their statement.
"When is a loss really a win?"
The libs keep stretching insanity, maybe this will become a party mantra. It fits with other parts of their agenda.
I'd like to know how many members the National Organization for Woman really has. For quite sometime it has been my impression that hard core feminism is fading. Don't these women realize that their five minutes is up?
"When is a loss really a win?"
When you are in lala land and can't your way back to reality.
"When is a loss really a win?"
When you are in lala land and can't find your way back to reality.
Translation: "We only care what the voters want when they agree with us, otherwise the little people must be told what to vote for."
"Don't these women realize that their five minutes is up?"
The 15 rule of fame no longer exists. The MSM has pushed that out to months, even years for people who should never have opened their yaps in the first place.
NOW's influence that started years ago is spreading by people who are now stooges. Yesterday I saw a TV ad for a man's face cream that gets rid of wrinkles.
With wins like this who needs loses?
I suspect the Dems spend 5 million as well. Busby spent over 2 million in the primary. Sometimes the most misleading aspects of an essay come from what is left out.
The spin is quite incredible, isn't it? There was another candidate they conveniently failed to mention who was on the right, which took pealed away some of his votes, and Busby's vote count was about the same as Kerry, which is an extradordinarily bad performance given that Bush's approval numbers are now significantly lower than they were back then and all the stench from Cunningham's conviction and resignation. A humiliating performance for Busby given all of those factors.
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