Campaign Cash Flows to Pelosi’s Republican Opponent Despite Difficult Odds

http://public.cq.com ^ | July 21, 2008 | By Edward Epstein and Rachel Kapochunas

[Maelstorm]

Campaign Cash Flows to Pelosi’s Republican Opponent Despite Difficult Odds

Running against Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her home district in San Francisco is as close to a political suicide mission as a Republican can undertake — but unlike her underfunded predecessors, GOP nominee Dana Walsh won’t lack for money.

Walsh, an interior designer and member of the San Francisco GOP central committee, had raised $363,871 as of June 30, according to CQ MoneyLine. Her campaign had $45,168 on hand, with the report showing that most of the money raised went toward the cost of setting up a national direct-mail fundraising operation.

Her campaign consultant, California GOP veteran Harvey Hukari, said the campaign aims to raise almost $1 million before the Nov. 4 election in California’s 8th District. With that money, he estimated Walsh will have enough money to run a direct-mail and cable TV ad campaign.

http://www.danawalshforcongress.com/

[Maelstorm]

Interesting. It would be interesting to see how competitive this race can become. I'd be giving to both Walsh and Cindy Sheehan. If both Pelosi and Cindy mix it up enough Walsh might be able to perform a miracle in this race. This is very hard. Republicans getting votes in the San Francisco district is like looking for a straight hairdresser. I suppose Michael Savage will support her. I wish her well. Two things have to happen to make this race even feasible. People who normally vote for Pelosi have to get so disgusted they stay home or vote Sheehan and Walsh needs to get every last center right vote in the bay area. Will if be enough. I don't know the demographics but I figure they are not good.

[SatinDoll]

Sounds like Pelosi has managed to piss off a large segment of the voters.

Don’t forget, there has been hell to pay for allowing illegal aliens, who have committed serious crimes in SF, protection from the Feds.

So, between the price of gasoline skyrocketing and foreigners killing innocent people in the streets of San Francisco, even liberals could be fed-up enough with her to vote for some one else.

I can imagine a lot of gay and lesbian folks voting for an interior designer! They might figure she would understand them.

[struggle]

If Pelosi, Murtha et al lost this election season, America might actually become a decent place to live.

BOTOX FOR THE MASSES!

[trumandogz]

Where does Dana Walsh stand on the issue of Gay Marriage.

I could not find her position of the subject on her website.

[nothingnew]

I'm sure multimillionaire Nancee' is very worried.....

FMCDH(BITS)

[maine-iac7]

Maybe we should be helping this lady - we may never get a better chance to rid the country of ms plastic face.

[personalaccts]

Who has the better “face job”. Walsh or Pelosi? I think it’s worth $50 to send. That is $50 to Walsh and $50 to the “lunatic”. Hopefully the “lunatic” will get her fellow nuts to open there eyes and realize the Pelosi is nothing but a “rich” “snobbish” “elitist”. Mine as well have “operation chaos” SF.

[EBH]

Could it be those they so affectionately call the ‘sheeple’ are voting with their dollars pre-election. They may have been disgusted with republicans, but two years of the third rail was frightening. Watching businesses being taken before congress, learning about all those new taxes needed, hearing about ‘nationalization,’ thermostat control, the loss of Free Speech through a fairness doctrine, illegals running amok in the streets and hospitals, the constant berating of American ingenuity was maybe a snapshot of their future.

A future they increasingly are becoming aware they don't want. A realization that saving the planet starts with saving our country, not destroying it.

Naw...

[CaliGirl-R]

I read the SF Chronicle online just to read the comments from SF citizens. This is the one I read last night, and the people are pissed. Here is a link to the comments. It’s regarding murder rates.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2008/08/12/BA7G129203.DTL

The comments read like Freepers comments! I have a soft spot for SF, spent lots of time there when I was a young child. So sad to see it go the way it has.

[Go Gordon]

So, between the price of gasoline skyrocketing and foreigners killing innocent people in the streets of San Francisco, even liberals could be fed-up enough with her to vote for some one else.

For Pete's sake, cut her some slack. You think its not time-consuming saving the planet?

[EdReform]

Dana Walsh for Congress Bump

[Deb]

One of my happiest memories was ‘94 when Speaker Tom Foley went down in flames. It happens.

[phillyfanatic]

I will support Dana but I realize that Pelosi will still win the election because after all SF is a nutty leftist area that will never elect a Pub. Period. And Murtha will win too because the zombies who vote for him will never stop as long as he brings up recession , depression, jobs et al and blame everything on Bush. That is the way that Dem voters vote: emotionalism over facts.

[SatinDoll]

Yuck-yuck, LOL!

[dsutah]

Yeah, but if (heaven help us)someone suddenly decides this lady isn’t a pure, 100% conservative, you just know they won’t support her for any reason! They’ll be barking and growling all over these threads. Well, you know how they get!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Where does Dana Walsh stand on the issue of Gay Marriage.

Who cares? This is one race where I would support a RINO to beat Pelosi.

[maine-iac7]

yep - the cut off the nose to spite the face crowd.

well, some are just stuck in two-year old mode...