Posted on 05/09/2010 8:59:35 PM PDT by Syncro
Chuck DeVore, by any definition, is running a “grassroots”campaign. His most recent campaign records show he earned about $96,000 last year.
Carly made $2.7 million in 2008, according to records she recently produced in the campaign. She did not reveal her 2009 income. Fiorina received a $21 million golden parachute from being fired from Hewlett Packard.
From what they told the OC Watchdog, Fiorina’s people want you to think that a candidate is not “credible” unless he has mega-bucks to buy high-paid consultants, pollsters and office space like Carly does.
There is also a pack of astro-turfy Sarah Palin PAC bloggers blog-flogging DeVore over the past 48 hours.
Did we forget about Scott Brown, who campaigned for Senate in Massachusetts out of a pickup truck and won?
Opensecrets.org records show Carly Fiorina Enterprises is the largest individual donor in the country to her own 527 committee. Of the $3.5 million donated to Carly for California 527, $2.5 million is hers.
Her top donors, according to records produced by April 19, 2010. The “little people?”
| Contributor | Total | |
| 1 | Carly Fiorina Enterprises | $2,511,580 |
| 2 | Retired | $61,050 |
| 3 | Homemaker | $57,350 |
| 4 | Morgan Stanley | $35,900 |
| 5 | Oaktree Capital | $16,850 |
| 6 | Attorney | $14,400 |
| 7 | Investor | $12,350 |
| 8 | Wilson, Sonsini et al | $12,000 |
| 9 | Bluegrass Committee | $10,000 |
| 10 | Williams-Sonoma Inc | $9,600 |
| 10 | Cke Restaurants | $9,600 |
| 10 | Knott Partners | $9,600 |
| 10 | Salem Communications | $9,600 |
| 14 | Irvine Co | $7,400 |
| 15 | CJ Segerstrom and Sons | $7,200 |
| 15 | Capital Group Companies | $7,200 |
| 15 | Self-Employed | $7,200 |
| 18 | Consultant | $6,669 |
| 19 | Real Estate | $6,300 |
| 20 | Journalist | $5,800 |
The questions raised by all this:
Is there a legal conflict or violation of law in having a law firm which represents Carly for California, and the California GOP also representing a 527 “citizens” group which is accusing Carly’s opponent of criminal wrongdoing?
Why is the GOP establishment ignoring Carly Fiorina’s troubling baggage in this race which makes her so hopeless as a candidate? Specifically, HP’s sale of printers to Iran despite an embargo, and a new criminal/civil investigation into HP’s bribery of Russian officials during Carly’s tenure at HP? Do they not understand that the Obama administration, which is conducting the probes, will no doubt use the investigation to doom Fiorina if she is the nominee? With Fiorina’s pro-Islam, anti-Israel positions, why is she considered viable?
Even if there is no wrong-doing with all this GOP muddling in California, are California Republicans, conservatives and independents not offended by the this “thugga” type of campaign?
California, do you want to have your GOP U.S. Senate candidate chosen by the GOP establishment which has a proven dismal record of putting money on the wrong dog in the race all over this country?
(Note from the writer: I am not a “paid” operative by any campaign or any individual, unlike many of the “bloggers” who are posting hits on Chuck DeVore in behalf of Palin and Fiorina. I’m a conservative blogger who is truly offended by this type of campaigning. The people behind these smarmy tactics in California are why the GOP lost so much in 2008. Can we please learn from history? Let California elect a true conservative like Chuck DeVore if the voters choose him. Let him run without fear of being back-stabbed by his own party. A good example to this country is the election of Chris Christie in New Jersey. He is a conservative in a blue state and he is making a huge difference just a few months into his term.)
Remember Scott Brown and his pickup truck.
Remember Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
Remember Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment.
Carly Fiorina’s champagne campaign tactics should not succeed.
Palin’s endorsement might be enough to put her and Johnny Mac over the top.
BTW, Carly looks like a Butch.
Trust me, a bunch of the Sybil Palin stooges here are on a coordinted mission to paint DeVore as some kind of worthless nut. All to mkae Sybil look good for endorsing Gnarly.
She's a cancer survivor.
>Remember Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment.>
Except for the Palin haters on FR who bash, lie, smear day after day, week after week
It’s the Sybilistas that are the problem.
Go DeVore!!
Another one who doesn’t know anything about Carly especially that Chemo for Cancer (she beat)makes your hair fall out
“BTW, Carly looks like a Butch.”
Carly had breast cancer, she lost her hair because of chemo.
Your support for anything these days puts a black mark on whatever it is.
Don't try to help DeVore please
There is also a pack of astro-turfy Sarah Palin PAC bloggers blog-flogging DeVore over the past 48 hours. ........
In general I agree with this synopsis of the situation.
Don’t get angry or hate anyone including Sarah Palin for endorsing Carly Fiorina.
But on the merits, Fiorina is the insider, RNC, NRSC etc. pick for this seat.
The endorsements from National Right To Life, its California affiliate, the Susan B. Anthony List and the National Rifle Association all confirm this.
The money that pours into politics has also poured into the Pro-Life and Pro Second Amendment groups to buy their support for “electable” candidates.
In her book “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin said this on pages 2 and 3:
“A staunch advocate of every child’s right to be born, I was pro-life enough for the grassroots RTL folks to adopt Piper as their poster child, but I wasn’t politically connected enough for the state GOP machine to allow the organization to endorse me in early campaigns.”
Sarah should remember these words of hers because when she got started she was a Chuck DeVore who was pro-life, but couldn’t be endorsed by the political insiders that ran the pro-life organization because she wasn’t considered political enough.
Now Sarah has gone with the “GOP machine” in endorsing Fiorina.
I’m REALLY, REALLY starting to HATE the freeking GOP.
The REAL irony is that the opening of the post criticizes Pubs for attacking each other...invoking RR’s 11th commandment...then, of course, attacks others...
It would be funny if it weren’t so GD sick.
BTW, Carly looks like a Butch.Yeah, fighting cancer will do that.
Thanks for keeping it classy.
Bump for a later read, thanks.
Going nasty on people isn’t going to help the cause of Chuck DeVore, but there’s an awful lot of trolling this weekend from the GOP establishment.
As I said before, on the merits, Fiorina is the insider candidate and DeVore the outsider. Sarah Palin got started in politics from the outside fighting the Fiorina types in the persons of Frank and Lisa Murkowski in Alaska.
Its sad to see her go over to ‘the machine’ but I’m not here to trash Sarah or Carly. I just want to point out the truth here.
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