Conservative Republican and Navy Vet Got Screwed by California GOP

Bakersfield Californian ^ | March 7, 2003 | Vic Pollard

[Saundra Duffy]

The CA GOP leaders are too busy trying to screw each other and the democraps are just having a field day.

[Saundra Duffy]

BUMP for exposure

[Saundra Duffy]

Previous post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/814512/posts

[Saundra Duffy]

Another link to previous thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/824547/posts

[Saundra Duffy]

Another previously posted thread on the subject of Parra and her voter fraud: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/799537/posts

[NormsRevenge]

Stuck in the back again GOP Blues Got Ya down?

Think recall gray davis :-)

[saminfl]

This reminds me of another incident many years ago. When I lived in Tucson, an ex-pow ran against the ultra-liberal Mo Udall. He came with just a few votes of beating Udall. I seem to remember that it was the closest race Udall had ever been in. It turns out the local GOP did nothing to help this guy.

[bigfootbob]

"The county committee did give Gardner $1,000, but sent the bulk of the cash outside the county."

Unconscionable!

[farmfriend]

Saundra has been busy fighting this on her own. She has called for support and gotten none. We've all played a part in letting this happen.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Cicero]

Friends of Gerald Parsky?

[Carry_Okie]

Bingo.

[onedoug]

You might consider yourself lucky in that we rarely have any Republican candidates on the ballot here in LA.

[fly_so_free]

It's kinda self evident that the Republican party in our state is a disaster. There is a reason why we are the only Socialist state in the Union. This reminded me of when Bob Dornan lost his re-election bid and he kept saying the 'RATS cheated, but the repubs wouldn't investigate. The party needs to make big changes in how it runs things if they ever want to win in this state again.

[Saundra Duffy]

Deja vu all over again? Sheeeeesh. Thanks for your post. For victory & freedom!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

Thanks, Sis, from the bottom of my heart. For victory & freedom!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

Friends of Gerald Parsky?

Probably - not to mention Bill Thomas!

[Saundra Duffy]

You might consider yourself lucky in that we rarely have any Republican candidates on the ballot here in LA.

Good point. LOL! Sorry for you poor lost souls down there in LA-LA land. Thanks, you made me feel a little better. LOL!

[GOP_Raider]

Man, no wonder CA is screwed!! The CA GOP is getting too cannibalistic. Truly sad.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"This reminds me of another incident many years ago. When I lived in Tucson, an ex-pow ran against the ultra-liberal Mo Udall. He came with just a few votes of beating Udall. I seem to remember that it was the closest race Udall had ever been in. It turns out the local GOP did nothing to help this guy."

I believe you're talking about the 1978 contest. Udall's profile after he ran for President in 1976 hurt him badly locally when they realized he was a fairly solid leftist, and his margins started shrinking dramatically. State legislator Tom Richey challenged him after Udall's margin was poor against a withdrawn candidate in 1976 (who still got 40%). The 2nd in the late '70s was trending GOP then. Richey was not the choice of the local GOP and ran an insurgent campaign (though outspent 2-to-1 by Udall), and held Udall to his closest race ever, 53-45% (with only a switch of 4,456 votes, Richey would've prevailed). Richey might've pulled it out had he not ran ads saying that Udall specifically referred to himself as a Socialist, which was charged as misleading. The GOP nominated someone else that had strong party support in 1980, but Udall had time to reconnect with his constituents and pulled back up to a 58-40% win (even as Reagan won the district) and never had difficulty again (especially after he was given a more Democrat-leaning district in 1982) until Parkinson's forced his retirement in 1991.