[heleny]

Congressman Elton Gallegly declared his candidacy for Governor to appear on the Recall Davis ballot.

I thought Gallegly was a moderate Republican, but I'm not sure. (He's not a liberal Republican, but I'm not sure he's conservative, either.)
Recently he sponsored the Identification Integrity Act of 2003 in the House to prohibit federal agencies from accepting foreign ID cards like the Mexican matricula consular cards or other foreign ID except for passports. I'm glad he's looking into exploiting Davis' weakness on illegal immigration, but so far I would prefer Tom McClintock for Governor.

That Assemblyman Tony Strickland will run for US Senate is news to me. I though he'd run for Tom McClintock's state senate seat when McClintock is termed out in 2004. Audra Strickland plans to run for the seat of her termed-out Asemblyman husband Tony in '04.

[fieldmarshaldj]

CA recall election *ping*

Elton Gallegly and the rest of these authentic Republicans need to stay the hell out of this campaign for Tom McClintock.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

I'm glad he's looking into exploiting Davis' weakness on illegal immigration, but so far I would prefer Tom McClintock for Governor.

It's pretty amazing to me that congressman Gallegly is publicly saying the things he is about illegal immigration, which is truthful but rare to hear out loud anymore from the pc establishment.

What's McClintock's position on the matter, has he mentioned anything about what he would do, like maybe allow prop 187 to continue on through the courts?

[dpwiener]

That Assemblyman Tony Strickland will run for US Senate is news to me. I though he'd run for Tom McClintock's state senate seat when McClintock is termed out in 2004.

Tom isn't termed-out until 2008, which presents Tony with a big problem. Tony was hoping that Tom would be elected State Controller in 2002, resulting in a special election for Tom's State Senate seat (which Tony would have likely won). But after Tom's narrow defeat, Tony has to find a new position after 2004. So he's been looking at possibly running for County Supevisor or U.S. Senate.

Of course if Tom should be elected Governor, Tony will immediately jump into the special election for Tom's vacant State Senate seat.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The count of candidates may go past 300 at this rate. But that is OK>

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[The KG9 Kid]

Elton Gallegly voted for the Brady Bill and AWB, but got an NRA A- rating anyway. Has sponsored some pro-NRA legislation on his own from time to time.

[jagrmeister]

Horrible. We need fewer candidates, not more. We need a psuedo-primary, what I would call a test of strength between the top GOP candidates. Whoever wins that, the whole party and other candidates should get behind. Otherwise we forfeit this golden opportunity. Personally, I think that test of strength should be a favorability poll amongst the CA electorate.

[cartoonistx]