McClintock's lawyer, Richard Ackerman, believes Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, a Democrat who opposes the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, is taking advantage of the opportunity to put a wrench in the senator's campaign.And:
McClintock's chief strategist John Stoos declined to pin the blame on the secretary of state's office. He told WND the problem is California's Fair Political Practices Commission an independent panel that regulates campaign financing and spending sticking by its guns on a technicality "because they are bureaucrats first and public servants second."It's just like a Democrat to refuse to allow unformalized bureaucratic solutions to problems. This is exactly the kind of red tape that McClintock (or Schwarzenegger for that matter) should be able to help sweep aside.
Yeah, but only if the solution helps an opposition candidate. If a Democrat were adversely affected, the situation would be different. Sort of like if a Democratic candidate were polling badly, and the party decided to replace him long after the deadline for doing this had passed. It becomes a "voting rights" issue if a Democrat is affected, and "too bad, that's the law" if it's a Republican.
Hmm. Seems to me that we are usually the ones insisting that a deadline is a deadline and the rules are the rules. McClintock has run for office many times in California; it's impossible for me to believe he didn't know the right way to do the paperwork.