Posted on 04/24/2005 9:41:55 AM PDT by AVNevis
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) - State Sen. Tom McClintock, the rock-ribbed conservative who made headlines two years ago when he ignored his fellow Republicans' pleas to drop out of the race to replace Gov. Gray Davis and leave the field open for Arnold Schwarzenegger, is getting an early start in the 2006 race for lieutenant governor.
Campaigning in Orange County on Saturday, McClintock told members of the group Principles Over Politics that the job appeals to him because the lieutenant governor presides over the state Senate and is California's chief executive whenever the governor is out of state.
"It places the office in the position of being a great generator of reforms," McClintock said. He also defended Schwarzenegger against complaints that in recent weeks he has backed off efforts to overhaul the state's pension system and institute tighter budget controls after his proposals came under sharp criticism.
"We have to bear in mind that political battles aren't tidy affairs," he said.
McClintock and Schwarzenegger were at odds for a time in 2003 when the legislator became the only major Republican to refuse to drop out of the race to replace Davis if he was recalled after Schwarzenegger became the front-runner to replace him. The two put those differences aside last year when Schwarzenegger campaigned for McClintock's re-election to the state Senate.
McClintock is making his fourth campaign for statewide office, having lost the gubernatorial race in 2003 and two previous bids for state controller. First elected to the state Assembly in 1982 at age 26, he served there until 1992 and again from 1996 to 2000. First elected to the state Senate in 2000, term limits will prevent him from seeking another term there in 2008.
He is the first Republican to announce his candidacy lieutenant governor in 2006.
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Go Tom Go!!!!
I think I am going to send him a $200 check. You guys have inspired me. The effort to silence a voice that needs to be heard, if only to observe that the emperor has not clothes, simply finds to favor in this quarter. McClintock should just say "nuts" to you hecklers and bearers of old grudges. I suspect McClintock will win the GOP primary easily.
Because he imagines himself as a good conservative Republican.
But, he's only a self serving politician IMO.
Bustamonte could not have won not matter how much they split the vote. The combined Republicans got 63%, Bustamonte only got 31%.
The definition of psychosis is not knowing you are crazy.
Some day, some of you will slip up again, and I will make sure to preserve those posts for posterity and post them, as requested.
You have repeatedly babbled the assertion that FReepers who supported McClintock would have preferred Bustamante to Arnold and have never supplied any evidence of its veracity. You have had over a year to search it and have failed to find a single corroborating post.
Now, thanks to you, FareOpinion, we don't have to wait for "some day," seeing as you have blown it again. In the thread at the above link, you asserted you could disprove EVERY ONE of the points in my oft repeated list of Arnold's record. You failed thereon to supply any evidence disproving a single one (even though one of them did have an error that has been since corrected).
I at least showed you the courtesy of warning you that I had bookmarked it, knowing that you would eventually blow it anyway.
He also has the same magnetic personality as wall paper paste. He had a marketing problem before, now he has lots of conservatives seeing him as the out of control spoiler IMO.
If McC wins this nomination, it's a gift of the office to a Democrat by almost default. McC is like the kiss of death to success right now.
If he becomes the Republican candidate, he loses to the Democrat and has zero chance of winning that office.
Send him that $200 so he can stash some of it for his retirement. LOL
He also has the same magnetic personality as wall paper paste. He had a marketing problem before, now he has lots of conservatives seeing him as the out of control spoiler IMO.
If McC wins this nomination, it's a gift of the office to a Democrat by almost default. McC is like the kiss of death to success right now.
If he becomes the Republican candidate, he loses to the Democrat and has zero chance of winning that office.
Send him that $200 so he can stash some of it for his retirement. LOL
Yawn -- you should worry more about the Republicans in the US Senate and House giving in to the Dems.
Senators May Compromise to End Impasse on Judges
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391058/posts
AND
se GOP Doesn't Plan Probe of Judges (Schiavo, DeLay)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391046/posts
Just who is the Pubbie who could win the lieutenant governor slot, and whomever it is, why would it mean a damn? The office has no duties except as a platform to promulgate ideas. There really is a serious lack of proportion here.
Yawn -- When confronted with your own words, you change the subject, as usual.
So, if electing Republicans is your goal, tell us why, when the best known and most respected Republican conservative in California, who polled better than any other Republican candidate in the last general election, announces his run for Lieutenant Governor, you immediately attempt to sabotage that campaign?
>>He has proved to me that he thinks he's more important than the whole party.
He's proved to me that conservatism and principles are more important than the party.
That is a GOOD thing in my book.
He is NOT the best known. Arnold is the best known.
McC is NOT respected except by a handful of faithful groupies.
And for the 10 millionth time, he is UNELECTABLE in any statewide election.
Arnold is NOT a conservative.
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