New McClintock Campaign Website

HelpTom.com ^ | 1/30/2006 | McClintock for Lietenant Governor

[E-Mat]

January 27, 2006 McClintock Campaign Launches Re-Designed Website Visit Tom McClintock's newly redesigned website featuring an expanded "Eminent Domain Headquarters."  Sign up for email updates and to help circulate petitions for the Eminent Domain initiative once they become available. Remarks by Senator McClintock Before the Senate Transportation Committee I want to begin by applauding the administration for finally focusing the government=92s attention on our long-neglected public works. I have often lamented the climacteric that befell our state in 1974 with the election of Gov. Jerry Brown and the introduction of a radical and retrograde ideology. He called it his =93era of limits.=94 It was punctuated with such new age nonsense as the mantra =93small is beautiful.=94 I think it can best be described as the na=EFve notion that if we stopped building things, people would stop coming. So we stopped building highways; we stopped building water projects; we stopped building houses and electricity plants. And people came anyway. And now we=92re dealing with the result. That ideology permeated two Democratic and two Republican administrations, and I am very glad to see this administration breaking from this folly. But as pertains to this specific proposal, I would like to offer a few general observations. Read the entire speech

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[b9]

May I ask you a simple question?
Do you want McClintock to win?

[peyton randolph]

Yeah, this is more along the lines of what the OBL/RNC cheerleaders on Free Republic LOVE to support...

Interesting attack. If I don't support paleo candidates, I must support homosexuals, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Osama Bin Laden et al. Your 'logic' (emotional rant) is underwhelming.

With a few more hung chads, maybe your lost cause candidate of choice will garner 0.5% of the vote in the '08 general election.

[Amerigomag]

Do you want McClintock to win?

Already asked and answered.

A +75% of anything is a victory according to a notable CAGOP shill.

What puzzles me is how that shill, with great and tortured effort, manages to push, shove and leverage, without remorse or embarrassment, a -30% over that apparently sacred threshold.

[SierraWasp]

"I wonder if the State legislators have term limits?
Do all CA elected positions at this time have term limits?"

Just how long have you been "A CA Guy?" You don't remember the ballot measures regarding "Term Limits?"

Don't they have "Government," or "Civics," or even "Social Studies" in public school anymore? I know they haven't cancelled newspapers and other news media as of yet! How come you are on here tryin to jerk the rest of us around about politics and government in CA and you don't even know what's up with Term Limits???

Unbelieveable!!!

[b9]

I'll take that as a no.
No one would ever call their candidate a prostitute.

[A CA Guy]

I know there are term limits, but how far down they go is another matter.

I take it you do mean McClintock will lose the legislative job by law and has to run now for Lieutenant Governor or get a job in the private sector?

[dalereed]

If you don't know that get the hell out of California.

[Amerigomag]

No one would ever call their candidate a prostitute.

A burden only for partisans.

Partisans are saddled with candidates, usually chosen by others. They trudge to the polling place armed with a clothespin and a list, sleep restlessly on election night and avoid eye contact with the bathroom mirror the next morning.

Conversely, any ideologue, conservative or liberal, have choices, breath an air of freedom, rest comfortably after franchise and look forward to a new day with hope.

[A CA Guy]

I'm guessing the reason McC would not be going for his old job would be it won't be there next term.

I think you are indicating I am correct.

[Amerigomag]

McClintock was elected to the California Senate in 2000.

McClintock was re-elected to the California Senate in 2004.

Shortly after his re-election to the Senate, McClintock opened an exploratory committee to run for Lieutenant Governor in 2006 .

McClintock is barred, by state law, from seeking a third term in the California Senate in 2008.

[A CA Guy]

That's what I thought, he wants to stay on the public payroll.

Well, we'll see how it goes.

[Amerigomag]

With few exceptions, since 1979, one year after college graduation, McClintock, a six term Assemblyman and two term Senator, has been on "the public payroll" in one fashion or the other.

[A CA Guy]

That would be his choice, because even a bad lawyer can make more money in private practice I would figure.

[calcowgirl]

Your incessant anti-McClintock posts over the past few years certainly demonstrate a deep hatred.
Strange, in that they also show little knowledge of the man.

He isn't a lawyer.

[A CA Guy]

Really, many seem to be lawyers.

Well, that explains a lot, he needs the job then.

[calcowgirl]

ROFL! I think we need him more than he needs the state payroll.
I'm sure he could make lots more money NOT winning.

[A CA Guy]

I think he does have a desire for public service and could make more money with less stress in the private sector if he chose to do so.

[SierraWasp]

Listen, turkey! I've worked both sides of the fence!! Private sector and public sector and it takes unique talents and carefully developed skills that you would never understand to succeed in either arena. So spare me another chapter of your insipid diatribe about McClintock never having been in the private sector meeting a payroll.

There are far more "sharks" of all types constantly circling public figures 24/7/365 in each 4 year term than hardly ANY private sector CEO/representative/middleman has to deal with than you've ever imagined. As you can see with outstandingly effective people like Tom DeLay... gone overnight because he was so effective as a political professional and they HAD to "get" him.

So spare me your "political person for too long" envy of McClintock and go study your civics. Google is your friend. Keeps you from looking and acting insipid and foolish!!! Use it!!!

[fieldmarshaldj]

That's a disgustingly slanderous comparison to put Father Coughlin's picture in there. Are you calling McClintock a NAZI supporter ?

[Torie]

Pat is there too. Sigh.