[Carry_Okie]

Probably like most candidates he didn’t keep his campaign manager in check and just let them handle everything, finding out too late that was a big mistake.

Uh, no. Wrong again. The person George Bush and Carl Rove insisted handle all money for the California GOP, Gerry Parsky, stipulated that Simon take Rollins or no Party money. Simon was a neophyte, but his selection of Russo-Marsh for the primary had him overcoming a nine point deficit in two weeks to win the primary by 14 points over a well-known anointed RINO and former mayor of Los Angeles, Dick Riordan.

Might I suggest confining the source of your speculations to facts instead of shooting from the hip?

[Free Vulcan]

Then Simon was a fool and should have stood his ground. Even if I’d bowed to pressure to take someone, my first statement behind closed doors would be ‘do it my way or the highway’.

You NEVER let the threat of no party money intimidate you into letting your campaign manager be a loose cannon and turn your campaign into something that’s not you. Better to lose on a shoestring doing it your way than lose by getting pwned.