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  • Angelides Seen as a Drag on the Party. Dems fear a repeat of '94 ticket-wide collapse

    10/08/2006 10:39:47 PM PDT · by FairOpinion · 143 replies · 2,314+ views
    LAT ^ | Oct. 9, 2006 | Michael Finnegan and Mark Z. Barabak
    Worried Democrats said Sunday that Phil Angelides failed to achieve the breakthrough he needed in the sole gubernatorial debate and expressed fear that his campaign's trajectory threatened others on the statewide ticket. Fellow Democrat John Garamendi, in a tight race for lieutenant governor against Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, has started to distance himself from Angelides. On Sunday, the example cited repeatedly by Angelides' disappointed party brethren was the 1994 election, when then-Treasurer Kathleen Brown lost in a landslide and dragged several fellow Democrats down with her. "When you have a situation like we had in 1994, when the top...