When I saw similar tweets last night, I thought that with Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts and his ability to raise massive amounts of campaign cash online and at the last minute, Chuck DeVore had finally hit on a way to bolster his anemic fundraising.
The money bomb effort is just another WEAK fundraising effort. So, with all of the hoopla and spam-like tweeting it is to raise a mere 60K.
Doesn’t DeVore understand that ONE week for California television advertising costs up to $3 million? California statewide direct mail to millions of voters costs a ton? And, that DeVore has only a few hundred of thousands in the bank (although the official report will not be out until next week) even though he has been campaigning for the United States Senate for over a year. For example, DeVore’s Republican opponent Carly Fiorina has raised $1.1 million in just two months of candidacy and Marco Rubio in Florida raised $1.75 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.
This morning he is up to a whopping $26,008. Not much movement there, folks.
With California Field Poll numbers at 6 per cent compared to Carly Fiorina at 25 per cent and Tom Campbell at 30 per cent, DeVore must be able to adverrtise in order to win. Add this with the fact that Californians do NOT know who he is – the same Field Poll has 81 per cent of Republicans have NO OPINION on his candidacy, he must spend the money to campaign advertise.
While DeVore’s money bomb appears to be a BOMB, more power to him, if he can successfully fundraise. If not, then Chuck DeVore WILL be beat like a drum come June election time.
Maybe Chuck should withdraw from this race and not waste his time and his donor’s money on a fruitless pursuit of election?
The entire FLAP about the bogus pro-Obama letter writer, Ellie Light, may have been resolved.
Ellie Light, the ubiquitous letter writer whose name appeared in newspapers nationwide praising President Barack Obama, appears to really be a male health care worker from California.
A man who identified himself as Winston Steward, 51, of Frazier Park, Calif., says he made up the name “Ellie Light” to protect himself from criticism and possible physical attacks, and used fake addresses across the country to get local newspapers to publish his letters.
“I am Winston Steward and have been sending the letters from Ellie Light,” he told The Plain Dealer in an e-mail late Tuesday, following a phone interview in which he said the same. “I hope this ends any confusion and sets the record straight.”
His e-mail address matched the address of the Ellie Light missives that were sent to newspapers to praise Obama and urged second-guessers to be patient as the president advances the Democratic agenda. The person identified as Ellie Light had been corresponding from that e-mail address to The Plain Dealer since last week, when the newspaper’s Web site, cleveland.com, disclosed that someone using the name Ellie Light was duping newspapers nationwide.
But, the entire idea about a coordinated ASTRO-TURF operation directed through the media is not. And, there are more questions to be answered.
The lesson learned here – trust but verify on and offline. Things may NOT be what they seem.
Carly Fiorina is a conservative and principled woman who has the know-how and the support to win in a head-to-head battle with the legendary and rough campaign tactics of Boxer.
Carly Fiorina is high-contrast to the tolerated Boxer. She is easily one of the most accomplished women in America. She is campaigning throughout California to standing ovations. In San Diego this month, a last minute upgrade to a giant ballroom was required to handle the growing crowds that arrived to hear her. Fiorina is Barbara Boxer’s worst nightmare because she has actually done something. Senator Boxer has no answer to Fiorina’s blue chip preparation and training, her two MBA’s, and work history that spans a receptionist desk all the way to the top of AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Hewlett Packard.
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The Author, Sonja Brown was Deputy Communications Director and spokeswoman for Yes on Proposition 8 campaign to preserve traditional marriage
With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama’s top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying they no longer felt pressure to move quickly on a health bill after eight months of setting deadlines and missing them.
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, deflected questions about health care.
“We’re not on health care now,†Mr. Reid said. “We’ve talked a lot about it in the past.â€
He added, “There is no rush,†and noted that Congress still had most of this year to work on the health bills passed in 2009 by the Senate and the House.
Mr. Reid said he and the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, were working to map out a way to complete a health care overhaul in coming months. “There are a number of options being discussed,†he said, emphasizing “procedural aspects†of the issue.
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Obamacare or at least the Senate bill version has died with the election of MA Senator Scott Brown
Conservatism, an optimism grounded in great faith in each individual, rests on the fundamental principle that people will make better choices for themselves and their families than others can make for them.
It is the belief that we can trust individuals to make better decisions about how to spend and invest their own money than any far-away government bureaucrat or professional politician can.
Conservatism is really about a return to the basics that every responsible family understands. Don't spend what we can't afford; make the tough priority calls about spending and keep track of where the dollars go; invest in the security and unlimited potential of our children; don't burden them with our debts.
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Read it all
At first glance, the seasoned observer of Golden State Republican politics is tempted to shrug and say “Who cares?†A Stanford University law professor and briefly state finance director under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Campbell represents the left-of-center of the state Republican Party that has been in decline for decades. He has already made two unsuccessful Senate runs. In losing nomination for the same Senate seat he now seeks to conservative Bruce Herschensohn in 1992, Campbell took decidedly liberal stands on abortion (his television spots almost always underscored he was the “pro-choice Republicanâ€), gay rights, gun control, and the environment. He also was for abolishing the Strategic Defense Initiative and for the quota-laden Civil Rights Act of 1991.
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When CA voters are reminded of his past positions he will sink like a stone in the polls
Ex-FL House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) announced this a.m. that he raised $1.75M in the 4thQ '09, nearly matching FL Gov. Charlie Crist's (R) total during the same period.
The numbers are more good news for Rubio, whose campaign seems to be riding a wave of momentum bolstered by any number of conservative victories, from Doug Hoffman's candidacy in NY-23 to Sen.-elect Scott Brown's (R) win in MA to Rubio's own victories in straw polls across FL.
Now, a new Quinnipiac poll out this a.m. shows Rubio leading Crist for the first time. And an endorsement by ex-FL Gov. Jeb Bush (R) could be a matter of "when," not "if," following the endorsement of Bush's son, George P. Bush, last week.
Despite his impressive 4thQ haul, Rubio still lags far behind Crist in terms of CoH. Crist currently has a hefty $7.5M in his war chest, dwarfing Rubio's $2M. That means Crist is well-positioned going into the seven months remaining until the 8/24 GOP primary.
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Going to get down and dirty soon.
The Washington Post 1-25-10: President Barack Obama, under pressure from deficit hawks, will seek a three-year freeze on domestic spending in his 2011 budget that would save $250 billion by 2020, administration officials said on Monday.
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After spending America blind for the past year, President Obama now proposes a spending freeze?
Brown’s ad focused on a 2001 vote by then-Illinois state senator Obama. He opposed a bill that would have expanded the use of the death penalty if the perp was in a gang.
However, Chuck’s pals at Time magazine described the ad’s “links between Obama’s vote on that issue and the deaths of three Chicago resident’s are indirect and tenuous.â€
Nonetheless, asked what he thought of Brown’s ideas, DeVore didn’t take the chance to denounce “birther†rumors or the movement itself–which has been heavily active in California.
“The president is doing himself no favors by spending millions of dollars to block the release of documents surrounding his birth certificate,†said DeVore. “As long as the president keeps fighting tooth and nail to prevent the release of such things, people are going to remain skeptical.†The door was left open, said DeVore, because Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign didn’t go after Obama’s qualifications when it had the chance, and because there were no statutory requirements for verifying a candidate’s citizenship.
But, now in a profile today DeVore has apparently “repositioned himself” with the Birther issue.
Steinhauser dismissed any correlation between Tea Partiers and birthers in the state. “That issue is a distraction,” said Steinhauser, who believes Obama was born in the United States.
DeVore does, too. But in 2008, he led (and gave $1,000 to) Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America, a political action committee. There, DeVore teamed with high-profile birther Floyd Brown to run an ad campaign against then-presidential candidates Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that criticized their positions on taxes and immigration.
So, Chuck, a little flip-flop or do you simply have two sets of answers? Or is your past Obama birtherism becoming a political liability/embarassment?
Yes, I am late getting this interview processed and posted from the Conejo Valley Republican Women luncheon on January 15, 2010. But, I have posted the unedited audio on You Tube and it is embedded below.
California U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is interviewed by Gregory Flap Cole on January 15, 2010
Prior to Carly Fiorina’s arrival, there were a few signing carrying protesters. They did not identify themselves, were sporting a video camera taking video of me taking photos and apparently were not too fond of any of the Republican candidates for office who were going to address the luncheon.
This photo was one of the basis for a question I asked former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina above
Fiorina said she would run on the facts of her tenure at Hewlett Packard. While there has been much praise and criticism of her tenure at now the largest computer manufacturer, there is without a doubt that today Hewlett-Packard is a thriving company. Fiorina is anything but a “FAILED” businesswoman.
Let’s look at some of the facts:
Carly became CEO of Hewlett-Packard in July 1999 at the age of 44. Documents obtained from HP and the SEC for the fiscal years 1998 through 2005 show that the year before she became HP’s CEO, the computer giant’s net revenue was $39.3 billion. When she left the company in February 2005, HP’s net revenues had more than doubled to $86.7 billion and continued in the years that followed.
Fiscal Year
Net Revenue (in millions)
2008
118,364
2007
104,286
2006
91,658
2005
86,696
2004
79,905
2003
73,061
2002
56,588
2001
45,226
2000
48,870
1999
42,371
1998
39,330
HP’s net earnings during Carly’s time at HP tell a slightly different story. Profits increased the first few years, took a hit during the technology crash and Compaq merger, and have come roaring back in the years that followed.
Fiscal Year
Net Earnings (in millions)
2008
8,329
2007
7,264
2006
6,198
2005
2,398
2004
3,497
2003
2,539
2002
-903
2001
680
2000
3,561
1999
3,104
1998
2,678
I will have more throughout the coming months about Fiorina’s business tenure at Hewlett-Packard and will debunk many of the myths cast about by her political opponents on the right and left.
You want to keep President Obama talking and the State of the Union address is a perfect way to demonstrate how his Administration policies have been a disaster for America. Despite the hype and the rhetoric, Obama’s poll numbers are in a free fall downward and he is flailing about for ways to aid the American economy.
Now, after spending the federal government blind and raising taxes, Obama is talking about proposing a federal budget spending freeze. What about Obamacare?
Obamacare would be the greatest increase in entitlement spending ever and the tax increases to pay for it would be huge.
The fact is the President does NOT know what he wants except the ability to stay in office for himself and his cronies on the LEFT.
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