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California Dems prefer collaboration with Republicans to winning

by JLWade, Fri May 04, 2007 at 01:04:41 PM EST

For Anyone who wondered why California only gained one congressional seat in the 2006 election, and gained nothing else, the following article will give you the straight scoop:

http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id =5664

Art Torres, the party chair, would clearly prefer to give back $4 million in UNSPENT money on election day, so that lame-duck house speaker Fabian Nunez can wine and dine lobbyists and consultants. He sure doesn't want to give the money to assembly district candidates because that might disrupt the cozy spoils system the CDP has with Republicans (The CDP gave money to only 2 out of 32 challengers in Republican-held AD seats). Bob Mulholland, the welfare queen of the Sacramento consultant aristocracy, encapsulates the CDP thinking best when he expresses this tender concern for Republican campaign budgets:

"As soon as you send in 10 or 20 or 50 thousand dollars],
the other side says `Incoming!' and they pour the money in."

Gosh, we sure don't want Republicans to WORK to win their seats, do we? Better to let them win!

Tags: California Democratic Party, Art Torres, Bob Mulholland, spending, 58 County plan, 2006 election (all tags)

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Re: California Dems (none / 0)

It's even worse. That one seat was won because of $1 million in outside-the-campaign spending by environmental groups to take down Richard Pombo. Musical seats office-holding is no help, either. Because of term limits, we will never see anybody in the California Legislature with the clout and savvy of Willie Brown, again. At the next level, the switching at the cabinet jobs seems really stupid to an outsider.

by David Kowalski on Fri May 04, 2007 at 01:55:51 PM EST

Re: California Dems prefer collaboration with Repu (none / 0)

I dont believe it is legal under party rules to allocate spending via resolution, as that particular resolution did. Now, the leadership burying resolutions was widespread behavior, as was documented on Calitics. The $4 million you are referring to has to be the AT&T money Speaker Nunez helped raise and then got back for "caucus activities". That will rankle for a long time. There were several races where an extra infusion of cash would have been useful.

by juls on Fri May 04, 2007 at 07:59:25 PM EST

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