Gavin Newsom announces bid for CA Governor

[dbackjon]

It's official. Today, I became a candidate for governor because California needs a new direction.

I hope you will join me as we set out to build a campaign that does more than win an election. Together we can create the kind of campaign that changes California.

If you want to help us get off to a strong start, please contribute here.

In San Francisco, we're showing what can be accomplished when we stop looking back and start looking for solutions.

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Join us and you can help take the fight for excellent and affordable health care to all of California.

Across California, teachers are facing layoff notices; but we are protecting teachers from layoffs, raising test scores and breaking down the barriers to a college education.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gavin-new ... 89293.html

[travelinman67]

Statewide, his popularity is just a little below a cockroach's. The whole crew from the 13th Assembly District in SF are clueless. Rather that building consensus through debate and discussion, they historically attempt to force their extremist beliefs (no, Jonny boy...not the "gay" issue, their purely socialistic views on ALL constitutional rights and expansion of govt...) on the rest of Californians: For years and years, the rest of California has had to tolerate listening to and reading about their repeated efforts, by means of legislative and judicial piracy, to foist socialized medicine, gun bans, legalized drugs, over-the-top environmental protection, hate speech enforcement, and worst of all, undermining the justice protections of the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments by slipping in "brown bag" legislative amendments to change the CA Evidence Code (changing statute of limitations, specific hearsay exceptions intended to open the door to increased hate speech prosecution and civil rights complaints).

As with anything, anytime you start tinkering with law with the sole intent providing favorable treatment to a specific class of people, the resulting pandora's box of misapplication, as a rule, negates any good that came from the original intent. In this case, however, I'll challenge Newsom and Crews intent, as be befeft of noble intent. And in the process, he's not just lost the respect of most poli's both left and right, but made quite a few political enemies.

In fact, Newsom's background is so bereft of noble purpose, I'll make a small wager that he doesn't make it past the primary.

You may smirk, Jon, thinking I'm outta touch with "progressive" CA, but you saw what happened to Prop 8...

...CA is half Mexican-American, and overall, the M-A community is far more traditional-conservative than the rest of CA. The bought into the Obama hype and have watched the folly of the past 100 days, so now the latest numbers I've heard from pollsters out here shows the M-A community now has LESS support for Obama than the statewide avg.

And with Feinstein stealing bailout money for her husband, Harmon on tape pulling shenanigans to help out two AIPAC operatives being investigated for espionage (in trade for some graffe from Pelosi), and on, and on...

...I look forward to 2010.

[Cap'n Cat]

E-Z, T




We love you. Calm down, my brother.

[Ivytalk]

Interesting. A couple of months ago, I thought the Dem nomination was Feinstein's to lose. What do the oddsmakers say?

[travelinman67]

Interesting. A couple of months ago, I thought the Dem nomination was Feinstein's to lose. What do the oddsmakers say?

Dunno about the pundits...but after this latest "bailout" gaffe, her chances are probably pretty poor. It's unfortunate, but outside of Villargosa, most of the state's prominent Dems have done something to shoot themselves in the foot. All the "machine" Dems have sought refuge on State Commissions, or in some local or regional seat in the Berkeley, Alameda, SF area. Sad comment, but when EPA Czar Carol "Anti Capitalism" Browner visited recently, she had to seek refuge in East Oakland as a guest of Rep. Barbara "Hates America" Lee-(D) Berkely, and Oakland Mayor Ron "Tse Tung" Dellums, visiting/speaking at some bailout funded training center for uneducated poor seeking re-education in preparation for a "green job".







And to boot...termed out Dem enforcer State Senate Speaker Don "The Liar" Perata has such a negative statewide rating, he' announced he's running for Mayor of Oakland to replace Dellums, who replace Jerry Brown.

(...you can't make this sh!t up...)

Look for Darrell Issa, Duncan Hunter and Tom McClintock on the Republican side...both Hunter and McClintock show well in polls.
On the Dem side...it'll be a wide open field of mid-range candidates, with former Peoples Party representative John Burton as chair of the state's DNC, lying and buying votes to beat the stronger Republ. candidates...(Gray Davis, redux).






BTW, Cap'n...kiss my...

[Cap'n Cat]

BTW, Cap'n...kiss my...

Hey, just take 'er easy with the spewin', Grover F. Shtarker.

[travelinman67]

BTW, Cap'n...kiss my...

Hey, just take 'er easy with the spewin', Grover F. Shtarker.

Hell...I am Mr. Clueless.

You need to wake up to reality...

...the Dems have run amuck...

...so badly, that Drudge Reports headline was...

"Pols Gone Wild"

...with headlines about Feinstein, Harmon and Murtha's ethical misconduct, Congress's blaming obesity for our economic woes, the TARP Inspector-General warning that the bailout may result in public funding fraud of "unprecedented scope"...



...and I took a pass (too busy/tired) on commenting about this weekend's headlines regarding the follies of Chu, Browner and Salazar!!!

Criminy...I could be writing NOVELS each day about the Dem's fraud, incompetence and misconduct.

Better wake up Cap'n...it ain't going to get any quieter around here.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

wow... that was some really... interesting armchair analysis...

also (almost complete) bs

The short version on CA

It's Loretta Sanchez race to lose... she's an attractive, latino, female, from so-cal with solid liberal cred to keep the bay area from getting too far off the reservation.

The GOP's name brand is somewhere on par with Roland Burris... and don't forget it. A Pew survey just released showed the GOP with lower approval than Hugo Chavez... (not saying it's the gospel truth... but it's the territory they are operating in)

They also don't have a candidate that makes anyone off the far right go hmm...

the problem with CalGOP is that they are fanatically to the right of even moderate Californians.

Campbell, Poizner, and Whittman... none are going to get people too excited.

I don't think Newsome has much of a chance in the primary. He'll have a contingent of supporters, but I don't think he moves to the front. DiFi is old, has some problems politically, but I think in the end with primary voters it comes down to who will hold the seat for the long term... and her age becomes an issue fast. I think having her in the Senate is better for CA.

(btw, the one thing that wasn't BS is that it appears that Harmon is toast... however your whole conjecture about linking this to Pelosi seems to be a fantasy cooked up in that conkaddled mind of yours)

[travelinman67]

wow... that was some really... interesting armchair analysis...

also (almost complete) bs

The short version on CA

It's Loretta Sanchez race to lose... she's an attractive, latino, female, from so-cal with solid liberal cred to keep the bay area from getting too far off the reservation.

The GOP's name brand is somewhere on par with Roland Burris... and don't forget it. A Pew survey just released showed the GOP with lower approval than Hugo Chavez... (not saying it's the gospel truth... but it's the territory they are operating in)

They also don't have a candidate that makes anyone off the far right go hmm...

the problem with CalGOP is that they are fanatically to the right of even moderate Californians.

Campbell, Poizner, and Whittman... none are going to get people too excited.

I don't think Newsome has much of a chance in the primary. He'll have a contingent of supporters, but I don't think he moves to the front. DiFi is old, has some problems politically, but I think in the end with primary voters it comes down to who will hold the seat for the long term... and her age becomes an issue fast. I think having her in the Senate is better for CA.

(btw, the one thing that wasn't BS is that it appears that Harmon is toast... however your whole conjecture about linking this to Pelosi seems to be a fantasy cooked up in that conkaddled mind of yours)

SANCHEZ!!!!!


In your dreams, Popsiclepundit.

Sanchez is ONLY known inside her region and poli insider circles.

Dude, you've been reading too much DumbyDonk talking papers.

And to suggest Poizner, Campbell (???) and Meg Whittman as leading Repub. candidates...???

Whittman will try to spend her way into the race, but Poizner and Campbell have both disenfranchised party loyalists, so I don't see them making any headway.

[Cap'n Cat]

If it gets louder around here, T, cuz of you, it's your loss, pal.

[travelinman67]

"If it gets louder around here, T, cuz of you, it's your loss, pal."

Blame the messenger...

Nice!

[TwinTownBisonFan]

t...

who's the gopers front runner then IYO?

as for Sanchez... yeah, she's the insider choice... never underestimate what that can do. she'll be able to raise a ton of $, esp. if DiFi stays out. Sanchez has a ton of advantages including a built-in massive base of support from latinos. The only way I see her faltering is with another latino stalking-horse like Villaragosa (who has plenty of his own problems) siphoning votes and money away.

[Ibanez]

California? They have happy cows out there.

[travelinman67]

California? They have happy cows out there.

True 'dat...

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[TwinTownBisonFan]

so t... about that gop bare cupboard?

who's going to be their guy if not one of the three declared candidates?

[AZGrizFan]

the problem with CalGOP is that they are fanatically to the right of even moderate Californians.

Moderate Californians make Lenin look conservative.

[travelinman67]

so t... about that gop bare cupboard?

who's going to be their guy if not one of the three declared candidates?

Don't kid yourself...

...the business community has a TON of great leaders right now who are FLAMING FRIGGIN FURIOUS at the chuckleheads in the Capitol. Expect to see any "machine" candidates get their fannies knocked in the mud once the season begins. Meg Whitman is just one of the notable candidates. Truth is, the tree hugging union-step-an-fetchits are going to get their bells rung in the next round...and all the Donkspin won't save them. Hell, even the knee-jerk local liberal media outlets out here are bashing the Dem controlled leftislature...first time I've EVER seen that happen.

I am just SOOOOOO THANKFUL we have term limits...means we only have to put up with these schmuck POS's for around 8 years.

Being a "politician" or "incumbent" in CA is no longer an "edge"...and after the next 4 years, I doubt it will be much of an edge in Washington either.


BTW...the Reid race in NV may be interesting...sounds like he's being targeted a-la Daschle.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

so t... about that gop bare cupboard?

who's going to be their guy if not one of the three declared candidates?

Don't kid yourself...

...the business community has a TON of great leaders right now who are FLAMING FRIGGIN FURIOUS at the chuckleheads in the Capitol. Expect to see any "machine" candidates get their fannies knocked in the mud once the season begins. Meg Whitman is just one of the notable candidates. Truth is, the tree hugging union-step-an-fetchits are going to get their bells rung in the next round...and all the Donkspin won't save them. Hell, even the knee-jerk local liberal media outlets out here are bashing the Dem controlled leftislature...first time I've EVER seen that happen.

I am just SOOOOOO THANKFUL we have term limits...means we only have to put up with these schmuck POS's for around 8 years.

Being a "politician" or "incumbent" in CA is no longer an "edge"...and after the next 4 years, I doubt it will be much of an edge in Washington either.


BTW...the Reid race in NV may be interesting...sounds like he's being targeted a-la Daschle.

still looking for a NAME.

the Dems have a field, a qualified field, of known quantities that, while YOU may not like them... will likely have a STRONG edge at the governors mansion. Your Dem frontrunners are all national level dems, not Sacramento dems... and that will help them.

More to the point, how do you propose that the CA GOP find a candidate that won't be repulsive to most Californians, and yet survive the GOP primary, which requires you to be somewhere in the vicinity of nutter Tom McClintock to get the nomination.

Arnold was a completely unique case in that he ascended as a celebrity candidate in that cluster-farge of a recall that gave new meaning to the word "farce"

The national GOP brand is in tatters, their popularity is somewhere in the neighborhood of dental work, and their bench of electable Republicans in Cali is thinner than 3.2 beer. And to presume that a white knight candidate is going to come riding out of the business community... other than whittman i haven't heard of anyone even looking at the race... seems a fools errand. the biggest name i can think of would be Darrell Issa... but he's got ZERO appeal to anyone outside the GOP base.

for as much as you'd think that being an incumbent "will hurt them"... it never bears out. people believe in the exceptionalism of their electeds... "they are crooks, but mine's one of the good ones" I'd be shocked if 20% of incumbents running for re-election will be defeated... it just doesn't work that way.

[travelinman67]

Don't kid yourself...

...the business community has a TON of great leaders right now who are FLAMING FRIGGIN FURIOUS at the chuckleheads in the Capitol. Expect to see any "machine" candidates get their fannies knocked in the mud once the season begins. Meg Whitman is just one of the notable candidates. Truth is, the tree hugging union-step-an-fetchits are going to get their bells rung in the next round...and all the Donkspin won't save them. Hell, even the knee-jerk local liberal media outlets out here are bashing the Dem controlled leftislature...first time I've EVER seen that happen.

I am just SOOOOOO THANKFUL we have term limits...means we only have to put up with these schmuck POS's for around 8 years.

Being a "politician" or "incumbent" in CA is no longer an "edge"...and after the next 4 years, I doubt it will be much of an edge in Washington either.


BTW...the Reid race in NV may be interesting...sounds like he's being targeted a-la Daschle.

still looking for a NAME.

the Dems have a field, a qualified field, of known quantities that, while YOU may not like them... will likely have a STRONG edge at the governors mansion. Your Dem frontrunners are all national level dems, not Sacramento dems... and that will help them.

More to the point, how do you propose that the CA GOP find a candidate that won't be repulsive to most Californians, and yet survive the GOP primary, which requires you to be somewhere in the vicinity of nutter Tom McClintock to get the nomination.

Arnold was a completely unique case in that he ascended as a celebrity candidate in that cluster-farge of a recall that gave new meaning to the word "farce"

The national GOP brand is in tatters, their popularity is somewhere in the neighborhood of dental work, and their bench of electable Republicans in Cali is thinner than 3.2 beer. And to presume that a white knight candidate is going to come riding out of the business community... other than whittman i haven't heard of anyone even looking at the race... seems a fools errand. the biggest name i can think of would be Darrell Issa... but he's got ZERO appeal to anyone outside the GOP base.

for as much as you'd think that being an incumbent "will hurt them"... it never bears out. people believe in the exceptionalism of their electeds... "they are crooks, but mine's one of the good ones" I'd be shocked if 20% of incumbents running for re-election will be defeated... it just doesn't work that way.

I flatly dispute your assertion that a strong "national" candidate will have an edge in CA state politics.

Regardless of their Wash. tenure, Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi couldn't get elected to state office if Jesus himself endorsed them.
Further, presuming that recitation of Donkspin legitimizes a candidate is nonsense. Sanchez is HATED within CA politics for her "independent" non-traditional Dem positions. She's pissed of the Latino community, has virtually no support outside of her district, but seems to have a proclivity for sleeping with the married men she employs (which is probably why so many Wash. machine Dems (mostly male) want to "advance" her.

With all due respect, TTBF, CA politics ain't the same cup of joe as the midwest (rustbelt) and NE states'.

[Wedgebuster]

Who is this "Sanchez?"

[Cap'n Cat]

I flatly dispute your assertion that a strong "national" candidate will have an edge in CA state politics.

Regardless of their Wash. tenure, Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi couldn't get elected to state office if Jesus himself endorsed them.
Further, presuming that recitation of Donkspin legitimizes a candidate is nonsense. Sanchez is HATED within CA politics for her "independent" non-traditional Dem positions. She's pissed of the Latino community, has virtually no support outside of her district, but seems to have a proclivity for sleeping with the married men she employs (which is probably why so many Wash. machine Dems (mostly male) want to "advance" her.

With all due respect, TTBF, CA politics ain't the same cup of joe as the midwest (rustbelt) and NE states'.

Yes it is. All the same thing, you xenophobic jingoist.



And, re bolded:

GROSS RushRegurgiTwistLieReachExtrapoGenerali-
Zaggeration!


Hate, hate, hate. How do you stand yourself?

[travelinman67]

I flatly dispute your assertion that a strong "national" candidate will have an edge in CA state politics.

Regardless of their Wash. tenure, Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi couldn't get elected to state office if Jesus himself endorsed them.
Further, presuming that recitation of Donkspin legitimizes a candidate is nonsense. Sanchez is HATED within CA politics for her "independent" non-traditional Dem positions. She's pissed of the Latino community, has virtually no support outside of her district, but seems to have a proclivity for sleeping with the married men she employs (which is probably why so many Wash. machine Dems (mostly male) want to "advance" her.

With all due respect, TTBF, CA politics ain't the same cup of joe as the midwest (rustbelt) and NE states'.

Yes it is. All the same thing, you xenophobic jingoist.

And, re bolded:

GROSS RushRegurgiTwistLieReachExtrapoGenerali-
Zaggeration!


Hate, hate, hate. How do you stand yourself?

You're getting stale...

And, no, it isn't.

It's rather unfortunate that most of California's women leaders make their mark in business. Outside of a few exceptions, most of the women who line up at the political trough are either old-money rich, union-shills, or machine-puppets. CA is experiencing one of it's worst leadership voids under Assembly Speaker Karen Bass's reigns. Honestly, we could probably grab "Joe The Plumber" off the street and they would do a better job. She is merely a union shill that's allowed to appear like a Hollyweird Social Engineer (i.e., "they know what's best for all"). She stays out of the public eye because every time she speaks, her handlers get exposed.

It's dark, dark days in California right now.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

well, since Boxer (who already has won twice statewide) and Pelosi aren't even looking at the race... that doesn't seem too big of a problem.

DiFi is eyeing it up, but I am certain she will only jump in if she knows she can win. Which means she will poll the hell out of the state to see where her celing is. My guess is that because she HAS BEEN ELECTED STATEWIDE multiple times... she's viable.

I too question Newsomes ability to translate outside of San Francisco and other VERY liberal enclaves. You're right that his appeal, especially among blacks and latinos will be limited. Which is why the door is open for Villaragosa or Sanchez to step in to the breech.

While I acknowledge that CA is no lead-pipe cinch for the Dems this cycle, and that there are places where certain GOPers have found success, I've seen zero evidence that they have a candidate in THIS race who has more than a punchers chance against most of the Dem field.

[travelinman67]

well, since Boxer (who already has won twice statewide) and Pelosi aren't even looking at the race... that doesn't seem too big of a problem.

DiFi is eyeing it up, but I am certain she will only jump in if she knows she can win. Which means she will poll the hell out of the state to see where her celing is. My guess is that because she HAS BEEN ELECTED STATEWIDE multiple times... she's viable.

I too question Newsomes ability to translate outside of San Francisco and other VERY liberal enclaves. You're right that his appeal, especially among blacks and latinos will be limited. Which is why the door is open for Villaragosa or Sanchez to step in to the breech.

While I acknowledge that CA is no lead-pipe cinch for the Dems this cycle, and that there are places where certain GOPers have found success, I've seen zero evidence that they have a candidate in THIS race who has more than a punchers chance against most of the Dem field.

Puhhhleeezzzz, TTBF...

Go do your homework. Feinstein WAS the Dem Gubernatorial candidate in 1990

AND LOST TO PETE WILSON!!!

She's polled her chances every election since, and turned tail/bailed early everytime...for good reason.

As for your belief that they've "won" statewide races...that's a misnomer. They BOUGHT the race via a massively corrupt CA DNC (something near and dear to my heart). Boxer represents the Beverly Hills/SoCal greasers, and Feinstein, the old-money SF blue-bloods. But for their bankers who effectively shut out all other Dem opponents thereby allowing the Dems state voter registration weight to decide the election, both would be typists in a govt. agency.
Remember, however...

...even with all the unions and party bosses pulling for him, Gray Davis couldn't survive a recall.

Lesson is...once the snowball of public sentiment gets rolling (as it has with our budget/economic crisis), even the mob, er, I mean party bosses can't change it's direction.

You need to understande, that EVERYONE in California's been effected by this recession...the poor and middle-class are being foreclosed and losing their jobs, and the wealthy have lost 45% of their gross worth AND ARE HAVING THEIR TAXES JACKED UP TO RECORD LEVELS.

To say everyone's pissed off is an absolute understatement.

[Cap'n Cat]

T,
You know I loves ya, but, what are you doing to improve the situation? Hatin' and nasty letter-writin' don't help. Maybe you could put together a bipartisan taxpayers group to look at common ground on all this stuff and work toward solution.

Ah, fvck it. That's too liberal. It might work.