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Champagne corks must’ve been popping at the campaign offices of Mario Trujillo, Jackie Lacey and Carmen Trutanich when they received the news that the Alan Jackson for District Attorney campaign (recently noted for running one of the dumbest campaigns in recent memory) announced that it had received the endorsement of former California Governor Pete Wilson. As one campaign manager on a competing campaign put it, "Too bad for Alan Jackson. This poor guy can’t catch a break."
See, an analysis of Pete Wilson’s endorsement record, put out by someone close to a competing campaign for D.A., (that’s not yet a campaign) pointed out that every candidate Petey’s endorsed in the last fifteen years, has lost. Take a look at Wilson's recent track record:
Dan Lungren – 1998 race for Governor – LOST
Bill Simon – 2002 race for Governor – LOST
Bill Jones – 2004 U.S. Senate Race - LOST
Rudy Giuliani – 2008 race for Repub Pres nomination – LOST
John McCain – 2008 race for President – LOST
*Meg Whitman – 2010 race for Governor - LOST
*Steve Cooley - 2010 race for Attorney General - LOST
(*) denotes Petey was a Campaign co-chairman
Bottom line - A Pete Wilson endorsement is almost a guarantee a candidate will lose. Republicans in California call it “The curse of Pete Wilson.”
Where did this curse get started? Well, back in 1994, Californians voted on Proposition 187, which banned illegal aliens from public services like health and education. That changed California politics forever. Republican governor Pete Wilson, who strongly supported the measure, became the symbol of what was--and still is--considered a vehemently anti-immigrant party. This, in a state where Hispanics are becoming a critical voting bloc, with more members joining their ranks every day.
Gaddi Vasquez, a Hispanic stalwart of the Orange County Republican Party, observed recently that “Pete Wilson had destroyed the Republican Party in California among Hispanic voters.”
Linda DiVall, a Republican pollster, remarked, "I don't know how any Republican thinks they can win in California when they’re associated with Pete Wilson. Most members of my party don't get it. They figure by throwing out a few sops they can overcome this hostility. Not even close.”
Take a look at Meg Whitman's recent campaign. True, she opened a few offices in Hispanic neighborhoods. But who was her campaign chairman? Pete Wilson. In some parts of the state, she might as well have been endorsed by Satan, while running for the papacy.
How can Republicans reverse this? “Well, one way would be to steer clear of Pete Wilson, for starters.”
13 comments:
I'm getting a kick out of watching all these goofballs committ rookie blunders.
Keep the postings coming.
Trutanich and his peeps are laughing at Jackson and the doofus who runs his campaign.
Interesting how Steve Cooley didn't try to get this endorsement for his beloved Jackie. Perhaps even he knew Pete Wilson was radioactive.
His website hasn't posted this endorsement yet. Perhaps he's already run out of money and can't pay his web people to post this game changing news.
Steve Cooley didn't get Petey's endorsement for Jackie because Jackie isn't Cooley's real candidate. Cooley put Jackie up to try to make people think he isn't racist. But, everything Cooley does in the DAs office hurts African Americans and Hispanics the most.
Steve Cooley put Mario Trujillo up for DA to try to prove he isn't homophobic, but Cooley has a track record of not prosecuting hate crimes against gays. Ever heard of Trev Brody. Look into it.
Jackson has been Cooley's candidate all along. Cooley is just crowding the field until Trutanich declares. Then, last minute, Cooley will break his promise not to run and all of those players go bye bye, including Jackson. They can all try to be judge or something, well except for Trujillo. Now that he has "bitch slapped" Cooley, Cooley's friends (Roger Grace, Philibosian, Berger, Kevin James, and anyone crusty old white guy Cooley can still manipulate) will be on the phone trying to quash that attempt.
Jackson sealed his fate when he aligned himself with Berger. That resulted in this blog, and now the truth comes out about how juvenile and inadequate he is to be the next DA.
Professionalism does not describe Jackson's character.
Everyone is passing this blog posting around the office. It sums up Alan Jackson to a tee. "Nobody move or the dipshit get it" is so right on.
Looks like Berger put out another pile of bullshit, and Pete didn't really endorse Al Jackson. His campaign has yet to put out any official word.
Great analysis and reporting. The Pete Wilson endorsement is the kiss of death.
No one in the office likes Alan Jackson. He's a weasal and a back-stabber. Expect more blunders from this sanctimonious prick before its all over.
Rumor has it Jackson was also part of the union busting and met with Peter Burke and Cooley to take down the union. Then, I heard he lied about it. Creep.
Word is the Jackson campaign is broke and they're trying to scrape up enough money to pay for someone to add the Pete Wilson endorsement to their campaign website.
Anyone know why Cooley is going around bad mouthing Jackson? I thought he and Jackson were friends.
Has Alan stolen anybody's copyrighted photos of Pete?
Probably no one wants to do business with him because he's such a weasal and a thief.
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