GOP needs to step up for Ryan Gene Williams in the 69th Assembly District
I wonder if California Republican Party leaders understand that if Ryan Gene Williams was not running for the 69th Assembly District, we would not have a candidate? How embarrassing would that be? Apparently not that much, as the party leadership has yet to do anything to help young Williams. It is disgusting.
Williams travelled up to San Jose and attended the recent CRP convention, but it didn’t help when local political consultant Adam Probolsky introduced Williams to Kevin McCarthy, who at the time was the GOP Assembly Leader, as “a guy who has no chance to win.” Nice. Even if you believe that, it is crude and discourteous to introduce a candidate in that manner. I expected better from Probolsky. Running for office is no easy matter and Williams ought to be thanked for doing it, not insulted.
McCarthy is now running for the U.S. House of Representatives, and the new Assembly leader is George Plescia, of San Diego. I urge Plescia to do the right thing and at least help Williams to pay for his ballot statement. Whatever any of you might think of him, he is at least saving our party from the embarrassment of not having a candidate in the 69th Assembly District. That ought to be worth something.
You can contact Plescia at http://republican.assembly.ca.gov/members/index.asp?Dist=75&Lang=1&Body=SendConcerns. Please ask him to support the Williams campaign. You can find out more about Williams at: http://www.ryangene.com/.
The party seems to have written off this district anyway.
Otto Bade, the previous candidate received no help from the party.
The fact that Ryan Gene is even in this race is itself an embarrassment for the Republican party. They have had ample time to cultivate a legitimate candidate and just haven’t bothered. For that matter, the “we’ll take anybody” mentality of “advisors” like TW is shameful.
The attitude of backing a weak candidate instead of promoting a more seasoned, involved, local candidate is doing nothing to shore up the party interests for the future.
I’m a registered Republican, but I am not being offered a reasonable choice. You can’t really fault Reeps for voting with any other parties in this race.
Looks like it might be a “d:none of the above” year.
OC’s GOP has been WAM’d (Williams,
Avila and Moreno) with 3 losers!
It’s hard to take Ryan Gene Williams seriously as a candidate when he has volunteered to be the
fundraising campaign manager for Lupe Moreno.
This effort screams ..”I’m a loser.” “I have no confidence in my campaign.”
If Williams isn’t prepared to devote 110% of his time to winning, then why should I vote for him?
Because he’s a good guy?
The world of politics does not hand out credit.
Maybe El Pachuco has a point. These are his comments about the recent polling that appeared on the OCBlg.
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Frankly, Claudia is a Spoiled Brat whose personal fits of rage at losing to Umberg had most of Santa Ana in turmoil for months after the election…
Frankly, it is in the best interest of OCGOP and pragmatic Republican players to help her get elected so we can ship her off to Sacramento and get her the heck out of OC!!! Then we can backfill her Council seat with another strong Republican…maybe someone we could groom to take out Loretta 4-6-or 8 years from now.
If we are going to get stuck with another Dem in the 69th, might as well make it an immature spolied little witch like Claudia who is guaranteed to go to Sacramento and pull her same unethical crap with the Big Boys…instead of screwing over her constituents at every turn. Good riddance!
What will she do without her Mommy to shield her from all of her critics and tuck her in at night??? Her mother is “strong-willed” but up there is a whole Assembly chamber filled with women who got elected themselves as opposed to buying their daughters a ticket to “The Bigs”…
Vote Claudia for the 69th!!!
Posted by: El Pachuco | March 06, 2006 at 10:32 PM
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This makes sense. Perhaps the Reps should focus on electing Claudia to the 69th and send her to Sacramento.
if you don’t like claudia, don’t vote for her.
voting for her because you want to get rid of her just keeps her more involved with the city at the state level. on top of which, you run the risk of not only screwing yourself over by voting for her, but also 37 million other californians.
your logic mystifies me.
vote for someone you know can do a good job, not someone you don’t like.
I want the GOP to fully fund Ryan.
Sincerely,
Rabid Conservative
Rt, have to disagree with you on this one. This kid couldnt get elected to anything. That doesnt mean I dont think the OC party doesnt suck.
What a concept to base a campaign on:
“Well, he’s all we could get, so you might as well support him!
Ryan Gene for assembly.”
That’s pretty sad. Why would the party even consider trying to get behind that?
Art, dont challenge every windmill you see. There is nothing to this Ryan kid. Hey, why not dust off Virgel Nickel
just out of curiousity, what makes ryan such a bad guy. do any of you know him?
Ryan is a very decent young man and he is doing the OC GOP a favor by running for the 69th. They did not have anyone else to run. Shame on all of you who are denigrating him without knowing him!
We need Art to run for the 69th!
I know a bunch of nice guys.
I’d still never vote for some of them!
I didn’t realize that was all it takes to qualify a person for office.
you all still haven’t answered my question.
what makes ryan so “unelectable” like you guys are playing him up to be? he has to be better than the three dems running.
youth, lack of money, peer to peer connection. this isnt hillsdale mich.
as far as youth goes, the 69th AD is the youngest district in OC. 1/3 of the voters are under the age of 30.
as far as lack of money goes, since ryan is now the GOP nominee, the party will start getting behind him especially since the difference between GOP and Dem registration is roughly 7%. It is potentially a winnable district especially since this year is a midterm election.
you’re right… this isn’t hillsdale, michigan… it’s santa ana, the youngest city in OC and the 9th largest in california.
I’m sorry people are trashing the poor guy….Art is right, Republicans ought to be thanking him for running. Dems have the same problems in seats they can not win. Look at Paul Lucas in the 68th…nice guy, most likely can’t win but like Ryan will give it the old college try. These folks step up to the plate for their Party and should get at least some kind of nominal support.
The real criticism should go to Scott Baugh and Kevin mcCarthy for not recruiting a candidate with a little more resume and someone who might be able to make it a little closer then Ryan will be able to. But thats not Ryan’s fault. And if he runs a respectable race, hey who knows what will happen in 2008?
If Assembly Dems sleep through the next two years like Perata and Senate Dems did then the 69th will be on the table in 2 years.
i dunno. word has it that ryan could actually squeak out a victory, depending upon who the dem nominee is.