This is not a joke. I just received this e-mail. You know this will work, because Decline to State voters just love people deeply respect those who pay for endorsements by slate mailers.
I suppose pay-for-play voter guides could get worse than this, but I’m not sure how.
I plan to vote against anyone whose name appears in this guide. (If someone buys a spot for me, which I will not do and do not authorize, I will seriously consider not voting for myself.) I’ll hunt a copy down when it comes out, I promise you, and find out which people had the bad taste to pay money to an entrepreneur to make it look like they are the best candidate for “decline to state” voters. For some reason, this one is the last straw for me.
P.S. It’s not just a Decline to State Voter Guide, it’s the OFFICIAL one!
This is a Open Thread. Enjoy your weekend; Happy New Year to our Jewish readers.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
Has anyone heard from the opponents of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
They were all running around screaming that it was going to ruin the military.
Soldiers were going to be painting their M-16s pink, and the troops would be looking like “The Village People.” It doesn’t seem to have turned out that way.
Yes — the main opponent within the Joint Chiefs says a week or two back that it had turned out not to be a problem.
Any politicians like Newt, or Mitt, or McCain, or Santorum, or Bachmann?
You know, the ones that were passing out on their fainting couches at the mere suggestion of repeal ?
Anything from them ?
I haven’t noticed anything — and I haven’t sought it out.
Enjoy your New Year!