this is from a letter from retired state senator De Vore. He is shocked by the endorsement of Emken, who got only 11,000 votes during the last election, while I got over half a million votes, over 503,000 to be exact. Were these board members bought and paid to endorse the weakest candidate?
Posted on | March 19, 2012 | 4 Comments
- k DeVore Says:
March 7th, 2012 at 12:10 pm Mr. Standriff appears to forget the first rule in setting up a straw man argument: if you expect to divert from the point being made, at least make sure your diversion is true.In his first bullet rebutting my Flashreport piece saying a few good things about U.S. Senate candidate Dan Hughes while questioning Elizabeth Emken, Mr. Standriff wrote:
“Elizabeth Emken formally entered the U.S. Senate race in late January. Chuck, you are just plain wrong on this.”
Really? I checked with the Office of the Secretary at the United States Senate and they have on file a Statement of Candidacy (FEC Form 2) from one Elizabeth Emken of Danville, California – dated, October 28, 2011. Last I checked, October 2011 was “last year” just as I wrote. Further, filing two forms with the Federal government, a Statement of Candidacy and a Statement of Organization both sound an awful lot like a “formal” entry into the race.
Thus, Mr. Standriff is factually incorrect in his assertion since Ms. Emken legally entered the race for the U.S. Senate a full three months before he claims she did. Which raises a question for Ms. Emken: Mr. Standriff claims to be working for your campaign “as Senior Communications Adviser” – do you approve of him issuing clearly false statements in your name and in his official capacity?
Secondly, the calendar-challenged Mr. Standriff then claims that Ms. Emken opposed passage of ObamaCare – perhaps this is a case of “I voted for the bill before I voted against it” as she was paid $151,486 to expand coverage of the provisions of ObamaCare as a professional lobbyist. Does Mr. Standriff claim that Ms. Emken wasn’t paid $151,486 to expand government involvement in healthcare, if not, why was she paid in the first place?
Third, Mr. Strandriff claims that Ms. Emken, someone who’s largest contribution prior to funding her own campaign for Congress last year, was to Arlen Specter, and who, advocating for larding up ObamaCare, is a “conservative.” This is a matter of subjective opinion since Ms. Emken has no voting record and we can only judge her on her past associations and actions.
Lastly, Mr. Standriff seeks to claim that Ms. Emken’s support of Arlen Specter in 2004 when he ran against now-Senator Pat Toomey was perfectly fine as other senators backed their colleague, then-Senator Specter. I have news for you, Mr. Standriff: Ms. Emken wasn’t a U.S. Senator in 2004 and, as such, couldn’t count Mr. Specter as a colleague. All of us with limited resources have to carefully consider whom we support with our time and money come Election Day. That Ms. Emken chose to support Specter with a large contribution, in the absence of a conservative voting record to the contrary, signals anything but conservatism.
Mr. Standriff intimates that, somehow, my critique of Ms. Emken’s candidacy was due to her campaign being run by the same people who ran Carly Fiorina’s campaign. Frankly, I don’t know who’s running Ms. Emken’s campaign, but I note that Marty Wilson, Fiorina’s campaign chief, is now working for the California Chamber of Commerce and is thus, unavailable. Further complicating Mr. Standriff’s “payback” grudge meme is the fact that Mr. Hughes’ own professional statewide team was the very same team that ran the main candidate opposing me in my first election to the State Assembly in 2004.
Mr. Standriff’s last demonstrable falsehood is that I finished the U.S. Senate primary “3rd out of 3 candidates.” The fact is, five people were on the ballot for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2010 and I finished third of five with 19.3 percent or 452,577 votes. One of the 2010 candidates, Al Ramirez, is even running banner ads on Flashreport.org for his 2012 race for the U.S. Senate! Ms. Emken, on the other hand, did finish 4th of 4 candidates in her unsuccessful race for U.S. Congress in 2010, garnering 11,306 votes, or 16.7% of the total. Given that, here’s some irony for Mr. Standriff to chew on: Senate candidate Al Ramirez, a man Mr. Standriff said didn’t exist, garnered 42,149 votes in 2010, or almost four times more votes than did Ms. Emken in her losing effort.
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March 19th, 2012 @ 9:23 pm
crazy white Russian racist cunt… when in the hell will you get layed by your husband, so you can shout the fuck up bitch.
March 19th, 2012 @ 9:23 pm
crazy white Russian racist cunt… when in the hell will you get layed by your husband, so you can shout the fuck up bitch.1122
March 19th, 2012 @ 9:53 pm
Is that you Bill Maher? Is DGHankins your new alias? What’s the matter, does the Truth hurt about your boy Obama? Afraid your gravy train is about to come to an end soon?
March 20th, 2012 @ 5:05 am
Orly, I want to have a chance to win, you are going have to face the fact that we do not have two parties.
The Neocons and the Neocomms, are just two factions of the REPUBLOCRATS!
Both so called parties are your enemies, because they want to preserve the status quo.
So, go after both!