Daily Archives: June 11, 2010

iePolitics: This and That

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I strayed from my usual policy of not reprinting mainstream media articles a couple of times.  The article about the South Carolina Senate race is amusing and it lets us know that “only in San Bernardino County” is not always true.

I reprinted the article just below this one from Fox News because it picks up on something I wrote about back in February—and was ridiculed greatly for writing about.  As with much of what we have written about Jeff Burum, Bill Postmus, Jim Erwin, Mike Ramos, et al., . . . all in good time, all in good time.

Fox News: California Primary Bucks the Trend

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By Christian Whiton

Published June 09, 2010

In Tuesday’s California primary elections, the state bucked the trend elsewhere where conservative candidates have been ascendant. The two big GOP nomination races, for governor and U.S. senator, were won easily by Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina. They both trounced more conservative rivals in elections marked by surprisingly low turnout in this year of the tea party. The primary reason: money.

Whitman flooded a primary opponent who sought to reduce California’s sky-high taxes on businesses and individuals. She committed an estimated $71 million of her own funds. Fiorina, who spent at estimated $5 million of a personal fortune, amassed 57 percent of the vote and easily defeated conservative state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, a west coast version of Florida’s Marco Rubio, and fiscally conservative former Congressman Tom Campbell. Continue reading →

Seattle Times: South Carolina’s Democratic nominee as mysterious as his victory

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Alvin Greene never gave a speech during his campaign to become South Carolina’s Democratic nominee for Senate. He didn’t start a website or hire consultants or plant lawn signs. There’s $114 in his campaign bank account, he says, and the only check he ever wrote from it was to cover his filing fee.

By Manuel Roig-Franzia

The Washington Post

Alvin Greene holds his own personal copy of his campaign flier in his South Carolina Senate race.

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Alvin Greene holds his own personal copy of his campaign flier in his South Carolina Senate race.

MANNING, S.C. — Alvin Greene never gave a speech during his campaign to become South Carolina’s Democratic nominee for Senate. He didn’t start a website or hire consultants or plant lawn signs. There’s $114 in his campaign bank account, he says, and the only check he ever wrote from it was to cover his filing fee.

During a three-hour interview, the unemployed military veteran could not name a single thing he’d done to campaign for political office. Yet more than 100,000 South Carolinians voted for Greene on Tuesday, handing him nearly 60 percent of the vote tally and a resounding victory over Vic Rawl, a well-known former judge who has served four terms in the state Legislature.

“I’m the Democratic Party nominee,” Greene said at his father’s rural home in central South Carolina. “The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina.” Continue reading →