Posted by
Katy Grimes on Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:55:49 PM
A source provided me with the following information about Steve Poizner's record although the information is available at the links provided. I am not sure what to make of candidates who run on the Republican ticket who have supported Democrats so willingly.
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If you liked Arnold, you’ll LOVE Steve Poizner - RINO Redux.
We know about Poizner's significant political contributions to Democrats, and to the Gore/Lieberman Presidential Recount effort to overturn Republican President Bush’s victory there (see following page), but what we did not know was what good company he was in.
Jane Fonda made a $100,000 contribution to the effort to complement Poizner’s $10,000 contribution (he wrote check for his wife!?) and the hundreds of Democrats that did the same that year. Other contributors to the same committee of note: John Corzine ($25,000), Congresswoman Barbara Lee ($10,000,) Steven Bing ($200,000) and the list goes on.
According to available documents, Poizner supported the Gore recount financially before ever giving to any Republican candidate. Did he even vote for President Bush? He hasn’t said.
Recipient Committee Date Amount Contributor
KERRY COMMITTEE 2/15/2001 $1,000.00 Carol Poizner
KERRY COMMITTEE 2/15/2001 $1,000.00 Carol Poizner
Korbach for Congress 8/1/2003 $2,000.00 Carol Poizner
John McCain 6/30/2008 $2,300.00 Carol Poizner
John McCain 6/30/2008 $2,300.00 Carol Poizner
Republican National Committee 6/30/2008 $28,500.00 Carol Poizner
Al Gore 2/22/2000 $1,000.00 Stephen Poizner
Democratic National Committee 10/2/2000 $10,000.00 Stephen Poizner
Gore Leiberman Recount Committee 11/27/2000* $10,000.00 Stephen Poizner
KERRY COMMITTEE 2/15/2001 $1,000.00 Stephen Poizner
KERRY COMMITTEE 2/15/2001 $1,000.00 Stephen Poizner
Bush Cheney Primary 6/30/2003 $2,000.00 Stephen Poizner
Korbach for Congress 7/31/2003 $2,000.00 Stephen Poizner
The Wish List 4/8/2004 $1,000.00 Stephen Poizner
Ca Republican Party V8 6/7/2005 $9,952.00 Stephen Poizner
Santa Clara County REP (Fed) 2/3/2006 $1,000.00 Stephen Poizner
Republican National Committee 12/28/2007 $25,000.00 Stephen Poizner
John McCain 4/2/2008 $2,300.00 Stephen Poizner
CA GOP 2008 Delegation 4/10/2008 $900.00 Stephen Poizner
John McCain 6/30/2008 $2,300.00 Stephen Poizner
Republican National Committee 6/30/2008 $28,500.00 Stephen Poizner
as for written opinion, here are two columns - one from Real Clear Politics, the other from SF Gate:
Governator, the Sequel
By Debra Saunders
Former eBay chief Meg Whitman is preparing to run for governor in 2010. Considering that California is so broke that next month it may have to issue IOUs instead of checks, I cannot imagine why anyone would want the job. And considering that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger started out as a political outsider who promised to parachute into Sacramento to clean up the mess -- only to allow it to grow messier -- I wonder if voters will be anxious to pick another parachute-in Republican for governor.
Not that the alternatives are all that appetizing. If Whitman may seem too new, some Democrats expected to jump into the race have been running for governor longer than many readers have been voting in California. Attorney General Jerry Brown ran and won the governorship in 1974 and 1978. Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, who has already announced his candidacy, ran and lost in 1982 and 1994. He announced he would run in the recall race, then didn't, but then ran for lieutenant governor, or governor in waiting, in 2006.
read the rest HERE
Why Dems dominate state
Jill Stewart
Friday, June 24, 2005
THINK OF 1958, so distant in the past that the Los Angeles Times ran front-page stories about Alaska finally being voted the 49th state and Russia launching a rocket that nearly reached the moon -- "farther than any object man has sent from the Earth."
Something that didn't make headlines -- because the reality of it wouldn't become clear for years -- was the fact that 1958 was the last time Republicans controlled the Sacramento Legislature, aside from an occasional oddball year or two.
It was the year California went Democrat, and never went back.
I mention 1958 because of the hectoring by California GOP hard-liners, whom pundits call the "circular firing squad" because of their corrosive effect on the party. We'll remain a one-party state as long as the GOP fails to quell its far right, which insures the party's failure here.
As a fiscally conservative Democrat, I want California to return to a two- party system, and thus engage in a true debate over the big ideas. Yet as Republicans gear up for the 2006 statewide elections, they are once again taking actions that guarantee they get nowhere in their uphill battle to regain California.
read the rest HERE