How stupid does Ed Royce think that you are? Very, very, very stupid.
Yesterday, I received the worst campaign e-mail so far this year. It’s for a slate mailer called “Cal Voter Guide” — one of those “pay for play” suckers that tried to get me to pay money to get onto the mailer before my opponent did. I have their contact information and wrote their contact person (and owner?) asking for comment; they didn’t get back to me, so I’m posting.
The green comments — with occasional red for emphasis — are mine. The rest is the e-mail that I received. Yes, this is a voter guide FOR DEMOCRATS that tells them to vote for Ed Royce and Ken Williams, Jr. (By the way, at this point I don’t care whether Williams’s opponent, Mary Galuska, is a hallucinating comatose cannibal — I’m voting for her as a protest. Note: to clarify, Galuska isn’t any of those. Williams also is reportedly neither comatose nor a cannibal.)
The e-mail also lies about Prop 28 — finally making up my mind to support it — and repeats a particularly stupid argument about Prop 29, to the same effect. There’s also a judge mentioned in the e-mail, whose name I will not include because maybe she actually does want to appeal to Democrats with respect rather than contempt.
How many others of you got an e-mail from Cal Voter Guide? Let us know in comments!
The only way that this sort of thing will blow up in people’s faces is to place it in bright sunlight so that it can wither and steam like a movie vampire. So let everyone else know that you’re not fooled and you’re not happy to be thought a fool. (And if any Democrats are out there trying to take advantage of low-information Republican voters — and, oh yes, there are plenty of those — by all means give them the same treatment!)
Can anyone out there ask the Royce campaign for a comment? I don’t think they’re taking my calls.
Greg, the term limit, prop 28, restarts the clock on term limits, is that what you favor?
I would like it better if term limit was flushed down the toilet.
No on both propositions. How did they get on this June ballot anyway, I thought that was abolished.
I think Cook’s right on the term limits restarting the clock. And I don’t see a compelling reason to change the way term limits are now.
And on the cigarette tax, two things – I wish there weren’t a tax measure right before the very important revenue measure we need to pass in November. And looking at the waste and unaccountability with which the current 50-cent tax on cigarettes has been administered (see my First 5 article) I see no sign this will be any better. (Although the mammoth spending the tobacco companies are throwing against it makes me want to vote yes just to spite them.)
My understanding is that it doesn’t restart the clock.
One reason I’m relatively confident that it doesn’t restart the clock is that if it did restart the clock everyone would be running around would be screaming about how it restarted the clock — and I’d join them.
If Ed Royce thinks that the voters are incredibly stupid Ed Royce is incredibly correct.
Funny! Do you think that you can get Royce to go on the record claiming credit for being right? If not, no cigar.
royce is right look at who the voters keep putting in office year after year with their gerrymander districts . democraps , where is calif IN THE CRAPPER , DUE TO NANNY state policys . now moonbeam wants more taxes to pay off his union goons .. HOPEFULLY WILL WE HAVE THE SAME RESULTS AS LAST TIME AND GET SMOKED AGAIN .