CA-Sen: DeVore No Shows on Maldonado Vote
Chuck DeVore was the lone Republican that did not show up for the confirmation vote of Abel Maldonado for lieutenant governor. Maldonado was rejected by the State Assembly yesterday. John Wildermuth at Fox and Hounds:
GOP Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, the man who would be senator, didn’t cover himself in glory either. He was the lone Republican to take a walk on the Maldonado vote.
For DeVore, the decision also was a political one. The blueprint for his longshot effort to win the GOP U.S. Senate primary is to become the poster boy for California conservatives and snag their votes in June. Right-leaning organizations like the California Republican Assembly and various anti-tax groups, whose support DeVore desperately needs, have been howling for Maldonado’s scalp for supporting the tax hikes in last year’s budget.
On the other hand, it wouldn’t do DeVore’s street cred with the rest of the party any good to be on record as the one Republican to join Assembly Democrats in cutting Maldonado off at the knees. So rather vote his conscience, the party line or a coin flip, DeVore decided not to vote at all.
Apparently leadership is not showing up to vote for your principles out of political expediency.
CA-Sen: DeVore’s Fundraising Fail
Chuck DeVore's campaign set a February 1st deadline to raise $60,000. It appears this money bomb was a dud.
Update Eight hours later, DeVore's money bomb experiment increasingly appears impotent. Despite running ads on the Drudge Report, DeVore's campaign is still $15,000 shy of their $60,000 goal that they extended over several days. "Money bomb" was described as a "one-day fundraising frenzy." It seems that despite the weight of Drudge and Red State behind him, DeVore fell flat.
Update Greg Cole provides the definitive collection on this pathetic failure of a fundraising drive.
CA-Sen: HP Donates to Boxer, Not Fiorina
To those who know her best, Carly Fiorina just isn't U.S. Senate material.
The political action committee for Hewlett Packard donated the $10,000 maximum to Barbara Boxer's re-election campaign. The chaser: HP's PAC didn't donate a single dime to Fiorina. It is a stunning (second) rejection of Fiorina's leadership.
Similarly, Chuck DeVore received $2,400 from the granddaughter of the founder of Hewlett Packard.
Fiorina attempts to play up her role as HP's chief executive on the campaign trail as an achievement, it is increasingly becoming a hindrance politically. HP didn't want her anymore in 2005 and are sending a message that things haven't changed.
You get the sense that for those connected to HP and remember Fiorina's disastrous tenure are singing the ABCs: "Anybody But Carly."
CA-Sen: DeVore Attempts to Claim Mantle from Brown
An e-mail sent out by Chuck DeVore's campaign -- and possibly even written by the assemblyman -- claimed similarities between himself and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Scott Brown. He later retweeted the following:
Patrick Ruffini, a Republican operative "doing some work" for Scott Brown's campaign, posted this to Twitter:
Pwn3d.
Update A reader points out that Ruffini was listed as Tom Campbell's web manager alongside Mindy Finn at the outset of Campbell's now-defunct gubernatorial campaign.
CA-Sen: Campbell Poll Boasts Lead, Name ID, Ahead with Base
A poll produced for Tom Campbell's newly-minted Senate campaign, and handed out to attendees at his kickoff rally, places the former gubernatorial candidate ahead of both Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore.
Conducted by James Fisfis, VP of Wilson Research Strategies, the survey was conducted January 8-10 with a sample of 1,027 likely general election voters and a margin of ±3 percent.
See the document below:
Fisfis posted about the poll on the Campbell blog.