Republican primary opponents endorse Democrat in anti-Pombo race (CA-11)

[Clarkie1]

Both Republicans who ran in the primary against Pombo have endosed Jerry McNerney:

It’s not often that lifelong Republicans endorse a Democrat in a congressional race that could change the balance of power in the House of Representatives. At Wednesday’s press conference at McNerney headquarters, however, former Republican primary candidates Pete McCloskey and Tom Benigno decided to place their country above their party.

Communicating the frustration of so many patriotic Republicans who are troubled by Richard Pombo’s corruption, McCloskey and Benigno told the assembled throng on Wednesday that they believe Jerry McNerney is ready to restore honesty, integrity and accountability to Washington.

“You know, I never really thought I’d be doing this. I’ve been a Republican for 57 years. My family have been Republicans for four generations,” said McCloskey. “But I’ve concluded two things: Jerry McNerney is an honest man; Richard Pombo is not. I’m confident that Jerry McNerney is an honorable man who will vote his conscience.”

http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/

[eviltwin2525]

1. This is huge

There may be hope for the red third of the population, after all. Pombo really is the very worst of the very worst. Go, Jerry Mac!

[senseandsensibility]

2. Great news. I just attended a fundraiser for McNerney

last Saturday. He has a Phd. in Mathematics, and is an expert on wind technology. We got to talk to him personally for several minutes. :)

[Clarkie1]

8. I volunteered for Jerry in 04' and was at a fundraiser in June.

I'm really glad to see he's getting these endorsements. It should help swing some independents and Republicans which can be targeted now more effectively.

[babylonsister]

3. Sent to both sisters who live in CA FWIW. Spread the word! nt

[Peace Patriot]

4. I think it's quite possible that most of the votes stolen from Kerry and

transferred to Bush were Republican votes--that is, that many more Republican voters were voting to oust Bush than anyone realizes. It makes sense that the election thieves would choose counties and precincts dominated by Bushite Republicans, where they could count on election officials to look the other way at odd totals and other anomalies. I did some analysis of the 2004 election data in California, for instance, and came across a very strange fact. In a nutshell, John Kerry won the state by a 10% margin, while Barbara Boxer, running for US Senate reelection, won the state by a 20% margin. That might be attributable to incumbency, or some other factor, except that virtually the entire difference between them occurred in Republican counties. They ran neck and neck in Democratic counties. What this means is that a significant number of Republican voters were voting for Boxer...and Bush?

The difference was not related to voting method. Electronic voting machines or not. It didn't matter. However, all votes are counted by Diebold central tabulators--which also run on "trade secret," proprietary programming code. So, if votes were stolen from Kerry and given to Bush--to help manufacture Bush's national popular majority, as I strongly suspect--that's where it happened, in the central tabulators. Democratic election officials might notice and cry foul. But Bushite election officials--given the criminal culture of that party under Bush--would likely go out of their way not to notice and to cover it up. I think that both Boxer and Kerry swept the state, about evenly. There is simply no other logical explanation for this anomaly, except that they stole votes from Kerry in REPUBLICAN counties. And a lot of those votes had to be Republican.

Cliff Arnebeck also said something similar about Ohio--that he thought of lot of the vote stealing was against Republican voters voting for Kerry.

I also have an anecdotal bit of evidence about San Diego Republicans that leads me to believe there was major defection from Bush in 2004. A friend had close contact with a good-sized group of elderly San Diego Republicans--well-off military types, foreign service, doctors, lawyers--around the time of the invasion of Iraq, whose opinion of Bush is as follows: "Bush is nuts." I don't know how they voted, but nothing occurred in the year between the invasion and the election to alter that opinion. In fact, Bush graduated from nuts to psycho, what with the torture of prisoners and outing of CIA agents and WMD counter-proliferation networks--and $10 TRILLION deficit. These old geezers must be apoplectic by now, with the Bushites looting the government pension fund.

So, it doesn't surprise me to see these Republicans coming forward to support McNerney. I just wish they would say something about Diebold and ES&S. Because that's how their party (and all of us) got stuck with Bush--the second time around.

[longship]

5. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has been doing this in Kansas

NPR - Listen at link here

Gov. Sebelius is quite a Democrat. I'm a big fan.

[Califooyah Operative]

6. Jerry McNerney is on the way to beating Pombo!

He's the DFA Grassroots All-Star, Russ Feingolds' Progressive Patriot and Netroots Endorsed.

With our help he can defeat Pombo.

http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/

Volunteer, Contribute, Pressure the DCCC, Write A LTTE!

[senseandsensibility]

7. The hubby and I will be on the ground

gong door to door for McNerney. I hope other Californian DUers will be, too.