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By Amory Gutierrez
Good post, Jim01.
As a confession, I’ve never been involved in campaigns before. I’ve just voted. However, this will likely be the most important mid-term election in my lifetime. I’ll be donating my time and some contributions (although I cannot afford much) to help David Harmer defeat our extreme leftist (mis)representative, McNerney who votes 98% with Madame Pelosi.
David Harmer is a good man and will have my vote, my contributions, and my time. Thank you for your post.
“A career politician in search of a place to serve.” These were David Harmer’s words describing Garamendi during the 2009 10th District Congressional seat runoff – an accusation Harmer made because Garamendi didn’t live in the 10th district.
It’s certainly a phrase that appropriately applies to David Harmer.
In 1996 David Harmer ran for Congress in Utah’s 2nd District – unsuccessfully. In 2009 he lost the election to Garamendi in the 10th District. Now he’s running against McNerney in the 11th – even though he doesn’t live in the 11th District.
The gerrymandering of our District is bad enough. We certainly don’t need to make it worse with Congressional “representation” by someone who doesn’t even live in our District . . . in other words, “a career politician in search of a place to serve.”
Give it up Rae. Your feeble attempt … at tearing down a wonderful, America loving, freedom loving, conservative who wants to stop the Obama/McNerney “big government” growth and to turn the Obama Administration’s deliberate job killing programs around. … simply won’t work.
We’re firing McNerney in November and replacing him with a terrific conservative, David Harmer…unless the thug Democrats are successful in implementing vote fraud and intimidation like they exercised in the 2008 Presidential election (e.g. ACORN, SEIU, illegal caucuses, illegal contributions, Panthers, etc.).
Your logic actually works up to a point Rae, I will give you that much. Jerry McNerney was funded by out-of-district interests. One of the largest bases for his individual donations is Oakland and Berkeley. The nearest OFA office, funded and operated by the Democrat Congressional Committee, is located in (not coincidentally) Oakland.
You cannot deny that congressional politics is a national game. Look at the blizzard of money that hit Massachusetts in the week before Scott Brown was elected.
The Bay Area has very safe Democrat seats, so they can devote much of their effort sending volunteers and money out to CD-11 to try and preserve McNerney’s seat.
Where your story falls apart is that the TEA Partiers who will be volunteering for David Harmer ARE the CD-11 residents who I am encouraging, in this blog, to get the vote out and support Harmer.
I do not speak for all TEA Partiers, and I surely do not speak for all Republicans, but I personally can support a candidate who says he considers himself a Christian first, an American second, a conservative third and finally, a Republican.
Looks like an “abundance” of money from outside the district
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/fec/?id=146213&cycle=2009-2010
Or here http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/campaigns/jerry_mcnerny.asp?cycle=10#StateTotals
Scroll down to Top 150 Donors/Individual Financial Contributors (contribution amounts of $200 or more)
Looks like a much higher number of contributors from Oakland and Berkley than from Pleasanton