Even though many people have thought Ferial Masry doesn't have much of a chance of beating Audra Strickland the California Democratic Party is spending money on her behalf.
A theory to explain it is that the attacks on Tony Strickland could hurt Audra Strickland's chances. And now, maybe spending money on going after Audra Strickland will have a benefit for Democrats of minimizing both of their chances.
Click here and scroll down to the article titled "Is county Assembly race tightening?" to see Star reporter Timm Herdt's story about the contest between Ferial Masry and Audra Strickland.
She has seemed like a longshot to me but you can't get lucky on a long shot if you don't compete I guess.
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The anti-Strickland storm is coming this week and its going to blow both of them off the political map for good. The ethics charges will not be pretty.
From an LA Times article today - I thought McClintock had an easy win given how he has the registration advantage
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"Farther north, Democrats are hoping to capture a district that stretches from suburban Sacramento to the Oregon border. John T. Doolittle (R-Roseville), who is enmeshed in a federal corruption investigation, is stepping down after 18 years.
With the district's lines drawn to ensure GOP control, Republicans hold a registration advantage over Democrats, 47% to 31%. But the Republican standard bearer is state Sen. Tom McClintock, and that has posed a problem: Though he lives in the Sacramento suburbs, McClintock represents a district 400 miles to the south, one that includes parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
McClintock's stock in trade is his antipathy toward taxes and most government programs.
Democrat Charlie Brown is challenging him as a career politician who has been in office for most of 26 years and is unfamiliar with the plight of everyday Californians.
"I'm like my neighbors: living on a budget and not off their taxes," said Brown, a Vietnam veteran who almost unseated Doolittle two years ago. "Everybody is upset. Everybody has a story about how the economy is hurting them."
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee lists the race as one of its two most likely pickups on Nov. 4. The committee is shifting money into it, spending about $250,000 on television to help Brown so far.
McClintock is campaigning against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Obama, a risky strategy in a state where polls show Obama with a double-digit lead over Republican McCain.
"As people consider the possibility of an Obama presidency and a Pelosi Congress, we're seeing a huge surge in our direction," McClintock said.
But the latest campaign finance disclosures show McClintock trailed Brown in the all-important category of money. McClintock had $66,357 in the bank, not nearly enough to pay for broadcast television time. Brown raised $2 million for his race and had $224,795 in the bank for the final three weeks of the campaign."
The only storm that's coming is the storm of footsteps heading to the mailbox to drop off their absentee ballots in support of Tony and Audra Strickland. See you all at the post-election party!
Tony and Audra are both unethical who only care about making money off the taxpayer so they can stay in their multi-million dollar mansion in Moorpark. The best thing we can do for them is to kick them both out of office and make them get real jobs, they have fed off our tax dollars long enough! Goodbye Tony and Audra, good riddance to bad rubbish!!!!!
It's no secret that the state Democratic Party is spending money in this race to help Hannah Beth Jackson in her race against the other Strickland. The latest numbers show that Ferial Masry is a huge drag on the ticket, so they're trying to stop the bleeding from hurting Hannah Beth.
Actually the latest polling shows F Masry at 47%, A Strickland at 43% and 10% undecided.
Alaskan Senator Stevens down in record deliberation time in that Federal Court. One more crook down the toilet. McCain is history. Palin is back to killing a moose.
Bubba the Kid, you said it best. Phony-Tony better grab his soap-on-a-rope. He is going down!
Boy, CAP-843, you sure are a one-trick pony. "Soap-on-a-rope" and "grab your traps" seem to be the only phrases in your severely limited vocabulary. It's a good thing the voters won't be following the recommendations of dolts like you.
Bubba the Kid, not exactly sure which polls you're looking at, but I can only surmise that they fall somewhere between the "wishful thinking polls" and the "tooth fairy polls" (i.e., not very reliable). Masry will go the way of Michael Tenenbaum. She'll be extremely lucky if she gets 25% of the vote.
Audra's husband is up against a strong and smart woman. My best guess is that the Stricklands will be celebrating a 1/2 victory.
Audra's husband is up against a strong and smart woman. My best guess is that the Stricklands will be celebrating a 1/2 victory.
I think they're both going to win, quite frankly. I voted for Jackson and Masry, but I'm not feeling it for Jackson. I think she got started with her campaign too late and by then Phony Tony had dominated the landscape with his crap. Maybe next time though.
Not to be a naysayer and Democrat basher, but seriously. Audra Strickland has defeated Ferial Masry the last two times. What makes you think she's going to win this time? Could you guys not find another candidate? So my prediction here is that Audra Strickland will keep her Assembly seat intact.
Yep, Tony will win too. The name recognition is way too high for Jackson to combat, quite frankly. This is turning into an Obama-McCain match-up, with Jackson playing the part of McCain, desperation mailers and all.
We received a desperation mailer from Strickland yesterday asking us to please believe that Tony had voted on something other than corporate interests and then the list was ridiculously weak.
I received 3 mailers from the Jackson campaign yesterday and each one had some desperate plea for you to believe that she has no intention of raising taxes. Talk about weak-kneed...