An exclusive to SCVTalk! From my perch eating dinner in the corner booth of Mulligan’s during the evening of March 4, 2010 I witnessed through the open door to the back banquet room the “other” Republican Club (I will get it wrong if I say the intials) manage to only endorse ONE candidate for City Council, incumbent Laurene Weste.
Now many think I connote magical powers to incumbency that could easily find their way into a novel of magic realism. The truth is that incumbents have several built in advantages, one of which is the seeming automatic garnering of endorsements from the various politically active organizations.
So here is how the endoresements have shaken out thus far. One organization endorsed the incumbents; one endorsed ONLY David Gauny, and one endorsed ONLY Laurene Weste. One would normally have expected the incumbents to sweep all three. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the base of people that actively votes in the elections has become more fractured. The great thing about elections as a research project is that one can always match forecasts against actual results very quickly!
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Which org endorsed Weste only?
Petz:
Tell me the names of the two clubs and it might jog my memory. It was the one OTHER than the one that endorsed only Gauny.
The SCV Congress of Republicans endorsed Laurene Weste, but our voting is done differently than the other Republican club. Only board members can vote for Congress of Republican endorsements. I don’t personally have voting “priveleges.”
Tim, didn’t see you. Even with my serious ADD issues which cause me to be up and down and meander about during meetings like this, I never saw you. Of course, I do have a tendency to zone out so I could have been looking right at you and not known it.
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Pauline:
We were sitting in the corner booth FARTHEST from the meeting room but still with a view through the doors. Didn’t want to be too close in case some candidates starting screaming at each other.
If it is a board decision only, this is an even greater disintegration of incumbency if one can’t get the establishment folks to get a consensus on incumbents.
Myers says: “If it is a [SCVCoR] board decision only, this is an even greater disintegration of incumbency if one can’t get the establishment folks to get a consensus on incumbents.”
First the California Republican Assembly vote of the membership only endorsed Gauny and then coming in second with a majority of the votes but not enough for 2/3 vote endorsement, Boydston. None of the three incumbents achieved a majority of the votes, much less an endorsement.
Now only incumbent Weste can get a Republican endorsement from this very establishment organization.
Wow! Even the local Republican establishment thinks change is needed at City Hall. When will our alleged ‘local paper of record’ (TMS), come around that it is indeed Time for Change?