Finally, Patricia McKeon appears in public….safely outside the bounds of the SCV and in front of the Simi Valley Tea Party:
The first part of her speech oddly centers around resentment of local media, including the LA Times. She says we only read about the Boy Scouts when the local media is attacking them (za?). She mentions her work for Mayo hospital but says the Times doesn’t bother reporting that about her. Dog whistles to aggrieved American white male continue after that, with Patricia telling the crowd that the true patriots she’s speaking too are often unsung and un-celebrated by liberal media.
Later on, after slamming Wilk for running for Assembly virtually the day after he was re-elected to COC’s Board, she repeats the story of why she decided to run for AD 38: “When I went to check out at the grocery store last summer, they asked me if I’d like to pay $0.10 per bag. Well I thought the environmentalists had gotten rid of them because paper bags were destroying all the trees, which is just not true.”
“I was aghast! I was just furious,” she continues. She said the bag ban, enacted in Los Angeles County, is making “women furious everywhere.”
Next she says she knows that people, including her opponent Scott Wilk and his “blogging friends,” have been mocking her, but that’s the price she’s willing to “run for election.”
She also takes yet another dig at Wilk, accusing him of being a run-of-the-mill government worker who hops from job to job on the public dole. Some people, she says, actually grow up and want to work for the government. Such people “want to regulate us. They want to take money out of our pockets and put it in the government’s pockets. And it’s a terrible thing they’re doing with regulation and legislation.” she says.
The video continues on after that, but you get the gist.
Overall, I give her an A- for the content of the speech. Stoking resentment and bashing media/public sector work/coastal liberals is a sure win with Tea Party folks. If I was a Tea Party person, I’d feel like she understood me and what I was about.
But I give her a C+ for presentation; she needs some practice and comes off a bit whiny. I like that she tells stories about her family; that may make her seem like a lightweight but I think she should play up the pissed-off-grandma-not-going-to-take-it-anymore angle by relaying stories about her family.
Too bad we’ll probably never see her and Wilk go at it in a debate. It would be….memorable. Something for the slim Annals of SCV Political History.
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Holding a sign with a funny picture of Obama isn’t volunteering… and it doesn’t get much coverage because the teaparty is old news. This bimbo can’t represent us. She is dumb as a doorknob.
Painful to watch as she keeps looking at the notes on the table.
It is like a teleprompter but worse!
I am embarrassed for her and for us -Cannot believe they think we would actually vote for someone who is so very unqualified.
The SCV has always wanted a Sarah Palin it can call its own.
Laurie Ender could be our Sarah Palin, except I think she actually graduated in four years from a single college (Pepperdine) and had a reasonable academic record.
This is like the Couric interview without the questions.
Hey, watch what you say about Sarah Palin.:-) You may not like her, which is fine….but Mrs. McKeon in NO Sarah Palin. She’s more the Meg Whitman type if you ask me.
What does that mean if elected should would actually finish her term and not become a reality tv personality?
It means that no matter how much money they throw at her, she is not electable. Money won’t buy this one either.
I don’t see any indication that she’ll be spending especially big money in this campaign. She is raising money, but in the end, she may not even outspend her opponent.
I don’t share Meg Whitman’s politics, but she’s no fool and she was relatively well-versed on the issues.
The Palin comparison is apt because you can tell that before she was a candidate, she hadn’t given more than a passing thought to most of the issues, and her candidacy is a result of someone else’s cynical opportunism.
Not a Meg fan by any stretch, but at least she has more on her resume than stay-at-home-mom. Not bashing moms, but you can’t just walk on stage with no key education and outside-the-home experience. Can’t she afford a few “green” grocery bags?
I wonder if she will actually appear in public in the SCV? Up until now she has only shown up a a DEMOCRATIC Club party. Shows the state of play in the SCV Repub party when a Repub feels the only safe place they can go is the (courteous) opposition.
What it tells you is that the SCV Republicans already know she isn’t qualified AND there is always the chance a more qualified opponent will be at the meeting to challenge her.
Interesting to watch. She was well coached. Doesn’t really say too much of substance (even though she said she was going to “stick with the issues”) but I thought a few things were telling – she bashed “career politicians” meaning Wilk, ignoring what her husband has become and then goes on to say she is running a positive campaign.
She talks about the Jerry Brown $7 billion tax increase on the ballot and how it is for all new spending programs. In case she hasn’t been paying attention, the deficit for this years state budget is around $6 billion. This tax increase isn’t for new programs but for ones where the money is being spent. I love hearing about how government spending needs to be cut without the person criticizing the spending refusing to elaborate on what must be cut.
Lastly, it thought it was funny that she said she was tough because she stood up to her kids. Wonder how that toughness with her own kids would work in Sacramento?
But how many nascar owners does she know and will she make a 10k bet with Scott Wilk at some point?
I’m sure McKeon staffers past and present must be heartened that his wife thinks so little of their career choice.
Funny thing is, there’s a good chance that career political staffer Bob Hauteur had a hand in writing her speech.
She derides those who have limited experience in the private sector but only work in the political system, yet her last two jobs are lobbyist and campaign treasurer.
I also chuckle at her ideal model of political service, a long career out in the country, capped by a short stint in politics…says the wife of the guy who is seeking his 11th term in Congress.
Of course someone else wrote it otherwise she would have had a better grasp of the material, IMHO.
The fact that she was clueless about the plastic bag ban before she walked into a grocery store and was not allowed to have one says a lot about how in tune she is with current issues.
That is quite possibly the best analysis of that talking point I have heard yet.
Kudos.
Having heard this “speech”, I am even more convinced that she is unfit for office. She and Buck should retire and enjoy their grandchildren!