Well, this shoe took so long to drop I’m not sure anyone will take note. But while Assemblyman 
Van Tran ‘effectively’ endorsed his colleague Lynn Daucher for State Senate in the 34th District some time ago by dropping out of the race, today the Daucher campaign made it official, sending out a release proclaiming that Tran has officially supporting Daucher’s candidacy.
Tran, who is riding high today because of this favorably press, is a hard-nosed campaigner. So the question was and is not whether he would endorse Daucher, but whether he will ‘turn on’ his considerable campaign operation to support her.
Tran’s number one political operative in Orange County, Barrett Tetlow, is currently heading up the State GOP/Join Arnold Victory 06 Get-out-the-vote effort for Orange County. If Tran’s support of Daucher is enthusiastic, look for Barrett to be focusing a lot of time and energy into this important Central County potential GOP pickup. Of course, the real pressure on V6 for the statewide campaigns is boosting GOP turnout in the vote-rich ‘safe GOP’ parts of the county…
May 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
With no disrespect meant to any legislative race in Orange County, I firmly
believe that the most important race we run in November is the Governor’s
re-election. Pretty standard turnout analysis will show that the top of the ticket drives the show, always has and always will. The CFS (Californians for Schwarzenegger) and V06 (Victory 2006) effort is focused on delivering the 500,000+ votes in Orange County. The Governor, and the rest of the ticket, needs those votes to win. My marching orders
(and paycheck) come with a responsibility to all of those votes.
Two plugs in one day- thanks Jon