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My wife and I registered to vote last month, on the final possible day, at our new home in South Orange County.
We moved into a district that is “Ground Zero” for Republican legislative primaries. We now live in Senate District 33 where Assemblywoman Mimi Walters and Anaheim Councilman Harry Sidhu are spending vast sums of money to communicate with Republican and DTS voters. We also now live in Assembly District 71 where Corona Councilman Jeff Miller and Rancho Santa Margarita Mayor Neil Blais are in a pitched battle for the Republican nomination.
Clearly two newly registered Republicans would be prime targets as supremely likely voters. Right? WRONG, apparently.
Since registering to vote last month, the Fleischman household has received no mail from candidates. Not from Mimi, or Harry, or Jeff, or Neil.
And these candidates have “top notch” consultants – GBWA for Walters and Miller, Coronado Communications for Sidhu, and JohnsonClark for Blais.
I don’t think anyone is going to lose one of these races by the handful of newly registered Republicans that didn’t get any mail or phone calls from the candidates. But campaigning is a detail-oriented exercise. At least it was back in my younger days, when I was a staffer for legislative campaigns.
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 am
Well as a high-pro voter in the district you can rest assured they sent me mail… everyday multiple pieces. I don’t recall this much mail since the 1988 battle for Congress Cox-Baker-Rosenberg!