Posted by Jon Fleischman at 12:00 am on May 26, 2010 2 Comments
Tales of the bizarre — I just got an email from State Senate
hopeful moderate Jeff Stone who in a contest with conservative
Assemblyman (and front runner) Joel Anderson to succeed Dennis
Hollingsworth, who is term-limited out of office. The note
appears to be some sort of "pre-innoculation" piece designed to
warn the greater political community of impending attacks against
him.
The interesting part is that this note goes well beyond the
normal generalizations that you would expect, "My opponents will
seek to paint me in a bad light — but don’t you believe them!"
Instead, check out this paragraph:
In the
final days of the campaign one of my opponents, well known for his
dirty campaigning, will sling a bunch of outrageous charges against
me. He will probably call me a drug dealer; he will tell you
that I harm my patients; that I don’t pay my taxes or that I voted
to hike your taxes; he will probably say I belong to an extremist
Religious group and he will claim I have violated the public trust
while an elected… Read More