Posted by Jon Fleischman at 12:00 am on Jan 13, 2010 Comments Off on The Quixotic Tom Campbell
I’ve been engaged in politics, either as a volunteer or
professionally, for over two decades now. During that period
of time, I have seen Tom Campbell successful run for state and
federal legislative offices with success. The area in which
he lived, south of San Francisco near San Jose, during the 90’s was
home to a lot of GOP officeholders who tended to gravitate more
conservative fiscally and more liberal socially. Time having
gone by, no that turf isn’t even friendly to moderate Republicans
anymore.
Tom Campbell
has made runs for statewide office three times now (if you include
the current quest for the GOP nomination for Governor). In
1992 he narrowly lost (by less than 3%) the Republican primary for
U.S. Senate to conservative icon Bruce Herschensohn (who went on to
then Congresswoman Barbara Boxer). In 2000, a cycle with
which I am very familiar as I was Executive Director of the
California Republican Party at the time, Campbell won the primary
(besting then… Read More