| Back in 2008, Tony Strickland ran something of an interesting campaign to defeat Hannah-Beth Jackson. He ran as a neo-environmentalist. His mail was all about Green energy, and how he has quite the record in developing said energy.
Of course, you'd have to consider some pretty dirty energy to be "clean" to buy that. However, Strickland snuck through by a few thousand votes as enough people bought the hype.
Now, fast forward to today, and it's all being run over again. This time it is Sam Blakeslee, the man who has consistently taken Big Oil dollars trying to make himself all clean and green. It's a tough task to be sure.
But CalBuzz goes ahead and punches the holes out of that story:
The blunt truth of the matter, however, may be found in 1) the lavish oil industry contributions shoveled into committees that have forked out more than $1 million to back Blakeslee's play in the 15th State Senate district and 2) the photograph posted at the top of this story, which shows exactly where the San Luis Obispo GOP assemblyman stood on offshore oil drilling in California - before that whole Gulf of Mexico thing made it really, really unfashionable. (CalBuzz)
As John Laird pointed out about his election, this truly is critical. We'll likely see Laird and Blakeslee in the runoff, but this is where we must start to tell Central Coast voters the real story. Fortunately, the CDP has gotten a virtual phone bank system up and running, so now's the time. The election is Tuesday, let's push John Laird over the top. Heck, maybe we can even avoid that runoff... |
