What happens when you throw aside party polities and surge in the polls? Apparently if you’re Nathan Fletcher the answer is: get attacked by everyone.
It’s been a wild couple of days in the mayor’s race. Nathan’s been targeted by the California Republican Party, the San Diego County Republican Party, the UT San Diego’s editorial page (twice), Carl DeMaio, Bonnie Dumanis and others. Of course, these same people spent months telling donors Fletcher can’t win and has no support. If he can’t win, why spend so much energy going after him?
On the one hand you have the Republicans claiming Fletcher is a wild and crazy liberal. On the other, you have Jess Durfee and friends claiming Fletcher is extremely conservative. It can’t be both.
Seems to me Fletcher’s independence is making a lot of people very, very nervous.
Here’s my tally:
4/13: San Diego Republicans sue Fletcher
4/24: AFP organizes a protest against Fletcher
4/26: Bob Filner attacks Fletcher for accepting contributions from Bridgepoint when he himself accepted $1,000 from the company
4/27: Carl DeMaio attacks Fletcher despite his support for Prop A
4/28: UT San Diego questions Fletcher’s character in an editorial
5/1: Carl DeMaio holds a press conference to go after Fletcher
5/1: Mailer paid for by the California Republican Party targeting Fletcher hits mailboxes
5/2: Carl DeMaio’s campaign attacks Fletcher by press release
5/3: Bonnie Dumanis criticizes Fletcher on women’s issues
5/4: Jess Durfee sends a press release targeting Fletcher
5/5: Mailer paid for by the San Diego Republican Party attacking Fletcher hits mailboxes
5/6: UT San Diego endorses Carl DeMaio, criticizes Fletcher
5/7: Carl DeMaio attacks Fletcher via press release not once, but twice
5/7: Carl DeMaio’s Super PAC launches TV ad, website and radio ad campaign against Fletcher
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Enough with the victimization. Since Fletcher left the GOP, his campaign slogan has been “woe is me”. His fiscal platform is DeMaio’s, his social platform is Dumanis’, and his Assembly record is tepid at best.
Mr. Brady is right, the “everyone is after me” narrative by Mr. Fletcher is growing old. He wants to be the Mayor of the city but isn’t able to handle the arrows that get launched at people seeking the job.
His complaining, and the complaining of his surrogates on his behalf, has gotten old quickly.
Nathan reminds me of the guy on the basketball court that is constantly bumping into people, then after minor contact, falls on the ground, flops around and begs the ref for a foul because he is entitled to free throws.
So Bill and Brian, seriously, lets just ignore Mr. Fletcher and his endorsors (paid staff), no more fodder. As his amazing flip flops have proven, nothing should be taken seriously…which is sort of sad…but you make your bed and you have to sleep in it.
Your definition of “everyone” is very different than mine. In fact, it’s different from the dictionary’s.
Unions certainly do not attack Nathan Fletcher. In fact, they apparently climb like possums in the middle of the night and tack up his signs.
“So Bill and Brian, seriously, lets just ignore Mr. Fletcher and his endorsers (paid staff)”
Miss Right…Again. Worthy advice.
You’d think for a battle-tested Marine, Fletcher would be bit more thick-skinned than this.
“the “everyone is after me” narrative by Mr. Fletcher is growing old”
Check the poll numbers, that is an incorrect statement.
Blowing Up Indeed: 1,453 unique visitors to Rostra yesterday, over 2,500 page views! Biggest single day. The season must be in home stretch!
That’s funny. Attacking Fletcher for saying everyone is attacking Fletcher. Politics is such a strange beast that even irony is considered a valid argument.
It seems that “Madmen” are running the San Diego mayoral election show. Note the numerous, varied and expensive TV ads that Nathan Fletcher is paying for. Today’s has a VFW oldster in hat and full regalia touting Nathan’s band-of-brothers line and another sincere supporter who says criticize-the-politics-but-not-the-integrity. If voters are smart, they will question both.