At their monthly meeting last night, elected members of the SD Republican Central Committee endorsed Steve Danon (Supervisor, Dist. 3) , Jerry Kern (Oceanside mayor) and Jan Goldsmith (SD city attorney) for election in 2012. This will allow the Party to communicate its support to rank-and-file GOP voters next year. In 2010, the Party went 15-for-15 in priority local government racess , using plenty of organizational muscle and know-how.
Tony Krvaric, the volunteer County Chairman, stated, “Next year voters will have a clear choice of two distinctive paths, not only for our nation with the presidential race, but also on the local level; Do they want candidates who will represent the interests of taxpayers and job creators or candidates who are beholden to public employee labor unions and job destroyers?”
Krvaric added, “The Republican Party of San Diego County will endorse candidates who are reformers and have made a commitment to stand with hard working taxpayers and job creators – for ALL elected offices up in 2012. Partisan or ‘non-partisan,’ we believe that every office is an opportunity to put our proud Republican ideas into action.”
“Once endorsed, we are 100% committed to our candidates and will work as hard as we can for them. We invite all fair minded citizens to join us and our candidates in bringing amount much needed reform to local government throughout our region.”
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How did the party do on its endorsements in 2008? Just asking.
Don’t know about overall, but I’m sure the GOP was successful on County Supervisor races!
Incumbency rules. Figuratively and literally.
And I’m pretty sure the GOP endorsements did extremely well in 2010. I recall seeing some impressive results from their endorsements — probably can be found on the GOP website.
Alger, your question should be limited to the NONpartisan races, as all the partisan district races in San Diego County are gerrymandered. Indeed, I think you’d find that the Democratic Party has just as good (or bad) a record as the GOP on endorsing in such partisan races — given the total number of GOP vs. Democrat partisan winners.
Richard,
I guess the point that I was trying to make was that the Democrats and the Labor Council did very well in 2008 and thought it was due to their efforts, not the Obama wave and public disgust with the the then-current Republican administration. They had a rude awakening in 2010. Likewise, I believe the Republicans and the Lincoln Club benefited more in 2010 from the public disgust with the Democrats than they did from their own efforts. They might do well again in 2012 since they can still run against Obama, but if the goal is a long-lasting shift in power, eventually you have to do more than simply bash the other guy.
This post is mainly about the * 2012 * election cycle.
I made a passing reference to 2010 to make the
point that Party endorsements used to be almost
meaningless in local races.
Court decisions, however, freed up both Parties’
committtees to do “member communications”
to their own members. When THAT happened
then Party endorsements MATTERED again.
That’s why we report them.
Candidate after candidate in 2010 thanked Tony
Krvaric for the Bold, bright mailings that helped
them to win. Sam Abed in Escondido, Farrah
Douglas in Carlsbad, Lorie Zapf in San Diego,
Ernie Dronenburg countywide, Marie Waldron in
Escondido, Ron Roberts and Bill Horn at the
county level… That’s the candidates talking,
not Chairman Krvaric nor someone at Rostra.
Now can we get back to 2012 ?
😉
JIm,
Democratic candidates said the same things to Lorena Gonzalez and Jess Durfee in 2008, but I agree 2012 is much more interesting. New districts, open primaries and some very strong personalities make this election cycle a politcial junkie’s dream come true.
As Dennis Prager says, it’s better to have Clarity than
agreement.
The point is that the election process is fundementally
different now than it was for decades, since now the
Parties can endorse in local races and spend money to
reach their rank-and-file.
Stories like this one allow Rostra to explain these vital
changes to readers who are new to elective politics.
We have @ 19,000 unique URL addresses visiting here a
month. Not all of them have a long history with politics.
And that is a GOOD thing. New blood is healthy.
From the U-T…
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/sep/14/early-gop-endorsement-supervisor-criticized