AD 40 Dem Debate Shows a Lot About The Candidates
Joe Mailander had a great piece covering last Sunday's debate in what could be the only exciting Assembly race in California, that is the contested race for the Democratic nomination for the 40th AD.
Among the front runners are longtime Valley fixture and veteran Assembly staffer Stuart Waldman, newcomer and Congressman Howard Berman protege Bob Blumenfeld and former Republican Lesbian turned current Democrat Lesbian who votes in the wrong Assembly District for Democratic party endorsements Laurette Healey.
There's one other guy in the debate who's running whose name I can't remember and it doesn't really matter, he's not going to win.
In this clip of the debate, we see how Blumenfeld stumbles and bumbles his way through an answer to question; his biggest issue is that somehow it's unethical that Waldman and Healey have both spent their own money on their campaign. Healey, who could probably use some of the same advice Zuma Dogg gave to Hillary Clinton, comes off angry and pompous and is critical of Blumenfeld's and Stuart's "youth." The other guy who doesn't matter says nothing. At the end, only Waldman answers the question and shows a true grasp of the issues in the District based on decades of actually working and living there - and he does so in an affable, confident, calm matter certainly contrasting him with the other three candidates.
While watching Blumenfeld, it occurred to me he reminded me of someone: the neurotic television producer from Murphy Brown, Miles Silverberg, portrayed by actor Grant Shaud.
Among the front runners are longtime Valley fixture and veteran Assembly staffer Stuart Waldman, newcomer and Congressman Howard Berman protege Bob Blumenfeld and former Republican Lesbian turned current Democrat Lesbian who votes in the wrong Assembly District for Democratic party endorsements Laurette Healey.
There's one other guy in the debate who's running whose name I can't remember and it doesn't really matter, he's not going to win.
In this clip of the debate, we see how Blumenfeld stumbles and bumbles his way through an answer to question; his biggest issue is that somehow it's unethical that Waldman and Healey have both spent their own money on their campaign. Healey, who could probably use some of the same advice Zuma Dogg gave to Hillary Clinton, comes off angry and pompous and is critical of Blumenfeld's and Stuart's "youth." The other guy who doesn't matter says nothing. At the end, only Waldman answers the question and shows a true grasp of the issues in the District based on decades of actually working and living there - and he does so in an affable, confident, calm matter certainly contrasting him with the other three candidates.
While watching Blumenfeld, it occurred to me he reminded me of someone: the neurotic television producer from Murphy Brown, Miles Silverberg, portrayed by actor Grant Shaud.
Labels: AD40, bob blumenfeld, California State Assembly, laurette healey, stuart waldman
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 2/13/2008 12:37:00 AM
14 Comments:
Come on. Blumenfeld used to be a top staffer to Bill Bradley before he joined Berman's staff. He is much smarter than the small time elected officials who just need a job that we usually get and he will do a great job in Sacramento.
More of Mayor Sam's flawless political analysis.
Stuart Waldman will be elected on the same November ballot as Higby's choice for President, Fred Thompson!!!
Dumbass.
Stuart, a former campaign staffer of his and SFVYoung Dems have been caught red-handed in a illegal attempt to stack the state party endorsement vote.
SFVYD's have admitted guilt.
Censure coming.
Ouch! This is going to leave a mark.
Glad to see Alger and Levine posting on here.
We are also pleased to see Bob is up posting early.
Top staffer to Bill Bradley? More like locker room boy. The guy is an idiot.
Homophobia, anti-semitism, bigotry, religious intolerance is why Mathew Shepard was left to die on a cold Wyoming night; why James Byrd was dragged to his death behind a pick-up truck in chains in the backwoods of Texas until all of his limbs were seperated from his body; why Joseph Aleto was murdered in cold blood by a stray bullet of a white supremacist who went on a shooting rampage at a Jewish day care center in my own San Fernando Valley and are just some of the reasons why I stepped forward to run for office. The passion that I have for social justice and religious freedom is born out of my own painful awareness of the potency of discrimination. Your blog today is evidence of the continued hatred that sadly still exists. It is why I am running, and it why I must win.
Laurette Healey
Of course Alger is posting here. He doesn't have anything else to do. It's not like he holds any elected position.
11:45, You called the tune, let's see you dance to the music played by the lunatic fringe you're a part of.
Seems as if the hatred here is more directed towards idiots than gays. Didn't Mayor Sam say he was a pro-gay Republican?
Keep playing those identity politics Laurette. Not sure what consultant told you it would give you a niche to break past Stuart or Bob but you got clowned.
Save for a few clowns on this blog, people don't care if you're gay, straight, Jewish, Black, purple or a member of AAA. People are people my friend.
Are you even sure that's actually Laurette Healey posting?
What was that link about Laurette being the one deciding vote in the Feuer-Abbe Land race? She the gay councilmember from West Hollywood, so if Laurette is gay, why wouldn't she have voted for Land instead of Feuer?
I'm glad he won, though. He's wimpy, but at least does no harm -- her city is the worst for pushing development, and refuses to stop. She and her colleagues blame it all on L A, but anyone who's driven Santa Monica Blvd., Third Street around Beverly Center and Sunset, or tries going down any major N/S street in that city, knows better.
West Hollywood is the densest city other than Manhattan's part of New York, and New York has subways.
When Feuer was Councilmember, he tried although without much success to aid the residents of CD5 in the hills above West Hollywood's Sunset Strip stretch of Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood didn't then and doesn't now give a da-m about Los Angeles.
Have you heard, they're turning the closed Tower Records building into a multi-use highrise.
I was going to be offended by the writer's comment about me, but I really can't remember who he is and don't really care. My name is Dan McCrory and if he bothered to do his homework like a REAL journalist, he would find out I have a real chance at winning because I'm a REAL person and that resonates with the people who REALLY matter, the VOTERS. Remember them?
And the original post was written by???
I too found in incredibly offensive and poorly written. The Dan McCrory name tag was PLAINLY visible the clip IF he even looked at it.
Healey, by the way, has spent about as much time being a Democrat as either Bob or Stuart. Her registration changed in 1991..but ONE of her opponents keeps up the misinformation campaign and lies about it. Or, is it his campaign manager who is doing that???
The author of this blog must have been viewing a different video clip than what is posted here because what I heard is every candidate addressing the question of "clean money" except for Waldman. It's also terribly disturbing that the author of this blog does not even know the names of all the candidates. It makes sense that only someone "anonymous" adds comments suggesting that Mayor Sam presents a "flawless political analysis".
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