Battle For The Forty-Eighth
Ever since President Bush appointed my Congressman Christopher Cox to head the SEC, the 48th Congressional district of California has been gearing up for a special election. I have officially decided not to run for the seat. I don't think Orange County is ready for Agi T. Prop just yet.
CA-48 has the complete list of candidates--all seventeen of them. Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, is officially in the race running under the American Independent Party. He will probably garner a few votes from the Mexican-haters and white supremacists.
The favorite in the race is State Senator John Campbell. Just last week his campaign signs popped up all over my city. The OC Blog notes that Campbell has been endorsed by Gen NeXt, a group of young conservative businessmen. Gen NeXt is affiliated with the New Majority, a group of at least 150 fiscally conservative and socially moderate Orange County multimillionaires.
If the OC millionaires got his back, then Campbell is already in. I probably won't bother voting because a Republican is bound to win. Hell would literally freeze over if a Democrat won the seat. Campbell probably has Arnold's approval. And Chimpy probably likes him too . . .
I might as well get used to Congressman Campbell and his positions. According to Vote Smart, he gets a 100% rating from conservative groups, a grade "A" from the NRA, about 10% from civil rights groups and a whopping 0% from environmental groups. He'll fit right in down here!
Why aren't you running? Seriously. It's time for us to run for office. We can do no worse than the decaying morons who are holding office now...
I'm actually considering running for CongressCritter in my district as The Green Candidate. I have no hope in hell of winning as the CongressCreature here is a a lifetime member. But we need to demonstrate the ability to challenge the system.
Posted by: The CultureGhost | August 26, 2005 at 11:28 AM
Not a bad idea CG. We could be like Jello Biafra who ran for governor of San Francisco. I think he got about 3% of the vote!
Posted by: Agi T. Prop | August 26, 2005 at 12:27 PM
I actually thought about running for that seat too! But I'll still be too young by a year when the special election rolls around.
Next time this seat comes up for election, though, I may just run as some random minor party's candidate. Again, no chance of winning, but my goal would be to simply get into a debate with some lawyer from Newport Coast. I think it'd be fun.
Posted by: The Chemist | August 29, 2005 at 09:33 AM