Saturday, December 03, 2011

Stacey Lawson for Congress?

I had a chance to meet Stacey yesterday in Eureka with a group of Labor Representatives and was highly impressed by her observations of the 2nd Congressional race. She has progressive values much like Solomon. This race also has Susan Adams, so there are many good choices. Huffman is the Corporate candidate with the anointing of Thompson, so I am looking for who has the best chance of beating him in the long haul. Stacey is the best funded, but it is still early.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please don't count out Dan Roberts Richard. Virginia & Matt both support his campaign, and I believe he'll be a stronger voice for us in Washington than Thompson ever was.

Matthew Owen said...

That's the problem with Anonymous people making statements of fact on a blog.

When someone states, "Please don't count out Dan Roberts Richard. Virginia & Matt both support his campaign" my comment is, who is Dan Roberts?

Matthew Owen

Fred Mangels said...

Isn't he the only Republican candidate running?

Fred Mangels said...

http://www.danrobertsforcongress.com/

Anonymous said...

That's not what you told us Matt

Why lie?

Andrew Bird said...

Roberts is a disciple of Newt Gingrich. That will go over well in the new Congressional District.

samoasoftball said...

Neither Virginia or Matt are supporting Dan Roberts. Just anonymous blathering.

Anonymous said...

Never heard of her.

Anonymous said...

Then you should have went to meet her. Duh!!!

Anonymous said...

Richard, you're getting testy and mean. When you get hungry you tend to get a little grumpy. Now that Hometown is closed, we all need to watch out for Richards attitude. If he starts to mouth off like he did here, it might be time to slip him a buttered biscuit or fried dark meat chicken in order to calm him down.

Fred Mangels said...

Andrew wrote, Roberts is a disciple of Newt Gingrich.

I feel safe in saying you know nothing about the guy and that you'd say the same thing about whoever the Republican candidate was.

Andrew Bird said...

Fred,

You provided the link to his website but apparently you did read it.

Andrew Bird said...

Fred - you provided the link to his website but apparently you didn't read it.

Anonymous said...

Duh. How could I go to meet her if I'd never heard of her? Duh.
Never heard of Dan Roberts either.

Fred Mangels said...

Oh, because he's a member of Newt Gingrich/American Solutions. So what? There's probably all kinds of people in that org.

Anonymous said...

What is important is that we send new people to Congress. The same ole folks been running the show for too long. Stacey Lawson represents a new opportunity for one of us and not one of them. In my book, if someone has been in office... dont vote for them.

Anonymous said...

There is no question that Lawson and Adams are the ONLY two candidates that Huffman sees as a threat in Nov.

The new 2nd has only 25% registered Republicans, so while Roberts may well make it to the run off in Nov (if the Dems split four ways and the Reps all vote for him), the election will already be over and Huffman will walk away with a landslide victory with out any need to campaign further.
If however enough Dems, independent (DTS) and even Republicans who do not wish to waste their vote (at best it's wasted at worse it's the same as voting FOR Huffman), choose to vote for Lawson or Adams, then Huffman will have a fight on his hands come November. He well knows this.
Lawson's got the business cred so that should help her with Reps and DTS, and Adams has close ties to the Northcoast (family in Carlotta) and is 4th generation Mendo ranching family herself, so that should also play well with rural voters. But those are the options.

Solomon and Roberts have no chance in Nov (but you'd be required to do simple math to understand this, so 9:37AM should please feel free to disagree).

Eric V. Kirk said...

I agree that Adams has the best chance of beating Huffman. Not sure about Lawson. But fortunately, I'm not all that obsessed with beating Huffman. He'll probably do fine if he's in there. But voting for Solomon may be an opportunity, from my point of view, to vote for someone I can really get behind. If I was worried about splitting the vote against Son of Riggs or something, I might think about the race differently. Solomon does have a chance, though it will be very much an uphill fight.