Only a handful of Democrats know either one of the candidates. Both of them are starting virtually from scratch.
"Garry South" is a Democratic political strategist based in California and principal of The Garry South Group and California Strategies, LLC, a public affairs firm headquartered in Sacramento. He is best known for managing Democrat Gray Davis’ gubernatorial campaigns in both 1998 and 2002. In 1998, the California Democratic Party had not been successful in electing a Governor for 20 years and only 3 Democrats has won previously in the 20th century.http://www2.umt.edu/montanan/f03/politics.html http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=roles&func=display&uid=89
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In 2011, the journal Capitol Weekly designated South among the top 50 most influential political players in California.
More Garry South on Wikipedia.They can't snap their fingers and do symbolic things and turn it all around. It ain't that easy -- particularly when you have the antipathy that now exists against him.
Phil better take notice. If he wants to try to replicate the Roberti campaign of 1994, he's up against a team that knows how to fight back. I've been accused of a lot of things, but not being willing to fight back isn't one of them.
We just decided it wasn't worth taking the heat to try to protect donors.
They became active detractors and tried to do him damage.
In both cases, he did it with very strong bipartisan backing. But they wrongly and foolishly extrapolated from the recall and the Prop. 57-58 and 66 campaigns that this guy was a masterful campaigner who could sell ice to Eskimos and could sell pork pies in a synagogue.
Why would you pick someone who was director of press relations for the most disliked, discredited vice president since Spiro Agnew?
Roland was responsible for Gray becoming governor.
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