My husband Gary Pritchard is running for State Senate in California's 33rd district. Right now he's running unopposed in the primary and I've written about why he's running on several occasions here at Daily Kos.
The first reason was to get a "D" on the ballot. No one was going to run as a Democrat. Orange County California has been seen as a primarily red district for years now but it doesn't mean we have a one party system, right?
So, Gary is running and he's working hard on getting endorsements, such as The UAW and Democracy for America, both really important and we our proud to say he did get their endorsements. So what are the Republicans doing? Check it out.
The Republicans running are sending mailers and doing robo calls to their hardcore base here in the OC. And it's getting uglier and uglier. I wanted to write about it now because I really can't quite grasp my head around the latest mailer from Assemblywoman Mimi Walters.
Walters is running against Anaheim City Council Member Harry Sidhu. Harry is originally from India and immigrated here to make quite a good life for himself and his family. He's proud of the fact that he came here legally and he's worked very hard for the accomplishments he's achieved.
But what do you think of this? The following mailer is meant to question Sidhu receiving over 1,200 tickets to concerts and sporting events at the Honda Arena as a part of serving on the City Council. So, okay, yes, that's a lot of tickets but what about the MAILER?
I think you have to be pretty blind not to see how this mailer is insulting but that's not all of it. Mimi's supporters don't understand what is racist about as demonstrated on our right wing blog in the OC that posted the image.
Why said:
What's wrong with the cover?
Why said:
I don't get why it's racist. It's just Harry's face.
Mimi Supporter said:
What's racist about it?
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The kicker? Mimi Walters is probably who Gary will be running against in the GE. We have very little chance of winning and I've also been told that she probably won't even bother with such mailers with Gary. She has the money to but she won't acknowledge that the Democrat even exists.
But the more and more I see these kinds of ugly mailers, the more I want Gary to win. Can you help us? Act Blue in my tip jar.
If you are outraged, I invite you to comment at the "OC Blog" and let them know.
And it's not isolated, most of her mailers about Sidhu have been disturbing to me, such as this one and this one. The second mailer is made from unflattering photos of Mr. Sidhu. According to the blog, the company who made the mailer got the photos anonymously via email. I'm not kidding. That makes sense.
UPDATE (10:36 p.m.): There have been some allegations amongst the comments that Harry's picture is so bad because Mimi's consultant's, GBWA, must have tinkered with them.
Not so. I asked Dave where they got the photos. He said this link showed up in there e-mail inboxes.
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