I'm writing this post because we need your help. As you may know, last month Governor Schwarzenegger called a special election to fill the California State Senate seat recently vacated by Republican Abel Maldonado. The date the Governor set, June 22nd--two weeks after our June 8th primary, is meant to help his fellow Republican Sam Blakeslee keep the seat in the Republican column. Blakeslee needs the help as the seat, which was designed to be Republican, now favors Democrats by party registration.
The Democrat in the race, John Laird, has spent his professional life fighting the expansion of offshore oil-drilling, both as Mayor of Santa Cruz and as a member of the State Assembly. As an Assemblymember, John Laird was also the chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, and helped to pass one of California's first on-time budgets in years.
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John's opponent, Sam Blakeslee, is an oilman. He worked for the borehole division of Exxon, and most recently as Republican Minority Leader in the State Assembly authored a bill to expand offshore oil-drilling in California. In the Assembly, Blakeslee has also been instrumental in prolonging our state's annual budget stalemates.
Getting John Laird into the Senate also will bring the Senate Caucus to 26 seats, just one seat short of the 2/3s required to pass the budget.
The election is now 11 days away, and many voters in Senate District 15, which runs from Santa Clara County in the north to Santa Barbara County in the south, still don't know the election is even happening.
We need precinct walkers and phone bankers. We have campaign offices open in each of the 5 counties in the Senate District and we're organizing volunteer activities everyday from now until election day. Contact the office nearest you to find out how you can help.
Our campaign office locations are as follows:
San Jose, 6489 Camden Ave, Suite 105, phone: 408-715-7023
Watsonville, Beach Street, phone: 831-421-1808
Monterey, 60 Bonifacio Plaza, phone: 831-333-0101
San Louis Obispo, 1404 Broad Street, phone: 805-242-3756
Santa Maria, 327 East Plaza Drive, Suite 4, phone: 805-614-7815
Check-out John's website at http://www.lairdforsenate.com
You can also donate on-line at John's Actblue page http://www.actblue.com/...
We're also having a CYD invasion tomorrow @ our San Jose office. The fun starts at 11:00AM, stop on by.