The Sacramento Bee is coming after State Sen. Tom McClintock, California’s best known conservative and candidate to Rep. Doolittle’s seat in district 4.
Oh yes, he’s “intolerant,” an “ideologue,” and worst of all, he’s anti-earmarks. The Bee quotes approvingly of an attack by a supporter of former Rep. Doug Ose’s, who is running against McClintock to return to the Congress, who says in horror “Tom will publicly refuse the tools available to all 435 members of Congress.”
As for me, I’m with the Republican quoted at the end of the article:
“I think Tom is probably the most active voice in restraining state spending,” said state Sen. Sam Aanestad, R-Penn Valley, a campaign supporter. “He just tells it like it is. He’s upfront and he doesn’t play political games.
“If that’s a weakness, it’s one I’d like to have.”
For what it’s worth, I’m with McClintock for Congress, and against Ose. This is a district we can have our pick of Republicans. This is no time and no place to go with a pro-spending Republican.