A GOP 'clarifying moment' in Calif. primary
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 11/10/2009 10:05:00 AM
California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore says he is not surprised or bothered that Carly Fiorina gained the backing of eight Republican U.S. senators last week in Washington. DeVore notes that he has been endorsed by 60 percent of California's elected Republican officials, including Congressman Tom McClintock -- people that can actually vote for him.
In fact, DeVore says he expected more than eight GOP Senators to support Fiorina out of the gate.
"Especially when you consider that just as she was fired from Hewlett Packard in 2005, her first act was to buy a $3.5-million home in Georgetown in Washington, DC -- so no doubt, these senators are used to seeing her on the Washington, DC, cocktail circuit and are comfortable with her," DeVore explains.
"They know her, and I'm sure that they are all personally familiar with her, seeing her quite frequently. The reason why Senator Jim DeMint endorsed me [is] that we share a philosophy," DeVore says of the South Carolina Republican. "We understand what the purpose of government is; that it is to secure our rights, not to try to provide us with all of our needs and wants with borrowed money."
The conservative candidate says his primary race with Fiorina, just like the Marco Rubio-Charlie Crist contest in Florida, is a "needed, clarifying moment" for the Republican Party after losing in 2006 and 2008 because it "abandoned conservative principles in the vain pursuit to just elect people."
