Piepho’s cut and paste campaign mailer touts Torlakson and Leach support
May 15, 2008
I swear she doesn’t even know she does it, but last Sunday, the Times’ Lisa Vorderbrueggen emasculated yet another male politician in Contra Costa by pulling down poor Steve Thomas’ pants over a hasty cut and paste gaff in his campaign literature, while overlooking a similar no-no by “the girl,” who, apparently, can do no wrong. And here we thought professionals didn’t bring their baggage to work, or pass girl friend gossip off as unbiased journalism!
Just imagine how Republican Lynne Leach must feel to know her mug just got pasted onto the same mailer that the Piepho camp used to tout the support of Democrat Senator, Tom Torlakson, with his Republican-killer smile?
That’s got to be embarrassing for any respected Republican leader supporting a candidate who’d just as soon tout the support of a Republican nemesis itching to cut Republican representation off at the knees in the California State Legislature.
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Nice work Reefer. Lisa V is definately showing her bias. Mary is so desperate and both the left and the far right are so afraid of a Houson victory that they are losing their noodle over this race.
Mary Piepho should have an event with both Leech and Torlakson. Maybe they could have a mud wrestleing match. I am sure there would be plenty of doners who would pay to watch.
I poke a little snarky fun at Steve Thomas, a guy who has run — sort of — for three offices and I get accused of bias in favor of Mary Piepho? Absurd.
Ask Steve yourself. He was thrilled at the mention in my column. As a write-in candidate, he is happy to get any coverage he can get.
As for Piepho’s endorsement mailer, do you know for a fact that Lynne Leach was embarrased or upset at being on the same mailer with Torlakson? Do you know whether or not she was aware of the full contents of the mailer?
I’ve called her. I’ll let you know what I find out.
Lisa v.
[...] HalfwaytoConcord.com blogger Bill Gram-Reefer is taking me to task for poking fun at write-in Contra Costa County supervisor candidate Steve Thomas’ cut-and-paste gaff while failing to mention that incumbent Contra Costa Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho did a “similar” thing on an endorsement mailer. [...]
Where to start……completely different text, Tom’s name doesn’t show on Lynne’s endorsement or vice versa. One directed at registered Repubs and the other looking for the Dems. Sounds like smart politicking to me, but that point is lost because of your desire to insert partisanship into a nonpartisan race.
I realize this is an opinions blog versus a journalistic bit, but did you call or email either of the endorsers or just assume neither of them knew or that they are offended?
Wasn’t Thomas distributing material stating he was running for the Assembly?! That’s your comparison?? That’s not apples-to-apples or even apples-to-oranges. Maybe apples-to-unicorns?
I just talked with Lynne Leach and you can read her response to this nonsense at http://www.ibabuzz.com/insidepolitics/2008/05/16/concord-blogger-calls-political-columnist-biased/
Who is Lisa Vorderbrruggen? Or am I just one of the one-million people in Contra Costa County who no longer reads the Times? I would presume this website has more readers. I see these 15 year olds in front of Target trying to give free copies away and nobody ever takes them. Do newspapers even take in revenue anymore?They probably pay their reporters minimum wage, so how can you even refer to her with an credibility when the kid at Taco Bell takes home more in his check. And who is that moon faced looking guy in the suit leaning against the stripper pole…Tom Del something…Tom Del Taco…
~Editor replies… be nice, Joe. Lisa works hard and is a great service to the community. She can’t help it her idiot boss, Dean Singleton, wants to run BANG into the ground. Anyways, it’s too late now to start mixing misogyny with misandry. All we’d end up with is misanthropy!
The other guy runs a Taco stand I think.
FURTHERMORE, local politicians need, especially the Republican leaning group, to find other horses to beat, beside these “graveyard” elected officials from the past. Do you really believe that voters care a rats _ss about the endorsement of Lynne Leach, Bill Baker or stuffing the name of Nejedly in between Mary and Piepho. Wasn’t Woodrow Wilson President when these people held office? Like the Contra Costa Times these are names from the past nobody knows or cares about. When I asked my daughter what Nejedly meant, she thought is was a variety of Girl Scout Cookie…”SIr would you like to buy some cookies, how about some Samoas, Thin Mints or Nejedlys.”
This is for that No nonsense Idiot. This is a quotefhot off the press of the Grand Jury findings.
“Supervisors have said that they have learned their lesson, that they will do
better, and that they are on the road to fiscal sanity. Their record says
otherwise. In the past few months, three labor contracts have come up for
approval, and in each case, the Supervisors as a group have failed to take
any meaningful steps to address out-of-control health benefit costs,
attributable largely to the generous union agreements.” Mr. No nonsense I guess it is a real surprise the unfunded liability for the County is now $1.7 BILLION. Thats with the so-called reduction our Supervisor is claiming she made she made or is that her idea of the balanced budget. Get a new calculator. And as for Piepho being sometype of negoiator for the Unions we better give her the hook before she buries the County so far in debt they will be doing what Vallejo had to do. Evidently Mary has round heels with the Unions.
I made exactly 100 of the “cut and paste” handouts with the “mistake” on them and handed out only about 50 of them. It was immediately corrected, before Lisa’s column. The more important point that I spoke to at the Supervisor’s meeting, was that Governor S. has vetoed SB840 twice. If SB840 had passed, the County would not be in this position. If you want to see California sink from the 7th largest economy in the world to 10th or 20th or 30th, let’s keep this idea of it takes 2/3 to either pass a budget or raise taxes. The Governator hasn’t done the MINIMUM, to raise revenue, and it can be argued that $5 to $6 billion a year of our deficit is solely and directly due to his decision regarding the VLF. It’s really easy for him to say he’ll eliminate the “yacht loophole” when the Assembly and Senate Republicans have all taken a “no taxes” pledge. Arnold want a “constitutional amendment” so he can further “cut spending”. Isn’t this like him asking for a constitutional amendment so he can further lobotomize your child’s education and eviscerate their healthcare? If our future isn’t about our children’s education and the environment and economy we’re leaving them, where is it? We should be ashamed of the economy we’re leaving them, as well as the compromised environment. The framers of the Constitution had a lot to say on the matter of leaving huge debts to be paid by future generations. Those future generations are your kids and grandkids. The 20 to 30 somethings are going to be the very first generation in American history that will not do as well as, forget better than, their parents!
Not only does Steve Thomas make a mistake in his cut and paste handout, he make a HUGE mistake when he thinks SB840 is a winner. SB840 will cost $95 billion to implement, would cover all illegal aliens and would insure that all of us will get second rate healthcare with months, if not years, of waiting to get treatment.
So keep up those gaffs Steve. I wish you luck in your write-in campaign and hope you at least a dozen votes.