Sacramento Bee: Howard Ahmandson drops $67K in to Beth Gaines

Mar 042011

Update: It is late and I will re-post on this tomorrow. Wanted to let you know that Blogs are lighting up about this Southern California Democrat trying to buy an Assembly seat: http://redcounty.com/content/orange-county-democrat-dumps-75k-ie-beth-gaines

Ahmandson used to give tons of money to the CRA. He stopped doing so abruptly several years ago. Ahmandson is now registered Democrat.

For some reason – he decided to open a bank vault against John Allard:

http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/03/conservative-spends-67000-beth-gaines-campaign.html

Committee drops $67,000 on ads for Beth Gaines in AD 4

A conservative, Christian philanthropist has poured $75,000 into a new round of mail pieces and radio advertisements backing Republican Beth Gaines in the 4th Assembly District.

California Taxpayers Advocate, an independent expenditure committee with a history of supporting Republican candidates, has reported spending nearly $32,000 on campaign literature and $35,000 on radio advertisements in advance of next Tuesday’s special primary, according to campaign finance filings on the secretary of state’s website.

The expenditures were financed by a $75,000 contribution to the committee (listed on the second page of the report) from Fieldstead & Co., which manages the assets of the family of Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., an Orange County millionaire known for funding conservative political and religious causes.

Independent expenditure committees can raise and spend unlimited funds to support or oppose candidates as long as they are not coordinated with the campaign.

Gaines is one of eight candidates running for the seat vacated by her husband Ted Gaines’ election to the state Senate. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote on Tuesday, the top two vote-getters advance to a runoff May 3.

AD-04 Update: ElDorado Mountain Democrat Endorses John Allard for Assembly

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Mar 032011

One word – Ouch.

While rumors of last-second coordinated independent expenditures are flying (with one already on the air) on Beth Gaines’ behalf… and with the aforementioned Beth Gaines staging a media event this morning…

… in comes this bombshell. A paper, that leans conservative and was widely expected to endorse Beth Gaines, has not.

They endorsed John Allard. The article is linked here

John Allard endorsed

Only one of the eight candidates for the 4th Assembly District can hit the ground running. Our support goes to the person who fits that description — John Allard.

Allard served as chief of staff 12 years for Tim Leslie, both in the Assembly and Senate. He then did a stint as chief spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

He knows the Capitol and he knows state government. Additionally, he knows local government. He won election twice to the Roseville City Council, having previously served a term on the city Planning Commission there.

But the No. 1 attribute in our minds is his pledge that he is a no-vote on putting the five-year tax hike extension on the ballot.

His campaign flier says, “I’ve pledge to oppose all higher taxes.”

The state doesn’t have a revenue problem, he told the Mountain Democrat, but rather, “The state has a spending problem.”

“l’ll focus on two things: the budget and how to turn the economy around,” Allard said.

We haven’t talked to all eight candidates. Many of them are elusive. But we believe we have talked to the more serious and engaged ones. John Allard is by far and away the best qualified candidate. He can articulate his goals clearly and has a track record of following his conservative principles and acting on them.

Roseville’s budget was cut 20 percent recently. And that included some concessions by the Police Department. These concessions enabled the city to maintain its police force. In his quest for the Assembly Allard lists public safety as No. 1 in importance to him, followed by education, which he believes is currently failing the next generation.

Allard is endorsed by his former boss, retired Sen. Tim Leslie, by retired Congressmen John Doolittle and Doug Ose, three different police associations, a raft of Roseville, Rocklin and Placer County officials and retired CDF fire chief and El Dorado Irrigation District Director George Osborne, along with fellow EID Director Bill George. That’s a double George endorsement. He is also backed by Lew Uhler, president of the National Tax Limitation Committee.

Add our name to the list. The Mountain Democrat endorses small business owner and Roseville City Councilman John Allard for the District 4 Assembly seat. The election is March 8.

OK – so they forgot to mention the CRA, I guess I can let them live…

AD-04 Update: Rob Matthews on the Radio / O’Connor Has Signs

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Mar 022011

Did you hear it?

An ad, voiced by Matthews himself is running on KFBK. I am not sure how much he bought – but the rotation seems thin.

Also – Mike O’Connor has bought some signs. They are wordy and have a small picture of him on them. They have appeared at spurodic locations.

I have seen them at Rocky Ridge / Cirby, Blue Oaks Entrance to Sun City, Along Sunset in Rocklin, Harding Blvd in Roseville. There are not many of them – but they seem to be getting spared the fate of the Gaines / Allard / Matthews signs.

Seems to be a bit of a lull – which will go away this weekend in a final mad dash for the finish line.

AD-04 Update: John Allard Mailer #5 is the Closer

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Feb 242011

Allard Mailer #5 is the best mailer of the campaign.

This here is the best sign of the campaign.

You could tell by how fast they were getting ripped down after being posted.

This latest mailer from the Allard campaign went back and keyed on all the reasons why you should support John Allard.

Unlike Beth Gaines’ mailer #5 – Allard’s mailer had full penetration in the district. (Gaines’ mailer hit Roseville only) Allard’s final mailer was also in the same format as the previous four. (Full size postcard)

Gaines’ mailers went from a 6 1/2×11 postcard to a full-size postcard to a four-page attack against John Allard (with no mention of why to vote for Beth) to another positive postcard piece about immigration only, then peice five was the bizarre letter in the envelope.

Allard’s 5th Peice features: Lew Uhler, the CRA (YEAH!) and venerable retired State Senator Tim Leslie.

Take a look here.

ON the front is a cut out of him signing the no new taxes pledge along with the bullet points about his qualifications – something Beth Gaines could not match.

AD-04 Update: Rob Matthews Checks in With a Blast Email

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Feb 202011

I’d assume this went to the master voter list that you can purchase from the Registrar’s Office.

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