![]() ![]() Kashkari has been able to launch mail and TV campaigns to introduce himself to Californians who are now voting by mail. As of March 17, his campaign had just $10,765 in the bank, compared with Kashkari's $903,000. Some Republican insiders are hoping the recent controversies have closed the gap between Donnelly and Kashkari, a former Treasury Department official and first-time candidate who is spending $1 million of his own money.ĭonnelly was already operating at a disadvantage financially. The group cited a 2006 speech in which Donnelly compared illegal immigration to the Civil War, saying, "We are on the brink of a battle unlike the likes of which this nation has seen since 1861." Gap closing? In its rebuke Tuesday, the Lincoln Club also noted Donnelly's role as co-founder of the California Minutemen, an anti-illegal immigration group and self-styled border patrol. In defending the vote on free-speech grounds, Donnelly said he wouldn't vote to ban the Nazi or Israeli flags either, prompting criticism that he was giving the two equal weight. Last week, Donnelly was the lone Assembly member to vote against a ban on state-run souvenir shops selling Confederate memorabilia. Darrell Issa of Vista (San Diego County), an icon to state conservatives and an Arab American, said that "this type of stupidity disqualifies Tim Donnelly from being fit to hold any office, anywhere." He later softened the charge, but not before GOP Rep. They won't let people with blue jeans into the country club." Facebook postĭonnelly kicked up controversy with a recent Facebook post accusing his main Republican opponent, Neel Kashkari, a Hindu, of appearing to submit to Sharia law. "The Republicans are scared of their own shadow. "And I'm having more trouble with the Republicans than the Democrats," he said. "Yeah, I have 370,000 miles on my vehicle and I have only one suit - people have figured it out," Donnelly said. The automaker recently said it was moving its U.S. In a spirited session with Chronicle editors and reporters, Donnelly cast himself as a populist who is "literally walking the state of California" to talk with voters - even in liberal bastions like San Francisco - about issues such as his opposition to the Common Core curriculum in California schools, his support of gun rights and his plan to stop the defection to other states of companies such as Toyota. ![]() Party leaders' fear is that Donnelly's presence at the top of the ticket in November will not only assure a loss to Brown, but taint other Republican candidates as well. Jerry Brown leading up to the June 3 primary, Donnelly has drawn attention for comments that appeal to his conservative base but make the Republican establishment blanch. As he has maintained a solid second-place standing in the polls behind Gov. ![]()
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