Even Slate magazine writes that Damon Dunn’s qualifications for office are mysterious. Bottom line, he was groomed by someone to run as a Republican Obama: he is packaged as a black Cinderella story, a lot of hype, no substance, elections fraud and the hearing in CA Superior court intentionally set for January 10, 2011, after the election. By the way, he calls himself a successful real estate developer. Can someone find at least one site, where he is developing anything? Where is he building anything? Where is he employing anybody? How is he a developer?
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Posted Friday, October 15, 2010 11:01 AM | By David WeigelIn 2006, while Republicans were distracted, wealthy liberal donors funded the Secretaries of State Project — an effort to get Democrats elected to an office few voters care about, but one that kept seem to producing Republican partisans in swing states. (See: Blackwell, Kenneth; Harris, Katherine.) I don’t see any similar effort on the Republican side this year, but I notice that Republicans are trying to hype their way into an upset in California. There, they have gotten a ton of attention, and decent money, toward Damon Dunn, a 29-year-old ex-football player who settles nicely into stories of “the year of the black Republican.”
Dunn — who, you’ll remember, bested Orly Taitz to win his primary — has received a strange mix of coverage. Wholly positive profiles — he’s in the Time 40 Under 40 this week — are matched with newspaper endorsements choosing incumbent Debra Bowen over him. (She’s endorsed my many newspapers that are otherwise endorsing GOP candidates.) The endorsements make the point that Dunn has only voted once, in 2009, and that his qualifications for office are totally mysterious. But positive media coverage matters in a race that no one cares about. Bowen somehow only raised $424,659 for the campaign, while Dunn raised $642,356. Those numbers, combined, are about as much as Christine O’Donnell raises in a week. Bowen has only spend half of her money; Dunn has spent 2/3 of his. So this race looks like a good acid test of whether media hype can overcome the older, duller way voters pick downballot races — reading the newspaper and voting for the person it recommended.
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6 Responses to “Even Slate magazine writes that Damon Dunn’s qualifications for office are mysterious. Bottom line, he was groomed by someone to run as a Republican Obama: he is packaged as a black Cinderella story, a lot of hype, no substance, elections fraud and the hearing in CA Superior court intentionally set for January 10, 2011, after the election. By the way, he calls himself a successful real estate developer. Can someone find at least one site, where he is developing anything? Where is he building anything? Where is he employing anybody? How is he a developer?”
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October 15th, 2010 @ 2:25 pm
It seems just a little strange that election matters cannot be resolved prior to an election, or is it just fraud?
Poor damon had so many campaign events booked up, he could not take time to establish eligibility?
I think I’ve heard this tune before.
October 15th, 2010 @ 2:54 pm
exactly, his attorney refused to schedule his deposition, and I don’t want to make too much noise out of it before the election. As you could see, I am trying to stay away from the CA politics for this very reason. Party establishment wanted to go with Dunn, as they believed that eligibility issue is controversial, plus they wanted one African American candidate on the state wide ticket. I’ll have to wait and see, who wins the primary and go from there.
October 15th, 2010 @ 3:47 pm
Even a fool can tell the diference between changing parties 9 months prior to filing and 12 months prior. Just what does a judge have to hear from dunn? That he meant to change parties at 12 months and just forgot so he should be exempted from the law?
I am so sick of politics and the failure to follow the law in elections that I could spit.
Ms Tatiz, I wish only the best for you and have already written in your name for SoS and mailed my ballot. I pray that many more do the same!!
October 15th, 2010 @ 4:27 pm
You have waited too long already. The CMC date was not “intentionally set” with any ulterior motive, it was set according to the case management rules.
You should not be in the case management system, but you are the one who incorrectly filed your paperwork. You could have had an expedited trial way back when if you had 1) filed a proper affidavit under the Elections Code, and 2) Presented it to the presiding judge for expedited hearing under the Elections Code.
Now, it’s too late, as the Elections Code provides your only remedy for overturning the results of the primary and you have missed all of the deadlines for properly making an election challenge.
October 15th, 2010 @ 5:34 pm
I mailed in my Vote by mail form today — For ” Secretary of State ” I wrote in ” Dr Orly Taitz ” — even though I voted Republican across the entire ballot — except one !!
October 15th, 2010 @ 10:18 pm
We need a special Elections Court in every state, for any voting problems..the deliberate delays are denying the voters their right to the courts and honest election.