Bob Dole endorses Assembly candidate Lloyd
By Lisa Vorderbrueggen
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 at 11:28 am in Election 2008.
Endorsements don’t often get my attention; they’re usually predictable and ubiquitous.
But here’s one that popped into my e-mail box this morning that may interest you: Ex-GOP presidential nominee and former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole will serve as the honorary campaign chairman for Republican Assembly District 15 candidate Judy Biviano Lloyd.
Whether or not this means Dole will actually set foot in District 15, which stretches from Walnut Creek to Livermore, is an open question that may or may not matter given Dole’s stature as a conservative statesman. (Click here to see a map of the district.)
Lloyd has come under some criticism for relying too heavily on endorsements of people who don’t live in the district. She also doesn’t live in the district yet, although she has put her Pleasanton house on the market and plans to move.
On the other hand, Lloyd is in a fierce, five-way race for the GOP nomination in June 2008 and clearly intends to use every political arrow in her quiver to distinguish herself from her male challengers: Scott Kamena, Robert Rao, San Ramon Mayor Abram Wilson and Joe Rubay. And Lloyd’s ammunition now includes Dole, the man she worked for as a special assistant when he was the U.S. Senate Majority Leader.
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November 29th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Judy needs Bob Dole to come out and do a fundraiser. It would be funny to hear him talk about himself in the 3rd person again!!
November 29th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Judy needs Bob Dole to come out and do a fundraiser. It would be funny to hear him talk about himself in the 3rd person again!!
December 5th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
I hear they both live in the same district….(not in the 15th).
December 5th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
I hear they both live in the same district….(not in the 15th).
February 6th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Judy just moved to Danville.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Judy just moved to Danville.