PatriotOne
10-10-2010, 08:14 AM
...as a Republican
The Republican Actually Running Against Pelosi
By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: October 9, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us/politics/10dennis.html
“O.K., we’re all sitting here, we all have a drink here?” Mr. Dennis said, taking a deep breath. “O.K.: I’m a Republican.”
“Oh. My. God,” responded Chris Craig, a 72-year old Democrat who is retired.
“Are you sure?” another man at the table asked.
Mr. Dennis smiled and nodded, and continued on in his curious and probably quixotic mission: to unseat Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, a Democrat who was elected to her 12th term in 2008 with a slim 72 percent of the vote.
“It’s a challenging district,” Mr. Dennis acknowledges.
That is, without a doubt, an understatement. But the long odds notwithstanding, Mr. Dennis — a 47-year-old straight, married father of a 4-year-old girl — says he is making an honest run for Ms. Pelosi’s seat and raising not a small amount of money to do so.
With some 33,000 donors, most of whom, not surprisingly, do not live in San Francisco, Mr. Dennis has raised nearly $2 million, all in order to woo San Franciscans with his antitax, antiwar and anti-Pelosi rhetoric.
“This is an enormous platform,” he said. “This is a way to get out and talk about the things that I care about.”
That said, Mr. Dennis is not exactly leading with his party affiliation — “I don’t usually include the Republican part,” he said — and for good reason. Republicans are about as rare as warm evenings here, making up just 9 percent of the San Francisco electorate.
Rest at link.
The Republican Actually Running Against Pelosi
By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: October 9, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us/politics/10dennis.html
“O.K., we’re all sitting here, we all have a drink here?” Mr. Dennis said, taking a deep breath. “O.K.: I’m a Republican.”
“Oh. My. God,” responded Chris Craig, a 72-year old Democrat who is retired.
“Are you sure?” another man at the table asked.
Mr. Dennis smiled and nodded, and continued on in his curious and probably quixotic mission: to unseat Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, a Democrat who was elected to her 12th term in 2008 with a slim 72 percent of the vote.
“It’s a challenging district,” Mr. Dennis acknowledges.
That is, without a doubt, an understatement. But the long odds notwithstanding, Mr. Dennis — a 47-year-old straight, married father of a 4-year-old girl — says he is making an honest run for Ms. Pelosi’s seat and raising not a small amount of money to do so.
With some 33,000 donors, most of whom, not surprisingly, do not live in San Francisco, Mr. Dennis has raised nearly $2 million, all in order to woo San Franciscans with his antitax, antiwar and anti-Pelosi rhetoric.
“This is an enormous platform,” he said. “This is a way to get out and talk about the things that I care about.”
That said, Mr. Dennis is not exactly leading with his party affiliation — “I don’t usually include the Republican part,” he said — and for good reason. Republicans are about as rare as warm evenings here, making up just 9 percent of the San Francisco electorate.
Rest at link.