Julie Griffiths, Assembly Minority Leader Mike Villines' district director, has resigned to run Republican Danny Gilmore's campaign for the Assembly this year. This is the seat that Democrat Nicole Parra is leaving because of term limits, and the seat that Parra doesn't want to go to the Democrat: Fran Florez of Shafter.
The main reason, of course, is that Fran Florez brought Sen. Dean Florez into the world, and Parra and the senator detest each other. She'd rather a Republican take her seat than her arch-rival's mom, which goes to show you that hate is thicker than party loyalty.
The interesting thing is the Democrats propped Parra up in her seat in three aggressive runs by Republicans, and now she is repaying her party's leadership by tring to hand the seat to the guy they spent millions on to defeat.
Parra reportedly wants to be a Sacramento lobbyist, but how wise is it to anger the majority leadership? The Republicans may help your clients some, but it takes the party in charge to get things done in Sacramento.
No matter. Parra is on the Gilmore bandwagon now, and one rumor has her preparing to do campaign commercials for the GOP candidate who tried to beat here the last two times out.
Now that would be quite an ad by Parra: "Vote for Danny Gilmore because I hate Fran Florez's son." Very catchy bumper sticker.
"The Speaker fully expects her to support the Democratic nominee. Republicans shouldn't count on any assistance from any Democrat for their candidate that doesn't represent Valley values, period."
-- Steven Maviglio, Office of Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez
Steve,
WHATEVER........
Steve-don't let the door hit you & "No No to Nunez" in the butt on your way out.
Maviglio,
Why can't Nunez speak for himself here? Oh, I forgot. He is drinking that French wine and trying on his new Louis Vutton clothes in front of the mirror in his $1.2 million home up in Sacramento...all bought with campaign donations.
Steve, it's glaringly obvious that you and your boss don't know the first thing about Valley values. We by morals and values. Perhaps your boss could learn something from conservative public servants like Mike Villines and Danny Gilmore.