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Upset in CA-24 Democratic Primary

From the VC Star... Jorgensen headed to surprise victory; Gallegly wins

Apparently powered by the appeal of the word "educator," a teacher and former nurse from Solvang appeared headed to an unexpected win in the three-way race for the Democratic nomination in the 24th Congressional District.

Marta Jorgensen, reached by phone Tuesday evening and informed of the early returns, was incredulous. "You're kidding! That's a pretty amazing thing."

For three weeks during the campaign, Jorgensen had suspended campaigning and announced she was supporting Jill Martinez, a developer of affordable housing and the Democratic nominee from two years ago.

But, saying she thought Martinez and Oak Park insurance agent Mary Pallant were not paying enough attention to Santa Barbara County voters, Jorgensen jumped back in.

"I was certain I had shot myself in the foot on that," she said. "I thought maybe I'd get 8 or 10 percent."

With 83 percent of the returns counted, Jorgensen was leading, with 47 percent of the vote, over Martinez, with 32 percent, and Pallant, with 21 percent.

Vote totals at the OC Register (not including many mail-in ballots, apparently). More discussion at Brian Dennert's VC Star blog.

Posted by Tyler Suchman on June 4, 2008 02:48 PM | | | Upset in CA-24 Democratic Primary

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Lord help us, let's hope we can get rid of that worse-than-worthless Bush lapdog Gallegly.

How does an immigrant basher who supports the border wall and shameful detention centers represent a district that is 33% Latino (probably 50% if undocumented were included), and depends on its immigrant workforce for its major economy? Is Ventura County just racist, or stupid? Lord, the man supports taking parents from children, just because the parents made the mistake of working for slave wages for one of his lawbreaking, corrupt (white) business buddies.

He also loves Gitmo, supports torture, supports government kidnaping, is a strong advocate of bombing innocent foreign women and children in their sleep and shooting their menfolk, would like to incinerate the magna carta and voted to get rid of habeas corpus, and would like to see our courts and civil service packed with ideologically blind, incompetent hacks.

That's just for starters.

Gallegly is a caricature of a bad politician. You couldn't make him up, nobody would believe you. He is a one man horror show. Jason, Freddie Krueger and Wormtongue all in one, slavering to his master Dick Cheney Bush Sauron.

(He even looks like Grima Wormtongue, doesn't he?)

I'd love to see a side by side comparison of Gallegly's program vs. the challenger's.

Comment #1 Posted by: Anonymous | June 6, 2008 01:53 AM

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