Thank you. It was a great team effort. I I had
the best volunteers and the best campaign team in California working on my
race. — @AMuratsuchi November 21
Attending SEIU ULTCW's awards gala and holiday
celebration. Thank you for all that you do. I stand with you in your struggle.
— @AMuratsuchi December 8 (A date that lives in infamy. . . for 66th Assembly voters)
Torrance School Board Member Al Muratsuchi ran a
slash and burn, hate and berate campaign to denigrate his opponent for the 66th
Assembly District seat, a constituency which runs from Manhattan Beach to Palos
Verdes, from Redondo Beach to West Carson. He had union money, and Democratic
intimidation in the statehouse, with mouth-piece Head Hog John Perez
intimidating local businesses to donate to Muratsuchi, or else. One of his biggest
contributors, incidentally, was GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who
helped depress the GOP vote by three million. He should have stayed at Bain
Capital.
Huey ran a credible campaign with incredible help
from volunteers all over the South Bay. He did it without union handouts, by
the way, but the spirit of the times, and the inspiration of the Republican
Party. Now the GOP must coalesce Tea Party enthusiasm with down-to-earth
Establishment pragmatism. Instead of waiting for top-down party leadership,
grassroots from the root to the rest of the South Bay must flourish. Local
GOP candidates are taking back city halls
through Los Angeles Country, and any one leader can rise up and take down
Muratsuchi, with or without "Big Money" backing the candidate.
Local Republican clubs are bringing in new
members. Independents are returning to the Republican fold, now purged of the
"Big Government" dispassionate "(un)compassionate
conservatism" of the Bush-Romney age. President Obama has a more troubling
legacy on his hands, as the Democratic leader who will do to his party what
George W. Bush nearly did to the Republican brand: make it unpalatable to even
the most interested swing-voters.
No longer will outsider status and wealth alone
persuade, let alone purchase, a political office; yet Democratic leaders still
clamor for a Constitutional Amendment to overturn
Citizens
United. Unbelievable. Huey represented the grassroots
that is sprouting about. Local leaders are now stepping in to take off where
his ground game has laid new opportunities.
One union, or association, deserves praise and
respect from South Bay residents. Kudos to the Torrance
Police Officers Association, for
their bold and brave stance to endorse Craig Huey. Let us hope that future
public sector associations will recognize that the Democratic plan of "do
nothing about pensions and spending" will only ensure that no one collects
a pension, and that no one will be able to live in the state of California
without enduring high taxes, higher spending, and the height of regulatory
burdens.
Back to the current 66th Assembly representative,
Muratsuchi claims that "volunteers" helped him win his race for the
Assembly. I do not see how "union interests" resemble, let alone
represent volunteers, considering that Muratsuchi had "four-to-one"
hundreds of thousands of dollars more to spend from interests outside of the
district, in the first place. Today, Muratsuchi is a warm body in a bought
seat, and no one can really trust that he can or will represent the interests
of the South Bay, let alone every taxpaying resident in the State of
California. With so many lies about one candidate just to win, what has the man
really won, besides a political office and polarizing infamy?
Muratsuchi's last tweet, following his attendance at a gala celebration
for the SEIU, represents this priceless and laughable dilemma. He claims to
stand with the "SEIU", as if the Service Employees International
Union needs anyone to stand with them. In the past few months, the
SEIU has stood in the way of Americans purchasing
Christmas gifts (widespread demonstrations at Wal-Mart) or standing in the way
of international travelers and trade (disruptive yet abortive strikes across
LAX). One group of employees no longer stands with the SEIU, the Aviation
Safeguards Assocation, which now receives more take-home pay since they broke
away from the SEIU. Fewer are standing with the SEIU, since fewer people should
stand for the choke-hold of union money, power, and imperium in Sacramento,
represented infamously by Democratic State Assembly Speaker, John Perez.
By the way, when will Muratsuchi stand with the
struggles of South Bay residents? Why does Redondo Beach only
keeps eighteen cents of every dollar sent
raised from property taxes? Why do workers have to spend part of their salary
joining a union just to get a job, then witness union leaders take advantage of
this immoral power grab and kill the very jobs they claim to protect? How much
longer will students, in Torrance and throughout the state, have to suffer in
substandard schools? Republican State Senate minority leader Bob Huff has
introduced legislation which would extend
the deadline for teacher layoff notices and save millions.
Muratsuchi should endorse this bill.
Then again, perhaps Al should sign the Prop
13 pledge, give back all
that union cash, and apologize
for the lies before anyone can believe that he stands with
"us".