Last November, in one of the few bright spots for the California Republican party, Tim Donnelly, a former member of The Minutemen movement won a seat on the California state assembly.
And the Left Angeles Times has gotten around to noticing him in the state assembly.
No question that this linked article started out being a typical hit piece. You know, the kind that make someone like Mr. Donnelly sound, well as he himself notes, like a whack job.
But I urge you to read the whole article.
Because it is one of those that end up making Mr. Donnelly to be a pretty decent guy and a good legislator.
The article starts off with the brash side of Mr. Donnelly. Talking about the war-not literal but euphemism-that is politics. And of course there is the attempt to juxtapose Mr. Donnelly's rehtoric with the recent shooting of Congressman Gabrielle Giffords.
And then it tries to make Mr. Donnelly out to be some eeeeevvviiiiilllll racist because he founded a chapter of the Minutemen border security group in California. The fact that Mrs. Donnelly is a Filapina is noted in the article. You know, kind of like the some of my best friends are Black thing. Why that should be of any importance is mind blowing. But, it is mentioned.
To close, the Times writer indicated that Mr. Donnelly had a problem.
Being a small government conservative, the writer pointed out that Mr. Donnelly has a Ford Edge and that the cost was $32,000. Note that there is a For The Record in the online article. That the $32,000 is for the total cost of the vehicle. Not annually as the article indicated.
The fact is that Mr. Donnelly has the issues that got him elected in the first place. And he is standing by his convictions. Even if that is not always the cool thing. Or the most popular. When he has to, he even works with the Democrats. Because like a broken clock is right twice a day, there are issues that can unite people of opposite ideologies. And parties.
At the end of the article, I found a lot more respect for Mr. Donnelly and the fact that he is the kind of citizen legislator that the founders had in mind.
Yet somehow, I do not think that is what the Left Angeles Times had in mind.
I wonder if people came to the conclusion that I did?
1 comment:
I actually don't mind these type of tea-bagging populist style politicians. I might not agree with everything he says but you can count on him not steering his platform according to the demands of the internationalist/Israeli lobby.
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