Jones Comes Out Swinging at Boxer (CA Senate race) | LA Times

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Jones Comes Out Swinging at Boxer
GOP's Senate nominee criticizes incumbent on a list of issues, trumpets backing from governor.

By Michael Finnegan, Times Staff Writer

FRESNO — Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bill Jones assailed Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer on jobs, the military, guns, abortion and oil drilling on Wednesday as he formally launched his campaign to oust her.

The former secretary of state framed his candidacy as a natural extension of the voter revolt that put Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger into office. From an airport tarmac here in his hometown, Jones repeatedly invoked the popular Republican governor, whose endorsement Jones views as a crucial asset in his race against Boxer.

"I'm bringing the same message of hope and optimism to the people of California to do the other half of what needs to be done: I'm going to make sure Washington matches up with the optimism that now has been renewed in Sacramento," he said.

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1. Yes, "swinging and assaulting" Boxer is such a positve campaign.

Also, Boxer does not have the problems that Davis had.

She should pull away with the win in November.

:dem:

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2. Jones had a bad record on elections while Sec. of State

He presided over a doubling of the rates of uncounted ballots in California from 2000 to 2002. In the 2000 presidential elections, Californians had 1.6% of their ballots uncounted. That was below the national average of 2%.

In 2002, 3.5% of the ballots were uncounted in California. As the then-SoS, Jones was responsible for correcting the problem.

What did he do about this extraordinary increase? NOTHING!

In fact, in the gubernatorial recall election of 2003, the rate jumped to 8.1%.

High rates of uncounted ballots are often synonomous with election fraud.

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3. eh

i don't see any reason why boxer shouldn't easily beat this creep in november.

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4. optimism in sacto?

i hope boxer makes this cretin eat dirt.