How true. Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner told the California Republican Party's convention in Santa Clara that he's the true conservative in the race while delivering his standard campaign speech with a few variations tonight.
The insurance commissioner promised to cut sales, income, corporate and capital gains taxes and repeated his hard line on immigration, which he unveiled yesterday, saying he would deny state services to all illegal immigrants.
Both Poizner and U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, who introduced him via video, said the gubernatorial candidate would uphold the party's principles in a period of self-examination by many in the party.
"We get in trouble as a party when we elect Republicans in Sacramento and in Washiington, D.C., that abandon these conservative principles," Poizner said. "I'm going to impelement some conservative reforms that work."
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/13/2605572/tom-mcclintock-whitman-would-be.html