It is crap like this that gives Republicans a bad name and there is no place in the Republican Party or in this race for someone like Tim Donnelly. In a statement, he said, "I was offended and outraged that someone who would run for the highest office in our state would resort to such hateful and disgusting rhetoric. Ideologically, I'm more inclined towards Tim Donnelly, but this kind of incident really brings into question his judgment."Ĭalifornia Congressman Darrell Issa, who has endorsed Kashkari, fired back at Donnelly. The Republican National Committee, they say, should treat the race for the party’s nomination as over, given Mr. "It's a low point in the campaign."įleischman added, "I haven't endorsed neither of them. Timothy Donnelly is the author of the poetry collections Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (2003), The Cloud Corporation (2010), which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and The Problem of the Many (2020). He wants to stone women and follow Sharia law,' and nothing could be further from the truth," Jon Fleischman, the publisher of, said. Now he's a Hindu, he's not even a Muslim, but I'm already starting to get emails from grassroots activists that are like, 'Beware of Kashkari. I have no interest in personal attacks.The debate has created a bitter divide among California Republicans. “I’m running on my plan to fix this state. “What in the world does my voting record have to do with the absolute catastrophe our state is in?” he said. That’s a lie.”ĭonnelly said his voting record is irrelevant to the issues the next 59th District Assembly member will face. For him to say these were made up out of the thin air, that’s a mischaracterization. “I may have missed some votes, but I’m not lying about having missed votes,” Woods said. This is a page out of the communist playbook: `If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”‘īut the stats, which found their way online either through Woods’ supporters or her campaign, were accurate. “The numbers,” Donnelly wrote, “have been made up out of thin air. She took issue less with Donnelly’s voting record than with statements Donnelly made in an e-mail to supporters in which he said statistics about his voting record circulating online were inaccurate. Since 1999 – as far back as the Los Angeles County registrar’s office had electronic records – Woods skipped three elections out of 15: two local consolidated elections and the 2002 primary. Woods, a community college professor and former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy, has not voted in every election, though she has skipped far fewer than Donnelly. I probably did not participate in my government as much as I should have.”Īt the same time, though, Donnelly said the dysfunction and perpetual financial troubles in Sacramento show that, “Voting obviously has not been effective.” campaign just days before the state Republican convention, although Assemblyman Tim Donnelly characterized the split as a mutual thing, saying he was. “Like everyone else, I’ve been busy working hard and trying to keep up with my tax bills. Meet Tim Donnelly, The New Voice of Local Sports at The Fan Welcome Tim Donnelly to 99.9 ESPN The FanThis former Delaware University quarterback is deeply rooted in local sports here in the triangle. “My recollection is that I voted in the major elections,” Donnelly said. “If that’s the case, why wouldn’t he have been taking an active part and been actively participating in voting? Patriots are active in the process of making decisions.”Īlong with eight consolidated elections, which usually feature school board and special district decisions, Donnelly skipped the 20 general elections, three primary elections and two statewide special elections, including one in May 2009 that decided several statewide tax issues. “He’s touting himself as a patriot, as … someone who is concerned about his country and his state,” said Darcel Woods, the Democratic candidate for the 59th District seat. Many of the 17 he skipped were local elections, but he’s also missed statewide and federal elections. Over the past 15 years, state Assembly candidate and former Minuteman Tim Donnelly has skipped most elections, something his opponent says seems hypocritical.ĭonnelly, the Republican candidate in the 59th Assembly District, has voted in 13 of the last 30 elections, according to records from the county registrar’s office.
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