Clean Race
[ Excerpt from SBN-P article by Barney McManigal, 2/15/2006 ]
... Responding to what he described as negative attacks against his supporters, Das Williams on Tuesday pledged to run a clean campaign for county supervisor and called on his opponents to do the same.
Flanked by Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum and fellow City Councilmen Roger Horton and Grant House, Mr. Williams staged a Valentine's Day event to change the tenor of the race to succeed retiring Supervisor Susan Rose.
"In only its first five weeks, this campaign has been disappointingly negative," Mr. Williams said, referring to a string of incidents targeting his candidacy, which has been the subject of controversy among some top-level Democrats and other contenders in the race...
"If someone doesn't take the first step, this campaign will be downright ugly by June."
... Some have criticized Councilwoman Helene Schneider's decision to support Mr. Williams [over Janet Wolfe].
More recently, candidate Joe Guzzardi described a $25,000 donation to Mr. Williams by Montecito resident Peter Sperling as "obscene."
Since he began campaigning, Mr. Williams has not criticized opponents personally...
Santa Barbara News-Press
... Responding to what he described as negative attacks against his supporters, Das Williams on Tuesday pledged to run a clean campaign for county supervisor and called on his opponents to do the same.
Flanked by Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum and fellow City Councilmen Roger Horton and Grant House, Mr. Williams staged a Valentine's Day event to change the tenor of the race to succeed retiring Supervisor Susan Rose.
"In only its first five weeks, this campaign has been disappointingly negative," Mr. Williams said, referring to a string of incidents targeting his candidacy, which has been the subject of controversy among some top-level Democrats and other contenders in the race...
"If someone doesn't take the first step, this campaign will be downright ugly by June."
... Some have criticized Councilwoman Helene Schneider's decision to support Mr. Williams [over Janet Wolfe].
More recently, candidate Joe Guzzardi described a $25,000 donation to Mr. Williams by Montecito resident Peter Sperling as "obscene."
Since he began campaigning, Mr. Williams has not criticized opponents personally...
Santa Barbara News-Press
Posted by Malcolm on
2/15/2006
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Das' effort to encourage a clean campaign has been commented on, at length, at the BLOGABARBARA site at:
http://blogabarbara.blogspot.com/2006/02/clean-campaign-talk.html
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