Frank Ford is an Auburn busybody considered a political guru, who actually makes a living by having several developers pay him to find pro-development and pro-tax candidates. This sounds a lot like a talent agent. When a Bond / Parcel Tax passes, who gets the project? His clients…

I was assailed for referring to the local officeholders as the Emporer’s Club. I have been scratching my head trying to understand why all the folks on Ose’s list have neither dual-endorsed nor changed their endorsements.

When Rico Oller was the presumptive Conservative nominee – it seemed to me that there was a mass witch-hunt against Oller. The Irony is that Oller was assailed over personality-related issues – the same kinds of complaints I heard about McClintock from Local Electeds I spoke with.

It still defies logic that good, sensible people would throw ideology aside and stay alongside someone whose campaign and career has been a train-wreck. Convention suggests that $4 Million and an aggressive smear campaign would work. In fact – Ose’s endorsement list is incredible, so incredible that I have asked myself – how did it come about and why have all of those people endorsed a Democrat like Ose?

I was contacted and told Frank Ford was picked by Doug Ose to approach local candidates and get them to support Ose for Congress. I suppose Ford would tell them that if they support Doug they would get campaign donations from Ose.

If they did not jump on board, the story goes that Ford would threaten them saying Ose has lots of resources and will remember who did not support him. Implied was a promise that Ose would then bankroll candidates against the ones who could not be bought. This is also consistent with Ose’s past pattern of aggressively exterminating Conservatives.

This is a powerful suggestion of why so many people would turn their backs on the Republican Party’s core principles to support Ose over Oller/McClintock. The Republican Party has suffered because of the Establishment types like Ose. However, the establishment has considerable power – you have seen it in your mailboxes as Ose’s seemingly limitless resources have pummeled McClintock. The establishment pattern is to attack outsiders without ever telling anyone why they themselves deserve support – except for one key premise: I am connected, my opponent is not.

Frank Ford is the kind of political operative Placer County needs to rid itself of. Hopefully when Tom McClintock is elected we will be able to break the death grip of folks like him running Placer County. Our City Council members need to be free of intimidation and influence peddling.

I was told of another player whose influence helped assemble the Emporer’s Club behind Doug Ose… Placer County Executive Officer Tom Miller.

Miller has reportedly told every Placer County department head as well as every city and special district administrator that they must back Doug Ose as Tom McClintock’s anti tax and spending philosophy will leave them broke. The department heads and city administrators then went to their people (city council members) and said under Tom McClintock the cities would all go broke.

As a result – the local electeds placed Earmarks over principle in supporting Doug Ose. In the end, the talk about Oller/McClintock’s personality would appear to be a façade in light of this data.

Life, Marriage, Family, Gun Rights, the Borders and a host more Conservative ideals were tossed aside. The tremendous influence of Miller and Ford completely explains why last week’s rumors of the ranks breaking did not occur.

It leaves me scratching my head about politics in general – the consultants that read this blog shrug and cash their checks and accept this sort of stuff as standard faire…

When “Joe Lunch bucket” hears about this sort of behavior, it gives them a gag reflex.

In either event, principle is the loser… and there goes the Republican Party with it. Thank God McClintock came into the 4th CD to save the district from itself.