Former Treasury official and Goldman Sachs employee Neel Kashkari is really struggling in the polls as he tries to win a slot on the California gubernatorial ballot. He is still lagging behind State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly who is best known as a founder of the California Minutemen. I don’t know about you, but I think the Republican Party in California can hardly afford to have a candidate for governor with a history of saying things like this:
“I am a descendant of Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo,” Donnelly said back then. “It is rumored that he took a dozen Mexican soldiers to their deaths before they finally killed him. How many of you will rise up and take his place on that wall?”
Donnelly’s candidacy could easily cost the Republicans seats in both Congress and the California legislature. It could do lasting damage to the party in our nation’s largest state. And it will be noticed in other states.
Kashkari is going to try to bump up his numbers with a last-minute blast of advertising, but Californians have already begun voting.
