Gaines, Campanale in runoff for Tahoe Assembly seat
By Dan Smith, Sacramento Bee
Republican Beth Gaines edged GOP rival John Allard on Tuesday to make the runoff against Democrat Dennis Campanale in the crowded race for the 4th Assembly District.
Campanale, the lone Democrat in an eight-candidate field, took the top spot with 31.8 percent of the vote. Gaines edged Allard by 667 votes — 22.5 percent to 21.5 percent — for the second slot in the May 3 runoff. She will be the favorite in a heavily Republican district that includes Amador County and parts of Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado counties.
The Gaines family feeds at the Public Trough.
Mr. Gaines campaigned against government spending, yet uses his insider position for his own personal gain. Mr. Gaines ran in November for both the Assembly and Senate, and won both. Then he resigned his Assembly seat so his wife could have it. Had he run only for the Senate, the taxpayers would have been spared the $400,000+ cost of this special election. That money will now have to be made up by cutting teachers, or police, or firemen. The Gaines are shameless hypocrites – politicians of the worst kind.
You are right NO HYPOCRISY. Gaines has cost taxpayers millions in election costs. Don’t vote in another “leach”!
He also voted to give away 20 million to JayCee when 5 or 10 million (tax free) would have been more than sufficient to compensate her for the horror of her experience. But then again it is only tax dollars.
And please folks, don’t tell me no amount of money could allay the tribulation of her experience.