Jim Nielsen Loses a Key Endorsement – OVER HIS RECORD

by Aaron F Park | Sep 17, 2012 | Jim Nielsen

Now, pay attention folks. Jim Nielsen is already in trouble and daddy Munger is going to get taken for a ton of dough trying to prop this guy up. Yuba County supervisor Andy Vasquez tossed Nielsen over the side.

Credit: Yuba Territorial Dispatch

Assemblyman and Senate candidate Jim Nielsen had a rough week in his campaign to replace Doug LaMalfa who resigned from his position in the legislature to seek a higher office mid-term. Yuba County Supervisor Andy Vasquez, was listed on his website, has dropped his endorsement and asked to have his name removed from all of Nielsen’s campaign literature.

Supervisor Andy Vasquez stated “I was disappointed when I saw for myself how Jim Nielsen voted. There are things I had never heard about that shocked me, a real pattern of voting wrong. I called Jim Nielsen and rescinded my endorsement of him, I asked him to take my name off his website. On issues of illegal immigration, shipping water south and protecting water rights, our views do not line up.”

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A big issue this year may be water rights and the efforts of an already unpopular legislature to build a new peripheral canal that takes water from Northern California to Southern California.

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Yuba County resident and political activist Paul Meyers said, ” He was surprised about Nielsen’s past vote and unwavering support for a peripheral canal transfer of our water to southern California, something our farmers are unaware of. A Sacramento Bee article stated “the plan to ship more Northern California water to Southern California stalled and the only Northern California Senator who remained supportive of the governor’s plan was Republican Jim Nielsen of Woodland.”

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The other key votes that are driving defections from Nielsen’s campaign center on his votes for benefits for illegal migrants, specifically, Assembly Bill 790 which provides amnesty for unpaid state taxes to any illegal immigrant who applies for resident status while if an American citizens who does not pay back taxes can go to jail.

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Mr. Myers said, “Also Nielsen could not explain his support for Senate Bill 175 that rewrote state law to allow “all illegal or undocumented persons” be eligible for 100% of Medi-Cal benefits whether federally funded or state funded.