Kevin Kiley is a first-time candidate for Assembly. As I have written previously, he is young. 31. Single, never married. He has had 3 jobs in the 4 years he has been removed from Law School. He moved back to Placer County after being away for 12 years and within 2...
Please note - I am helping Bill Halldin and was proud to have been involved in helping him from almost the day he decided to run for AD06. This blog post is written from a 30,000 foot view as best I can despite my personal interest in electing Bill Halldin to the...
Today, Bill Halldin became the undisputed front-runner of the #AD06 Mess. He bagged the most coveted endorsements left to get in this tussle. Jim Nielsen, Doug LaMalfa, James Gallagher and Frank Bigelow - all partisan electeds, represents a gigantic reset button in...
As Cristi Beckstead-Nelson and Kevin Kiley are preparing to attack their opponents with negative mail, their recent #EPICFAIL's tell us a possible reason why they are getting to the attack stage as they are starting to address the brutal reality that they are...
Republicans SUCK at social media. One Kevin Kiley is spending a TON of money on social media. On one hand, he gets it coming up with a neat social media gimmick. On the other hand, he went from 2/28 to about 3/16 without tweeting. Any candidate serious about social...
The Folsom Chamber of Commerce held a candidate forum last night. It featured 9(!) of the candidates for #AD06. For reasons unbeknownst to me, Brian Caples and the other Dem were no-shows. I am going to focus on the funded candidates - so let me summarize the...
Well - leave it to the young Kevin Kiley to feature this cycle's first legitimately BAD endorsement. When you are a young first-time candidate, these are the sorts of mistakes you make. Kiley lists "Former US Attorney McGregor Scott" in his campaign communication....
First of all - all seven candidates were there. Typical of a Republican Primary, there are far too many candidates in the field. Notable, this was the first time Mik Mikaluco and Gabriel Hydrick were at an event that I am aware of. Suzanne Jones was also present at...
Cristi Nelson has been running for AD06 for about a year. She has been out-raised by Bill Halldin in 4 months and now is having to resort to some poorly constructed spin in her campaign updates. She recently sent out a press release claiming that she out-raised her...