Gale Kaufman
Gale Kaufman
care creates election issues money phony poll raise says voters
It's a phony election that he creates on issues that every poll says voters don't care about and he's complaining about having to raise money for it?
air anyone governor needs obviously poll private public reason regardless weak
The governor obviously needs to go on the air because he's so weak in every public and private poll that's been taken. That's the only reason he'd going on air, regardless of what anyone else is doing.
campaign engaged people serious
We are engaged in a very serious campaign over all of these initiatives and they are all failing, ... And the more people get to know about them, they do worse, not better.
believes break elected happy interest man money needs promise promises says special
But much more important, here is a man who got elected on the promise that he wouldn't need special interest money and wouldn't take it. He now says he needs it and he'll be happy to take it. How many promises does he get to break before no one believes anything he says?
anger base election governor holding worried
There is so much anger about the governor holding this election that we're not worried about turnout. We will get our base out.
broken governor naturally number since skeptical taking
Since taking office, the governor has broken a number of important promises. So while we're hopeful, we're naturally skeptical about what he says.
capital care engage process understand
Part of it is he doesn't have a lot of capital with his own party's leadership. Part of it is he just doesn't understand the process or care to engage in the process.
destroying employees last public second sentence year
Last year he was adamant that public employees were destroying the planet. ... Now he's into infrastructure. Tell me how he got there? It's a long way from the first sentence to the second sentence.
along means people saying
I think it means what we've been saying all along - the governor's initiatives are not real reform. They're not popular, people don't like them, and they're going to lose.
Why would they do that? They know he's failing.
campaign deal focus governor hard people percent points start whether
You can go up 2 points here or 3 points there and try to make a big deal about it. But when people actually focus in on whether this governor should be re-elected, only 37 percent say yes. That's a very hard place to start your re-election campaign from.
clearly force november people speaking surprised took voters voting
I'm not surprised people took a break. I think the voters were speaking pretty clearly in November with the force of the 'no' vote.
left nail
If there was any visage of bipartisanship left in this governor, I think he's just about put a nail in that coffin.
comments decide difficult figures judge seems time until
It's time for him to decide who he really is as governor. He seems to be having a very difficult time in doing that. And until he figures that out, it's really difficult to judge his comments and his actions.