8 Responses to “Mark Leno, Joe Nation lead in Senate District 3 poll”

1. Ann Garrison, on March 1st, 2008 at 4:42 pm Said:

   Mark Leno voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $7.7 billion new prison construction legislation, which was $8.8 billioo when one counted county matching funds.

   Joe Veronese told me in person, after a Police Commission said, at the time,
   that he was “glad the governor was tkaing the issue in hand.”

   Carole Migden voted against the $8.8 billion in new prison construction, which seems to have been defeated in the courts, unless I missed something.

   Some issues, like new California prisons and the Global War on Terror, make it easy to decide how to vote—or not to vote at all—which is often the best option.

   Americans should have the right to “vote blanche” or none of the above. However, in this case, i would still vote for Carole Migden. —Ann Garrison

2. Jeannie Maher, on March 2nd, 2008 at 11:12 am Said:

   Could we know what the “balanced candidate information that provided basic biographical details and equal critiques of each candidate” was?

   Thank you.

3. Michael, on March 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 am Said:

   I’ve heard that the “negative” information given about Mark Leno was only that he was too focused on gay marriage. I didn’t realize that was a negative (particularly in the Bay Area!!!). Apparently, Migden had a boatload of negatives thrown her way, so the numbers are not surprising. This is an old campaign trick and Leno should be ashamed of himself. Joe Nation recently funded a poll with the usual Leno, anti-woman trash talking and it showed Migden leading with Nation close behind. The truth is that Mark Leno has never moved up despite a year-long head start. The race is between Migden and Nation. If anything, Leno is putting a safe LGBT seat at risk by continuing to run.

4. Karen B., on March 3rd, 2008 at 5:18 pm Said:

   Editor: Thanks for adding the note about who commissioned the poll.

   Anyone know when the poll Joe Nation funded (referred to in the comment above) was conducted?

5. Melinda Pais, on March 6th, 2008 at 8:12 pm Said:

   Nation is counting on a Sonoma pity vote. He thinks San Rafael, his political home town, let him down a couple years ago, so he rented a place in Sonoma. He expects a poor turnout in San Rafael on account of what happened with Woolsey.

   I wish he were deeper. He says he’s a “climate expert”. What kind of a climate? He says he’s with a thing called “Environ, an international firm”. Which nations? When was it formed? What did he do?

6. Alioto-Veronese pulls out of Senate District 3 race | Fog City Journal, on March 7th, 2008 at 6:16 pm Said:

   [...] recent poll has Nation and horse favorite, Assemblymember Mark Leno, tied in a statistical dead heat with [...]

7. Renn Vara, on March 10th, 2008 at 6:29 am Said:

   I don’t know about most people but I’m tired of politicians who pick fights, chase cameras, spend all their time looking for headlines, and in general are not very civil. In this race, there is only one candidate who deserves my vote and that’s Joe Nation. He works hard, knows Sacramento, and is dedicated to the issues we care about. Go Joe!

8. Mark Leno on Global Warming | Marin Maven, on March 17th, 2008 at 4:47 pm Said:

   [...] Shaw from the California Progress Report and Fogcityjournal have reported on a poll taken recently that was commissioned by Mark Leno by David Binder Research. [...]

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