Comments on: Crunch time for many

By: Irkam

Irkam — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:23:30 +0000

Mohamad Ali Hasan is the brother of Asma Gul Hasan, the other "Muslim for Bush", and an early Muslim-American supporter of the Iraq war, who is sueing SM favorite Basim Usmani of the Kominas for a song he wrote calling her "wealthy, self-absorbed, insensitive and acutely uninformed."

By: details

details — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:45:40 +0000

5 Â· Digital Cabinet said

It seems from the letter that the Dems have been doing push polling, emphasizing his muslim roots to scare away voters.

I have spent some time googling for details, but the only evidence that crops up for this is this letter by Hasan's mother. Does somebody have more details about what this mailer was, and who is responsible for it etc.?

By: Digital Cabinet

Digital Cabinet — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:18:41 +0000

Recently Hasanâ€™s Democratic challenger, incumbent Rep. Christine Scanlan, was accused by his mother of dirty politics and a smear campaign. Probably something about Hasan being Muslim or Bush supporter right? Nope, the â€œsmear campaignâ€ in this case has to do withâ€¦breast cancer. Here is Seeme Hasanâ€™s letter to the editor of the Vail Daily:...

It seems from the letter that the Dems have been doing push polling, emphasizing his muslim roots to scare away voters. The Dems' hypocrisy is hardly surprising though, throwing a hissy fit when Obama's middle name is used but not shying away from using Islamophobia for their own ends. Wonder what Obama would say of this.

By: razib

razib — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:36:49 +0000

there are a fair # of tom campbell republicans around the bay area. people normalize themselves to their local political distribution; the repubs are the "right" party and the dems "left" in this country (i knew a guy who was a republican in boston who realized he had to switch to democrat when he moved to fairfax county in virgina in the mid-90s after attending a meeting of virginia republians). so in the bay area those who are more in favor of small gov. naturally would be republicans. but tom campbell was as socially liberal as many of the other bay area reps, and he is against prop 8.

By: sloppyjoe

sloppyjoe — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:59:04 +0000

Used to live in Norcal. The GOP has to play differently in Marin than they would let’s say in Walnut Creek or Sacramento for that matter. Marin Repubs tend to be old hippie libertarian types, they loved Ron Paul. Evangelicals, enthusiastic foreign interventionists will not get very far. I think Ms. Dhillon with her ACLU cred is a viable candidate for this demographic and would get get alot of Dem/Undeclared votes

By: Ennis

Ennis — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:17:03 +0000

Since the GOP is such a long shot in such places, you actually stand a decent chance of getting on the ticket as a political novice. On the other hand, it’s very hard to become the Democratic nominee in Northern CA, b/c once you get the nomination, you’re virtually assured victory later on.

By: Camille

Camille — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:46:43 +0000

It's interesting to me that the SF/Marin Republican Parties are running two desi women against, and to replace, Mark Leno: Harmeet Dhillon is running for Mark Leno's vacated Assembly seat (District 13, against Tom Ammiano -- Leno has termed out of the Assembly).

Also really interesting is Paul Singh, who is running for CA AD-02 on the Democratic ticket way up in north county with an agriculturalist background.