Talk:Tom Campbell (California politician)

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I don't think it's accurate to refer to Tom Campbell as a politician, at least not in the present tense. Although he previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives and in California's legislature, and ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000, he left government service shortly after the 2000 election and has not sought elected office since. - Walkiped 19:12, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Attempting to represent
Who wrote these words? This article should be flagged for bias. Kidshare (talk) 19:40, 5 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Effective Dec 1 he will be the Director of the California Dept of Finance. Not holding government office does not prevent him from being a politican. --Jiang 19:23, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * He also filed papers in July of 2008, in order to begin fund raising for a 2010 race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. He's a politician, albeit in the best sense of the word, in my opinion. KevinOKeeffe (talk) 15:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Characterization problems
"However, the Democrats in the 15th are not as liberal as their Bay Area cousins, and were thus receptive to electing a moderate Republican." This is the second time I've seen an attempted dissociation with any politician who is not liberal and the Bay Area. Logic: Since they are not liberal, they must be not be from the Bay Area. This is oversimplified and disregards that fact that not only people affect politics in a district, but political parties do too. BRivera


 * I am a resident of the 15th district, and was one when Tom Campbell was our representative. The truth is...complicated.  The reality is that the 15th district is very liberal, but it also isn't as liberal as most other districts in San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, and Alameda counties, so the argument that we were more receptive to a moderate Republican like Campbell is at least half-true.  Its also true that Campbell would have possibly been competitive in some (but not all) of the more liberal Bay Area districts.  Campbell was very well regarded personally, based on his temperament and his academic career at Stanford, so even though he ran as a Republican, people didn't really associate him so much with the aspects many of them didn't like about the GOP (plus he was socially moderate, or liberal by Republican standards, and favored legal abortion, etc).


 * One reason Campbell was liked is when he was first elected to Congress from the then-12th district of California, in 1988, he defeated Ernest Konnyu, a first-term Republican Congressman who was considered (rightly or wrongly) to be on the far-right. Hence Campbell always had a reputation as the-guy-who-beat-that-horrible-fascist (personally, I kinda liked Ernie Konnyu, but most people around here did not).


 * Its probabaly also instructive to keep in mind that when Campbell was elected from the 15th district, it was March of 1995 ie., just a few months after the Republicans had swept this state in the 1994 mid-term elections, so Republicans were riding comparitively high. Additionally, the Democratic candidate against Campbell, former San Jose City Councilman (he'd been out of office for some years, I seem to recall) Jerry Estruth, was extremely weak.  No big name Democrat wanted to risk losing an election to a Republican, and thus destroy their career in this area (since Republicans so rarely win anything around here, losing to one in a prominent race would have given that person the patina of a "loser").  Thus many factors contributed to Campbell's victory in 1995, and you're correct that the article should note more than just that Santa Clara County isn't quite as liberal as some other Bay Area counties (Obama beat McCain 69-28 in this county, so we're not exactly a bastion of the right, either). KevinOKeeffe (talk) 15:45, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

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