A Westly reply

Phil Angelides has been campaigning for months as the real Democrat who "stood up" to Arnold. It is the heart of his television advertising, the heart of his speeches and even at the center of the new Tsakopoulos-backed independent expenditure campaign. And, as of today, I hadn't seen a particularly adept, and pointed, reply from Team Westly about his early 2004 campaigning with Schwarnegger. But the end of this L.A. Times piece has one: Westly told the same group he had "stood up against Gov. Schwarzenegger" when they disagreed on school cuts and other matters. He also reminded crowds at both gatherings that organized labor and every prominent Democrat in California had supported the 2004 debt measure — and that the only major ally of Angelides in the opposition campaign was a conservative Republican state senator. "The question I have is, why was my primary opponent running around the state with Tom McClintock?" Westly said.