Although Brown was well out in front of the field, with 46 percent to Donnelly's 16 percent, the assemblyman noted that a separate Los Angeles Times survey recently showed just one-third of respondents were inclined to re-elect the governor.ĭonnelly insists that issues such as high-speed rail and Brown's signing of a bill giving transgender students the right to use the facilities of their choice in public schools - "the single stupidest overreach of government I've ever seen" - are driving support from voters who never would have considered backing a Tea Party candidate in the past.Īside from his Minutemen involvement, Donnelly's most prominent public moment came last year when he tried to board an airplane in Ontario (San Bernardino County) with a loaded handgun in his luggage. The Public Policy Institute poll also showed Donnelly with twice as much support as Maldonado among all likely voters. He maintains his candidacy holds appeal for Latinos because he pounds away at concerns about the economy, jobs and fairness for immigrants who have entered the country legally. Donnelly says it would be a "powerful incentive" for immigrants to break the law. Abel Maldonado, the son of Mexican immigrants.ĭonnelly has made few overt appeals to Latinos - besides forming a group that wanted to fence off the Mexican border, he opposes the Dream Act, which would create a path to citizenship for young people brought without documentation to the United States as children. Surprising pollĪmong the most surprising was a Public Policy Institute of California poll released last week that showed Donnelly - founder of an anti-illegal immigration activist group called the Minutemen - with a stronger showing among Latinos than former Lt. Jerry Brown - but Donnelly says he sees encouraging signs. It's early yet - most voters are barely aware of who's lining up against Gov. While in the Bay Area, he says, he picked up checks from Silicon Valley tech executives - he declined to name names - whom Donnelly is counting on fueling an independent-attractive campaign to make California "the sexiest place to do business." It's who we are."ĭonnelly campaigned Monday in San Francisco as part of a bus tour that is taking him around the state. "People like a rebel," the assemblyman from Twin Peaks (San Bernardino County) said in an interview this week in the midst of a campaign swing that took him to donor-rich Silicon Valley.
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