Anybody who was here for the madness of 2016 very well remembers Doug Applegate. We here at the Kos landed on this race with both feet, and we stayed until the last chorus. We gave Doug a lot of love, and helped to get him to within about 1,800 votes of retiring the guy who looks kind of like a a used car salesman waiting for the process server to show up. Doug Applegate announced early that he wasn't done with Issa yet, to borrow from Pulp Fiction, "I’m gonna get medieval on your ass”. And it’s never too early for us to start giving him a leg up on the job.
A quick little background on Issa. Anybody who thinks that he's a fan of the "little guy” has got another thought coming. For at least the last two years, Darrell Issa has been pronounced the richest member of congress. But there is something else to remember about Darrell Issa. For a politician, apparently his skin is every bit as thin as his Orange Overlord’s. Please excuse my crudity, but Darrell Issa is such a p*ssy that it's incredible that the Lecher in Chief hasn't popped a Tic-Tac and groped him yet!
There's a good reason I say this, it’s public knowledge. We all know that politics is a contact sport. Issa was not at all shy about taking a machete to Doug Applegate. But it turns out that that door only swings one way. According to an ARTICLE in the San Diego Union-Tribune, mean old Doug Applegate hurt poor widdle Darrell-Warrell’s precious fee-fees;
The day before the Nov. 8 election, Issa sued Applegate for libel, claiming that two political ads have damaged his reputation.
Issa also named Applegate’s campaign manager Robert Dempsey and the campaign itself in the suit filed in San Diego County Superior Court. The incumbent, one of the wealthiest members in Congress, is seeking $10 million in damages and said he’ll donate any money awarded by the court to charity.
Is Darrell Issa out of his tiny little mind? Even the Rust Toupee Loser only threatens to sue people, like women who call him out for grabbing them, he never sues, he just waits around for contractors to sue him. Come on Darrell, put your Big Boy pants on, it should be easy with a pair of chickpeas in there.
Doug Applegate is the real deal. A retired US Marine Colonel, he makes Darrell Issa look like a whiny kid. He is strong on the issues that we all care about. Being in southern California, his stance on a path to citizenship should play well, as should his views on saving the ecology, considering the amount of beachfront that the area has, and the incredible drought they just went through. He is strong on Women's rights, campaign finance reform, LGBTQ issues and Social Security and Medicare. He checks just about every box you can think of.
Doug should be in strong shape. HE announced his 2018 run early, so most of his staff and structure should still be in place. He’s a known entity with name recognition in the district, which always helps. Hopefully his donors from his previous run can see how good his chances are of knocking off Issa this time. And best of all, Issa isn’t any more popular than he was in 2016, if anything he is more despised. He ducked town halls for months, and when he finally held one, he got his ass kicked. He’s so spooked that he has actually come out in approval of a special prosecutor to look into the Trump-Russia mess.
As always in politics, money is a great equalizer. Issa has deep pockets on his own, but he has a phat big donor structure. We gave Doug plenty of support last time, and his campaign caught fire. If we learned nothing else in 2016, we learned that it’s never too early to get the word out there. Motivate people to register to vote. Talk to friends and neighbors about Doug, reinforce him in their minds if they already know about him, and educate those that don’t. Volunteer early to help out with whatever preemptive things his campaign may be planning.
As close as Doug came the last time, and as much of an ill wind Trump has blown into the faces of Republicans, he should be even stronger this time. If you haven’t heard of Doug yet, you can click HERE. To kick into his poke to retire Issa to all of his millions, pootle on over HERE. And to volunteer to get right into the middle of the action, you can boogie down Here.
Look, there’s no good reason not to get this done, so let’s just get this done, O.K.? Doug really wants to go to congress, and God knows we really need him to go to congress. It’s never too early to take that first step, and many hands make light work.