Ferguson’s Backers
Apparently, Gil Ferguson’s support is so wafer thin he must enlist two of his staffers--Dorothy Hughes and Steve Brody--to deny he advised Assemblyman Paul Horcher to vote for Willie Brown, a charge entirely likely to be true.
Dorothy Hughes takes a typically cheap shot, linking Ross Johnson to the “political chicanery†of Pat Nolan and Frank Hill, both of whom are the innocent victims of a federal witch hunt. All three men have done more for Republicans than 20 Gil Fergusons.
Hughes also impugns Johnson for moving into the district to run, apparently forgetting that in 1990, her boss, Gil Ferguson (who was living in Marian Bergeson’s Senate district), moved into retiring Sen. Bill Campbell’s district to run in a special election.
Steve Brody details a litany of Horcher’s traitorous acts but fails to mention Ferguson’s speech on the floor of the February, 1993, California Republican Party convention against a resolution condemning Horcher for those same acts, leading to the resolution’s defeat.
MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM
Orange
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