Chuck DeVore Is A Blue Collar Republican That Can Defeat Senator Boxer

In a piece by the Los Angeles Times, California voters should come away with two things. First, Chuck DeVore is the lone Conservative and second, DeVore is a blue collar Republican.

"But serious questions remain about whether DeVore, 45, can survive the GOP primary. He has the fiscal and social credentials desired by the conservative party voters most likely to turn out in June. But, despite campaigning for more than a year, his candidacy is something of an apparition. Outside of party circles and his home base of Orange County voters generally have no idea who he is, and he ended 2009 with a net $140,000 in the bank.

In a state as big as California, recognition does not come cheap. Primary opponent Carly Fiorina, a multimillionaire, has already lent her campaign $2.5 million, while former U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell, who jumped into the race last month, is much better known to voters because he has been in the public eye for two decades.

DeVore is counting on hard work and persistence to make up for money and name identification. Since announcing his candidacy in November 2008 he has logged more than 50,000 miles by car and air to meet with nearly 40,000 Republican voters at 239 stops up and down the state. (The candidate, an admitted wonk, logs every visit, mile and voter on a spreadsheet when he gets home to Irvine).

"Whatever the polls say four months before the primary, the strength of the volunteers backing us, the lack of any skeletal remains in my closet are going to allow me to prevail in this primary and to ultimately vanquish Barbara Boxer," DeVore said at the January meeting of the West Valley Republican Women Federated at a diner in San Jose.

He tells voters that politicians in both parties have forgotten their duty, which he believes should be limited to securing citizens' rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- "not making up new rights."

"They make it up as they go along because they don't have a core philosophy that guides their decisions," DeVore said. "I have a core. It's the Constitution, it's the preamble of the Declaration of Independence. I don't vary from that..."

DeVore is even willing to get his hands dirty to get jobs done around his home. DeVore constantly updates his facebook page and we often learn that he is fixing things. One such example is DeVore having to deal with a dying washing machine.



Can you imagine Senator Boxer doing this? She would be too concerned that the washing machine delivery people call her "Senator". Time to retire "Senator Boxer".