In today’s San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, and Redlands Daily Facts, there appeared an identical story regarding the 7 Republican Party candidates standing for the GOP nomination for the 63rd Assembly District.

The piece by reporter Wendy Leung was fair and impartial, and it included quotes from all competing candidates for this seat.
Among those commenting was Mike Morrell, who has a fantastic message. A winning message that Morrell himself admits is strictly for the purpose of securing votes in his endeavor for State Assembly.

Here is the newspaper’s account of Mike Morrell’s statement to the press:

” ‘One of the first things I say is that I’m not an elected official,’ Morrell said of his campaign speeches. ‘I say I’m a parent, a spouse, a business owner, and usually that’s my first round of applause.’ ” (Wendy Leung, “7 GOP rivals running for Emmerson’s seat, San Bernardino Sun, May 9, 2010)

Like any good politician who can read the tea (party) leaves in 2010, Morrell knows what voters want to hear, and Mike Morrell is offering up the speeches and message points like a front end restaurant manager providing fried chicken breasts and tapioca pudding at Hometown Bufffet on senior citizen discount day.

Morrell admitted to the press he is telling people what he thinks they want to hear.

Mike Morrell has the right message. But Morrell, a San Bernardino County mortgage broker, isn’t telling the whole truth, and this experienced professional political campaigner knows it.

Mike Morrell is not an incumbent politician, that much is true. But it’s not because he is a concerned citizen who is suddenly frustrated with the current political situation. Morrell is, in fact, a perennial political candidate who has been rejected before by voters. Mike Morrell has stood in 1999 for US Congress, and again in 2004 for State Assembly.

In his last stand for office, Morrell was rejected by 75 percent of the district’s voters.

Morrell is not an incumbent politician. That is, in the sense that he doesn’t presently hold elected office. However, he is a longtime political candidate with an agenda of securing a high elected position, be it Congress or State Legislature, despite the different challenges and responsibilities facing both disparate bodies. In fact, had Morrell had his way six years ago, he would be an incumbent officeholder today.

Far from being removed from the political class he pretends to rail against, Morrell’s campaign is guided and stage-managed out of a Sacramento high-rise by veteran political insiders, and Morrell is using an imported political gun-for-hire from Downtown San Diego to lead his in-district efforts in his bid to finally win elected office.

Mike Morrell is not the outsider citizen activist he pretends to be. He is a political insider and perennial candidate making yet another bid for high office.

For voters looking to shake up the system and send a real message of change, a far better choice would be US Naval Lt. Commander Paul Chabot. Chabot is unquestionably conservative. He has never ran for political office before, and has appealed to residents without benefit of the slick-and-spin nonsense driven by Capitol insiders.

Genuine grassroots conservative voters should not be fooled by Mike Morrell. Military veteran Paul Chabot has put his life on the line in battle for America and is running on real principles, not message points delivered from Sacramento PR firms. Lt. Commander Paul Chabot is one of us. Paul Chabot has walked the walk.

Mike Morrell is a perennial political candidate who only cares about winning electoral office on his third attempt. Period.

Paul Chabot has concerned himself with more than losing an election – he has literally put his life on the line for us.