Mimi Walters has something of a vanity campaign for treasurer up and rolling. She’s not up for re-election to the senate this year, so why not take a free shot at the Treasurer’s spot.  It’s a massive uphill climb against Bill Lockyer and the $10 million warchest that has been scaring everybody else away from ever challenging the guy.  So why not?

The primary was a walk for Walters, so that didn’t cost much, if anything.  She’s not really campaigning for the gig, and it seems the total of her campaign is a little bit of fundraising and a website.  I recently got one of her google ads shown below:

Pretty standard stuff really. But, I’m interested to see what she has going on, so I click on over to her site.  It’s all really standard stuff. A little letter saying why she’s running, Sacramento’s broken, out of ideas, and all that. Not for nothing, but she’s been in Sacramento for 8 years now.

Anyway, the part that really got me interested is this little nugget in the title bar of the website:

It seems Ms. Walters has her eyes set higher than just the Treasurer’s chair. She’s ready to take on Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman. Now, Walters has always been seen as something of a “rising-star” of the OC GOP world.  She is fanatically conservative. Never met a tax cut she didn’t love, or a social program she didn’t think was either rife with “waste, fraud and abuse” or flat out wanted to see it eliminated and/or chopped to the bone.

Walters is charismatic enough, and if given the right set of circumstances could be an interesting statewide candidate.  I thought she was looking at the treasurer’s spot, but now we see she’s got bigger eyes than that.  Keep your eyes on MimiWalters.com, she’s got some big plans for that space.