{"id":12158,"date":"2010-07-19T19:12:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:12:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-19T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:12:21","slug":"catreas-mimi-walters-has-something-else-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/19\/catreas-mimi-walters-has-something-else-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-Treas: Mimi Walters Has Something Else in Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mimi Walters has something of a vanity campaign for treasurer up and rolling. She&#8217;s not up for re-election to the senate this year, so why not take a free shot at the Treasurer&#8217;s spot. &nbsp;It&#8217;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. &nbsp;So why not?<\/p>\n<p>The primary was a walk for Walters, so that didn&#8217;t cost much, if anything. &nbsp;She&#8217;s not really campaigning for the gig, and it seems the total of her campaign is a little bit of fundraising and a website. &nbsp;I recently got one of her google ads shown below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=MimiWaltersGoogleAd.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/MimiWaltersGoogleAd.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Google Ad\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=mimiwebsite.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/th_mimiwebsite.png\" align=right border=\"0\" alt=\"MW Site\" ><\/a>Pretty standard stuff really. But, I&#8217;m interested to see what she has going on, so I click on over to her site. &nbsp;It&#8217;s all really standard stuff. A little letter saying why she&#8217;s running, Sacramento&#8217;s broken, out of ideas, and all that. Not for nothing, but she&#8217;s been in Sacramento for 8 years now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the part that really got me interested is this little nugget in the title bar of the website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=mimiwebsitetitle.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/mimiwebsitetitle.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MW Title Bar\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems Ms. Walters has her eyes set higher than just the Treasurer&#8217;s chair. She&#8217;s ready to take on Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman. Now, Walters has always been seen as something of a &#8220;rising-star&#8221; of the OC GOP world. &nbsp;She is fanatically conservative. Never met a tax cut she didn&#8217;t love, or a social program she didn&#8217;t think was either rife with &#8220;waste, fraud and abuse&#8221; or flat out wanted to see it eliminated and\/or chopped to the bone.<\/p>\n<p>Walters is charismatic enough, and if given the right set of circumstances could be an interesting statewide candidate. &nbsp;I thought she was looking at the treasurer&#8217;s spot, but now we see she&#8217;s got bigger eyes than that. &nbsp;Keep your eyes on <a href=\"http:\/\/mimiwalters.com\">MimiWalters.com<\/a>, she&#8217;s got some big plans for that space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimi Walters has something of a vanity campaign for treasurer up and rolling. She&#8217;s not up for re-election to the senate this year, so why not take a free shot at the Treasurer&#8217;s spot. &nbsp;It&#8217;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. &nbsp;So why not?<\/p>\n<p>The primary was a walk for Walters, so that didn&#8217;t cost much, if anything. &nbsp;She&#8217;s not really campaigning for the gig, and it seems the total of her campaign is a little bit of fundraising and a website. &nbsp;I recently got one of her google ads shown below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=MimiWaltersGoogleAd.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/MimiWaltersGoogleAd.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Google Ad\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=mimiwebsite.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/th_mimiwebsite.png\" align=right border=\"0\" alt=\"MW Site\" ><\/a>Pretty standard stuff really. But, I&#8217;m interested to see what she has going on, so I click on over to her site. &nbsp;It&#8217;s all really standard stuff. A little letter saying why she&#8217;s running, Sacramento&#8217;s broken, out of ideas, and all that. Not for nothing, but she&#8217;s been in Sacramento for 8 years now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the part that really got me interested is this little nugget in the title bar of the website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=mimiwebsitetitle.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/mimiwebsitetitle.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MW Title Bar\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems Ms. Walters has her eyes set higher than just the Treasurer&#8217;s chair. She&#8217;s ready to take on Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman. Now, Walters has always been seen as something of a &#8220;rising-star&#8221; of the OC GOP world. &nbsp;She is fanatically conservative. Never met a tax cut she didn&#8217;t love, or a social program she didn&#8217;t think was either rife with &#8220;waste, fraud and abuse&#8221; or flat out wanted to see it eliminated and\/or chopped to the bone.<\/p>\n<p>Walters is charismatic enough, and if given the right set of circumstances could be an interesting statewide candidate. &nbsp;I thought she was looking at the treasurer&#8217;s spot, but now we see she&#8217;s got bigger eyes than that. &nbsp;Keep your eyes on <a href=\"http:\/\/mimiwalters.com\">MimiWalters.com<\/a>, she&#8217;s got some big plans for that space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[94,4961,9124],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-94","tag-4961","tag-9124"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}