The text of the nasty e-blast from from VC Dems at Medina's support of a
Republican challenger for the California 35th Assembly Seat ......

Both Medina and Bob Pohl acknowledged receiving copies of this e-mail from more than one forwarder.  Sure the e-mail hurt the new alliance of Medina and Pohl, but tough skin is what makes a great leader and the political sense.

Read for yourself.......

Dear VCDCC members and alternates

I was very sorry to hear yesterday that Saul Medina, the outgoing President of the GOOD Club had endorsed Bob Pohl's candidacy for the 35th Assembly District. We have enjoyed a good relationship with Saul over the years, first as an elected member of the VCDCC and later as a nonvoting delegate member through his position as Good Club President. I feel that Saul made a terrible mistake in doing this, one that will be very costly to him in the future.

It is against the by-laws of the California Democratic Party to "publicly support ... a candidate nominated by another party;" therefore, it has been necessary for our Regional Director Bob Handy with my concurrence to put into action a request that Saul's membership be revoked.  Saul, of course, will have an opportunity to respond to any charges or to resign.  The Good Club has a similar clause in its by-laws and they are taking action as well.

Since Saul did not run for reelection to the VCDCC in the March primary and the last meeting at which he would have represented the Good Club as President (a meeting which he did not attend) was this past Tuesday, his relationship with the VCDCC is ended and I have communicated this to him along with my disappointment in his actions.  I had Larry Miller remove the link to Saul's web site for his election to the Oxnard City Council.

The Good News is that Pedro Nava's campaign is ready to roll into Ventura County, and we are going to work harder than ever to elect him to replace Hannah-Beth.
 

/s/ by 'S' 

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Saul Medina resigned from the GOOD Club today, October 5.  It is a pity
he was ever elected.  In the four years I have known him  his actions of
disappointing people  became more apparent with the passage of time.  It
was I that suggested that he  join the GOOD  Club  when we first met 
campaigning  for city council.  I made this suggestion on the basis that
he might run again and with the help of Democrats he might win. I made
several other suggestiions that I won't go into here, suffice to say he
followed them all. Within one year I realised I had completely misjudged
the mans' character and stopped talking to him and had nothing further
to do with him.
What did Lincoln say about fooling people?  Medinas' actions belied his
words and he no longer fools ethical Democrats.
Martin Jones   

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