From the Hagen campaign:
HAGEN CAMPAIGN MEET AND GREET IN OLD TOWN
District Attorney candidate Paul Hagen is holding a Meet & Greet event on Wednesday, May 26th, from 5 to 7 p.m. at his campaign headquarters in Old Town Eureka. ”I have the proven ability to deliver justice, and I look forward to answering voters’ questions and discussing my beliefs and values,” said Hagen.
Hagen has more than 11 years experience as a civil and criminal prosecutor, having served in the Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, and Lake County DA’s offices simultaneously. Currently in private practice, he has a broad range of prosecutorial experience and success, and a long record of public service.
Hagen’s campaign headquarters are located at 416 Second Street, across from the Gazebo in Old Town Eureka. Refreshments will be served.
For more information about Paul Hagen’s campaign for District Attorney, please visit the website www.hagenforda.com or call 832-8056.
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May 25, 2010 at 8:11 am
Anonymous
Not his year. Maybe he’ll break 20 percent. Gallegos will win in the fall.
May 25, 2010 at 10:47 am
Eric Kirk
I don’t know what he’ll get, but Paul G. does seem to have sewn up a good amount of the voters in Sohum.
May 25, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Joel Mielke
Perhaps distance makes the heart grow fonder. Gallegos’ problems are in Eureka, Fortuna and Arcata.
May 25, 2010 at 2:36 pm
the reasonable anonymous
And of course the Humboldt bay area, plus McVille and Fortucky, is where most of the population is.
Nevertheless, I predict that Gallegos will draw more voters than Hagen by a good margin in the first round, and Jackson and Gallegos will face each other in a Nov. runoff, which I predict Gallegos will win, though it may be relatively close.
Faced with a choice between Gallegos and Jackson in Nov., enough Hagen voters will end up voting for Gallegos to put him over the top.
On the other hand, if the Hagen vs. Gallegos campaigning in the first round is particularly bitter or personal (it hasn’t been thus far) it could potentially leave Hagen supporters unwilling to vote for Gallegos in November and a lot of them might just skip the Nov. race (or more of them might even vote for Jackson).
If that happened, or if Hagen actually threw his support behind Jackson (which I think is even less likely), it could turn out that Hagen’s candidacy ends up helping to land Allison Jackson in the DA’s office — an outcome that I believe most Hagen voters would soon come to regret. But I don’t think that’s the way it’s gonna go down, as I said above, I think Gallegos is going to win in a runoff in the fall.
May 25, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Joel Mielke
Happily, the Reasonable Anonymous again lives up to his blogonym, but my take is that one should not assume that Hagen voters would again support Gallegos rather than vote for Jackson. These are largely disaffected, former Gallegos supporters.
May 25, 2010 at 6:06 pm
the reasonable anonymous
I agree that some of Hagen’s voters will go to Jackson, but I think more will go to Gallegos (I think the real wild card is how many Hagen supporters just sit out the runoff altogether, and don’t vote for either Gallegos or Jackson in Nov.). The two Pauls’ politics and their bases of support have more in common with each other than with Jackson. For most Hagen supporters, voting for Jackson in order to get rid of Gallegos would be akin to cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Of course people don’t always make rational choices in the voting booth, so we’ll see.
From what I’ve seen so far, most of the harsher attacks have been from Jackson, aimed at Gallegos, not so much from the two Pauls aimed at each other. It seems like Gallegos appears to be relatively confident, and is taking pains to keep his approach to Hagen pretty civil, probably in part because he hopes to get most of those Hagen voters in November, if the race shakes out the way I think it will.
May 25, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Buzz
Some Hagen supporters will vote for Jackson if it comes down to Jackson vs. Gallegos and some will not, but they are not voting for Gallegos again.
May 25, 2010 at 8:08 pm
the reasonable anonymous
I think you’re wrong, Buzz, because I think most Hagen supporters are to the left of Gallegos and way, way, way, to the left of Jackson. I think most of them will go to Gallegos in a choice between Gallegos and Jackson, a fair number will sit it out, and relatively small portion of Hagen voters will go for Jackson. We shall see.
May 25, 2010 at 9:38 pm
the reasonable anonymous
Granted, it’s not all about left and right. There is certainly an argument that Jackson and Hagen are, in part, splitting the anti-Gallegos vote and therefore whichever one of those two makes it to the runoff will inherit most of their fellow anti-Gallegos voters.
But I think the policy differences and philosophical and temperamental differences between Jackson and Gallegos are going to make more of a difference, and that most Hagen supporters will “hold their nose” and vote for Gallegos, rather than risk taking a huge step back to the bad-old-days of a good-old-boy-type DA’s office that is too cozy with big business, the sherifff’s dept, etc.
May 26, 2010 at 7:56 am
Buzz
Must disagree. Talk to Hagen voters. They’re actively not voting for Gallegos.
May 26, 2010 at 10:51 am
the reasonable anonymous
I have talked to quite a few. Gallegos is the second choice for quite a few.
May 26, 2010 at 12:16 pm
anon says
Allison Jackson has quickly become people’s first choice, I know I am switching my vote to Jackson.
May 27, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Bob
Most of Hagen’s supporters self identify as progressives and are simply misinformed to believe he is one of them. He supported Dikeman.
May 28, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Buzz
Dikeman was qualified. Gallegos was (and still is) not. Hagen supporters are progressive, but they want a competent DA. You’ll want one too if someone you care about is ever the victim of a violent crime.
May 29, 2010 at 8:15 am
Businessman
Eric: Who are you supporting and why?
May 29, 2010 at 10:54 am
Eric Kirk
A fair question Businessman. I’ve gone back and forth on it, and I think I’ve settled on an endorsement. I’ll try to post something tonight.