John

Cooley falsely claims that John Eastman has spent his career “as a law professor and failed politician.” It’s true, as you read in John’s background of public service, that John “took one for the team” by running for Congress in 1990 in a safe Democratic seat. Such team effort is probably beyond Cooley’s comprehension, but there is no excuse for him ignoring John’s significant appellate litigation experience since.

Cooley also claims that John’s effort to list his appointment as Special Assistant Attorney General as his ballot designation was “false and misleading.” Elsewhere in this “Truth” tab, we explain all details which you can read here. 

Suffice it to say that the only thing the Democrat Secretary of State thought was “misleading”—she never claimed it was “false”—about John’s ballot title was the fact that, given California law’s 3-word limit, we could not also say that his appointment as Special Assistant Attorney General was from the State of South Dakota, although as Cooley well knows, that was proudly disclosed in all filings with the Secretary of State, filings that were and are publicly available. The Court deferred to the Secretary of State on the South Dakota issue, but allowed John to choose a ballot designation of “Constitutional Law Attorney” in order to accurately reflect his significant constitutional appellate experience, including his recent representation of the State of South Dakota!
 
Even more preposterous, Cooley bolsters his scurrilous attack by quoting from a blog that, as the Los Angeles Times recently intimated, appears to have been set up by his own campaign! The blog, self-named as “What Would Reagan Do,” is a gutter play, describing John’s effort to accurately portray his recent appointment within the law’s 3-word limit as “sleazy and dishonest.”  Well, as John has said, “I knew Ronald Reagan and served in his Administration, and I can tell you that Ronald Reagan would not have made such a scurrilous charge.”
 
In fact, as one commenter on this pro-Cooley blog suggested, Reagan probably would have supported the clear conservative who worked in the Reagan Administration – John Eastman!

Indeed, to hide behind an anonymous blog that invokes Ronald Reagan’s name in such a mud-slinging fest is contemptuous. Ronald Reagan’s memory deserves better, and so do the voters of California.

Additional Truths revealed:

1. “A Prosecutor, Not a Politician.”  When Steve Cooley first ran for District Attorney in 2000, he pledged that he would only serve two terms.  He broke that promise when he ran for a third term in 2008, and if he were successful in his bid to become Attorney General—a prospect we are working very hard to prevent—he would be able to double dip on his salary and his DA’s pension, a benefit available only to elected politicians. Sounds a lot like a typical politician to us. Supporting evidence: 

Los Angeles Times: True, we did say that
CalWatchDog.com: Cooley as Pension Reform Poster Boy

2.  “Proven management ability” and “praised for re-organization and successful management of largest district attorney’s office in the nation”. Steve Cooley’s management of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has resulted in a historical federal court injunction against him for retaliating against his own deputy district attorneys. See the news story here. That is the reason that his own employees, the Deputy District Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, has endorsed John Eastman for Attorney General.

3. Endorsed by Governor George Deukmejian. Truth is that Governor Deukmejian has endorsed all three Republican candidates for Attorney General. Here is the endorsement letter for John Eastman.