Yesterday, I posted about the comparetively positive campaign being waged in the AD50 Republican primary.

It looks like I spoke to soon.

In the batch of mail that arrived at Casa de Jubal today, there was a hit piece by the Curt Hagman campaign against Larry Dick.

The mailer accuses Larry of being a "liberal" and uses pretzel logic in an attempt to tie him to Gray Davis. It also knocks him for water rate increase. Perhaps Councilman Hagman has miraculously avoided having to raise a single fee or tax in Chino Hills, but I would like him to find me a single water district that at some point does not have to raise rates as the cost of providing water increases.

I've seen a lot of hit mail, but I suppose one's reaction is always different when directed against a  friend. I have known and been friends with Larry Dick for years, and for Curt Hagman to accuse him of being a liberal is absolutely absurd.

Anyone who knows Larry and has worked with him can attest he is a conservative. To claim he is a liberal is simply false -- and ironic coming from the candidate who has been the beneficiary of tens of thousands of dollars in IEs from public employee unions.

I don't think those IEs make Curt Hagman a liberal. But it says something that the public safety unions -- whose primary concern are protecting, and if possible expanding, the pay, pensions and benefits of their members -- take a look at Larry Dick and Curt Hagman, and decide they'd rather have Curt Hagman in the Assembly.

If you are a Republican reader in the 60th Assembly District who hasn't yet voted, please join me in casting your ballot for a conservative man of character, Larry Dick.