re: Abraham's letter to Rispone

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Ralph Abraham is demonstrating exactly what leadership looks like. This is outstanding and exactly what our state needs now more than ever.

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I agree that they should not be attacking each other, but this is not what leadership looks like. On the surface the letter looks "good", but really look at it. He places blame on Rispone with his little jab "and I will pull my response ad". He will pull it anyway, he can't afford to play it any longer. This is someone negotiating from the weaker position.

Also, leaders don't need to seek approval, they do what they know needs to be done and "praise" comes or it doesn't. Leadership, would have been a phone call or letter directly to the other, not blasting it on the internet to "look like the bigger man". That is a move of a weaker person.

This is political posturing from someone that knows he can't win. (He had to loan his campaign $350k when at the early set of the race he attacked Rispone for self-funding and said that he wouldn't have to do that because "he has supporters"). So he is grasping at straws to come across as the olive branch giver. They olive branch has been broken multiple times already (by both sides), this is a hollow gesture with ulterior motives.

You know who else is grasping at straws? JBE. He abandoned his Left supporters to pander to the Conservatives once he saw the early turnout numbers. He started pushing harder his "working with Trump" crap. Then we all rejoiced when Trump called him out on it. Yet as conservatives we are too blind to see Abraham is doing the same principle.

I like the message and he may actually mean it. BUT when you have to self promote and make a private conversation public. The optics say you are doing it for reasons other than the words, and take away the sincerity of the message. I see it as he can't afford to run his commercial, he wants to look like "the bigger man", and he is nervous due to internal polling.

A bigger man would have contacted the other campaign and requested a joint statement (if you want it public), while not putting one above the other or trying to "earn points". Or a bigger man would have honored his two prior words and not attack Rispone at every venue he could and through his PAC, causing this whole thing.

Too little too late. I will still vote for him in the unlikely event he makes the runoff, but he is quickly losing my respect. He is acting more and more like a politician which is something I am sick and tired of having in LA.