Tom McClintock was a guest on the KTKZ Radio Capital Hour with Eric Hogue when a surprise caller phoned in; Charlie Brown, McClintock’s Democratic opponent in the Fourth Congressional District. Perhaps Charlie was motivated to call in because he had declined an opportunity earlier that day to debate McClintock at the El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce.
Was it the panicky tone of his trembling voice, the heavy breathing into the phone, or the non sequiturs and outright distortions that most distinguished Charlie Brown’s shaky performance in his first “debate” with McClintock?