Political career[edit]
Campaigns for public office[edit]
While teaching at UC Irvine, Navarro ran unsuccessfully for office in San Diego, California, five times.[8][17] In 1992, he
ran for mayor, finishing first (38.2%) in the primary, but lost with 48% to
Susan Golding in the runoff.
[30] During his mayoral campaign, Navarro ran on a no-growth platform.
[31] He paid $4,000 in fines and court costs for violating city and state election laws.[4]
In 1993, he ran for San Diego city council, and in 1994 for San Diego County board of supervisors, losing each time.
[17] In 1996, he ran for the
49th Congressional District as the
Democratic Party nominee, touting himself as an environmental activist, but lost to Republican
Brian Bilbray, 52.7% to 41.9%.
[32][4] In 2001, Navarro ran in a special election to fill the District 6 San Diego city council seat, but lost in a special election with 7.85% of the vote.
[33] Veteran political consultant Larry Remer, who ran two of Navarro's campaigns, describes him as "the biggest asshole I’ve ever known."[4]
Political positions
[edit]
Navarro's political affiliations and policy positions have been described as "hotly disputed and across the spectrum." While he lived in Massachusetts studying for his PhD at Harvard, he was a registered Democrat. When he moved to California in 1986, he was initially registered as nonpartisan, and became a registered Republican in 1989.[34] By 1991, he had again re-registered as an Independent, and carried that affiliation during the 1992 San Diego mayoral election. Around this time, he still considered himself a conservative Republican.[35]
Navarro rejoined the Democratic Party in 1994 and remained a Democrat during each of his subsequent political campaigns.
[34] In 1996, while he was running for Congress, Navarro was endorsed by then-
First Lady Hillary Clinton and spoke at the 1996 Democratic Convention, saying, "I'm proud to be carrying the
Clinton-
Gore banner." He positioned himself as a "strong environmentalist and a progressive on social issues such as
choice,
gay rights, and
religious freedom."
[4][36][37]
Navarro supported Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign in 2008.
[13] Navarro supported President
Barack Obama's
phase-out of incandescent light bulbs, the adoption of
wind energy, and
carbon taxes in order to stop
global warming.
[38]
During the
2016 Presidential election, Navarro described himself as "a
Reagan Democrat and a
Trump Democrat abandoned by my party."
[39] Despite this, Navarro was critical of
Ronald Reagan’s defense spending, called GDP growth during the administration a "Failure of
Reaganomics"
[40] and described the "10-5-3" tax proposal as "a very large corporate subsidy."
[41]
During the early stage of the Trump administration, Navarro was still known to be a Democrat, but by February 2018 he had again re-registered as a Republican.[42]
What a wishy-washy whore this pos is.
