Nevada Slant Village – Jim Ross’s career as a Democratic campaign strategist has been long and fruitful. One of his victories was the election of Gavin Newsom as mayor of San Francisco.
Tom Ross has had similar success with the Republican side. He elected Kevin McCarthy as the legislature and later elected Congress.
But, Tom Ross said, but perhaps his most important achievement was working on the 2008 campaign, which established the independent redistribution committee of California – impartial and impartial political mapping to set the “gold standard.” “It needs protection,” he said.
No, Jim Ross said. It needs to be covered.
He supports Newsom’s efforts to cancel the commission’s work in support of a Gerrymander that could promote the Democrats’ chance to win the house in 2026 – otherwise, he fears, “there will continue to be a Republican political rule over the next few decades…”
The two brothers are brothers, and despite their differences, they have lasting love and respect for each other, and Tieclad’s determination, no campaign, no candidate, no political issues – can or will never be allowed to push the wedge between them.
“Tom is the best person I know. The best person I know.” Jim, 57, said when his brother was 55, he was sitting across from the local burrito shop and tore it. “We can solve the problem, we won’t do it.”
“Especially the people you care about and love,” Tom said.
That kind of brotherly bond, a party beyond the party and one of the most intense political battles of this accused moment, should not be rare or particularly noteworthy – even for a pair who make them work for parties living in violent battles, but, in these annoying and highly controversial times, it certainly is.
Maybe there is something else that someone else can take away.
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The Ross Brothers grew up not far from Nevada to meet California. That was decades ago, a small forest village on the east coast of Tahoe became a playground for the rich and the limit.
Family – Mom, Dad, Four Boys and One Girl – John Ross settled there after retirement from his Air Force career, which included three battle trips in Vietnam.
John and his wife Joan are not particularly political, although they are active and thoughtful. Joan participated in the Catholic Church. John is a career in real estate and he is committed to ways to improve his community.
The lessons they teach children are based on duty, discipline and details. Earlier, the kids learned that there was no free travel. Jim earned his first job at 76 Station before driving. Tom mowed the lawn, washed the car, and ran to a lemonade stand. The most unfortunate of siblings is wearing a bear suit and waving a sign to try to destroy clients for their father’s real estate business.
Until today, the brothers disdained any rights. “That’s our family,” Jim said. “We are all workers.”
Like their parents, these two did not grow up politically positively. They ended up studying government and political science – Jim of Saint Mary’s College in Tom’s Bay Area in Gonzaga, Washington, a breach of contract. Both have coaches that bring the theme to life.
Jim started in this career as a junior when one of California Prime Minister’s campaign strategists, Clint Reilly, began talking to his college class. This is the first time Jim realizes that it is possible to live on politics – Riley’s fashionable lawsuit suggests that it may be profitable.
Jim, who had an internship for Reilly and after graduating and knocking for a while – teaching skiing in Tahoe and serving as a sales rep in banana boat sunscreen – he got acquainted with Reilly’s company and took a job on the Frank Jordan’s campaign with Frank Jordan’s San Francisco mayor.
From there, Jim moved into the state legislative competition in Wineland, just as Tom graduated and was looking for a job. Jim helped Tom find a job as a driver for the district’s congressional candidate through his connections.
At the time, both were Republicans, just like their fathers. Their non-conscious approach to politics also reflects Colonel Ross’s thoughts. Jim said public services are not about partisan dispatch, but “find solutions to problems.”
Jim, the left and Tom Ross went directly to a campaign through statewide rent controls. They talk about stores, but avoid politics.
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Jim, who was separated from the Republican Party from the Republican Party, began when he worked for another Republican parliamentary candidate, remembered he was disturbed by the reflective guerrilla, gay and anti-worker status. His changes were solid months after the 1992 Louisiana Congress game. Jim said the grinding poverty he saw in the South was shocking, and its remedies seemed to go far beyond the nostrils he absorbed.
Jim began to see the administration as a necessary agent for change and improvement, which made the Democrats a more natural home. “There is no such thing that improves human survival, and fundamentally, our ability to work together is not,” Jim said. “Our ability to work together comes down to government.”
Tom looked calmly at the top of Latin Rhythm’s head.
He believes that success and personal achievement lies in personal achievement. Republicans he admires include Jack Kemp, a rare member of his party focused on urban poverty, and George W. Bush in 2000.
(Tom is not a fan of Donald Trump, who finds the president’s casual cruelty to people who are particularly offensive.)
He clearly remembers the moment he was 22 years old when he realized that he was standing on his own two feet, supporting himself financially, and moving toward the world through his perseverance.
“For me, that’s what Republicans should be,” Tom said. “How do you give people in life? That’s what we should try to do.”
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Newsom’s campaign for the mayor of San Francisco in 2003 was a brutal one, a typical example of the city’s elbow elimination, impressing alley politics.
Newsom’s campaign manager Jim Ross suffered chest pain and suffered some injuries in the hospital. He wanted to know it was worth it. Should he resign?
“The only person I can really call and talk to is Tom,” Jim said. “He understands what it is to work hard on the campaign. He won’t go to leak the media, nor tell someone to hurt me in some way.”
Both say that this sympathy and inner trust far outweigh any political considerations. Why do they bring such a deep and meaningful relationship to some short-term tactical gains, or allow disagreements about personality or policy to set things up?
Jim lives and works in the East Bay. Tom runs a business from Sacramento. The two faced each other on the battlefield only once and balanced the 2018 vote measure that sought to expand California’s rent control. The initiative was rejected.
Although they remained against Newsom’s re-division measures, Jim had no official role in the democratic campaign. Tom is trying to beat it.
The short playback of their differences is unusual, and it’s exactly as your friendly columnist asks. Usually, the brothers talk about business, but avoid politics. There is almost no need – they already know where each other comes from. After all, they shared a bedroom.
Jim has a story to tell.
Last spring, with her mother dying, the two left Reno’s hospital for a bath and took a little rest at their father’s residence in Binny’s Village. The phone rang. It was a nurse overnight and called them to know that their mother had passed away.
“Tom answered the phone,” Jim said. “The first thing he said to the nurse was, ‘Yes you OK? Is it difficult for you to deal with? That’s what Tom is. A big thing, but he first considered another person. ”
He smiled, it was strong and the wind was strong. “I’m not that.”
Tom has a story to tell.
In 2017, he bought a mountain bike to celebrate the end of his non-Hodgkin lymphoma treatment. His chemotherapy has worn out and is not fully capable. Still, he was determined to address one of Tahoe’s most scenic rides, involving lung capacity, about five miles.
Tom left the party and then returned to his bike and climbed uphill in the past 500 or so yards.
Jim waited for him, sitting with two strangers. “That’s my brother,” he pointed out proudly. “He beat cancer.”
Tom’s eyes are good. His chin trembled and his voice broke. He paused to collect himself.
“I want to sacrifice this relationship for some stupid tweets or some momentary anger?” he asked. “Contact with someone, do you want to cut it down? That’s stupid. It’s stupid.”
Jim shines.
