Failed Assembly candidate Dean Gardner lashed out Friday at the incumbent who beat him, implying in a television interview that Nicole Parra has racked up drunken driving arrests and led an "alternative lifestyle."
"I didn't go into her personal life, DUIs or alternative lifestyle," the Bakersfield businessman told KGET Channel 17 in talking about his 30th Assembly District campaign.
An annoyed Parra denied having any drunken driving arrests. She said she doesn't know what Gardner meant by "alternative lifestyle," but she has had a serious boyfriend for nearly two years.
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Parra, 34, said she's had only three minor run-ins with the law.
She said she was cited for trespassing during a protest she participated in while a University of California, Berkeley student in 1991. The protest had to do with tenures for professors, naming a center after labor leader Cesar Chavez and adding a cultural studies requirement, she said.
She said she got a bike ticket at age 12 and a traffic ticket for failure to yield when she was working as a congressional aide to Rep. Cal Dooley.
In his television interview Friday, Gardner accused Parra of unfairly attacking him during this year's campaign, which was a rematch from 2002.
Parra had highlighted his seven bankruptcies and dozens of liens and lawsuits.http://www.bakersfield.com/local/story/5054503p-5105895c.htmlJesus' General caught this one (Arnold was a big Gardner supporter)-
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2004/11/class-act.html