CAMPAIGN ’88 : Bush Unites Two Foes
A couple of years ago they could barely stand to be in the same town together, let alone at the same microphone. But on Monday, KABC-TV commentator Bruce Herschensohn and former Rep. Ed Zschau teamed up in Los Angeles to tout Bush’s candidacy.
Zschau and Herschensohn, who waged a brutal battle for California’s 1986 GOP senatorial nomination, promised to raise $2.5 million for the Committee for the Presidency, a group that will promote Bush through television ads and direct mail, independent of his campaign.
“I’ll focus my efforts in Northern California,” said Zschau, who edged Herschensohn in ’86.
Translation: Zschau is going after coastal GOP moderates and business types in the Silicon Valley.
Herschensohn, blunt-spoken as usual, needed no translation.
“My concentration will be mainly on conservatives, not only conservative Republicans but conservative Democrats. . . . “
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