ANDERSON, Calif. — Brian Dahle, the Republican candidate for California governor, kept getting pings on his cellphone.
Dahle needed to figure out how to get his name out there, longtime friend Greg Hawes texted. From the seat of a tractor on his Shasta County farm, Hawes drummed up ideas.
Maybe they could get a celebrity to talk up Dahle? But Hawes didn't have any movie stars' cellphone numbers. Maybe they could get on TV? But Dahle's campaign didn't have enough money.