Senate Candidate Steve Garvey at the 2024 USC U.S. Senate Debate (Photo: Evan Symon for California Globe)
OPINION: Who is the Real Steve Garvey?
The GOP Establishment is reminding folks why the Republican Party in California has a serious public relations problem
By Stephen Frank, February 4, 2024 2:55 am
If a Democrat candidate for Senate was caught forging a check for $110,000, Republicans would scream. That is what Steve Garvey did and the IRS caught him (see checks below). I spoke with Steve Garvey about this, asking for an explanation—he refused to respond. Instead he said his PR guy would explain—and that person never returned my calls or email.
In an October 23, 1992 letter, attorney Herbert Sturman wrote, “You will note that your signature appears to be in the same handwriting as Steve’s signature.” The IRS did a signature test and dismissed Cyndy Garvey from the lawsuit, since she knew nothing about the check, where the money came from or where it went. (Truhan is Cyndy Garvey’s maiden name).
In 1981 S.T. Garvey Inc. reported to the IRS that Cyndy Garvey was an employee of the company and received $103,406.84 in compensation. Her attorney, Sturman, wrote to the IRS informing them that she was never an employee of the company and never saw a dime of that money. Now the question is, where did the money go. How were the checks cashed, since she never saw them?
What if a Democrat candidate for Senate claimed he was a good family man, but refused to see two of his children, now in their 30’s, EVER? What would you say if he refuses to see his four grandchildren? You might call him a replica of Hunter and Joe Biden. The Los Angeles Times exposed this. While Garvey on the campaign trail tells people he has a great relationship with his children and grandchildren, the facts are different.
The LA Times reported:
“Also speaking publicly for the first time, Garvey’s oldest child from his first marriage said he cut off almost all contact without explanation about 15 years ago in a move that she still finds painful.”
“Krisha Garvey, 49, said she is not active in politics but agreed to speak to The Times about what she characterized as “complete abandonment” of herself and her three children by her father because she felt it was important for voters to understand that her father’s public image hasn’t always reflected his personal life.
“There’s something lacking in him, something not authentic,” she said. “To be a man of the people, to truly have experience of being a totally complete, loving family man … I wouldn’t want the people of California to buy into that just because he hit a ball really well.”
“Now both 34, the two children Steve Garvey had with the two different women in 1989 said in a joint statement that they have no partisan or ideological position on the Senate race. They have moved forward with their lives without the father they’ve never known.”
“In our childhoods, multiple efforts were made through attorneys to arrange a meeting or even a phone call with Mr. Garvey, but he declined every opportunity,” Slade Mendenhall and Ashleigh Young wrote. “Thus, we have never known him, and our only relationships with him were through the family court system.”
Imagine a Democrat candidate had been drafted in 1970, during the Viet Nam war. He went through an entrance physical, making no medical claims he should be exempt before induction. Then when he gets to Ft. Jackson, realizes this is serious, gets the doctor for the Los Angeles Dodgers to write a note, claiming Garvey had “migraines” so could not be in the Army. Then when given a medical discharge, went on to play 1207 straight games and earning big bucks. His only worry was a high inside pitch could hit him, not a bullet.
As told to me by his then wife, Cyndy, during his first days at Ft. Jackson, he kept asking her about her symptoms for migraines. He used that and the Dodger doctor, to get out of serving in the Army and Viet Nam, liked millions of others did.
What would Republicans say if they knew he got a secret annulment from the Detroit Diocese? Secret? Cyndy Garvey received a letter from the Church, informing her that her marriage was annulled, and by Catholic teachings, her two daughters were now illegitimate. To get an annulment, the Catholic Church had to first reach out to the wife—they didn’t. Papers would have to be signed, which she never saw. Recently, Cyndy Garvey reached out and asked for the complete file and what Steve Garvey paid the church for the secret annulment. The church told her that if she wanted to see any documentation, she had to go to Detroit—and they refused to say how much Garvey “donated” for this.
How does he do business? Again, from the Times:
“The Federal Trade Commission accused him in a 2000 lawsuit of making deceptive claims in infomercials for a weight-loss product; a federal judge ruled he didn’t engage in false advertising. In 2006, a Times investigation found that Garvey and his wife, Candace, had ‘neglected bills large and small, leaving dozens of people who either worked for them or sold them merchandise wondering if they were ever going to get paid’ and that Garvey ‘unilaterally decided to cut in half’ the child support for his son born in 1989.”
He still owes back child support payments. And as Cyndy Garvey noted to me, he also closed out and took his two daughters college fund and kept the money for himself.
There were so many lawsuits and small claims court challenges, that Steve Garvey was forced to leave Park City, Utah.
This just gives you the flavor of the man. How well liked was and is he by his former team mates and others in the baseball world? Peter O’Malley, former owner of the Dodgers donated $1,000. Not a single player has given a dime. Those that know him best have voted with their dollars by not giving him any.
If Garvey was a Democrat, Republicans would be upset with a man with such character. By promoting him for Senate the GOP Establishment is reminding folks why the Republican Party in California has a serious public relations problem.
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If this is all true, then the CaGOP just shot themselves in the foot………….again!
Or could it be that no worthwhile conservative candidate dare challenge the California Democratic Cartel?
In California, that is a benefit. No one really has a handle on who is getting California gold and why. How many people stole Covid money and are still stealing benefits today. Why? It is because they aren’t running against the democrats.
Either way, Garvey never had a chance against “Big Election” anyway, but it was fun to hope.
BTW, He is still better than Schiff.
So, we’re digging up stuff that happened 30, 40, and 50 years ago?? I’m more concerned about what is happening today in CA, so I’d rather pick Garvey instead of Schiff, who has a bizarre obsession with Trump and to this day continues to LIE!!!
Good on CAGlobe for putting this article out there. I was going to vote for Garvey, but he is not the sort of person I vote for. So the likely contest, if it is Schiff and Garvey, is a contest to choose between 2 fundamentally dishonest and corrupt men. I’m not sure I can vote in this contest.
Who does this opinion piece benefit? I’d really appreciate the same scrutiny on Katie Porter and Adam Schiff.
I say vote Eric Early the other republican on the ballot. With Schiff trying to make Garc=vey look conservative in his recent adds it’s plain that Schiff wants Garvey in the top 2 so that he can use this information in the general against Garvey.
Oh, crap. Democrats are total crooks and yet remain immune. But we keep going down on on forced errors over what they do eventually uncover. Garvey hit a home run against Adam Schiff in the debates. The Democrat Mean Machine had to go into overdrive and take him out stat. .
They also took down Larry Elders, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman with last minute attacks – they dig deep and they uncover dirt, but escape their own rank misdeeds and wretched personal history like every single thing Adam Schiff has ever done or said.
We are supposed to be the better alternative. Make it happen.
Meh, Garvey may be a typical RINO but he’s way less odious than any of the criminal Democrat mafia that are running and he’s especially less odious than a pathological liar like Adam Schiff who looks like a creepy pedo groomer with his crazed bug eyes and pencil neck?
I checked out his RINO web page. Swamp vibes and a Israel Firster.
There is no reason we shouldn’t vote for the lesser of two evils in an election when that applies. George Santos was not a good man, not a good republican so the self righteous republicans in the house voted him out. How did that turn out? Impeachment of Mayorkas failed by one vote. Vote Garvey and don’t feel bad about it. He may be a very flawed man, but certainly no worse than Schiff or Porter. At least Garvey may cause dems to spend some money in the general election. If by some longshot he wins, he may be a needed vote for a supreme court justice or against a supreme court packing.
Schift is a POS. Garvey is a retired ball player (meh.) This article shows that Garvey is a shady man and will sell his soul for $$$ and sex.
Do you know the biblical standard for people to have political authority?
It’s written in Exodus 18:21-22.
Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear GOD, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them, as leaders of thousands, of hundreds and fifties and tens. And let them judge the people at all times.
Do we have political leaders who Fear God?
Do we have political leaders that are men of truth?
Do we have political leaders who hate dishonest gain?
Some people are born leaders. Some are just baseball players. I think it’s cut and dry that Garvey is running his campaign on ego and not what we, Americans really need at this political juncture. A lot of words come out of his mouth, but mimic only the cheesy rhetoric, lies and impotency that the Republican Party is currently dishing out. There’s nothing substantial he’s bringing to the table except for more complacency. I’m tired of hearing people dismiss him as the better of all other candidates, when there is clearly something fundamentally wrong with allowing the dismantling of the constitution, a task Garvey would allow, given his infatuation with Donald Trump and the political inroads of Putin ideology into the mindset of the Republican Party. I used to be Republican but went no party affiliation when all the idiots started taking over. I couldn’t stand the stupidity. The bald face lies. The egos. The utter and complete failure to do anything right, or do anything of significance or substance has proven me right for leaving a party with nobody at the helm, and with no ability to function. Steve Garvey will only perpetuate more circle jerking, being more of an obstruction than a leader with constructive ideas.
America is at the crossroads and republicans don’t give a rats a$$ about anything decent or inclusive. And that includes Steve Garvey. He’s just in this for fame or glory. Yes, he has some talking points, but in reality, just smoke and mirrors.
Vote for who you like, but be careful of what you wish for.
I’m a lifelong Dodgers fan and registered as an Independent, but there’s no way I’d ever vote for Steve Garvey. Most of the Dodgers fans concurred; we liked his bat but we always found him to be contrived and insincere. It wasn’t just Don Sutton, the entire team detested him as he was narcissistic and inauthentic. Granted, this has nothing to do with policy, but character counts, and Steve Garvey is someone who we cannot rely on. During his playing days, he never made a secret of his political ambitions, but he always refused to take a public stand on a single important issue. Garvey lacks the courage and sincerity to hold any office, he will sell us out.