See post # 10.
You are assuming that Randy Forbes is NOT a Conservative.
From what I have seen in my own congressional district: We had a solid Conservative Congressman. Nancy Pelosi targeted him and 9 other Congressional Conservatives for defeat in 2010. She hand selected a man to run against him. He was re-elected in spite of her efforts.
On the next election cycle Pelosi supported the same man for the defeat of our Conservative Congressman, except this time she had gerrymandered the district so as to insure the defeat of our Conservative Congressman. Even so the election was close. The challenger had lost, but demanded a recount.
You can guess the rest.....after several recounts (sic) the Democrat edged out the Conservative, they quit counting, and the Democrat was declared the winner.
A challenge to the Democrat fell short last cycle and though there was some evidence with vote tampering no challenge to the results was filed.
This cycle the incumbent Democrat is being challenged by the very popular local sheriff. We’ll see how well the Democrats cheat against the top cop of the county.
Dan Lungren (R- Ca. 3rd) v. Omi Bera (D) 2010
Dan Lungren (R Ca.-7th) v. Omi Bera (D) 2012
Omi Bera (D Ca. 7th) v. Doug Osi (R) 2014
Omi Bera (D Ca. 7th) v. Jones (R.) TBD 2016
Well, you know CA has an “Independent” Redistricting Board which put in its plan in 2012. The problem is that it was worse than what a legislative Democrat gerrymander could come up with. They not only screwed Republicans en masse, but it also resulted in some senior Dems falling as well, though they were merely replaced with a new batch of ultra-Communist moonbats. CA is a disgrace and the delegation of 39 Dems to 14 R’s is ludicrously out of whack with the state’s voting preferences. 20 years ago, the delegation was tied 26-26.
Curiously, in FL, they have a voter-passed law (albeit unconstitutional) that demands the GOP majority draw more seats to favor the Dem minority (and the FL Supremes, a Democrat court, just upped the ante by stealing a couple more seats for the Dems for November, including redrawing the most historic GOP seat in FL in the Tampa Bay area, which has been GOP since 1954, for ex-Gov. Charlie “The Orange Menace” Crist, whom appointed some of those court members - can you say conflict of interest ?). FL should have a 19R-8D majority, instead they’ve gotten it up to 10 Dems (to 17R) and are trying to jack it up to 12 or 13D (to a bare 15 or 14R majority) for November.
Of course, the courts would never do that for the CA GOP to give them an additional 6-8 seats that would be more reflective of the federal voting percentage for President.