Posted on 05/05/2008 4:00:38 PM PDT by SmithL
The Republican free-for-all to replace retiring GOP Rep. John Doolittle is ugly and getting uglier, with the campaigns spending plenty to tag one candidate as a greedy carpetbagger and the other as a big-spending liberal.
Those are fighting words in the Fourth Congressional District, which rambles from the Sacramento suburbs of Rocklin and Roseville east to Lake Tahoe and north to the Oregon border. Former Rep. Doug Ose and state Sen. Tom McClintock are brawling for the GOP nomination in a district where Republicans outnumber Democrats 47 percent to 30 percent and the incumbent is leaving after being named in an FBI political corruption investigation.
Ose, a 52-year-old real estate investor and businessman, has put almost $850,000 of his own money into the campaign, in addition to $400,000 left over from his previous congressional campaigns. Much of the cash has gone into a TV, radio and mail blitz slamming McClintock as "an L.A. politician" who's running for Congress because he's termed out of the state Legislature.
McClintock, 51, is a lifelong politician "who has absolutely no experience in the real world," Ose said in an interview at the Auburn Elks Lodge, where he had lunch with the local Rotary Club. "I won't need a primer on what the issues in the Fourth District are."
McClintock, meanwhile, is in the unusual position of running for an office where he can't vote for himself. For 22 years, he has represented Thousand Oaks (Ventura County), where by state law he has to be registered to keep his state Senate seat. Under federal rules, congressional candidates can live anywhere in the state.
"People are more interested in where I stand than in where I live," said McClintock, who lived in Rocklin when he was out of the Legislature for three years in the mid-1990s.
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Neither of them are from the 4th dist. Watching them call each other carpetbaggers, one can not help but to sit back and chuckle.
That moving from one part of the state to the other is even in the top 20 reasons why not to vote for someone astounds me.
Tom McClintock is the real deal, by the way.
Well, I went to McClintocks’ website, there wasn’t much substance. Other than that I have been getting my info from the Auburn Journal. To be frank, neither seem too appealing. I will probably end up voting for Brown in the general election. (I do realize I made a huge sin on this website by admitting that.)
I just hope whoever wins is as accessible as JT. Every time I called his office with a question or request I was treated very well.
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