Posted on 12/29/2009 12:44:50 PM PST by SmithL
Central Valley Republican Rep. George Radanovich is expected to announce this morning that he will not seek reelection.
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Randanovich, who lives in Mariposa, was first elected to the 19th Congressional District seat in 1994.
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Wife is fighting ovarian cancer. Prayers for all. Hope someone will come forth and take over for him.
Too bad. Radanovich is from a fine old Fresno family.
Safe seat?
What do we know about Patterson?
That part of the Central Valley is pretty angry about the libs’ environmental water grab.
Apparently there are a couple of possible Primary filers. Normally this is a safe Republican seat, but nothing is sure in CA. When several challengers chew each other up in a Primary, a Donkey can slip in and take the seat after he’s sat back on his money — saving it for the General.
I don’t live there any more, so I’ll have to check with my sources about the qualifications of the various candidates.
Didn’t he break with the Republicans to vote for the budget a year or so ago? If I remember right, he or his district got some payoff?
Surprise GOP retirement in CA.
Conservative former Fresno Mayor Jim Patterson was rumored to be a primary challenger to Radanovich, largely due to a water use issue which has various parts of the district at odds with each other. Patterson is a real contender. State Senator Jeff Denhem appears to be Radanovich’s choice, and others in the GOP establishment, but he doesn’t live in the district and represents only a modest part of it.
McCain only carried it by 6 points but he did awful in Cali.
Bush got 61% in 2004. It’s a largely white and rural seat. It will not come close to going rat in 2010.
“It will not come close to going rat in 2010.”
Very true. In cases like this, we should go for the most conservative candidate available.
“What do we know about Patterson?”
He is a former Mayor of Fresno who ran for Congress in a neighboring district (when it had slightly different lines). He was supported by the Club For Growth, but narrowly lost the primary to Devin Nunes.
Nunes’s initial House run was in 2002, so if Patterson ran against Nunes in the primary, then the district didn’t have “slightly different lines”—the lines were identical to those today.
Unless Fresno is split among those two districts, Patterson was a carpetbagger then or one now.
Fresno is split amongst the 21st (Radanovich) 190K
20th (Costa) 155K
and 21st (Nunes) 83K
Population data from Cqpoltics.com
So the smallest part of Fresno is in the district where he ran before. Allegedly the part of Fresno that is in the 21tst is the most Republican part of the city. Patterson carried the Fresno county portion of the district 38% to 30% for Mike Briggs and 28% for Nunes. Nunes carried the Tulare county portion (the whole county) with 46.4%.
I’m inclined to back Patterson in this race.
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