Posted on 11/11/2008 7:49:50 AM PST by CAluvdubya
Is that for U.S. Congress or a state seat?
(Not everyone knows who Doolittle is or what office he held.)
I'll just stick to replies...Oh yeah, I did mention that I was just filling in, didn't I?
Tom is term limited out in the Cal Assembly and Cal Senate so he is running for congress from the 4th district which runs from just south of hiway 50 north to the Oregon border on the far eastern side of the state. More or Less ive or Take a few miles...
You mean the Republicans are finally going to win a close one?
Thank you, tubebender. That is an exciting prospect that Tom will serve in Congress, which is our only hope during these dark times.
That area might includes some Indian reservations....??
I was actually trying to be helpful, but I guess in an abrupt way. It wasn’t meant personally, sorry.
Woo hoo! Go Tom! He would immediately become one of the top conservative voices in Washington. I know they don’t elect first-termers to leadership roles in the House, but he would be a very effective spokesman for the national party the day he arrives. RNC are you listening? :)
I totally agree. Almost as much fun as thinking about Palin going to Washington!
Sent another donation to Tom today to help with the unexpected expenses arising out of such a close contest.
Not if the Dems decide to exact revenge on him in redistricting in 2012 (and it won't matter if there is a Dem or RINO Governor to sign off -- both groups HATE McClintock). They may want to get a 40-seat majority out of the state that year. It's already at 34.
California is already gerrymandered to the extreme. The state is already set up to favor Dems, and it does, but the price they pay for their majority and safe districts is that the GOP also has their own safe districts.
Plus, didn’t Prop 11 pass in California? If it did in fact pass, then re-districting would be in the hands of a non-partisan citizen’s panel, not the legislature.
Prop 11 only applies to the state legislature; Congress was specifically excluded in order to draw in enough Democratic support to allow it to pass.
I sent my original post out before I realized that that Congress would be untouched. If much changes with that Prop. in changing the legislature favorably towards us (and I don’t mean more liberal RINOs), I will be shocked. In any event, I think the Dems may go ahead and cut us down from 19 seats in 2012 (or 20, if we knock out McNerney).
Wow
ACORN in Placer County? No, but they almost certainly found Nevada County.
In every area of CA-04 it was reasonably close with Tom winning the majority of votes in all but 3 member counties. However, Nev Co went 3 to 1 for Brown, 75% to 25% - that’s a HUGE margin in a contested race, and it was almost enough to make up the difference in what would have otherwise been a devastatingly huge defeat for Mr. Brown.
Nev Co is the liberal strong hold in the CA foothills.
It is comprised largely of Grass Valley and Nevada City and has been a haven for the granola crowd since the late 60s. When people come to places like Auburn and wonder how we ended up with so many ‘rednecks’ in CA we simply tell them to keep driving a little farther up 49 and they will find their cliche’.
For the record - Mr. Brown ran a ‘Jim Webb-esque’ campaign. If you didn’t KNOW he was a liberal democrat, you would have thought from his ads that he was Reagan’s best buddy and the leader of a conservative revolution. (Note to Mr. Brown - calling yourself ‘conservative’ while taking money from Code Pink is not just deceitful, it’s borderline treasonous.)
If what you say is true, then there must have been a HUGE amount of crossover McCain voters also voting for Brown, since Obama only won the county by 5 pts. Also, this is the first time since 1964 that a Democrat has won Nevada county.
It’s quite possible that McClintock will run for statewide office within the next four years.
I’ve reached the point that I’d advise him against doing so. There’s too many people in our party out to sabotage him. We know he should’ve won this race by at least 15%, but a good chunk of the RINO establishment types willfully cast votes for Brown in the hopes of getting a Doug Ose type in in 2010. They’re more terrified of him than the Democrats are. McClintock could probably serve a better purpose in DC as a leader. And leadership these days is almost completely absent. If this party reelects both McConnell and Boehner, it quite literally earns the moniker of the stupid party. They’ve learned nothing from these past two elections. If their replacements don’t get the job done, replace them again until we get someone who DOES get it done.
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