Posted on 10/25/2009 9:34:21 AM PDT by cc2k
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The highest profile race locally has been the runoff to replace former Rep. Ellen Tauscher in the 10th Congressional District. The heavily Democratic district includes much of Fairfield.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Tauscher in June as under secretary for arms control and international security in the U.S. State Department.
Democrat and Lt. Gov. John Garamendi is the front-runner by virtue of his political party and high name identification.
He faces GOP nominee attorney David Harmer. The names of three minor-party candidates also will appear on the ballot.
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Harmer, whose father, John, was a state senator and appointed by Gov. Ronald Reagan to an open lieutenant governor's seat in 1973, has no illusions about the odds.
The 46-year-old attorney has focused on his qualifications for the job, and reached out to independents and moderate Democrats dissatisfied with federal health care reform proposals and the faltering economy.
Harmer has never held elected office -- he lost his 1996 Utah congressional primary race -- but he points to his public policy experience.
He was a management-level staff member in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and spent time writing and researching for two conservative think-tanks, the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation.
On the issues, voters will have no trouble telling the two men apart. They agree on almost nothing.
Garamendi supports single-payer health insurance. Harmer does not.
Harmer opposed the federal stimulus package. Garamendi supported it.
Garamendi wants a strong cap-and-trade system to help cut greenhouse gas emissions. Harmer calls it an onerous burden on consumers.
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The RCCC is ignoring this guy and concentrating on a radical leftist in upstate New York.
A previous thread with a posting at redstate.com says this is a 7 point race, and potentially winnable for the GOP.
Check my sig for links to his site and to contribute.
| From the desk of cc2k: |
Candidates I support: Doug Hoffman for Congress, NY 23rd (PayPal), David Harmer for Congress, CA 10th (website for info). Please, spread the word about these important special elections on November 3, 209: New York’s 23rd congressional district and California’s 10th congressional district. |
Fairfield is heavily Democratic = PC way of describing Anglo meth heads and Latino gangland.
Crud, this seems just as important, and I just found out.
Sending him money, too...
He doesn’t stand a chance. Its a safe liberal seat, otherwise a bigshot like Garamendi would not have tried it.
It used to be a Republican seat, but demography changed.
Even with the anti-Obama feelings in the air and the economy in the toilet like it is now? There are a lot of factors working against Dems right now. I think any race might be winnable by a fiscally responsible candidate of either party. Especially one who is against a stimulus that gave us 10% unemployment and the other economic policies of this administration.
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He doesn’t stand a chance. Its a safe liberal seat, otherwise a bigshot like Garamendi would not have tried it.
It used to be a Republican seat, but demography changed.
I wasn’t sure about this candidate, though. But everything I read says he is at least fiscally conservative.
| From the desk of cc2k: |
Candidates I support: Doug Hoffman for Congress, NY 23rd (PayPal), David Harmer for Congress, CA 10th (website for info). Please, spread the word about these important special elections on November 3, 209: New York’s 23rd congressional district and California’s 10th congressional district. |
It was also gerrymandered in 2000.
What's amazing about this district leaning Democrat is that it contains Travis Air Force Base and the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Laboratory, as well as several upscale bedroom communities in Alamo, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Orinda and Moraga.
-PJ
Well .. Fairfield used to host an Air Force base (my brother-in-law was stationed there). With there being so many military .. I can’t figure out how it got to be a “democrat” area.
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