It wasn’t your mind playing tricks on you, it was RedState screwing up. This is what they wrote (and you read in the posted article): “He denounced David Harmer, his GOP opponent for supporting coastal oil drilling.”
But if you click on “Read More” and go to RedState’s original source, you learn that the actual accusation, which I had read about a few days ago, was as follows:
“The Garamendi mailer states that his Republican challenger David Harmer supports off shoring jobs and cites a story from the Utahs Deseret News from April 23, 2004.”
http://capoliticalnews.com/blog_post/show/3313
Ooops, not RedState; it was RedCounty that screwed up.