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Central Valley Republican Rep. George Radanovich is expected to announce this morning that he will not seek reelection. . . . Randanovich, who lives in Mariposa, was first elected to the 19th Congressional District seat in 1994.

The crack investigative team at the FlashReport has uncovered documents (attached below for your perusal) showing that political upstart and congressional candidate, Terrance J. (“T.J.”) Cox, was sued for fraud in Texas before moving to California four years ago. Cox is the latest Democrat to challenge popular Republican Congressman George Radanovich in the Central Valley. However, unlike previous challengers, Cox has already lent his campaign more than $500,000. According to court records filed by Atkins Production Services, Inc. in Tarrant County, Texas, Cox “manipulated and cooked the books of his companies to fraudulently sell the businesses and fraudulently obtain an...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Mariposa Republican George Radanovich on Tuesday cut short his Senate reconnaissance, citing both family and intuition in deciding not to seek statewide office next year. "Family is part of an overall gut instinct that tells me that now is not the right time," Radanovich said in an interview. "I've got an interest in statewide politics, and want to continue that interest, but now didn't seem the time to be doing that, from a family perspective."</p>

Every few days, another scorching Barbara Boxer-bashing e-mail pops up on computer screens around the state courtesy of California Republican Party spin doctor Rob Stutzman. They portray the Democrat as "a lightweight" and "the most liberal member of the Senate." "Boxer voted against the war (in Iraq)," Stutzman, the state GOP's director of communications, wrote last week. "Clearly, she has a blame-America-first history that would make her easy to paint as someone who sat on the sidelines as to what needs to be done to keep America safe." So, she's a liberal, squishy-on-defense blame-America-firster. The GOP script for denying Boxer...