It's time to take a closer look at our Republican candidate running against Democrat Charlie Brown.
LameDuck State Senator Tom McClintock (R, Thousand Mailing Addresses, currently using one in SoCal ) the Republican candidate for CA- 04, a district in the North, went to the Rocklin Unified School District Board on Wed, July 16, and did a little 3 minute speech in favor of Rocklin Academy's company being able to establish a charter high school for grades 7 to 12, which would be called Western Sierra Collegiate Academy, aka "WSCA." http://www.wscacademy.org/ 0438
Southern CA State Senator Tom McClintock at the Rocklin School Board meeting July 16, 2008
(bump cause I like congressional and numbers - promoted by Lucas O'Connor)
Turnout from Tuesday's primary by party. Every district with a Republican leaning PVI plus Barbara Lee just for fun and comparison's sake. Of the Republican leaning districts, Dem turnout was higher in 8 and close in several others. Might be an interesting November. Just sayin.
Numbers on the flip.
Update: I should have mentioned in the first place, there are still no Democratic candidates in CA-02, CA-19, CA-22, or CA-25. Turnout was dead even in the 19th and higher for Dems in the 25th, just for starters.
TJ at Loaded Orygun has been doing some great work gettig to the bottom of the 2002 Klamath River fish kill, an incident that recently gained more prominence when a recent Washington Post article detailed the influence of Vice President Fourthbranch in the decisionmaking process.
TJ has been filing Freedom of Information Act requests to determine what the level of involvement was for political officials in the region. Most of his findings concern Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) and his inserting himself into the scientific debate over whether to hold water for river salmon and attempting to influence it on the behalf of self-interested farmers who wanted that water for irrigation.
But a California congressman also figured into this issue: Rep. Wally Herger of CA-02. The "pages" in the blockquoted text that proceeds refer to TJ's FOIA page request.
California Blog Roundup is on the flip. There's a lot, as I've been busy with other things (mea maxima culpa). Teasers: Call to Action from Debra Bowen, Eric Roach, Busby campaign responds to NRCC ad buy, lots of CA-11, some CA-4, Schwarzenegger's ratings and his campaign staff, clean money advances (slow boring through hard boards), more immigration, and a fun little potpourri of links at the end.
