California 4: Doolittle out
One more step toward Eric Egland's victory
By Neil Stevens Posted in 2008 | California | Eric Egland | John Doolittle — Comments (9) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Roll Call reports that Representative John Doolittle of California's District 4 will announce today that he will not seek re-election to a tenth term. He has scheduled a press conference at 10:30am (in two hours) for this purpose.
This is great news. Between an FBI investigation (and raid) from his Jack Abramoff connection, the fact that RedState-endorsed challenger Eric Egland was out-raising him money, and that he was poised to lose in a Bush +24, Schwarzenegger +50 district, it was time to him to go.
What a bad day for Charlie Brown, the Democratic challenger, but a good day for Republicans. Doolittle definitely out of the race should put this district out of reach of Democratic hopes.
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Neil, do you have any updated fundraising numbers for the Egland or Brown campaigns?
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
But Brown was getting a lot of money, relatively, because Democrats smelled the blood in the water.
I love how all that money is now wasted in such a lopsided district, heh.
That's the guy's name? How unfortunate for him. How does he get anybody to take him seriously. All I can think of is Lucy pulling the football away and him going flying in the air.
Just imagine the political cartoon possibilities.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
I can't wait for him to say something stupid in the general. The title of my article will write itself.
it wasn't long ago that I lived in that little weasel's district. Luckily I moved before '06 because I am not sure that I could have voted for him.
"We all share the same goals: clean air and water...safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation. " -Fred D. Thompson
These are some hard line conservative counties that Doolittle represented. That a dim could ever come even close...*shudder*
You don't get any more conservative than this region.
He did the right thing now its time to take this seat off table
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”