Posted on 02/16/2008 9:32:16 PM PST by calif_reaganite
State Sen. Tom McClintock, one of California’s most high-profile conservative Republicans, isn’t ruling out a run for the 4th Congressional District GOP nomination and a chance to replace U.S. Rep. John Doolittle, R-Roseville.
McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, was asked by the Journal whether he was considering a run for the Northern California seat, which includes Auburn. He was also asked through an e-mail sent to his office whether he supported any Fourth District candidate for the Republican nomination.
Jennifer Cressy, press secretary for the senator, replied that McClintock has “received calls from supporters urging him to run for a variety of different offices.
“At the moment he’s keeping his options open and he hasn’t made any decisions yet,” Cressy said.
McClintock’s entry into the race would add a well-known conservative to an already crowded field. Former Third District congressman Doug Ose of Sacramento, ex-state senator and assemblyman Rico Oller of San Andreas and Roseville military security expert Eric Egland have already announced their candidacy.
McClintock, 51, has represented the 19th District since 2000 and is due to be termed out of office at the end of the year. He ran for governor in 2003’s recall election, placing third. Two years ago, he was the Republican candidate for state lieutenant governor, losing to Democrat John Garamendi. He has also lost in 2002 and 1994 in elections for the state controller.
McClintock’s possible candidacy was being bolstered by a poll commissioned by supporters of a Fourth District congressional run. Constitutional Advocates of Sacramento commissioned a poll by Bob Moore Information indicating the senator has a good chance of winning the nomination over Ose, Oller and Egland. The poll was conducted from a sampling of 300 likely Republican primary voters in the 4th District last Monday and Tuesday.
McClintock would garner 43 percent of the vote to 11 for Ose and 6 percent for Oller. Egland was supported by no poll respondents while 4 percent liked none of the four. Thirty-six percent said they didn’t know who they would vote for.
A spokesman for the Ose campaign said Friday that a McClintock entry into the race is being treated as “very hypothetical.” Doug Elmets said many Republicans in the state are considering a McClintock run for state governor in 2010 after Arnold Schwarzenegger retires as a more likely scenario.
The Journal’s Gus Thomson can be reached at gust@goldcountrymedia.com, or post a comment at auburnjournal.com.
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I rather see Mac run for governor in another recall.
Maybe we can get it right this time...
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Kelly
I have to agree with you on that one.
No better example exist to encourage districting reform, including minimal, residency requirement enforcement, than the example of the California's 4th Congressional District. If SW would run, I'd vote. But I wouldn t vote for a carpetbagger. Not even McClintock.
Much better idea, IMO.
so given that ose and oller are carpetbaggers your vote goes to...................
“Doug Elmets said many Republicans in the state are considering a McClintock run for state governor in 2010 after Arnold Schwarzenegger retires as a more likely scenario. “
Much better idea, IMO.
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Only problem, by the time RINOld leaves office(if we don’t recall him) the state will be in such disrepair from his liberalism & incompetence that the GOP, being blamed, won’t be able to get a dogcatcher elected much less another governor for quite some time!!!
Didn't I mention SW? He's a resident isn't he? Got to be more than one. The 4th covers more than a few square miles.
Plus Oller's conservatism is more the "take no prisoners" type like Doolittle's, than Ose's, whose CONservatism only makes use of two of the three legs upon which genuine, well rounded conservatism stands!!!
Rico Oller comes from just north of you!
Oh come on. Rico has represented huge swaths of the 4th CD in his time in the Senate and the Assembly.
As far as Ose goes, his being a LIBERAL is what disqualifies him.
All of the purple is essentially the 1st State Senate District that Oller held from 2000-2004. The darker purple is the 4th Assembly District boundaries when Oller represented it from 1996-2000.
As you can see it's pretty ridiculous to call Rico a "carpetbagger." He probably knows that district and the issue its residents face better than anyone in California other than Doolittle himself.
Cool map! I guess McClintock’s district didn’t make the map, huh? LOL.
Hey now. I’m not bashing Tom here. Just taking on the notion that Rico is a “carpetbagger.”
I know you weren’t. Maybe I was, a little, LOL.
I think you made the case for Rico, quite well. As well as Ose being disqualified as a RINO.
Can we also dismiss the also-rans that just registered as Republican and moved into the district, of late?
They instantly are transformed into these fiends filled with utter self-righteous certitude that now that they're here that not one more structure should ever be permitted and that any of us who raised our children here should force said children to go down to the metro-sexual regions to find employment and work their way back up to ever having an home up here where they were raised because they might move in next door, or create too much traffic for the newly arrived FLATLANDER that swears the only way they're ever leavin is in a pine box!!! (shall we enter that lengthy sentence into the Guiness Book of world records?)
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