Looks like one of Wally Herger's best friends, Congressman John Doolittle, may finally announce he's not running for re-election. Doolittle currently represents a district that includes Oroville.
Doolittle may be running away, but without much love from anyone but his family and his dwindling die-hard supporters. This a big sigh of relief for Republicans since Doolittle is a political albatross.
Lt. Col. Charlie Brown has been actively campaigning and raising money. Almost all polls showed Brown defeating Doolittle in a head-to-head match up in 2008.
If former State Senator Rico Oller enters the race, he'll run a scorched earth campaign against his primary opponents. That's the type of campaign he's known to run in the past.
Today's Scrabble word is naos, an ancient temple.
If Doolittle does retire, I think the best thing to advance Charlie Brown's cause would be if Oller did in fact conduct a "scorched earth" primary campaign against his Republican opponents and win.
He is so toxic that he makes Doolittle seem downright quaint by comparison. My hope and expectation is that he would so poison the Republican well if he were to win the primary, that many disgusted Republicans would hold their noses and vote for Brown in the general election or just sit the race out.
-- Greg
The way things are going it looks like Charlie Brown does indeed have a great chance. Imagine a Democrat Congressman in our next door district...makes me think of a like possibility in our own district.
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