By now, readers of this Blog, other Placer County Blogs and the local media all are aware of the celebrated resolution brought by Placer County Supervisor Bruce Kranz to the Placer GOP Central Committee.

The blogger was presented with evidence from friends who work in the capitol that Ted Gaines was cheerfully proclaiming that he had 18 votes to kill the resolution in the days leading up. The ABD caucus jumped on this, thinking it was another sign of weakening support for Doolittle.

It is not that simple. This blogger was blamed by several for that resolution getting into the media and the ensuing circus. I did not leak the resolution not did I post it anywhere – in retrospect, the effect of that resolution getting out to the press was that many on the committee lost their desire to support that resolution. So in that regard, Ted Gaines got where he wanted – the resolution died.

I think Ted Gaines has noted that the sentiments of the Central Committee were behind that resolution. The only opposition I ever heard to it by Central Committee Members was the personal nature they felt came off from the way Kranz wrote it.

In the days since the celebrated resolution was “postponed indefinitely”, the effects of the resolution have been quite telling…

There were two events in Placer County this week, a “unity event” in Sun City on Monday (10/22) and a Crab Feed last night (Friday 10/26).

There were several departures from the past norms -

1) Egland was absent on Monday night and left early on Friday. Things he has never been known to do before – people have told me for several months now that Egland has been everywhere.

2) Gaines never used to bring a staffer with him to events in the past. Monday night, he was in attendance with two staff.

2a) Friday night, Gaines had bought a table at the Placer GOP Crab Feed but came for a few minutes and left, leaving his table empty. He had a staffer with him.

3) I have been over to the Placer GOP HQ a couple times since the fateful Central Committee meeting. Gaines’ office is next door and there is little activity according to people I have talked to.

The effect of the Kranz resolution is that it brought the anger of some and the disappointment of the rest of John Doolittle’s base to the forefront. Kranz had the guts to do what everyone else only talked about.

If Ted Gaines Congressional campaign was gaining traction, where was the money in his committee 9/30? Why have there been no Gaines for Congress fundraisers? The ABD caucus is making a big fuss over JTD only raising $55,000 in the 3rd quarter 2007, while ignoring Gaines’ $0.

If Egland’s campaign was doing so well – why did his team see fit to go after this blogger with all the venom usually associated for a smear campaign against an opponent?

They have still avoided answering any questions and have yet to demonstrate a campaign based on anything but being a Veteran and pointing the finger at Doolittle. (Heck, Charlie Brown did the same thing in 2006, could Egland be attempting to plagiarize that, too?)

While Gaines has gone completely dark, leaving events quickly and early, Eric Hogue is mounting an upstart Assembly campaign. Has Gaines made enough people mad that he is vulnerable to a primary opponent?

Gaines was quoted in the Sacramento Bee saying that John Doolittle has “lost his ability to lead”. Someone forgot to send the memo to John Doolittle’s base.

Bruce Kranz’ resolution may have been postponed by the Central Committee, but its’ effects were impossible to postpone.