The Auburn Sentinel article is linked here

ROUNDABOUT – Rep. Doolittle did indeed receive a warm welcome when he stood up to address last weekend’s state convention of the California Republican Assembly, an ultra-conservative outfit that has backed him every race he’s ever been in and, I presume, will again if he stays with his re-election plans for next year. The congressman was introduced by T. Rico Oller, the former state legislator whose dirty tricks helped him win an Assembly seat over Kirk Uhler in 1996 and who is being touted in some quarters as a possible congressional candidate in the event Doolittle changes his mind (or has it changed for him by the U.S. Justice Department) and doesn’t run again. Yeah, I know, Oller lives down in Calaveras County, which is not in the 4th C.D., but this is no barrier to declaring for a congressional seat (you need only be a state resident to run). Ted Gaines was also in attendance as was Eric Egland, the Air Force reservist who, like Mike Holmes, is an announced candidate for the GOP congressional nomination, with or without JTD on the ballot. Holmes was nowhere in sight; the California Republican Assembly and he don’t see eye to eye on a number of matters. The Bee’s Peter Hecht gave Roseville’s Aaron Park, the best blogger conservative Republicans ever fielded in this neck of the woods, credit for some of the convention’s best lines. He quoted Park as saying that Doolittle is supported by “an overwhelming number of (4th C.D.) city council members and all members of the Legislature not named Ted Gaines.” As for Egland, Park said he’s trying to “run to the right of Doolittle and there’s very little real estate there.”