Rico Oller is not running for Assembly, I wrote that weeks ago and Rico is telling everyone.He is telling everyone at the same time as he is telling everyone he will not run against John Doolittle. Rico still polls exceptionally well, like Tim Leslie and their endorsements are incredibly valuable and still with John Doolittle. (And with Dan Logue)

Roseville City Councilmember John Allard has been working the phone non-stop for the last several weeks, he has discovered that John Doolittle’s base is not only solid… most are Annoyed and some are livid over what is being done to John Doolittle. (media smear / Eric Kerry-Egland’s campaign, etc…) Most of the animosity is directed at Ted Gaines.

This confirmed my conversations with a lot of the same people. There are many looking for a new Assemblymember in the 4th.

Eric Hogue is also making tons of calls – he is super serious about running as well.

Both Hogue and Allard are committed Evangelical Christians. Allard worked for Tim Leslie for 12 years, Hogue was on a political talk radio circuit for 6. Hogue has a name ID advantage on Allard, Allard has an insider advantage on Hogue. If one of them commits to running weather or not Ted backs down from running against Doolittle, this will get very interesting.

Notice how you have heard little from Ted Gaines lately? One could construe it as either Ted trying to wait the storm out, or that he is reconsidering. It is not too late for Gaines to get out, but he is going to have to do it soon. www.DontDraftTed.com recently hit the radar screens of local media and capitol insider reports.

Prediction – John Doolittle will file his re-election papers within one week of the filing opening. In fact, I am willing to bet anyone a steak dinner on that fact.

In addition, the only people talking about Eric Kerry-Egland outside of myself are bunch of his brave anonymous commenters. Egland, why didn’t you run for a School Board… the Roseville City School Board has two extremely liberal Democrats on it! The Roseville Joint Union High School District is run by the teacher’s union – we could have used the help! What’s sad is EGLAND would have won running away!

In the 3rd Assembly which covers a slice of Placer, Sue Horne showing weakness started to attack Dan Logue a couple of weeks ago. I had a bombshell laid in my lap a couple of days ago that I posted right here on the Placer CRA Blog.

Also posted today is a sampling of Horne supporter’s comments who have descended on the blog. I also interspersed some comments of my own in the post.

The response was incredible and I was interviewed for a story with the Nevada County Union newspaper which should hit tomorrow.

It is way too early for all this activity – but this is fun stuff for us junkies!!!