I attended the CRA endorsing convention for the 2nd and 3rd Assembly District.

I have written that the Yuba County RA has not met since being chartered and how they have not cashed dues checks of people seeking to join. They certainly showed up with delegates yesterday – all of whom either work on Horne’s Campaign or for Doug LaMalfa. Nice.

The Yuba RA’s President lives in Placer County and is Sue Horne’s campaign manager.

This is especially ironic because Johnson-Clark wrote a whiny press release about Jeff Miller getting endorsed by Paper CRA Units in the 71st.

I wonder what their release is going to say about Nielsen’s endorsement. Two of the units with jurisdiction over that endorsement were entirely Doug LaMalfa staff or campaign staff.

Out of the four LaMalfa Units chartered – I will give the Tehama unit credit for being legitimate as they actually had a delegate that did not work for LaMalfa.

The irony here is that if something comes out of Nielsen’s residency issue – it could be a major black eye for the CRA and for Nielsen’s supporters.

As it is, you have to tip your cap to David Reade and Doug LaMalfa for knowing how to use the process!

According to an article in the Red Bluff Daily Newspaper – Charles Schaupp has caught Jim Nielsen Red-Handed…

The Article

Excerpt:

“His brother-in-law and sister-in-law had 10 acres and a “modular home” in which they lived in Gerber, he said. The property was divided into two five-acre parcels, and the couple decided to sell one parcel. Nielsen said he and his wife bought the parcel with the residence for a second home.

He said his relatives continue to live in the modular home while another house is being built for them on the other parcel. When that home is finished, Nielsen said he and his wife will move into the modular home. They expect to keep their home in Woodland and use it when the Legislature is in session, if he is elected, he said.”

First off – Nielsen is going to live in a trailer home…

Secondly, Nielsen is tied at the hip to Doug Ose. Nielsen should have listened to Ose… because Ose is hinging his campaign on the residency issue of McClintock (while Ose himself lives in Sacramento).

But – it gets worse for Nielsen, and we have not even gotten to his votes to send our water to So Cal and his pro-choice record…

Excerpt:

Apparently, the matter wasn’t an issue until the Pioneer Press, a weekly, did a story in its edition that hit news racks on Monday. The story tells how representatives of the paper went to the modular home Nielsen owns in Gerber and were told by a resident the candidate didn’t live there. (OOPS!)

Schaupp said he wants an official investigation into the matter. He said he’ll ask the Tehama County Grand Jury to find out who is to blame for Nielsen’s declaration of candidacy being accepted in Tehama County when he’s not a resident of the district.

This is an embarassment for LaMalfa and Johnson-Clark