Attached here is Ken Campbell’s latest rant about Congressman Doolittle. It is disguised as a set of recommendations to our next congressman.

John Doolittle was basically forced out of office – a professional response would have been to find someone new who would not repeat John’s mistakes… not use the media and blogs for self-promotion and more attacks to satiate one’s need for revenge.

Please further note that the issues he brings up were not important to him in the past. I never read or heard Ken complain until he had an opportunity to exact revenge.

Ken has made posts and comments in the recent past critical of Rico Oller as well. In my opinion it is because he is supporting Eric Egland, even though he lacks the courage to do so publicly. With the exception of the cowardly Sac State anon commenters, the rest of Egland’s cadre have been out front for their man… good for them.

The aforementioned Auburn Journal article is the latest in a series of Rants that Campbell has been posting in the Auburn Journal for the last three years. Rants which led to his ouster as Placer GOP Chairman.

In addition, he makes sure that the fact that he is the former Chairman of the Placer County Republican Central Committee is mentioned in every article. This is an affront to the committee as they have rarely agreed with Ken’s actions – which have included repeated attacks against local elected officials… mostly over development.

Mr. Campbell has also proven that he is incapable of debate or civil discussion as every challenge I issue to his opinions is met with insults and anger. It is not just me, former Placer GOP executive committee members have all said the same thing, Central Committee Members and the like.

Ted Gaines, Bruce Kranz, a whole host of local electeds, the volunteers mentioned above and this blogger know too well why Campbell is the former Placer GOP Chairman.

I admitted I drank my Kool-Aid and I am proud that I stood by a good innocent man to the end – but Ken Campbell continues to distinguish himself in a completely different manner. How much is enough Ken!? Doolittle retired!!!

The latest local buzz has been will Sam Aanestad Run? What about the Doug Ose rumors – does Ose want to run just to try and mess up Rico Oller? Does Ose have a chance in a conservative district like the 4th CD?

Leave us not forget – the “Contingent” Assembly Campaign of one Eric Hogue.

It is no secret that this blogger and Mr. Hogue are close. It is also no secret that as a result of his years on the air in Sacramento that he knows almost everyone in the Capitol.

When I spoke with Eric last night, he reminded me that his campaign is contingent and that support is lining up for him contingent and otherwise…

Senator Jeff Denham publicly endorsed Eric Hogue yesterday and wrote him a check. Audra Strickland, George and Sharon Runner have already publicly endorsed Eric as well.

As best I can tell, support seems to be lining up for Gaines to run for congress as well.

The bottom line – Eric Hogue’s future and Ted Gaines future seems to rest on the shoulders of one man – Ted Gaines himself.

I don’t really think the race is going to amount to much more than Gaines vs. Oller for the 4th Congressional.

The bottom line is that John Doolittle’s retirement has yielded three big winners and one colossal loser:

Winners:
Rico Oller
Ted Gaines
Eric Hogue

Colossal Loser:
Charlie Brown

John Doolittle delivered his prepared remarks with a smile and a light, peaceful delivery. It was apparent from seeing his peaceful demeanor that he and Julie had made their decision after much thought and prayer.

When someone makes a tough decision and seems at peace afterward, it is a clear indicator that they are convinced of the correctness of the decision.

John Doolittle came over to George and I and thanked us for standing with him until the end. It reminded me of Tom McClintock’s governor campaign – when we stuck with our man to the end.

I am proud to have been represented by a stellar conservative like John Doolittle. His legacy exists in the stable of rock-solid Republican leaders that are in local non-partisan office in the area.

His legacy exists in the form of assisting poor, rural counties get funding to keep hospitals open or building water / power projects. The state of California has never cared about rural counties like John Doolittle has taken care of Northern California.

His scores from conservative grassroots groups were always in the 90% range for the entire time he was in office until the focus became on the very earmarks the Congressman was getting for his district became their primary issue.

The Abramoff investigation plus the fact that the Republicans are out of the majority contributed to the fund-raising issues that ultimately must have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Like Conrad Burns and JD Hayworth who lost their seats in 2006 and then were cleared of their investigations – the same will now apply to John Doolittle in my estimation. The DOJ will back off the investigation now that John Doolittle is leaving office.

To a person, everyone at the meeting was sad and disappointed as I heard several there say that they wanted John Doolittle to run for re-election.

The bottom line – John and Julie were tired of fighting and decided to ride off into the sunset. The unfortunate nature of Republican politics is that there is a tendency to swarm when blood is in the water.

Representative John T. Doolittle Remarks

January 10, 2008

Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you very much for being with Julie and me this morning. I am honored to represent such a great state and district in the 110th Session of the US House of Representatives. I plan to complete my term and finish my congressional service at the conclusion of this Congress. This circumstance reminds me of a passage in the 2nd letter of St. Paul to Timothy; “The time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.”

My wife, Julie, and I have made this decision after much prayer and deliberation. It was not my initial intent to retire, and I fully expected and planned to run again right up until very recently. But it distilled upon us that we were ready for a change after spending almost our entire married lives with me in public service. We are at peace with this choice and look forward to starting a new chapter in our lives.

Julie and I have been overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of those present as well as by the many thousands of good citizens throughout this great part of California. Thank you.

I would like to say a few words on the future of our state and country which I have served for most of my adult life.

To the cynics who have scoffed at the rise of the conservative majority, I quote a great American President, Ronald Reagan “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”

We have accomplished so much working together: Reforming the federal welfare entitlement to emphasize work, job training and education (producing a one-third reduction in the welfare rolls), continuation of funding for the anti-ballistic missile defense program (culminating in the deployment of the system to protect Americans against incoming missiles for the first time in our history), launching and prosecuting with vigor the war on Islamic terrorism, the rise of the Republican Party to majority status in the House of Representatives for the first time in five decades, and the enactment of tax provisions designed to stimulate job creation and economic growth for the long-term. We protected the Second Amendment and the right to own and enjoy private property secured by the Fifth Amendment.

Most importantly, our persistence was rewarded with the defeat of communism, the establishment of democracy for Eastern Europe, and the seeds of liberty planted for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. History will record that this era was a turning point for freedom. No rewrite of events will ever diminish these facts.

As far as my efforts here at home, I am so grateful to have been given the opportunity to make significant progress in rebuilding and enhancing the infrastructure of our communities by protecting our forests, building bridges and refurbishing our water systems and highways.

It is my fondest dream that this vision may reach beyond the next election to a new era of prosperity for Northern California.

We have heard about the cries for change that are sweeping our nation.

Let me assure you that Julie and I will never stop fighting for our basic principles and sacred devotion to freedom.

So this morning, I want you to join with us to make the commitment that together we will carry on this struggle – and that we will not become the generation that lost that memory of freedom… That we will support the next generation of conservative leadership for this district and continue the ideals of our Founding Fathers.

We must not surrender to the winds of popular emotion.

We must not give up our sovereignty and control of our borders.

We must not succumb to the liberal defeatists. We must remember like the great General Douglas MacArthur said years ago: “There is no substitute for victory!”

The foundation upon which our nation was built – and our freedoms secured – was the bedrock doctrine that each of us is born with certain, inalienable rights that are derived from our Creator. No government, no tyrant, no ideology will ever justly take those away from us.

As Julie and I begin the next adventure of our lives, we will be pondering the same question that others are asking; what will determine the direction of our country in this coming election?

Looking back centuries from now, what will historians say? Will they say that for one shining moment there existed this near perfect nation that had discovered the blessings of liberty and was on the verge of ushering in a new order of the ages, or a dissolute generation of spoiled and pampered citizens that came to power and then threw it all away?

Will we be swayed by changing political slogans and pandering politicians?

I know what Ronald Reagan would say: Not on our watch!

And I am most grateful for the love, support and sacrifice of my wife and family.

We give thanks to the citizens who have volunteered in our military forces to defend our freedom across the world.

We give thanks to God, who has sustained us.

And we thank you – our friends and supporters who stuck with us through all these years and as we campaigned in four elections to the State Senate and nine to the House of Representatives.

May God bless you and your families both now and in the years ahead.

This blogger spoke to Rico Oller this morning regarding announcing his candidacy for the 4th Congressional District.

Rico will announce today by 11am per what he told this Blogger this morning.

Next will most likely be an announcement from Ted Gaines -

John Doolittle spoke to us for 20 minutes and announced his retirement. (posted 10:00 AM PST)

He spoke about the many acheivements that he participated in in Congress.

John listed Bringing down communism in the Soviet Union, Missile Defense and Welfare Reform as three of the biggest things he got to participate in as a member of Congress…

We left while the question an answer session was commencing afterwards.

Former Placer GOP chairman Dean Forman and current GOP Chair Tom Hudson have arrived…

Former State Senator Tim Leslie, Rocklin City Councilwoman Kathy Lund has arrived as well.

People are here from as far away as Susanville from Lassen County a drive of 6 hours.

John Doolittle’s most loyal friends are gathering to witness the announcement.

I just saw Superviosr Bruce Kranz walk in the back as well… now at 9:30 AM Senator Sam Aanestad

posted 9:30AM PST

9am 1/10/2008 – despite unconfirmed reports, this blogger has known since last night that Congressman Doolittle is indeed retiring.

In keeping with John’s wishes, I waited until this morning’s meeting before posting.

After speaking with this blogger and Placer CRA President George Park, we can confirm that in minutes, John will be announcing his retirement.

Stay tuned for live updates.

As many of you are aware – the media has been running their retirement drill against the Congressman yet again.

This blogger has been contacted multiple times by people who have been reading, hearing the latest media-driven malestrom surrounding the Congressman.

I will be attending the meeting I blogged about a couple of days ago tomorrow morning.

Former State Senator Tim Leslie was one such person who contacted this blogger and he will be attending the meeting.

In addition, I have been told that it is highly likely that Placer County Supervisors and CRA favorites Kirk Uhler and Bruce Kranz may be joining the festivities as well.

I have not been able to confirm rumors that Former State Senator Rico Oller will be joining the festivities.

The Placer CRA Blog will break the news on the proceedings tomorrow morning before the media has a chance to.

I am writing to invite you to a Team Doolittle Briefing. Please join with our key supporters for news about our plans for 2008. You have been an important part of my election efforts, and I want you to get the inside news directly from me and my campaign advisors.

The first session of the 110th Congress showed that despite being in the minority, we Republicans can and will stand on principle and successfully fight against harmful legislation. We defeated Democrat efforts to stop funding for our troops fighting the war on terror and held back Democrat efforts to raise taxes by a whopping $250 billion.

Even without a Republican majority in Congress, I was able to secure funding for important projects in the 4th Congressional District, including funds for the Lincoln Bypass on Highway 65, law enforcement communications in Placer County, the Dorsey Drive interchange for Nevada County, the Modoc County Medical Center and emergency response equipment for Oroville, the Grizzly Flat Fire Station in El Dorado County and $14 million to help finish the new Folsom Bridge.

As always, I am eager to get your perspective on numerous issues currently facing our country. I hope you will feel free to share with me any question or comment you may have.

The particulars of the Team Doolittle Briefing are as follows:

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Julie and I look forward to seeing you on January 10th. Please call our campaign headquarters at (see website) to confirm your attendance.

Sincerely,

(John Doolittle’s Signature)

The latest Doolittle is retiring rumors – were apparently started by a left-wing blog and then amplified by this e-mail. The media took this e-mail and ran with it.

Conrad Burns – R-Mt a senator who lost his seat over the Abramoff investigation was cleared.

The spinsters from the ABD caucus have attempted to make the point that Burns was cleared due to the fact that Burns handed over 10 years of files to the DOJ.

1. Burns handed said files over after he lost his office – ensuring that any top secret data was eliminated from them.

2. Burns lost his seat, JD Hayworth lost his seat… the DOJ got their men.

Doolittle is still in office, so is Ted Stevens… they are still under fire from the DOJ.

In spite of the attempts by other bloggers to make this into a case about turning over files are ignoring the facts again about those getting cleared are only getting cleared after they were voted out of office or resigned.

Proof that the ABD caucus are just that – the ABD caucus. They don’t really know what they want – other than anyone but Doolittle.

Witness 2006 shill candidate for Charlie Brown – Mike Holmes… he gets two digs in against John Doolittle. This article details how the Congressman secured federal funds for several projects important to the district.

On one hand – the Earmark division of the ABD Caucus will point to the 2007 batch of earmarks as Doolittle once again thumbing his nose at all 10 of them that care about earmarks.

On the other hand – the No Auburn Dam division of the ABD Caucus is whining because while they got a huge Earmark, there were two others that were left on the table.

Mike “No Dam(n) Holmes” couldn’t resist the opportunity to get a cheap shot in – while complaining that Auburn didn’t get every earmark they wanted, Holmes attributed the reason to Doolittle no longer being on the appropriations committee.

Note to Holmes – 1. You won’t be on the appropriations committee either. 2. Doolittle still brought home an incredible array of Earmarks despite resigning from the appropriations committee.

The Auburn Journal article in question is linked here

Note the following items John Doolittle addresses for us:

More funding to build the new bridge around the Folsom Dam.

Funding for Sierra College technical education programs

Funding for wastewater treatment plant

More funding to help construct the Lincoln Bypass

If Egland were elected, none of this would happen – because he would vote no – come to think of it, not Holmes, Brown or any of them could deliver any of this as a freshman back-bencher.

Talk about a gift from God for Charlie Brown – the 2007 King Kong Kool-Aid award winner, the Sacramento Bee continues to remind us of why they are the wind beneath the Democrat Party’s wings in Northern CA.

Their latest journalistic abortion occurrs in the form of an article entitled “Ad Watch – Brown’s Military Service Highlighted”.

Daivd Whitney takes the lead again – the article starts by reminding us of Charlie Brown the (Valliant) Challenger to John Doolittle who almost beat him in 2006. They start like in Thursday’s hatchet job with some carefully chosen words this time implying that only Charlie Brown cares about veterans.

They then include the entire text of the radio ad in the article. (Let’s check to see if Doolittle’s ads even get covered, let alone reprinted in their entirety in the future articles…)

Whitney starts his gushing analysis of Brown’s ads with the following lines: “ANALYSIS: With no declared opponent in the June Democratic primary, Brown is now an established contender who even Republicans think has a credible shot at capturing the House seat if scandal-tarred Doolittle is in the November general election.“

With Ethical Conservatives like Eric Kerry-Egland deciding to stab Doolittle in the back – I could see how Whitney would gleefully write those words. Heck – add Ken Campbell’s public vendetta and the pontification of a few consultants who lack the stomach for a good fight have the Democrats drooling at the possibility of stealing the 4th CD.

But remember, the Democrats wouldn’t have a chance at the 4th CD if it wasn’t for Republicans with agendas lining up after John Doolittle.

Scandal-Tarrred!? Whitney – you are not a jounralist, you are a campaign operative. Show us an indictment… what’s your proof? Julie Doolittle getting a 15% fundraising commission because she was a better fundraiser than anyone else the Doolittle’s ever used? That’s all you have because the government can’t make a case after 3 1/2 years – remember? You had to write Thursday’s article in a lame attempt to breathe more life into the floundering investigation.

Whitney’s second paragraph of analysis is a little accurate – Brown is trying to rise above the image of second-time challenger. This ad seizes on his long involvement with veterans to portray him as a politician who walks the talk. It also serves to help Brown, criticized by Doolittle throughout the 2006 race as too liberal for the conservative 4th District, emphasize his support for the military.

Charlie Brown’s long involvement with veterans includes using the City of Roseville e-mail system to criticize their mission in Iraq. His long involvement with veterans also includes standing with the soldier hung in effigy at Steven Pearcy’s home in south Sacramento and then trying to keep Pearcy from staging an anti-war rally in summer 2006 so as to avoid shedding light on the real Charlie Brown.

The Bee should register as a Democrat Party PAC or as a 527.

The article in question in Linked here

David Whitney, who has not talked to the Dooilttle camp in quite a while authored a hatchet job in which he created the appearance of:

1. That Doolittle was fighting legitimate subpoenas on some flimsy constitutional argument

2. That Gordon Hinkle leaving was some crushing blow and a harbinger of people jumping ship.

3. That the investigation was going to continue forever or until the DOJ triumphantly finally got their man.

I read the article, it is absurd and it is an amalgamation of old news.

How old? Whitney deliberately ignores making a distinction regarding the subpoenas. He lumps them all in together… including those of staff that did not work for the Congressman when the alleged heinous corruption occurred. (Don’t worry, if you don’t know what the allegations where, the Bee mentioned them generically 110 times this past year and I am sure they would e-mail them to you if you asked – easier yet, the Tin Soldier will make them the foundation of his campaign since his stances on the issues would torpedo his campaign.)

The annoying part for this Doolittle supporter is that those who oppose Doolittle have chosen to give credibility to the Bee by posting every negative story they write against him. Then, they get to hide behind the shroud of objectivity as they are just posting a newspaper story.

I’ll reiterate what I wrote before – the Bee should register as a 527.

The subpoenas of 11 years of documents is the exact same crap the Democrats wanted to pull when they were going after Dick Cheney’s energy commission and after Bush’s judicial appointments. There are constitutional protections for Congressman, just like the rest of us. The Bee knows this, too… but it makes a really good story to say that Doolittle is hiding behind legal technicalities.

Egland certainly took full advantage – as with past bee articles, this recent article is posted on his website. As with the past Bee article misrepresenting Doolittle’s support for the troops – evidenced by two bills passed in the House this year with Doolittle as a Co-Sponsor that the Bee did not cover – Egland seized on this Bee article to feebly attempt to score campaign points at the same time the article was blogged.

Egland wrote the following incendiary headline: ” Egland to Doolittle, stop stalling”. AKA – the Bee says you’re guilty… get out of office.

He follows it up with this nice statement: “Yesterday the Bee published a story detailing John Doolittle’s legal efforts to deny Federal Investigators the access they requested from his Congressional Records. This legal maneuvering could stall the Doolittle Investigation for up to two years.”

Why didn’t Flint include this snippet in his previous posting on Egland’s campaign e-mail? If you wanted to have balance to the debate about the Bee’s vendetta against Doolittle – posting this snippet is necessary as it illustrates how effectively John’s opponents use the Bee stories.

The Bee is obviously miffed that the investigation is grinding to a halt, so now this story is rolled out in another slow news cycle to breathe another two years of life into the investigation.

I received an email from Eglund today blasting our Congressman. Knowing full well that Eglund has no chance of earning the party nomination I should remain quiet. There are many good conservatives that have donated to his campaign that I have no wish of offending; however today he went way too far…

When democrats couldn’t beat us at the polls they changed their tactics; instead of attacking our beliefs (which are popular among voters) they do everything they can to destroy the character of those championing our causes. They have done it to Bush, accusing him of the most dastardly deeds; they have all but ruined Tom Delay (an exceptional public servant), and they are trying to destroy our tremendously effective Congressman.

I have entertained the notion that the Congressman should do the party a favor, even though he is innocent, and step down. However, that thinking is completely wrong. I don’t support Congressman Doolittle out of any personal loyalty, I have never had a conversation with him. However, out of principle I would be a coward if I was not willing to stand up for a good man and fantastic Republican who has given so much to our cause. The only politicians who would be willing to run against the Congressman have given up not only fighting for a good, decent, and principled man, but for our cause. Is that the sort of person we want representing us in Washington, the kind that give up?

If Mr. Eglund were campaigning on the sole premise that Congressman Doolittle makes the Republican Party vulnerable to losing the seat I could sympathize. However his campaign has become dirty and hostile toward the congressman. If Mr. Eglund wishes to buy into the rhetoric of the left that is his right; and as conservatives we should be grateful he has shown his convictions before we could be fooled into voting for him.

Thank you Congressman Doolittle for your tireless efforts on our behalf.

OOOOOOH YEAH!!! The Sacramento Bee has been on a 27-year jihad to get Congressman Doolittle every since he defeated liberal icon Al Rhodda in 1980 for State Senate.

This year has been no exception as the Sacramento Bee has once again taking it upon themselves to be the standard bearers of the ABD caucus. The BHE machine looks to the vaunted Sacramento Bee for inspiration.

The recent behavior of the Sacramento Bee has vaulted them ahead of any individual or consultant into first place in the 2007 King Kong 55-Gallon drum o’Kenny. The Bee has earned the distinction of supplying the Democrat Central Committees of every county in the 4th CD with a delusional hope of the Tin Soldier riding in on his peace horse and unseating our Congressman.

The behavior I reference is a hard-hitting letter from retired State Senator Tim Leslie that calls the Justice Department on the carpet over their attempted lynching of the Congressman. The Bee did not print a story on the letter and buried a small blurb on-line.

For the complete text of the Senator Leslie letter – click here

Had Eric Kerry-Egland written a letter asking for the Justice department to indict Doolittle, the Bee would have had it front page.

We already know that the Bee has mentioned the abramof investigation more than 100 times in their paper this year. In addition, they have also been careful to remove John Doolittle’s name from any positive stories about funding the new folsom dam bridge or I-80 congestion relief… all the while entertaining malcontents who rail on earmarks.

For having a journalistic publication that is a walking McScam-Feingold violation and for failing to register as a 527, the Sacramento Bee is this years denison of the 55-Gallon drum o’Kenny. Spread the joy to the Democrat Central Committees while you’re at it!

First, Eric Kerry-Egland now the Tin Soldier will be heard from… Brown is going to try to claim the Military Veteran issue all to himself. I hope it works just as well for Brown as it has for Egland.

Airing on the radio tomorrow will be sappy spots with the voice of Democrat Activist and injured military veteran Cody Conway. In the ad, they studiously avoid any reference to the fact that Brown is a Democrat.

In the ad- they use a sentence, “Charlie Brown would rather give us the Shirt off his back than a speech on why he should be our congressman”. That’s a good tactic, because when Brown speaks, voters reject him.

This is the classic emotional start to a campaign for a Democrat.

Be sure to look forward to more ads accusing Doolittle of supporting starving children and sex slavery like in 2006. How about the “Wages of Sin” ad for taking contributions from someone who at the time had not been convicted of a crime?

Maybe we should sift through Charlie Brown’s FEC reports, and while we are at it, Holmes and Gaines to see if they took Wages of Sin, too?

It looks like the Brown-Holmes-Egland machine is off to a start. The BHE machine, 2008’s chosen delivery vehicle of the ABD caucus.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, there are some developing situations in the Egland campaign… somewhere off in the distance a “Lizard” is slithering through the bushes…

From Chuck Muth’s news and views came a snippet from Espresso Pundit regarding JD Hayworth – buried in the Arizona Republic in the middle of their rag – the Justice Department has decided not to investigate Hayworth’s ties to Jack Abramoff. If you read the Bee, each article on John Doolittle includes the requisite three mentions of Investigation, Ongoing and Abramoff. The wheels are coming off of the freight train as the investigation seems to be dying out despite desperate attempts from the Bee and others to keep it alive.

The article was posted on Dec 11, 2007…

The snippet is:

“You may have missed the news that the Justice Department has decided not to conduct a formal investigation of former Congressman J.D. Hayworth. ...Hayworth said Thursday that the Justice Department has told his lawyers they’ve decided against a formal investigation into his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

“Political stories have a short half life, so it’s easy to forget the feeding frenzy that the national and local media conducted on Hayworth. . . . The coverage cost Hayworth his congressional seat, his reputation and a small fortune. It was media fodder for over two years.

“One of the (Arizona) Republic reporters who covered (Hayworth’s opponent Harry) Mitchell is now Mitchell’s congressional spokesman. Now the Justice Department has decided not to even formally investigate the charges. And what does the Republic print? A few words on the back page just below the international weather maps. One more reason why the public despises the media.”

This revelation tells you two things – one, that the investigations of Republicans who got money from Abramoff are politically motivated. They got JD Hayworth out of his seat in Congress, so they decided not to move on an investigation.

Two – this also signals the incredible weakness of any cases the Justice department can make against John Doolittle or anyone else they could not lynch yet.

Merry Christmas, John Doolittle – your re-election is looking better by the day. More news on that front to be rolled out as the week progresses.

BONUS! AZ REPUBLIC ARTICLE

Note how short the article is and it was buried in the print version of the paper.

Charlie Brown has 90% name ID and will have money to campaign. 90% name ID is a huge hurdle for a challenger to overcome.

Brown will do what Egland is doing which is to front his military service to attempt to hide his record. (Egland has none, Brown’s is one of a liberal) He has nothing else to run on other than the tired “Doolittle is Corrupt” garbage and his service.

Also notice how he is trying to saddle up to the Charter School issue and some other stuff to curry favor.

Meantime, we are wasting our time fighting with each other and missing the real message of this poll Tom Hudson wrote about.

Can Gaines at 20-25% name ID raise the money to take down Brown? The voters don’t know Brown is a card-carrying ACLU and Code Pink Member. The voters don’t know that Brown was one of the 200 at the hung effigy. Our candidate has to tell voters about that, or else he loses. That was a clear message from that poll.

Doolittle has a completely new staff – (Hinkle had been working on that appointment Arnold gave him for quite a while according to what he told me btw.) This is a good thing as it shows connection.

Doolittle’s campaign is fully engaged unlike the last cycle where it almost started too late.

Doolittle has been in the district.

Doolittle has Ron Rogers, one of the best campaign managers out there.

In 2006, Arnold was our standard-bearer and we had abysmal turnout. With the spectre of Hillary Clinton, Republicans will be voting en-masse and Doolittle’s almost 100% name ID is not necessarily the bad thing those on this blog with agendas think it is.

Most of the bleed-off that people proudly threw in my face when they were showing me results in Placer County from 2006 occurred in the Sun City areas where Brown campaigned hard on the corruption message.

Problem for Brown, the message is the same, but the investigation is not new anymore. It will be 4 years old by the time Brown starts to try to get votes off of it.

Can Ted Gaines heal the rift he created with a very public and messy declaration of an exploratory committee? Despite the anger of the small cadre of Egland supporters demonstrated on this blog and in my personal e-mail box… the majority of the animus out there is directed at Ted. Fortunately less than 1/4 of the voters know Ted than know Doolittle.

I think Ted can heal the animus, but that ball is in his court. How he declares he is running for re-election to the assembly and reaches out to the base will be interesting to watch. On the issues, his 95% CRA scorecard puts an exclamation point on his Conservative credentials. (hat tip to Ted)

No one out there not named Rico Oller or John Doolittle has ever raised close to the $1.5 Million it will take to properly educate voters that Charlie Brown is a Nancy Pelosi liberal.

Brown is a formidable opponent, all of you who have written on this blog have admitted that and used it as the basis of your Doolittle can’t win arguments. With Egland at 4%, Holmes at 16% and Gaines at 20-25% name ID, it would take any of them a bank vault to get their name ID up.

In all of this banter about Doolittle’s prospects of winning, the only issues that ever come up are Earmarks. That is the only issue to get to Doolittle’s right on… he is Pro-Life, Pro 2nd Ammendment, Pro-Family and the left hates him for it. Compared to the Guns / Abortion / Gays triumverate, the Earmarks issue doesn’t resonate. Angry tirades about Charlie Rangel’s library pale in comparison to someone who stood with a soldier hung in effigy.

Jeff Flint has written for months that Doolittle can’t win. This poll shows that Egland will need $3 Million to bridge the name ID gap and to educate voters about Brown… Holmes is basically Brown-lite and Gaines will need to raise more money for this race than in his entire past political career.

I wrote it before and I will write it again, with $2.5 Million I could get someone thrown in Jail. $2.5 Million is a ton of money in a congressional race and that is what Brown will have. Thinking that a couple hundred thousand dollars and hiding behind the “R” on the ballot will get you there makes no sense at all… this may be a Republican district, but voters don’t know any of Brown’s opponents not named Doolittle!That’s elementary electioneering…

My thesis is this, the only person who can win is one who can raise $1.5 Million… Doolittle is the only one out there that ever has. Rico is not running against Doolittle, neither is Mc Clintock. I floated an idea of Doug Ose in a past comment due to the fact that he could self-fund.

The bottom line is that if Doolittle does not get indicted, which he won’t… (bets anyone?) He is our man and our best hope… end of story. No amount of anonymous comments or angry Egland supporters will change that.

P.S. Did anyone notice that the media railing against John Doolittle subsided almost on cue with when the results of this poll were first leaked to the AP? That should tell you what the insiders think about its’ results – the weak-kneed GOP leadership stopped beating the retirement drum.

Egland goes down hard in an internal poll leaked to the AP by the NRCC. The results of said poll were covered by Tom Hudson on the Red County Placer Blog.

The comments posted there have been predictable as well…

Egland is at 4%, he is going to need $3 Million to be competitive. Anyone who thinks he can pull that off is drinking the Kool-Aid.

Brown’s 90% name ID also means that not just any Republican can win re-election either.

Today the news has been recycled that John Doolittle is retiring… I was also called about the status of John’s Communications director.

Having talked to Gordon Hinkle this morning, and having talked to other staff during the same phone call, no one has resigned yet.

No one seemed to know that John was retiring either.

John didn’t seem to know he was retiring while giving the keynote address last weekend at the CRA convention.

Rico Oller didn’t seem to know when he introduced John Doolittle issuing very strong and terse words for those that are seeking to run against him.

No one has e-mailed this blogger, just two phone calls asking questions.

This afternoon, I had two phone calls with Ron Rogers, JTD’s chief of staff who would certainly know if JTD had retired. Instead we were talking about JTD’s plans for the Christmas season and possibly hosting another Placer CRA event for the Congressman. These are certainly not phone calls one has with the Chief of Staff for someone who is retiring!

The blogger from the Stockton record is likely rehashing some old news from months ago when the Rico Oller rumors first surfaced. John Doolittle is not retiring any time soon…

Until JTD calls me from his palatial mansion to give me my talking points for how to spin his retirement, I have to say that anyone thinking John Doolittle is retiring is drinking the Kool-Aid! (or working for Charlie Brown)

To the special wing of the ABD caucus known as the Retirement Caucus – this Jug’s for You!

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.”

In the Lassen County News, they reported on a large gathering of four county central committees where candidates including Mike Holmes and Eric Kerry-Egland attended.

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I would like to highlight the following quote:

Roseville resident Eric Egland, a strong supporter of Doolittle’s 2006 re-election campaign, has since changed his mind about the congressman. Describing himself as an “ethical” conservative, he said he is pro business and commented that because of business creating jobs and raising capital, we have the best military in the world. He added that he believes our efforts in Iraq are working and walking away from it at this time would be wrong.

“DESCRIBING HIMSELF AS AN ETHICAL CONSERVATIVE”

Lie number one – he is still obsessively holding onto a Sacramento Bee article that created the false impression that John Doolittle favored an “exit timetable” from Iraq. Egland attacked Doolittle in both the Bee and the Auburn Journal over that falsehood and is now trapped in the lie.

Lie number two – Allowing fellow Move America Forward associates to lie about John Doolittle, Ted Gaines and other electeds not caring about the troops. This lie has been compounded by deafening silence from Egland. Note to Egland, Holmes and Charlie Brown are the ones supporting a withdrawal timetable, not Doolittle.

Lie number three – Campaign hit pieces assailing John Doolittle over his wife’s role in his campaign. Note to Egland, Julie no longer works for John. Sounds a lot like Charlie Brown’s tactics.

Lie number four – Calling John Doolittle corrupt when 3 1/2 years of investigation has turned up no such evidence. Note to Egland – where’s the indictment? Again, when you can’t campaign on issues, a la Charlie Brown… attack the opponent’s character regardless of the truth.

Ethical Issue number two – relying on boorish tactics from your supporters in an attempt to silence critics. E-mails and deleted blog comments provide proof.

Ethical Issue number three – religion baiting in campaign e-mail stating “I am the only Conservative Christian in this race.” Non-Evangelical Christians need not apply.

Ethical Issue number four – initiating a campaign with an act of betrayal, using your opponent in a previous cycle for self-promotion.

Ethical Issue number five – plagerizing Charlie Brown’s website. (as reported in the Sierra Sun a few weeks ago)

When Eric Kerry-Egland promotes his ethics, we will hold him accountable.

We are also waiting for Mr. Kerry-Egland to indentify the translation of the Bible that condones his behavior.

Here’s the article

The Sacramento Bee came to the CRA convention to cover what ended up being a pretty benign Luncheon featuring John Doolittle.

Peter Hecht interviewed yours truly and decided to give me a couple of soundbytes in the Article…

Convention attendee Aaron Park, a Roseville resident and conservative blogger, said Doolitttle is supported regionally by an “overwhelming number of (district) city council members and all members of the Legislature not named Ted Gaines.”

And as upstart challenger Egland showed up to compete for conservative support, Park quipped: “Egland is trying to run to the right of Doolittle. There’s very little real estate there.”

Thank you Peter Hecht – many at the CRA Convention told me that they liked Doolittle’s presentation and it showed them why the CRA has stood with Doolittle for years.

SCHIP – A low-cost health insurance program for children. A program that the Democrats attempted to expand drastically… actually it was a political trick to have an issue to use for the election.

Those whose letters to the editor predictably followed the SCHIP veto by President Bush got a response from Congressman Doolittle…

1) 38 Billion dollar expansion – funded with tax increases

2) Would give government run healthcare to illegal aliens

3) Would give government-run healthcare to families making $80,000 per year

4) Expands socialized medicine

5) Deliberately re-designed to remove the private industry partnership with the government program.

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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.

On another blog – Karen England posted the following comment addressed to Ken Campbell:

It’s taken Doolittle’s people a long time to get you the talking points on this one.

Actually, I have had them for about a month. In the interim, the Anti-John Lynch Mob has made far better fodder for posting. (heretofore, referred to as the ABD caucus)

I wanted to talk about how John Doolittle’s earmarks make my pizza deliveries more efficient. After a full day in my office, I go and play “minimum wage pizza delivery boy”.

Thanks to John Doolittle, I can now deliver a pizza from Lincoln to Rocklin in 15 minutes because earmarks over a 6 year period paid for improvements to HWY 65 from Sunset Blvd all the way up to Ferrari Ranch in Lincoln. The most recent earmark allows me to get to downtown Lincoln much easier because there is a second lane by the bridge through to 1st st.

Soon, with the help of some more earmarks, construction will begin on the Highway 65 bypass around Lincoln through to Sheridan around to Wheatland.

Someone working in a Central Roseville location could use improved Hwy 65 interchanges to get around better or if they had to deliver a Pizza to Antelope… the extra Lane on I-80 would allow them to get up to Douglas blvd with much less delay. Every day during my day job when I travel, it is incredible to see the relief that Earmark lane has had on traffic.

Someone working in East Rocklin or Roseville will be able to use the dramatically improved Sierra College Blvd to get around much better. The uphill climb between Bayside Church and the top of the hill has been expanded with money from an Earmark. The interchange once you get to Sierra College and I-80 was funded with an Earmark.

Nevada County has seen improvements all along HWY 49 partially funded with Earmarks. If you have driven HWY 50 up to South Lake Tahoe, John Doolittle’s Earmarks have paid for landslide mitigation, straightening dangerous curves and passing lanes to substantially reduce fatalities on HWY 50.

If Egland was our congressman, 65 would still be one-lane from Roseville all the way to Beale AFB, I-80 would be backed up to Greenback every day and Sierra College would be an overused farm road. HWY 50 would be closed routinely due to accidents and mudslides and HWY 49 would be an unmitigated disaster. Doolittle’s earmarks (which Ted Gaines supported as supervisor, along with Kirk Uhler and others…) have done wonders for our quality of life on the roadways.

Those obsessed with Earmarks have ignored the fact that John Doolittle has pushed to reform the entire system. Acknowledging that fact would be a positive for Doolittle, so the ABD caucus has to ignore that fact. Doolittle uses a broken system to deliver for us in the 4th Congressional District.

Leadership is using the existing system to accomplish what is needed for your district and fighting to reform the broken system you had to use to do so. Ted Gaines does the same thing every day in the state legislature.

The Egland campaign has been studiously avoiding the issues.

Egland led off his campaign before Ted Gaines filed his exploratory committee with e-mails stating “I am the only Conservative Christian in this race”.

Kerry-Egland’s opening statement talks about ethics in office, and for his part has been running from questions about his betrayal of the Congressman. Political opportunism comes to mind.

Egland has not answered questions about that fact that he has only recently registered Republican. (In 2005)

People in Kerry-Egland’s campaign are using whatever means they can to discredit John’s supporters to further avoid addressing any issues. Their comments on this blog (anon or otherwise) and e-mails prove that they have determined that a strategy of attempting to destroy John’s supporters personally is the path selected.

Kerry-Egland is consistently hiding behind the uniform to attempt to escape criticism. Kerry-Egland is not the only veteran in this debate.

Kerry-Egland’s supporters must also believe that having a child in Military service gives one free reign to ask a sitting supervisor why none of the local electeds care about the families of fallen soldiers. This is not an extrapolation – this is confirmed by two other witnesses. Ted Gaines, John Doolittle and Krik Uhler were all in the line of fire.

Eric Kerry-Egland is the John Kerry of the 4th Congressional district. His supporters have contacted local media trying to perpetuate the lies being spread by Johns. His supporters have e-mailed this blogger produly stating they have something on me. His supporters are commenting anonymously and when they can no longer debate this blogger… they resort to personal attacks. This is about the 4th CD campaign and not about Aaron Park.

I am still waiting for Eric Egland to stand up like the Christian he says he is and either disavow the behavior of Mark Williams, Deborah Johns and those who are going after Doolittle’s staff/supporters personally or issue a campaign statement justifying why he approves of this kind of behavior.

Egland’s silence not only demonstrates a lack of leadership, but it is a tacit approval of the politics of personal destruction being waged by his team.

As you have read by now, the news is all about John Doolittle and the fact that he didn’t raise a whole lot of money by the 9/30 deadline.

In fact, the money I gave John doesn’t count yet because it was deposited this week.

I am curious to see how the Dem Cong Committee is doing, and how much are they putting into McNerney or Brown? We all know the National Republican Cong Committee has almost no money at all.

I am curious to see how Mc Nerney is doing vs Andal (without National Committee help)... this should be a fair gauge to compare to here.

Doolittle had a Washington DC fundraiser that four members of Congress attended that I believe is not reflected in this report. (it was held at the end of September)

My questions are these -

Egland is doing $50 per person fundraisers and is raising $10 contributions off of the internet… will those add up quickly enough?

Will the behavior of his supporters turn donors away?

Where did the $77,000 come from? I know that those running Egland’s campaign kept donor lists from past Placer GOP Central Committee events and likely used those to call off of. BTW – those lists of donors to past Central Committee events were never turned over to the Central Committee itself.

Ted Gaines’ donors and supporters are the same as John Doolittle’s.

Is the fix in from Washington DC? Will the DC bosses force another candidate into the congressional race or are they going to fund Gaines? Or are they going to give Doolittle a chance to get his campaign together as he has time and again before…

The solidarity of John’s base – as illustrated by Kranz’ censure resolution for example, and as illustrated by the fact that the Local elected support base has not defected (save one former Placer GOP Chairman, and two others with congressional ambitions of their own) have to be huge factors to consider.

That’s what I am looking at from these news reports – $77,000 is not a lot of money. I am not familiar with Congressional fundraising cycles, but I think it is not unusual to have a small report 9 months out from election day.

Ever since defeating Al Rhodda, he has been public enemy number one with the Bee and other local media. Rhodda’s brother was a Bee editor in 1980 when Doolittle won.

Doolittle has been the number one target for Dems to try and take out twice before in the early 1990’s when he was new to Congress. He won then and he will win again now…

No record at all… no one on this blog or the Red County Blog has been able to post an effective rebuttal to any criticism of Eric Kerry-Egland at all.

Their only defense has been to ridicule this blogger for “attacking the uniform”. If we use Eric Kerry-Egland’s own campaign tactics, then I should be exempt from criticism as well because I wore the uniform, too.

Does Kerry-Egland have a record? No. The only thing we do know regarding his qualifications as a Republican is that he wasn’t a Republican as recently as 2005.

What’s even more striking is that Kerry-Egland’s supporters have gotten progressively more frustrated… and now they are going after this blogger as if I myself am a candidate for office!

Witness an e-mail from Mark Williams to me: “I didn’t know… that you had a less than honorable discharge from the Navy until I just say (saw) that on the Red County blog. Get caught up in that who don’t ask don’t tell thing?”

Egland’s campaign consists of:

Religion baiting… Egland wrote in e-mails before Gaines jumped in that “I am the only Conservative Christian in this race.” According to Egland, non Evangelical Christians need not run in a Republican primary – got that Mark Williams? (blogger’s note – Williams has attacked organized religion multiple times on the show he used to host here in Sacramento, a major bone of contention between us)

Hiding behind his uniform to avoid criticism. This has been the most common way for Egland supporters to avoid answering questions about Egland.

Using inaccurate, later retracted articles in local newspapers as the basis for political attacks (see also lying)

Having a military Mom spread malicious lies about Ted Gaines and John Doolittle not caring about the Troops.

Enlisting a former talk radio host and a former Placer GOP Chairman with an Axe to grind to go after John Doolittle all the while giving other primary opponents a free pass. (until the military Mom)

In all of this – no issues, just vacuous statements about ethics while starting the campaign out with an act of betrayal and perpetuating the campaign using erroneous articles in the media and supporters who spread lies.

I am still curious to see what version of the Bible Eric Egland reads that sanctions this kind of behavior.

Move America forward leaders Deborah Johns and Mark Williams have stooped to new lows.

After John Doolittle’s district director (Gordon Hinkle) and this blogger were alerted to Deborah John’s behavior and question at a recent (10/06/2007) South Placer Republican Women’s Federated meeting – Johns refused to take Hinkle’s call and instead forwarded the voicemail to Mark Williams. Williams dutifully posted the call on his website and of course had to add his own twisted commentary to the “daily rant”.

In the call, Hinkle rightly uses the word ‘appalled’ as in appalling to describe Johns’ behavior. Hinkle has personally delivered three flags to grieving families! John Doolittle has contacted every one of the families in addition to their entire staff following strict protocol regarding this issue. (as further stipulated in the call Williams posted on his site.)

Again, the Kerry-Egland / MAF campaign are playing the “Gold Star Mom” / “Military Veteran” card to try to deny us the opportunity to respond to the obvious lies being spread. They are attempting to play the veteran card to label any critics of them as being anti-military.

Deborah Johns asked Kirk Uhler, Placer County Supervisor who was the speaker at the function why the Local Electeds were doing nothing for the families of fallen soldiers. I spoke with Kirk and he went out of his way to tell me that Johns asked the question in such a manner to include all local electeds in the sphere of criticism.

This would include Ted Gaines and therefore would be consistent with Johns’ support of Kerry-Egland for Congress Campaign.

Johns has repeatedly said in public that John Doolittle doesn’t care about the troops and had publicly lambasting John Doolittle over a page 1 Bee article that misquoted John back in July. (which was later retracted on page 18)

Eric Kerry-Egland is truly the John Kerry of the 4th Congressional.

He talks about Christian values, yet is using lies to try and get campaign traction – in addition to making his service the primacy of his campaign.

I would like the Egland Campaign to find me the passage of scripture that condones betrayal (of John Doolittle) and using lies to run a campaign for office.

Quoting Egland’s opening campaign statement: “I have seen first hand how failures in congressional ethics and leadership have corrupted our government and made our troops, our economy, and our nation more vulnerable.”

Mr Egland – people in glass houses should not be throwing bricks.

The El Dorado GOP adopted a Pro-Congressman Doolittle Resolution on Tuesday:

El Dorado County Republican Party
Supports Congressman John T. Doolittle

Placerville – On Monday, October 8th the members of the El Dorado Republican Party showed their strong support for the re-election of Congressman John T. Doolittle in 2008.

“We are 100% behind John Doolittle’s bid for re-election and it is one of our top priorities in 2008. His opponents are misguided in their efforts to smear the reputation of our Congressman,” said John Stelzmiller, Chairman – El Dorado County Republican Party.

“We are 100% behind John Doolittle’s effort for re-election and it is one of our top priorities in 2008. His opponents are misguided in their efforts to smear the reputation of our Congressman.”
- John Stelzmiller, Chairman
El Dorado County
Republican Party

The resolution praises Doolittle’s “fight for our nation by leading the House of Representatives against illegal immigration.”

El Dorado Republicans recognized Doolittle for his “refusal to surrender in the on-going fight to build the Auburn Dam and thereby provide clean drinking water, renewable electric power, recreational opportunities, and life-saving flood protection for our region.”

This action follows a similar resolution passed by the Placer County Republican Party and an unprecedented show of early support from State and local leaders for Congressman Doolittle’s re-election.

The Resolution’s text is below:

EL DORADO COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY
Resolution in Support of Congressman John T. Doolittle

Whereas, Congressman John T. Doolittle continues to fight for our nation by leading the House of Representatives against illegal immigration; and

Whereas, Congressman Doolittle continues to fight for his constituents by standing up to the environmental extremists who want to put up barbed-wire fences and “Keep Out” signs on National Forests and other public lands; and

Whereas, Congressman Doolittle has been an outstanding leader in Congress for family values, personal morality, individual responsibility, law and order, and conservative social issues; and

Whereas, Congressman Doolittle has refused to surrender in the on-going fight to build the Auburn Dam and thereby provide clean drinking water, renewable electric power, recreational opportunities, and life-saving flood protection for our region; and

Whereas, Congressman Doolittle’s steadfast support for Republican principles and traditional values have made him a target for liberals across the nation, and they have shown that they will stop at nothing in their quest to replace John T. Doolittle with a liberal in this conservative Congressional seat;

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the El Dorado County Republican Party commends Congressman John T. Doolittle for his steadfast support for conservative Republican principles; and

Be it further resolved that the El Dorado County Republican Party encourages Congressman John T. Doolittle to run for re-election in California’s Fourth Congressional District in 2008.

I met Mr. Kerry-Egland in person on Saturday night. Mr. Kerry-Egland is exactly as advertised – looks like he should be on a magazine cover. (of course, he probably thinks I should be on a wanted poster…)

We had a polite and cordial conversation and I congratulated him on him $77,000 warchest.

I have to ask the obvious question – weeks ago and in phone calls, Egland was telling people and the media that he had $100,000.

Eric Egland has also campaigned hard on the ethics issue and has used that as a basis to attack John Doolittle.

Not only is Kerry-Egland making rookie campaign mistakes, he only registered Republican when it suited him to do so in 2005! Rookie candidate, Rookie Republican borne out of political convenience and ambition.

This punctuates the following questions…

Mr. Kerry-Egland has not addressed the etihcs of betrayal, nor have his supporters. All they have done is attack me for asking the question.

Second, if Kerry-Egland can’t keep his fundriasing numbers straight… how can he keep matters of government straight?

Thrid, if Kerry-Egland thinks $77,000 is a lot of money… try being a non-incumbent running against Charile Brown and the 1 million+ dollars of Bay Area Kool-Aid money.

Now is not a time for amateurs with situational ethics!!!

Here’s the deal – about 8 weeks ago, the Sacramento Bee did a nice hatchet job on John Doolittle that the Bee constured as Doolittle endorsing a “cut and run” strategy.

Opponents of Doolittle siezed on that as an excuse to not support John. A retraction was printed by the Bee and buried on Page 18, effectively proving the Bee’s agenda.

Doolittle says we need to stay the course and transfer control to the Iraqis. He has said this for 6 years now. Maybe we should have the DOJ subpoena those records to investigate that further.

Today’s news is excellent as a monster whose goons and him captured two American Soldiers and excuted them by FLAYING them to death was himself sent to hell the other day. That’s correct folks, we bagged a big one – one who butchered two American soldiers to death.

Anyone that suggests we should cut and run only gives these monsters courage to excercise this barbarism. Everyone knows that John Doolittle is a strong supporter of the war and news like this definately drives the left up the wall – just like the resolution slamming moveon.org for attacking General Patreus.

Your story is linked here

Is there anyone left who doubts that these endless investigations are politically-motivated? Why are these subpoenas being released one at a time whenever there is a slow news day in Washington? Why are they being released to the news media at all? Normally, they claim that they cannot comment about on-going investigations!

It has been more than three years and federal agents haven’t found evidence of a single crime. The statute of limitations has already expired on some crimes, so we are forced to assume that they would have filed charges in time if they could have done so. Now, in what appears to be politically-motivated desperation, federal agents are issuing subpoenas to staff members who did not even work for Congressman Doolittle during the period under investigation.

I am ashamed that the Bush Administration and the U.S. Department of “Justice” has allowed this to continue.

Tom Hudson, Chairman
Placer County Republican Party

THANKS TOM – I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER!!!

And now for the Congressman’s Press Release -

Doolittle Works to Protect Separation of Powers and to Ensure Equal Branches of Government

WASHINGTON, DC – Recently, Congressman Doolittle and members of his staff received subpoenas from the Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking documents that belong to him. As required by law, they all submitted letters to the Speaker of the House today informing her of the subpoenas.

“As was disclosed on the floor of the House, the Executive Branch has chosen after more than three years of this open investigation, to issue numerous subpoenas to the Congressman’s staff as Custodians of Records of the Office and to the Congressman as Custodian of Records seeking virtually every record including legislative records for the Congressman for the past 11 years. These efforts raise serious constitutional issues going to the very core of our Separation of Powers created by the founding fathers; issues that affect every Member of Congress not just Congressman Doolittle,” said David Barger of Williams Mullen, Congressman Doolittle’s attorney.

“We shall continue to be vigilant to ensure that from our perspective the Congressman’s and derivatively, Congress’ rights are vigorously protected. The rest of the Congress would be well served to pay attention to the message the Executive Branch seems to be sending about whether the three branches are truly co-equal,” concluded Barger.

The five staff members, who have been assured by DOJ that they are merely witnesses, will confer with the Office of the General Counsel for the United States House of Representatives to determine how to respond to these subpoenas.

Remember when the Democrats tried the same thing against Attourney General’s Ashcroft and Gonzales?

Remember when they tried to subpoena Carl Rove, Andy Card and Dick Cheney?

Drop the rope and think this one through – ask yourself why the DOJ is firing all their ammo now? At the 4 year point they have got to be getting angry that their mission to take down Doolittle is getting nowhere.

Doolittle is innocent, end of story.

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!!!

Look closely and ask yourselves a second time – would a rookie congressmember be able to lead the charge for meaningful reform?

Look closely and remind yourself that Congressman Doolittle has a 96% lifetime rating from the National Tax Limitation Committee… 96%!!! (this includes a 92% score in 2006 btw…)

People have been assailing John Doolittle for using a broken system to deliver for the district. (extra lane on I-80 being a prime example) There are Re-Pork cards and organizations labeling Doolittle as “unfriendly” to taxpayers. I suppose in their zeal to stick it to members of Congress, they ignore the real efforts to fix the system… but, rather focus on a bunch of votes whose impact would be minimal if any because the system is broken.

Leadership is when you take the shots from organizations obsessed with single issues and stay focused on the real issue. The below attached details Doolittle’s leadership on the Earmarks issue and how the DEMOCRATS (like Charlie “Coloniel Klink” Brown) ARE THE REAL PROBLEM!!!

LINK TO FULL RELEASE FROM CONGRESSMAN DOOLITTLE HERE

THE EARMARK REFORM DISCHARGE PETITION: HOW IT WORKS

A brief summary of the GOP earmark reform discharge petition and its history:

In early June, GOP leaders worked closely with the Republican Study Committee and other GOP members to win a huge fight to expose the Democrats’ slush funds for secret earmarks in appropriations bills, shutting down the House floor for nearly a week until Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) and Democratic leaders relented and jettisoned their plan to airdrop all earmarks into conference reports.

On June 12, 2007, House Republican leaders introduced H.Res. 479 to change House rules to require taxpayer-funded earmarks in authorizing and tax bills to be publicly disclosed and subject to challenge and debate on the House floor as well.

House Democratic leaders have had nearly three months to schedule H.Res. 479 for a vote, but have refused to do so despite numerous requests by House Republicans.

Having no other option, House Republicans have announced plans to file a discharge petition (a motion allowed under House rules that requires the majority leadership to bring a piece of legislation to the floor if a petition supporting a vote accumulates enough signatures)on Thursday, September 20, 2007 to force the House to vote on the GOP resolution requiring all earmarks (appropriations, tax, and authorization bills) to be publicly disclosed and subject to challenge and debate.

Once the discharge petition receives 217 signatures, House rules require the majority leadership to bring the earmark reform resolution to the House floor for an up-or-down vote. All House members are eligible to sign the discharge petition, regardless of their party affiliation.