California Dems target 8 GOP districts

[bottomtheweaver]

Source: SF Chronicle

Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer
Saturday, April 4, 2009

California GOP voter registration is "dropping like a rock," a new study shows, declining so fast that Democratic Party officials see an unprecedented opportunity to gain voters and House seats in the 2010 election.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted 35 districts across the country represented by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives - including eight in California - that were won by Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, said Jennifer Crider, the committee spokeswoman.

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The vulnerable California districts with Republican representatives that were won by Obama are those of Reps. Dan Lungren of Gold River (Sacramento County), Mary Bono-Mack of Palm Springs, David Dreier of San Dimas (Los Angeles County), Elton Gallegly of Thousand Oaks (Ventura County), Brian Bilbray of Solana Beach (San Diego County), John Campbell of Newport Beach (Orange County), Ken Calvert of Riverside and Howard "Buck" McKeon of Santa Clarita (Los Angeles County), the committee says.

Even Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed surprised this week at the number of Republicans her party's campaign experts are targeting.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/04/MN6916SCKK.DTL

[SHRED]

1. Brian Bilbray

I hope this clown is voted out.

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[Misskittycat]

3. Same here, Shred.

[Arkana]

2. Orange County will be difficult.

Very rich, very (R) district...we'd need to run the right candidate--probably someone the majority of us wouldn't like.

[krabigirl]

6. It's changing. So many immigrants, especially in cities like Irvine, Aliso Viejo, and others.

But yeah, some districts (like mine, sadly) are full of very backwards-ish GOP fundies.

[gratuitous]

4. David Dreier - yeah, time for him to start collecting his pension

Republicans have lied to Californians shamefully for decades. Time for the Golden State to get a lot bluer.

[LibDemAlways]

5. Good luck unseating Gallegly. He's been losing some

ground of late, but he still won in Nov. by 13 percentage points - 57 - 43. He's an ass and a tool, but the sheep around here will still vote for the incumbent.

[Bluestar]

7. Woo hoo! My district--get rid of John Campbell

He's not as obnoxious as some Repubs, but his voting record stinks! He's only in his second term, having replaced Republican crook and head of SEC, Christopher Cox. Dems should be able to unseat him with some money spent here because he's not really that popular.

[mitchtv]

8. good luck getting Bono out

Of course they've never really tried

[Hawkeye-X]

9. I thought Sonny Bono was dead.

:shrug:

[mitchtv]

10. Mary isn't

Mary Bonehead for short

[bottomtheweaver]

11. Right, Sonny died in a skiing accident several year ago

and his wife replaced him. As far as I know she's been a reliable Bushbot ever since.

[XemaSab]

12. The California dems didn't give SHIT to our candidate in the last election

They said after the election "If we had known he would do so well, we would have given him money."

We need a 58-county strategy in California.

[mitchtv]

13. Same thing here in CD45

Bono was the only puke that won. we captured the 80 AD. They left our candidate penniless. Thanks Rahm

[jamesinca]

15. That would be a big thanks to Art Torrez

Thank god his useless butt is retiring!! Art Torrez, Crystal Strait and Chris Guerrero are a waste of time, money, and space. Yet they are some of the field organizers and planners of the CDP (and state party chair). With Chris Finney or John Burton we may get somewhere on the 58 Co. Strategy. Alicia Wang and Eric Bauman also seem to be strong supporters of working the red districts. Alex Rooker has waffled and changed her mind every time I have heard her speak.

Good by and good riddance to Art Torrez!!

[XemaSab]

17. Hey James!

How ya been? :hi:

[jamesinca]

18. I am good, how about you?

We just had the DFA academy here in Fresno, and hopefully we can do it again in 2010!

[XemaSab]

19. Things are okay

:hi:

[Dramarama]

14. Arnold should changed to a Dem now

[slackmaster]

16. They're scrambling to make headway before redistricting reform takes effect

Proposition 11, which was approved by voters last year, will affect the way Congressional districts are drawn.

http://www.smartvoter.org/2008/11/04/ca/state/prop/11/

BTW - A majority of California voters are still not Democrats.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/60day-stwdsp-09/hist-reg-stats.pdf

[jamesinca]

20. It will not affect the CD lines

That was taken out so the feds did not get involved (money), and improve the chances of it passing. Prop 11 does not affect congress critters

[David Zephyr]

21. Mary Bono was fucking a married man while David Dreier only fucks men in a closet.

All the truth. What a pair of scum Mary Bono and David Dreier are. Both amoral sluts.

[trashcanistanista]

22. WTF!!!! They forgot my district ,CD4 lost to McClintock

by less 1,600 votes! We need help too!!!