CA-10: Tauscher to State?

[ccharles000]

From the WaPo:

Word is that Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), chair of the House Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on strategic forces and a staunch superdelegate for presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, is in line for a top post at the State Department, most likely for the undersecretary for arms control and nonproliferation slot.
It had been widely reported that highly regarded arms control guru Robert Einhorn, who had been assistant secretary for arms control in the Clinton administration, was penciled in to move up to that post, but we're hearing he has turned it down for personal reasons. And Secretary of State Clinton did, after all, win the California primary.

Well, I don't really see what Hillary's California primary win has to do with any of this, but that's neither here nor there. Assuming Tauscher is tapped for this gig, we'll have another California special election on our hands (Hilda Solis' vacancy in CA-32 being the other). While Tauscher used to hold a competitive district in the '90s, her CD was redrawn after the most recent census to include more Democratic turf -- on top of that, the 10th CD has taken a sharp turn in the Democratic direction over the last pair of Presidential elections. According to SSP's Prez-by-CD analysis, Obama carried the 10th district by a 65-33 margin, a significant jump from the 59-40 Kerry win here four years earlier (and the 55-41 performance by Gore in 2000).

If a special election happens here, Team Blue will be in pretty good shape. Anyone have any ideas as to who may run?

http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4601

[liskddksil]

1. Hopefully someone more progressive than her

She was one of the "moderates" who diluted the foreclosure bill recently.

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2. Wavy Gravy?

Off hand, I can't think of anybody notable in the tenth district. My short list of people living in Northern California that I'd like to see sent to Washington is fairly short, and got shorter when Jackie Speier won her re-election.

I live in the tenth and kinda look forward to having a new face, a genuine progressive, represent me.

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3. I like Tauscher

She would be good anywhere.