{"id":8642,"date":"2009-04-23T23:43:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T23:43:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-23T23:43:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T23:43:36","slug":"ca10-joan-buchanan-enters-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/23\/ca10-joan-buchanan-enters-race\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-10: Joan Buchanan Enters Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

With John Garamendi’s announcement yesterday<\/a>, and the State Democratic Convention kicking off tomorrow, I had a feeling this announcement might be coming today.<\/p>\n

She’s has made it official…Joan Buchanan is entering the race for California’s 10th Congressional District.<\/p>\n

Joan Buchanan For Congress<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n

After consulting with hundreds of community leaders, voters, elected colleagues and activists across our region; after considering the extraordinary financial challenges facing the country; and after carefully evaluating where I can make the most significant contribution, I have decided that I will be a candidate for Congress in our district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We now have 3 great Democratic candidates in the race for the 10th…not to mention the newcomers who have yet to had a chance to really prove themselves and tell their stories.<\/p>\n

I had really hoped that the race for the 10th wouldn’t come down to this…at the same time, I can’t blame Joan Buchanan for running. This really is a possible once in a lifetime opportunity for her. I just fear things are going to get very ugly between people that I respect & admire, and am in no hurry to either watch or participate in the trainwreck.<\/p>\n

But we’re here now and all we can do is move forward.<\/p>\n

I’m still hoping John Garamendi will reconsider, and run against Lungren in the 3rd.<\/a> I really do think it’s what’s best for everybody…Garamendi included.<\/p>\n

As for Joan Buchanan & Mark DeSaulnier…a decision to support one or the other is not going to be easy an easy one to make.<\/p>\n

On a personal level…I really like Joan Buchanan. I also have a lot of respect for what she was able to accomplish in taking back the 15th for Dems. She’s just so new in the legislature though, that there are a number of issues in which I have no idea where she stands…also, I do worry about who would replace her in the 15th.<\/p>\n

Mark DeSaulnier on the other hand, I’m learning is a pretty great guy himself. Not only has he been involved at the local level on a number of issues for years, the impression that I get from everybody I meet with in the district, is that he is absolutely adored by his many supporters. The enthusiasm for DeSaulnier is infectious. He also has the support of the party & local labor groups behind him, which does count for something I suppose.<\/p>\n

And then there is still Adriel Hampton<\/a> to consider and the candidate that I am really interested to hear more from, Anthony Woods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joan Buchanan has it right…
\n<\/p>\n

This isn’t the Spring I expected! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think we’re all in that club right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With John Garamendi’s announcement yesterday<\/a>, and the State Democratic Convention kicking off tomorrow, I had a feeling this announcement might be coming today.<\/p>\n

She’s has made it official…Joan Buchanan is entering the race for California’s 10th Congressional District.<\/p>\n

Joan Buchanan For Congress<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n

After consulting with hundreds of community leaders, voters, elected colleagues and activists across our region; after considering the extraordinary financial challenges facing the country; and after carefully evaluating where I can make the most significant contribution, I have decided that I will be a candidate for Congress in our district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We now have 3 great Democratic candidates in the race for the 10th…not to mention the newcomers who have yet to had a chance to really prove themselves and tell their stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[150,2278],"class_list":["post-8642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-150","tag-2278"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}