{"id":8724,"date":"2009-05-01T17:21:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-01T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T17:21:36","slug":"cd03-democrats-dont-want-a-contested-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/01\/cd03-democrats-dont-want-a-contested-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"CD-03: Democrats Don’t Want a Contested Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Randy Bayne
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The Bayne of Blog<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

\"Randy In 2006 and 2008 Dr. Bill Durston stepped up to the plate and ran for CD-03. He ran unopposed in the primary leaving him to work on name recognition, voter registration and building his support for the general election. All much needed activities when you’re running against Dan Lungren.<\/p>\n

Until recently there has been no clear candidate in the 3rd. A few weeks ago I heard from Gary Davis, an Elk Grove City Councilman. He told me he was looking at running. Haven’t heard from him until he sent me an email this evening. This weekend at the state convention I met Dr. Amerish Bera<\/a>. He has filed papers to run and is making the rounds visiting clubs and Central Committees. On the side is the distraction with the attempt to draft Lt. Gov. John Garamendi to run in CD-03 instead of CD-10. A race that was fairly quiet is getting noisy.<\/p>\n

To top it off, Swing State Project erroneously reported<\/a> that Phil Angelides is “taking a serious look” at CD-03. Davis told me in an email that he talked to someone close to Angelides, and he is not running. Davis also mentioned that he is putting his team together after a Tuesday meeting with the DCCC.<\/p>\n

With two candidates, Davis and Bera, already in Democrats may get something they don’t want — a contested primary. With a weakened Lungren all but certain to run unopposed in the primary, he will be able to save valuable resources for the general election while Democrats are forced to spend valuable resources deciding who has the best chance of defeating him.<\/p>\n

With more than a year to go until the 2010 primary plenty of time remains to sort this out. At this point candidates are filing paperwork so they can begin raising money, gauge levels of support, assess resources, and begin getting a general feeling about their chances for success. Now is the time for us, the Democratic leadership in CD-03, to assess Davis and Bera and work to avoid a primary fight. For now, let it play out. There is opportunity here to learn a great deal about two candidates, perhaps more, and build on that. There is time later to trim the field to one before the primary.<\/p>\n

We are closer to winning the district than we have been in a long time. A contested primary, to understate it, is not helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Randy Bayne
\n
The Bayne of Blog<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

\"Randy In 2006 and 2008 Dr. Bill Durston stepped up to the plate and ran for CD-03. He ran unopposed in the primary leaving him to work on name recognition, voter registration and building his support for the general election. All much needed activities when you’re running against Dan Lungren.<\/p>\n

Until recently there has been no clear candidate in the 3rd. A few weeks ago I heard from Gary Davis, an Elk Grove City Councilman. He told me he was looking at running. Haven’t heard from him until he sent me an email this evening. This weekend at the state convention I met Dr. Amerish Bera<\/a>. He has filed papers to run and is making the rounds visiting clubs and Central Committees. On the side is the distraction with the attempt to draft Lt. Gov. John Garamendi to run in CD-03 instead of CD-10. A race that was fairly quiet is getting noisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"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":[1990],"tags":[486],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990","tag-486"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2gI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}