DraftGaramendi.com Hits Roll Call

Garamendi Shakes Up Calif. Special - Roll Call

But the plot thickens: Some Democratic activists are encouraging Garamendi to forgo the 10th district race and run instead in the nearby 3rd district, where Rep. Dan Lungren (R) barely cleared 50 percent in 2008 in a district that had been considered a GOP stronghold. Those assumptions were smashed when Obama and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) each got 49 percent in the 3rd district in the presidential election; George W. Bush had won a 17-point victory there four years earlier.

Amid rumors that Lungren’s 2008 opponent, Bill Durston (D), doesn’t plan to run again, there is already a draftgaramendi.com Web site, as well as Facebook and Twitter pages urging the lieutenant governor to challenge Lungren. Andrew Stone, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said D.C. Democrats are aware of the movement to draft Garamendi into the 3rd district race, but would not comment further, except to say, “That district is one that we’re really paying close attention to.”

In just a few days, we've already had over a hundred people join the Draft Garamendi movement. Now, all eyes are on the district. Before it really is too late, take this weekend to talk with your friends & fellow activists about what makes the most sense for progressives in the State of California.

Let John Garamendi know how you feel.

www.draftgaramendi.com