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The ink on the February 5 presidential primary election returns was hardly dry this week when campaigning for spots on the June primary ballot got underway in Placer County. Candidates for the June 3 ballot started pulling nomination papers on Monday and have until March 7 to file them. An exception will be the 4th Congressional District race in which there is no incumbent — Rep. John Doolittle is not seeking re-election — and candidates will have an additional five days in which to file.
District 5 Supervisor Bruce Kranz put on a two-for-one act Monday morning. He
set up a canopy, a podium and campaign signs outside Jim McCauley’s
election department at DeWitt Center and was flanked by several local
and state officials when he announced over a mini-p.a. system that he
was going for a second term. Dozens of cronies and even some
passers-by enjoyed the free coffee, fruit juice, cookies and donuts
available under the canopy. When the hoopla was over, Kranz strolled
into McCauley’s office and took out his nomination papers. There
was no carnival atmosphere for District 4 Supervisor Kirk Uhler. He
just showed up in McCauley’s office and got his paperwork from
candidate services officials Ferrin Call and Lisa Zacharias. Uhler
served on the board of supervisors for one term in the 1990s. Rather
than seek a second term in 1996, he sought the GOP Assembly nomination
and was defeated by T. Rico Oller in a nasty race. Uhler was appointed to the board’s District 4 seat in early 2007 after Supervisor Ted Gaines was elected to the Assembly. Nor
was there much fanfare for Doug Ose, who took out papers as a
Republican candidate in the 4th Congressional District. Ose, a former
three-term congressman from a Sacramento region district, is seeking to
replace Rep. John T. Doolittle, who is serving his ninth two-year term. In
a brief chat with reporters, Ose said he’s looking to take up residence
in Placer County and that he might have campaign offices in both Auburn
and Roseville. T. Rico Oller, a former state legislator, has
announced his candidacy for the same office but was not seen in Auburn
on Monday. He can take out his papers in any of the district’s eight
counties or at the California Secretary of State’s office in Sacramento. Other
announced GOP congressional candidates are Eric Egland, an Air Force
Reserve officer, and Theodore Terbolizard, about whom the Auburn Augur
has some news in this edition. Charlie Brown, who narrowly lost to Doolittle in 2006, is expected to be unopposed for the Democratic congressional nomination.
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