After Doolittle

Gaines won the State Senate seat while he was running for his old Assembly seat.  Since he took the Senate seat, now the state is on the hook to run a special election (remember the new law...the two top winners run again.) so I guess that will be another $900,000 for that part...

The "Sacramento News and Review" has a great article about how Republican politics in the Gold Country has run into some trouble...

The link to the article is here .

With former GOP Rep. John Doolittle (left) out of the picture, foothill Republicans are fighting each other. The Assembly contest between Beth Gaines (center) and John Allard (right) and five other Republicans is just one example.