Doolittle Gets Another GOP Primary Challenger

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

It looks like dreams of Charlie Brown, the Democratic challenger who barely lost to embattled Rep. John Doolittle in 2006 and is running again, may be coming true.
 
Auburn City Councilman and former mayor Mike Holmes announced Tuesday that he will take another run at Doolittle for the 4th District GOP nomination in the upcoming June primary.

The moderate Holmes collected nearly one-third of the vote last year. Doolittle also is facing another more conservative challenger.

"Congressman Doolittle's unabashed ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the FBI's recent raid of his Oakton, Va. home are two striking examples of (his) dishonorable representation of our communities," Holmes reported in a press release printd in the Auburn newspaper Tuesday. "John Doolittle's smash-and-grab representation is why Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of and distrust Congress. Yet (Doolittle) still personally profits from his seat in Congress via his wife, who has been directly compensated from Congressman Doolittle's campaign funds."
 
Another more conservative challenger, Eric Egland, a strong supporter of the war in Iraq, has already declared. That will likely split the anti-Doolittle vote, leaving a wounded Doolittle ripe for Democratic picking in November.