[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

One year ago, Dean Andal announced his candidacy for Congress in California’s 11th congressional district. Since then, his campaign has been noticeably quiet, and Andal’s fundraising has started to dry up. (Perhaps Andal is too focused on his latest development project to be bothered with his campaign?) Regardless of his excuse, many observers have taken note of Andal’s conspicuous absence from the campaign trail ("GOP recruits show lagging fundraising").
 
However, we haven’t forgotten about Dean and his run for Congress, so we thought posing a few unanswered questions to him might jolt him back onto the trail.
 
Stockton has the highest home foreclosure rate in the United States. How do you plan to address the foreclosure crisis?

Last week marked the five-year anniversary of President Bush’s infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech. Do you support President Bush’s "stay the course" plan for Iraq?

Where do you stand on expanding the state children’s health insurance program (SCHIP) and California Healthy Families to provide health care to millions of uninsured children?

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Image courtesy the Lodi News-Sentinel.

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Americans put politics aside yesterday to honor our nation's fallen heroes, particularly those who lost their lives in Iraq. In Californian, hundreds of parades and ceremonies commending those who have perished and those who are still with usserved as a reminder that Memorial Day is about more than just a threeday weekend.

Putting aside politics should not distract us from the enormous tragedy the Iraq war has inflicted on thousands of military families and the entire nation, wrote JoeGuzzardi of the Lodi News-Sentinel, who called the loss of young lives"sadly predictable." Guzzardi's advice: get out soon and let the Iraqishandle their own affairs.