The race for California’s heavily Republican 4th Congressional District pits two politicans that don’t live in the district.  Former Rep. Doug Ose is located just miles outside of the district in adjacent Sacramento County, while state Senator Tom McClintock has represented Ventura County based legislative districts in the State Capitol.  Doug Ose has come out with a new ad attacking McClintock for “representing Los Angeles in the legislature” and “At first he was going to run for Congress here, in L.A.”  He probably floated the idea for running for his Ventura County based Congressional seat when Rep. Elton Gallegly decided to retire, but he changed his mind last minute.  The ad continuesd, “And then he thought about running in the Bay Area.”  He probably flirted with the idea of challenging newly elected Rep. Jerry McNerney for his San Joaquin County/East Bay Distirct.  Not a bad idea, because he has been living in Elk Grove in Southern Sacramento County for a while, just miles from McNerney’s district.  Kinda like Ose living in Northern Sacramento County just miles from the 4th Congressional District.  The full text of the ad is here. 

What’s funny about the ad is that the narrator is running around a large map of California with a shopping cart explaining McClintock is shopping around for a California district to run in.  First he says, “Los Angeles” when actuallity the ad shows him standing in Ventura County, then he runs to the “Bay Area”, over San Francisco, not the Easy Bay San Joaquin County in the Central Valley.  In the end he stops in Sacramento, not the Sierra Foothills where most of the population is in the 4th Congressional District.  Ouch, that would hurt if I lived in Placer County!