Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, a leader in California’s conservative movement, continues to charge
ahead in his bid for the GOP nomination to challenge ultra-liberal Senator Barbara Boxer’s re-election next year.
The Devore for Senate campaign has rolled out an impressive augmentation to its already weighty list of GOP officials. 26 new endorsements from Republican elected officials include: State Senators Jeff Denham, Bob Dutton, Bob Huff and Mimi Walters and Assemblymembers Anthony Adams, Joel Anderson, Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Sam Blakeslee, Connie Conway, Paul Cook, Mike Duvall, Bill Emmerson, Jean Fuller, Ted Gaines, Danny Gilmore, Curt Hagman, Kevin Jeffries, Stephen Knight, Jeff Miller, Brian Nestande, Jim Nielsen, Cameron Smyth, Audra Strickland, Van Tran, and Mike Villines, the Assembly Republican Leader.
The campaign had previously announced the endorsements of 16 Republicans, including Congressman Tom McClintock and State Board of Equalization Member Bill Leonard. You can get a look at DeVore’s other endorsements in previous campaign releases here, here and here.
While others have been rumored as potential entrants into this primary, including the Governor, so far DeVore has had the field to himself, and has been extremely aggressive in every measurable component of a race. Then again, if you know Chuck DeVore, he only has one speed — and that is full speed ahead!
(The Sac Bee has a good write up on this latest round of endorsements on their Capitol Alert blog here. In it they muse that perhaps a potential Schwarzenegger bid is an incentive for GOP legislators to endorse DeVore – LOL…)