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Mike Thompson
By GUY KOVNER
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Rep. Mike Thompson, who is undefeated in 10 straight North Coast political campaigns, announced plans to try for No. 11 on Wednesday by filing for re-election to Congress.
Thompson, 61, who was elected to Congress in 1998, is running in a new inland district that includes Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, Cotati and Sonoma, along with his home base of Napa County and parts of Lake, Solano and Contra Costa counties.
“I’m getting a good reception,” Thompson said, noting that most of his new territory, including Sonoma County, was in the state Senate district he represented from 1990-98. “People stop me on the street.”
A holiday fund-raiser in Santa Rosa in December drew 300 people, he said, and Thompson has a series of Santa Rosa house parties lined up.
The new 5th Congressional District includes 58 percent of Sonoma County’s registered voters. It is Democrat-friendly, with 52 percent of registered voters in that party, compared with 22 percent Republicans and 21 percent independents.
Thompson said he has had bedrock support from Democrats, significant Republican backing and “overwhelming support” from independents.
“I don’t see that changing,” he said in a telephone interview.
Thompson currently represents a coastal congressional district stretching from Windsor to the Oregon border.
In announcing his candidacy for an eighth congressional term, Thompson, a St. Helena resident, said he had endorsements from all seven members of the Santa Rosa City Council and all five Sonoma County supervisors, among with a long list of local elected officials, labor groups and community leaders.
Thompson also has more than $1.3 million in campaign funds, according to the latest Federal Election Commission report.
Last year, he collected nearly $838,000 in campaign contributions, including $477,000 from political action committees and other groups.
Thompson’s experience, funding and lopsided voter registration advantage make him a virtual shoe-in for re-election, said David McCuan, a Sonoma State University political scientist.
In what shapes up as “an anti-incumbent year,” McCuan said, Thompson will prevail due to his familiarity with the region’s issues and presumably weak Republican opposition.
Democrats are expected to fall three to six seats short of a majority in the House, but Thompson could be “a deal-maker and a bridge” to the Republicans, McCuan said.
And by donating thousands of dollars to other Democrats, Thompson will “buy more influence” in the chamber, McCuan said.
Thompson said he will continue “to do what I can to elect like-minded Democrats,” but declined to say how much money he would give away.
Thompson, who was then an aide to a Bay Area Democratic assemblywoman, won election to the state Senate in 1990, edging Republican state Sen. Jim Nielsen by 1 percent of the vote.
After a second term in Sacramento, Thompson challenged Republican incumbent Frank Riggs for the North Coast congressional seat in 1998.
Riggs dropped out, Thompson won handily and has averaged 65 percent of the vote in a total of seven congressional races.
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EIGHT TERMS? When are you all going to wake up and realize that after 8 terms you’re still in the same place you were 8 terms ago?
Time for new blood.
And time for new term limits. Give them ONLY ONE TERM to make a difference. Then replace them. I would guarantee they would work harder to be sure they did make a difference! Then send them back to the private sector…without a retirement package and with the same health care the rest of us get!
Here’s a list of what these globalists consider ‘unsustainable’;
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/articles/sustainable_development/what_is_%22unsustainable%22%3f_2003022414/
and YOUR local government has aligned us with this ideology!
THIS IS WHY THINGS ARE SO SCREWED UP.
Here’s the perspective of ranchers that are being ruined needlessly.
They ARE green, they love the land.
More and more people are realizing that WE won’t be ‘sustainable’ if we allow this tyranny to continue.
http://www.defendruralamerica.com/DRA/Siskiyou_County.html
Thank You Anne Durham:
that’s right there are HUNDREDS of dams that have and are identified to be destroyed.
In the spun story the PD did about our ICLEI protests before City Council, I was quoted as saying; “they would rather let the water run out to the ocean than to let the ranchers, farmers and growers use it to feed people”.
THIS IS AGENDA 21.
I used to have hobbies, now this is what I spend my time doing, illuminating and resisting.
There’s always a ‘green’ guise, an excuse. This is a classic example, as is taking most of the water from our Central Valley bread basket over contrived ‘Delta Smelt’ science
(also not indigenous).
Doesn’t matter if it doesn’t pass the smell test, or the scientific test
(‘global warming’).
They lodge a charade that synthesizes public support-and they go and go.
The latest damn tyranny is Siskou County,
Klamath River, under the pretense of saving Coho Salmon, that are not even indigenous, that largly spawn down stream. Even though ranchers came up with inexpensive alternative for bypass.
Lives, food, dreams, commerce, property and rights to same…devastated.
Also the clean energy hydro-electric component of the dam will be destroyed as well.
By going along to get along, like our ICLEI adherent Mr. Thompson-it is indeed as though they are aligning us with the dark side.
This is part of the Wildlands Project;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVTGK1uYqJo
THIS is the ultimate goal of the dark globalists that ARE UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development.
When we have local government officials that are complicit, this is what we will get, until the stop being audience to their own movie.
Join us at the next City Council meeting as we ask THE QUESTION.
Why do we belong to ICLEI?
Search:
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/
and
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/
Brilliant!
“Removing the dam would not only eliminate San Francisco’s supply of crystal-clear drinking water, it would mean the loss of 1.6 billion kilowatt hours per year of electricity, according to utilities commission officials. That’s enough to power San Francisco’s municipal facilities and infrastructure, including City Hall, Muni, the airport, all street lights and port facilities.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/22/BA461NB000.DTL#ixzz1nLU6Q9bz
Mr. Thompson has introduced a bill to take down 3 dams in northern California which will destroy the livelihoods and property rights of many of our fellow Californians who rely on these dams, a source of good, clean hydroelectric energy, to support their wonderful rural way of life. In doing so, he is giving credence to the outright lie about the Coho salmon being indigenous (while millions of chinok salmon breed in and around these dams) as well as the UN’s effort (through radical environmentalists in this state and country) to get everyone off their rural lands so it can be given back to the animals! Shame on him!! Please vote him out!
Mike Thompson has done a good job for a spectrum of different interests in his district. In case the whackos who call posting negative comments to this site a life have forgotten, the idea of democracy is that if you think you can do better, then run for office.
Those, below, who mock or doubt Mike Thompson’s status as a veteran should be ashamed of themselves.
We’ll miss Mike in Mendocino County.
Lou:
I fully agree.
These governmental clowns cannot provide us with anything current and fall back on their lame military experience of 45 years ago.
Same for that clown, Sen. John McCain, who offers us nothing but his hopes that we will invade yet another foreign country. He lives in the past with his Vietnam experience of 50 years ago.
Ever notice that ” lifer ” politicians actually have no real job skills ?
All they do is run their mouth and pretend to know something that voters do not.
I emphasize PRETEND to know something.
If he were to lose his elected job, he would be unemployable except for a photo op male model for a clothing line or hair care products.
Don’t like the current state of affairs in local, state, and federal government operations ?
Then WHY would you be stupid enough to vote for the SAME people over and over and over again?
Just curious.
Someone explain to me why this area continues to re-elect the same person over and over again and then continues to complain about how corrupt government is and how “in bed” they are with lobbyist and wall street.
It appears common sense really isn’t all that common after all. From now on whenever someone complains about the state of the our local, state and federal government, my response is going to be, did you vote? and if you did, did you vote for the same person who’s been there for the last decade? If so, then you got what you voted for and deserve.
So these guys served in Vietnam. So What! Does it make them more qualified than someone who did not!
Thompson must have his campaign people all over this column as all the non-leftist responses have been thoroughly marked ‘thumbs down’. Yet, when you look at every other article on Watch Sonoma County similar anti-Big Government responses are heavily positive. It is sad. This is where your campaign donations go, to police comments.
It makes no difference. This guy will be reelected. California voters are blind to anyone non “D” and believe Government is the answer to everything. The unions control this state. Private companies leave in droves. Whatever…off to talk to my CPA to shelter more of my income from the thieves in Sacramento. Enjoy.
Another tax and spend liberal. He says he served in Vietnam; like John Kerry or Al Gore!
Mr. Thompson has a long record establishing himself as an astute politician and occasional principled voice. Would be great to see someone who was even more astute, who knew how to be effective while being principled more often. Of course, we could do a lot worse. The glass is about 58% full, which also is about the percentage of votes he’ll get if there’s a viable Republican alternative. If it’s someone named Doris we’ll get a lower turnout and Thompson will get over 60% of the votes.
Just run for the office.
Not guts or no brains?
Thompson has the money, the democrat leftist district, and the support of labor. What hold an election? He is a professional leftist politician which the same agenda as the other big spending, big debt liberals in Washington.
Apparently the large government handout dependent voters will put him back in office for no other reason that to insure their benefits grow and proper.
Unfortunately the rest of us have to work to support this mess and pay the taxes to keep it going.
Along with Woolsey, Thompson is a prime example of why term limits are needed at the Federal level.
It’s been reported that studies show the benefits of having term limits outweigh the benefits of keeping legislators around for decades.
These people stay in office in their partisan districts, collect big paychecks, followed by overly generous pensions, and accomplish little if anything.
Yes, it’s the voters fault for keeping do-nohings around, but politicians take advantage of the cushy perks and money, and often seem to enrich themselves along the way.
Obviously a career politician with fluff statements like this…
Thompson said he will “continue my fight to create jobs and strengthen our middle class,” assist seniors by boosting Social Security and Medicare.
Give me a freaking break. The most embarrassing thing about him being able to run for an EIGHTH term is that 63% of the Sheeple voted for him when he ran for his SEVENTH! MORONS.
Mr. Thompson…who are the “middle class”? And how do you plan to “strengthen them”?
What does “fight to create jobs” mean?
This gibberish is typical from our politicians. Say a bunch of words, mean nothing, NEVER get questioned, get reelected for another term.
Can US politics be any more pathetic? Can voters be any easier to manipulate?