[UPDATE] Mike’s campaign site is now up; contribute here.
CA-18 is a D+4 district that voted for Bush in 2004; incumbent Cardoza ran unopposed in 2008. Of course, that was before unemployment in Cardoza’s district hit double digits*, and why Cardoza’s yelling for help from the federal government, while treating Speaker Pelosi like the radioactive career-killer that she is. Mind you, Cardoza’s also ducking those inconveniently public town halls in favor of nice, controllable mass phone calls; which tells you everything that you need to know about his interest in his consituency. Or his personal moral courage.
So he’s getting a challenge: Mike Berryhill, who’s a local irrigation district director – and apparently annoyed. Continue reading Mike Berryhill challenging Dennis Cardoza (D, CA-18).