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Sheriff Warren Rupf will not run for Congress [CA-10]
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Jun 29, 2009 02:47pm |
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| News Date | Monday, June 29, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Contra Costa Sheriff Warren Rupf will not run for either the 10th or the 11th Congressional districts.
“The more I talked to people, the more I became convinced that I am not well-suited for partisan politics,” said Rupf, whose consultations included talks with national GOP officials in Washington, D.C. “The people that most want to talk you, on either side, are on the political fringes. They have a narrower view of what’s wrong with the world and how to fix it.”
Rupf said his values “don’t line up with the fringes of either party and compromising my values or my priorities is a price I am not willing to pay.”
The news will disappoint Republicans, who believed the well-known, outspoken and gregarious Rupf would have given Democrats in either district a serious challenge.
But Rupf faced considerable challenges of his own.
As a Republican, his chances of success at the ballot box were extremely slim in the heavily Democratic 10th Congressional District, just vacated by Ellen Tauscher. |
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