Ventura County Star Reporter Timm Herdt has a great article on the 2014 governor's race. Click here to read it.

Sidenote: I don't like the word gubernatorial.

Dr. Lee Rogers has earned the support of progressive activist group Moveon.org for his campaign. Ventura County Star Reporter Timm Herdt has a great article on how this campaign could surprise people.

In a great blog post Ventura County Star reporter Timm Herdt analyzed what we know of the vote by mail ballots that have been returned. With votes coming in Tony Strickland hasn't updated his issues page yet. I am curious where he stands on many federal issues. Are you?

The message on his website says "coming soon". I am sure he wants to wait to see who his opponent is before he posts what he believes.

http://www.tonystrickland.com/tony-strickland-on-the-issues.php

Tony Strickland: I know you are a proud conservative. Post what you believe on the tough issues of our time.

If you haven't read his blog recently go check it out.

http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/therdt/

If you haven't read it recently I strongly recommend reading Timm Herdt's blog. He is a great political writer.

Ventura county Star Reporter Timm Herdt destroyed the claim that Buck McKeon was paying Patricia McKeon a fair wage for her work. Click here to read his post.

Ventura County Star Reporter Timm Herdt has an interesting blog post up on Tony Strickland's fundraising.

http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/therdt/archives/2012/01/the-strickland.html

Ventura County Star Reporter Timm Herdt has some early analysis on what redistricting might do to Ventura County. Simi Valley might be put in legislative districts with the San Fernando Valley instead of the rest of Ventura County.

Go to his blog to read the details.

If it becomes a Democratic leaning district I expect Gallegly will retire instead of campaigning to a new group of voters that don't align with his conservative ideology. Being that he doesn't hold open and scheduled townhall forums he doesn't seem to have the energy for a competitive election.

Ventura County Star reporter Timm Herdt has an interesting article that lists which State Senators are taking a pay cut.

Click here to read his blog.

Ventura County Star reporter Timm Herdt has written a real personal reflection.

Go read it. The time will be well spent.

Ventura County Supervisor Peter Foy is said to be thinking of running for governor according to a recent article from Ventura County Star report Timm Herdt and other sources. He has a few people mentioned as opponents in recent polls including Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, former US House of Representative Member and State Controller Tom Campbell, former Ebay CEO and Mitt Romney/John McCain campaigns leader Meg Whitman.

Do you think he will run? I think there is a chance he is leaving it as a possibility to build up his name recognition and attract attention. I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up endorsing another candidate and then ran with their endorsement of him for State Insurance Commissioner. Even though in the past Peter Foy has used "farmer" as a ballot designation I would think that with his background in insurance he could run with that experience as a major issue. If he ran for governor I would expect his past support for very conservative candidates and policies out of the mainstream to be the center of any strategy against him. But with all of the problems in the state voters might not be interested in discussions over the wild things Alan Keyes has said over the years on topics from gay people, to the Democratic Party, to personal attacks on Barack Obama.

Click here for a more detailed post about his support for former Presidential candidate Alan Keyes.

Whatever he runs for would leave an open seat on the County Board of Supervisors representing Simi Valley, Moorpark, and some surrounding areas. Peter Foy has said int he past he wasn't planning to make a career out of being on the Board of Supervisors and there has been discussion he would only serve one term. A possible candidate to replace him is termed out State Assembly Member Audra Strickland. While that is a likely scenario she did open up an account to run for Secretary of State recently.

What other candidates do you think are possible in this game of musical chairs? Any chance Jim Dantona will run again if it was an open seat? What about former Supervisor Judy Mikels? City Council Member Barbra Williamson ran before and might be interested. I also see Moorpark City Council Member Keith Millhouse as an intriguing candidate. What candidates would you like to see on your ballot?

Click here for Timm Herdt's article and here for his blog post.

Click here for an entry on State Assembly member Audra Strickland opening an account to run for Secretary of State.

( Marie, have you seen your own ad on television? What show were you watching?)

Ventura County Star reporter Timm Herdt has a new post up that Democrats outnumber Republicans in the 19th state senate district. Click here to read the report.

The Hannah-Beth Jackson campaign held a press conference to announce their support of education leaders across the district. With all of the action in this last week or so of the campaign I didn't post about it quickly. My friend, and fellow Star blogger Marie Lakin beat me to it. Click here to read about it.