Reply #5: Part of me had actually hoped that Wu wouldn't resign so we might have gotten Kucinich to come here.

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... since he's been looking at running in the new district in Washington State. Thought he might want to come here instead. I'd do absolutely anything for him if he came here to run. But I don't think he'll leave his current district early to run in a special election here, so we need to find someone in the woodwork.

I'd actually thought that a good friend of mine from San Diego who had run briefly before pulling out of the special election against Bilbray for Duke Cunningham's seat some years back had moved up to here, when I came across a linked in page that made it look like he moved to Portland. But alas, it wasn't him. The timing was perfect if it was him, and I told him I'd go to bat for him if he wanted to run again. But he's back down in San Diego again after moving away from there a while.

There is one guy who's a pol from Tualitin I think in the state assembly or something like that who I've talked to on occasion at Washington County Dem meetings who I think has a pretty good progressive perspective on things. If after studying these other folk I'm not overly impressed, I'll ask him if we can talk him into running. Can't remember his name at the moment. There was also a guy that unsuccessfully proposed a vote on endorsing instant runoff voting at a meeting some months back. It unfortunately got voted down then I think by the more party loyalist types. Maybe if I look back through my notes, I can find out who that was who proposed that. He might be a decent one to try and recruit too.