[Update from 3:21pm] FlashReport is also reporting via Twitter - "*Breaking* Just off phone w Sen. Sam Aanestad (Retd). He's exploring a bid for Congress. Would set table for showdown w Sen. LaMalfa."
Right on Daily states, "[T]here is no truer friend to Conservatives in Northern California than Sam Aanestad. Sam supported his mentor, Tom McClintock for Congress when Doug LaMalfa and 100 local electeds chose the establishment Moderate over now Congressman McClintock."
"Sam Aanestad was rated the most Conservative Senator in California the year before he retired from the State Senate in 2010."The rest of the Right on Daily article is here.
[Update from 4:54pm] "'It's an exciting year politically, there's an opportunity for change,' [Aanestad] said. 'And to serve with like-minded people in control and to see that carry over to the Senate and (White House) and work on revamping the economy.'"
"'[Aanestad] said that he wasn't surprised Herger decided not to run, but was surprised by the decision to endorse Assemblyman Doug LaMalfa so quickly.'"
"'He usually doesn't endorse people in very many races so it did surprise me that he so immediately endorsed someone without knowing who was all in,' he said. 'I may give him an opportunity to change his mind.'"
The rest of this Chico Enterprise Recorder article is here.
Samuel Mark Aanestad (born July 16, 1946, in Bismarck, North Dakota) is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who was elected to the California State Assembly in 1998 to represent the 3rd District. In 2002, Aanestad was elected to the California State Senate. He is a Republican. Dr. Aanestad and his wife, Susan, live in Penn Valley and have three adult children.
Dr. Aanestad has practiced oral and maxillofacial surgery full-time in Grass Valley, and has served as the Vice-Chief of Surgery at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. He served three terms on the California Dental Association Council on Legislation, including three years as chairman, and he served two terms as president of the Butte-Sierra District Dental Society. He is also a member of the California and American Dental Association.
Dr. Aanestad served 11 years on the Grass Valley School District Board of Trustees, where he fought for greater local control and smaller class sizes. He has been very involved within his community as a member of the Rotary Club of Grass Valley, a youth soccer, football, and baseball coach, and as a member of the KNCO radio broadcast team for Nevada Union High School football.
Senator Aanestad received both his Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Dental Surgery degrees from UCLA. Dr. Aanestad received a Master in Public Administration degree from Golden Gate University in 1991. He was honored by the UCLA School of Dentistry as their "Alumnus of the Year" in November 1998.
In California's State Senate, Dr. Aanestad's top priorities were preserving rural health care, protecting North State water, and serving the needs of the citizens of the 4th Senate District, which includes Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Nevada, Placer, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity and Yuba counties.
A successful campaign by Sam Aanestad in this race will have long lasting conservative repercussions through the north state. There is no doubt that our local Sam Aanestad is a statesman. With the Obamacare debate still raging nationwide, there is no doubt that Dr. Aanestad would be an experienced voice in such debate.
Dr. Aanestad's entrance into this congressional race is a good thing. Every national candidate needs to be adequately vetted...only a contested national congressional race will provide the required vetting of all of our choices.
I say the more the merrier.
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