With a Sept. 1 special election looming, a leading candidate for California's 10th District House seat has turned his campaign's focus to the issue currently preoccupying Washington: health-care reform.
Current Lt. Gov. John Garamendi (D) is one of more than a dozen candidates competing to succeed former representative Ellen Tauscher (D), who resigned from the East Bay-area seat in order to take a position at the State Department. Garamendi is the best-known contender, but under California's open primary all of the candidates will be on the ballot together, and if none reaches 50 percent, the top vote-getters from each party will face each other Nov. 3.
Seeking to distinguish himself from a crowded field, Garamendi unveiled a new television ad today on health care.
