In addition, Baumann was assailed in a mailer sent to voters in the conservative Republican district in the final days of the campaign. He said it was not authorized by Doolittle, who had issued a separate letter of endorsement for Bush, or anyone on Doolittle's staff. Lopez said he had called both Baumann and Bush to apologize. If I sound furious, I am. The mailer included an image of a female puppet and a fabricated news clipping made to look like an article from the Mountain Democrat newspaper in Placerville.
Desperate people do very desperate things.
Baumann sent out mailers that cited her experience as an area school board member and touted her understanding of agricultural needs as a local vineyard owner. The county's other supervisorial race, in District 1, produced little election-night drama as Rusty Dupray, a captain for the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, won with 64.8 percent of the vote to 35.1 percent for Janice Platz, a state health department analyst. I hope Janice will help me in healing the divisiveness in District 1 and the whole county. With no winner declared in District 2, there's no time yet for healing. After Bush led by 53.1 percent to Baumann's 46.8 percent in absentee ballot returns early Tuesday night, Baumann steadily closed the gap as counting continued, taking the lead shortly before midnight.