Just four
months after being soundly defeated by David Valadao… Democrat John Hernandez
is back on the campaign trail… planning to challenge the Freshman GOP
Congressman in 2014.
Hernandez
lost to Valadao (in rounded numbers) 58% to 42%.
He won the
vote in only one county in the 21st District…Kern County. Hernandez
focused the majority of his campaign efforts there. He didn’t have the funds or
resources to mount a major campaign throughout the District.
Hernandez
told me… he believes his late entry into the race hurt his fundraising and
eventual showing on Election Night.
Valadao had
a huge advantage in fundraising and received hundreds of thousands of dollars
from an outside PAC to launch TV ads against Hernandez.
Hernandez’s
2012 House Election Committee came out of the General Election with a campaign
debt of $40,500. Hernandez says more
than half of that red ink is from money he lent to his own campaign.
Hernandez is
holding a fundraiser tonight (March 14th) in Fresno to help retire
that debt and hopefully, start adding to a 2014 campaign war chest.
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