{"id":199723,"date":"2026-03-05T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199723"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:40:24","slug":"kevin-kiley-drops-plans-to-challenge-mcclintock-in-district-5-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199723","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Kevin Kiley Drops Plans to Challenge McClintock in District 5 Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roseville, CA…This week I\u2019ll be filing papers to run in California\u2019s newly drawn 6th Congressional District.
\nIt\u2019s true that I was fully prepared to run in the new 5th, having tested the waters and with polls showing a favorable outlook in a \u201csafe\u201d district. But doing what\u2019s easy and what\u2019s right are often not the same. And at the end of the day, as much as I love the communities in the 5th District that I represent now \u2013 and as excited as I was about the new ones \u2013 seeking office in a district that doesn\u2019t include my hometown didn\u2019t feel right.<\/p>\n

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I was born, raised, and went to local public schools in Placer and Sacramento Counties, which I\u2019ve always called home. They\u2019ve been the core of my district during my time in elected office. That\u2019s as it should be. It\u2019s what representation is about. The evil of gerrymandering is that it slices up and tears apart communities in a way that erodes the fabric of representative government. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve opposed it everywhere \u2013 whether Texas or California, Indiana or Virginia. While we can\u2019t now reverse the gerrymandering epidemic that has afflicted our country and scrambled our state\u2019s map, I want to do what I can to make things better and not worse.<\/p>\n

The new 6th District is Democratic-leaning but open-minded. While this will be a more challenging race, I believe we can build a winning coalition for common sense. Thanks to all for your encouragement and patience. The fight for California\u2019s future has only just begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roseville, CA…This week I\u2019ll be filing papers to run in California\u2019s newly drawn 6th Congressional District. It\u2019s true that I was fully prepared to run in the new 5th, having tested the waters and with polls showing a favorable outlook in a \u201csafe\u201d district. But doing what\u2019s easy and what\u2019s right are often not the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/465786200_1098998278510605_2907821298670397429_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199729,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199723\/revisions\/199729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}