On March 4, 2008, State Senator Tom McClintock of Thousand Oaks officially launched his campaign for this district at the Placer County Courthouse in Auburn. McClintock received immediate endorsements from local and state Republicans, including State Senator Sam Aanasted, State Assemblyman Ted Gaines, State Assemblyman Rick Keene, Auburn City Councilman Kevin Hanley, Yuba County Supervisor Dan Logue, and Nevada County Supervisor Sue Horne. Brown was endorsed by Senator Max Cleland, former General Wesley Clark, former Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey, Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, and many veterans' groups including the Veterans' Alliance for Security and Democracy and VoteVets.org. In the primary election on June 3, 2008, Tom McClintock won the Republican primary with 54% of the vote ahead of Doug Ose, Suzanne Jones, and Theodore Terbolizard, in that order. Other Republican candidates had withdrawn from the race and thus did not appear on the ballot, including Rico Oller, Eric Egland, and Auburn City Councilman Mike Holmes. Charlie Brown won the Democratic primary with 88% of the vote, ahead of John "Wolf" Wolfgram, who had little financial support. District 5 (map) Race ranking and details from CQ Politics Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets District 6 (map) Race ranking and details from CQ Politics Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets District 7 (map) Race ranking and details from CQ Politics Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets District 8 (map) Race ranking and details from CQ Politics Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets The eighth congressional district has been represented by Democrat Nancy Pelosi since 1993, when the area was redistricted from the 5th congressional district. Pelosi, who is Speaker of the House, is considered safe for re-election, but Iraq War activist Cindy Sheehan announced that she would consider running against Pelosi if Pelosi did not put in an article of impeachment against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. She qualified for the ballot as an independent candidate and was endorsed by the Peace and Freedom Party. District 9 (map) Race ranking and details from CQ Politics Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets District 10 (map) Race ranking and details from CQ Politics Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets District 11 (map) Race ranking and details from CQ Politics Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets District 12 (map) Race ranking and details from CQ Politics Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets California's 12th congressional district is represented by Democrat Jackie Speier. She won a special election months before the general election to replace Tom Lantos,