devore is trailing. but with the primary in june, it's still early in this campaign, and voter recognition of all three candidates is relatively low. and conservative republicans, who often dominate the voting in a g.o.p. primary, could spell trouble for campbell. >> we want somebody who is going to bring us lower taxes and less federal control of our lives. yeah, that's what we want. >> reporter: do you think tom campbell fits that bill? >> i don't know. i don't know. i'm a little skeptical here. >> reporter: many of these mostly republican voters, at a gathering in the foothills of the sierra nevada mountains, prefer chuck devore, who has been avidly courting conservatives by claiming to be the "true" conservative in the race. >> rather than mandating that people buy health insurance... >> reporter: a retired national guardsman, devore is running a low budget campaign. he travels this huge state alone, often in rented cars, appealing to so-called "tea party" activists fed up with washington. >> it does

next to me is john devore. if he were trashcans, grame me men -- grime me men would bang him in the driveway. and our new york times correspondent. good to see you! >> check out our science section. thanks for allowing us to report on a fake disease, tiger woods. he's just being a man, greg. >> i know. go away. >>> it looks like charlie went too far-ly and wrangle is in a tangle. in a report released friday. congressman charles wrangle violated congressional gift rules by accepting trips to the caribbean in 2007 and 2008. but wrangle is playing dumb saying he had no knowledge of the sponsorships and blames the whole thing on a giant rainbow-stealing peg success. -- pegasus. no, he is blaming his staff. >> i don't want to be critical, but common sense dictates that members of congress should not beheld responsible for what could be the wrongdoing of mistakes of errors of staff unless there is reason to believe that the member knew or should have known. >> that's the sound of about 20 people being thrown under a