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While political types might savor the idea of an Assembly race between a Parra and a Florez, Pete Parra said Friday that potential drama may be one reason he DOESN’T run for the 30th District post.

“That’s one of the reasons I hesitate,” Parra, a former Kern County supervisor, said. “I don’t want to bring their family and our family into that situation. It’s not healthy.”

Parra is considering running for the seat his daughter, Nicole Parra, held from 2002 to 2008 if current incumbent Assemblyman Danny Gilmore, R-Hanford, does not.

Pete Parra’s a Democrat but supported Gilmore for the seat in 2008 and continues to back him. He’d potentially face former Shafter City Councilwoman Fran Florez in the June 2010 Democratic primary; Florez has filed intent-to-run papers.

She lost to Gilmore in 2008.

Gilmore hasn’t announced publicly whether he will seek a second two-year term.

According to the Fresno Bee, he released a statement Thursday saying that while the filing deadline to run is not until March, “I would probably not seek reelection if I had to make that decision today.”

Gilmore did not return calls from The Californian Thursday and Friday. In a story published last Sunday, he told The Californian he’s had a really tough time dealing with the fallout of the state’s budget troubles and Sacramento’s grueling partisan politics.

Pete Parra said he’ll probably make his decision in a couple weeks. What he needs to figure out, he said, is whether he’d have the needed support locally and in Sacramento, if he really wants more time away from his growing family (grandkids are in the picture now), and if he wants to be part of more Parra vs. Florez drama.

(It’s a long story. Suffice it to say Nicole Parra and Fran Florez’s son, state Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, haven’t liked each other nor gotten along for a long time).

Oh, and there’s the little fact that Pete Parra doesn’t live in the 30th District, which includes a lot of northwestern Kern County plus the Arvin and Lamont area and parts of Bakersfield.

No problem, Parra said. He can move there, just like he moved into the 5th Supervisorial District to run for and hold that office.

Parra said if he did run it would be to tackle job creation, water and economic development issues in the economically struggling district.

He’s been serving on the California Workforce investment Board, which assists the governor on workforce development issues, and the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley, which promotes economic development.