Republican David Dreier urged to run for U.S. Senate

[brooklynite]

Source: Sacramento Bee

Add his name to the list of Republicans possibly contemplating what would be an uphill run for the U.S. Senate.

David Dreier, the former longtime congressman from San Dimas who chaired the House Rules Committee, is among those being approached about a potential campaign, a spokesman said Monday. The spokesman, Mark Harmsen, said “a wide variety of people (are) urging him to look seriously at a Senate run.” He did not respond to a follow-up about Dreier’s level of interest in the race.

Dreier, chairman of the Annenberg-Dreier Commission focusing on trade, was mentioned as a viable contender in a column in the Orange County Register, where he has served as a contributing writer.

A distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution, he has over the decades repeatedly been mentioned as a likely GOP candidate for statewide office. He departed Congress after the once-a-decade process of redrawing district boundaries left him with few good options.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article11040308.html

[KeepItReal]

1. Go for it. More GOP stimulus money for the CA economy.

Kamala Harris - Democrat
for US Senate!!!

[tishaLA]

3. I'm really afraid Villaraigosa is going to take it somehow

and that he'll try to use all his contacts in the Obama administration to do it. I hope the administration is smarter than that, but....

Anyhow, Dreier is never going to be a Senator. Repubs see him as soft on immigration; Democrats will never vote for him. He's also too closeted to make it through a statewide election.

[KeepItReal]

5. He's got name recognition in SoCal, but not sure if that helps statewide

eom

[tishaLA]

6. turns out I needn't have worried. This just broke on tiwtter

Former LA Mayor Villaraigosa tells the LAT that he is NOT running for the U.S. Senate.

[KeepItReal]

7. So there...problem solved ;-)

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Tuesday that he would not enter the race for Barbara Boxer’s seat in the U.S. Senate, leaving state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris as the only major candidate.

"I am humbled by the encouragement I've received from so many to serve in the United States Senate," Villaraigosa said in a written statement. "But as I think about how best to serve the people of this great state, I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not Washington, D.C."

http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-villaraigosa-senate-harris-20150123-story.html

[Ned Flanders]

8. Pun intended?

Was a pun intended in your last sentence, lol?

[KamaAina]

9. He's out

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141022464

but Dreier isn't, if you receive my drift.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It seemed people had had more than enough of him during George W. Bush's occupancy. n/t

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. Bill and Ted do not approve of this guys message.

David Dreier will not be an excellent adventure.

[KamaAina]

10. "He departed Congress after the once-a-decade process of redrawing district boundaries"

"left him with few good options."

That's odd. I heard he was about to be outed.