California
Related: About this forumDoes the CA Democratic party want to commit suicide?
Why would the state want to have two rookie senators at the same time?
If we do take control of the Senate, Feinstein will head the judiciary committee. While we've been busy with the watching the drama of Whiny Donny and the Russia investigation, many judges have been confirmed. Yes, following the conservative bias:
Trump has spent his first year rapidly filling Article III judgeships at Supreme, appellate and District Court levels.
A Times data analysis found Trump is ranked No. 6 of 19 presidents appointing the highest number of federal judges in their first year.
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-trump-federal-judiciary/#
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Worse, if De Leon wins, he may have to be on his own if Harris starts on her presidential campaign. Yes, Obama and Hillary did not spend much time in the Senate in 2008, but Illinois and New York had the benefits of the seasoned Dick Durbin and chuck Schumer, respectively.
Yes, Republicans will come in drove to the ballots this November. They have a gubernatorial candidate and they can humiliate the Democrats by voting for De Leon.
I lived in CA in the 90s when Republicans lost all state offices because they wanted their candidates to be "pure." I hope that CA Democrats will not follow the same road.
After all, CA used to have Republican governors and senators, and secretaries of states. It could flip that way again. Is this what the activists want?
Speaking of activists choosing the candidates: Keith Ellison, the deputy chair of the DNC, has decided to ignore his party endorsement and is running for MN AG.
OK, start shooting
RandySF
(57,661 posts)It was basically 200 people at the meeting on a weekend afternoon in Oakland who swung the endorsement to de Leon. That's why I hate caucuses.
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)still_one
(91,965 posts)dominated by Sacramento insiders with close ties to Mr. de León from his years as the former Democratic leader of the State Senate
The fact is in the primary Senator Feinstein beat him by over 30 points in the primary. She won every congressional district, including DeLeon's state senate district.
I am so sick and tired of the bullshit bashing that Feinstein takes from some people who I suspect have no idea what she has done, or where she has stood on the issues, but follow like little sheep being told the LIE that she is a conservative, when they have no idea WTF they are talking about.
When SF was at the lowest point in its history after the People Temple, Moscone and Milk killings, Feinstein brought the city together.
At the height of the AIDS crisis when Reagan was slashing healthcare and ignoring the AIDS crisis, SF through Feinstein increased its AIDS budget far greater than any other city, including NY at the time. She gave Harvey Britt whatever he asked for in the budget to address the AIDS crisis, and doubled it every year. She was there in the hospitals visiting the victims, and while other cities were trying to dump their AIDS patients on SF, she tried to impress upon the Council Of Mayors how vital it was for the cities to unify and address this crisis.
She was far ahead of everyone on Women's rights, choice, gun control and every other liberal social issue, long before it became part of the populous movement.
When Feinstein wins in November, the California Democratic party will have egg all over their face, when they find out they went against the plurality of Democrats in the state by this endorsement.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)To play the DeLeon's advocate (I haven't decided in fact), at this time, both senators, Feinstein and Harris are from Northern California. DeLeon would represent Southern California. That is important because we have water and other issues in Southern California that residents of Northern California cannot really understand.
Auggie
(31,067 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)Seniority equals power in Congress.
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)They endorsed Hans Kirstead, even though he was polling behind Harley Rouda. It created a lot of division among local Dems. Harley still got enough votes to be Rohrabacher's Dem challenger. But just barely.