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Related: About this forumSo...if Sandra Fluke isn't running for Waxman's seat...is anybody good going to?
Hope somebody else with some actual passion can be found. Be useless to have someone quiet and bland take it over.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)He's no fire-eater, but he has good priorities, and he knows how to get things done.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It's just that the energy in the race will be totally different now.
Hope he proves to be worth it.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)antiquie
(4,299 posts)She has better name recognition.
I do not care for her personally.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)or just because her last name sounds like watery, tasteless medieval dungeon soup?
antiquie
(4,299 posts)and lost to Eric Garcetti in the recent L.A. mayoral contest. To me, possibly unfairly, she comes across as a self-serving political climber. Maybe not fair, just my impression.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)antiquie
(4,299 posts)Ken Burch
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TeamPooka
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SoapBox
(18,791 posts)He got a lot of votes last time.
He was a life long Republican but now claims to be Independant, for the good of all. That may be well and good but I would lay odds...he will always swing to the Repub side.
SoonerShankle
(322 posts)[link:http://www.dailybreeze.com/government-and-politics/20140210/ted-lieu-earns-key-endorsement-against-wendy-greuel-in-33rd-congressional-district-race|
There are currently 2 independents and 1 republican announced though.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)Last edited Mon Feb 10, 2014, 07:55 PM - Edit history (1)
Edit to update: She is an independent and idealist and definitely a lecturer.
Marianne Williamson, writer of self-help books: Williamson announced that she was running against Waxman as an independent near the end of last year, and most people laughed at the thought of someone trying to beat Waxman from the left. Her press person called her an "author, lecturer, thought leader" in a recent interview with L.A. Weekly.
She tried to help Dennis Kucinich start the Department of Peace in 2005. She quickly released her own announcement following Waxman's: "What I spoke of two weeks before his announcement, and what I will speak of two weeks after it, will be the same. I wasn’t running against Henry Waxman, any more than I’m running against any of the specific candidates who will be joining the race now. I’m running against the system that produced them." She does have roughly 205,000 more Twitter followers than Waxman, but then again Justin Bieber's not about to win any elections soon. She's going to be quite a longshot.
Blurbs on several candidates here also: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/02/03/everyone-in-l-a-has-started-a-campaign-for-waxmans-open-seat/
SoonerShankle
(322 posts)State Senator Ted Lieu earned the democratic party endorsement in the pre-endorsement caucuses this last weekend over Wendy Greuel and other candidates. Greuel would have to move into the district if she were to win the seat. Lieu's current state senate district overlaps the CD33 by 86%, so he is a known entity in the district with strong ties to local stakeholder groups.
Sandra Fluke is running for Lieu's state senate seat (SD 26) that he is vacating by seeking the 33rd CD. Fluke's competition includes former Assemblywoman Betsy Butler, who used to serve in the old AD53 before the redistricting. No candidate earned enough of a majority to earn the party endorsement for the SD26 in the caucuses this past weekend. This should prove to be an interesting race. Butler has strong party support and has had a lot of party money backing her in the past.
[link:http://www.calitics.com/diary/15398/preliminary-endorsement-recommendations-from-the-cdp-preendorsement-conventions|