Politico Breaking News: Ami Bera has ousted GOP Rep. Dan Lungren

[flpoljunkie]

11/15/2012 08:13 PM EST (expires: 11/15/2012 09:13 PM EST)

Democratic challenger Ami Bera has ousted GOP Rep. Dan Lungren, the chairman of the House Committee on Administration, in close-margin Calif. 7th congressional district contest, the Associated Press reported.

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[struggle4progress]

1. Ami Bera ousts Rep. Dan Lungren in congressional race

Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
November 15, 2012

Democrat Ami Bera has won his tight race against incumbent GOP Rep. Dan Lungren to fill the 7th District Congressional seat representing the suburbs of Sacramento.

The Associated Press called the race this afternoon as Bera's lead over Lungren had grown to almost 5,700 votes, according to the latest vote count.

Bera, an Elk Grove Democrat, led longtime Republican lawmaker Lungren by 184 votes on election night. His lead grew to about 3,800 votes on Tuesday.

http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/11/ap-says-bera-ousted-lungren.html

[flpoljunkie]

2. Thanks!

[patrice]

3. That committee? Bera is now chair of the committee that gets the House's work done?

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. No...the majority still gets to decide committee appointments

All he did was beat Lundgren for the seat. You don't win a committee seat when you win the seat.

[patrice]

7. K. I was wondering how that could be. nt

[patrice]

5. AND Federal Elections!! So who's going to get that chair? link:

http://cha.house.gov/about

[ProudProgressiveNow]

6. Another one bites the dust...

Now we need Barber in Az to win. He is leading by 300 votes.

[freshwest]

12. Thanks for that bit of news. Yes, we need all the help we can get to stifle the Teahadists.

[mimi85]

8. Now that makes my day

Along with Bono Mack losing - I've been grinning on that one since the election. She was the rep for my sorry ass district and I never thought she'd lose. Lundgren is such an asshat!

[calimary]

15. We thought we'd never get rid of lundgren, either. GREAT news!

Now, we have to work on getting rid of those twin plagues darrell issa and dana rohrabacher!!!

[stopwastingmymoney]

9. Yes!

Anyone know where the total seat count stands as of now?

[piechartking]

11. I think Best Case scenario is 201 for us, 234 for them

Which is a pickup of like 8 or 9 seats I think. What with Gerrymandering after 2010 Census, that's actually a great win for the Dems.

[stopwastingmymoney]

13. So we need 34 sane pubs to come over and govern

A girl can dream, right?

[CoboWowbo]

19. If the Dems get 201...

They would need 17 Repubs. 218 is the magic number for passing a bill in the house. ( Unless there are vacancies, then 50% +1 to pass )

[stopwastingmymoney]

21. Oh right

Silly me

Even better

I'm thrilled that Lundgren is out

[piechartking]

23. Good luck with that...

I wouldn't hold my breath on getting 17 fruitcakes to come over to our side.

[calimary]

14. Welcome to DU, piechartking, stopwastingmymoney, and mimi85!

Great to have each of you with us! Good things come in threes! The more of us there are, the better able we will be to solidify the gains we made on Election Night! We have to build on all those good results, and not take a bit of it for granted. There ARE some, well, semi-sensible opponents who are looking at our strong demographic groups with rawther hungry eyes!

[mimi85]

25. Thanks!

Yep, Issa MUST go! Damn car thief....

[ffr]

10. Yes. I looked it up.

[calimary]

16. California does it again!

[Coyotl]

17. Whooot!! More than a few crooks getting early retirement this time!

[MsAmerkinpie]

18. why Ami Bera won

Finally Dan Lungren wasn't able to rig the district so he could keep "winning" re-election. Maybe people woke up to the fact that Dan Lungren voted against GI bill for vets, against women's right to choose, against health care reform, for holding middle class tax cuts and unemployment benefits hostage until he was able to see his corporate sponsors get their big tax breaks extended, against Pell Grants and student loans for our kids. He was such a (as Duchess puts it) teabilly douchbag! Good riddance. Ami Bera proved you can still win elections with grass roots efforts instead of selling your sole to the special interest super pacs like Lungren.

[hrmjustin]

20. Great first post! Welcome to du.

[Indpndnt]

24. Well said.

Welcome to Du, MsAmerkinpie.

[malexand]

22. Great news!

Thanks, flpoljunkie.

This is great news. Redistricting in California by a truly independent commission made the difference in this important race.

Congratulations, Ami!

[MBS]

26. : ) n/t

[AlinPA]

27. This is great. Things are a'changin'.......

[ellie]

28. Bwahahahahahahaha!

Sayonara asshole!