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For anyone wondering about the state of the Republican Party in California these days, consider this: There may be no Republican candidate for governor or United States senator on the states ballot this November, the New York Times reports.
That dispiriting possibility is beginning to sink in for California Republicans, against the backdrop of a divisive debate among its candidates and leaders on how the embattled party can become competitive again in a state where Ronald Reagan was elected twice as governor and that Richard M. Nixon called home.
If Republicans fall short in capturing one of those two November slots next month, which members of both parties say is a strong possibility, it would apparently be the first election where there was no major party candidate for both the Senate and governor races since 1914.
https://politicalwire.com/2018/05/06/california-gop-worries-about-getting-shut-out/
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Initech
(100,034 posts)Dana and Devin especially need to go before Mueller and hopefully land a one way indictment. Traitors.
OnDoutside
(19,948 posts)and people get over their egos.
BigmanPigman
(51,565 posts)there would be enough to flip the entire House. I am not unrealistic and I know that would be asking for an impossibility, but if we could get rid of a few that would be great!
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,565 posts)Besides, all of ours are definitely not flipping unfortunately.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)wryter2000
(46,023 posts)We have controlling majorities in the legislature and all the the statewide elected positions.
I was wondering how we get Newsom and Villaraigosa both at the top in the primaries. I haven't decided which one to vote for yet.
RandySF
(58,464 posts)wryter2000
(46,023 posts)So they're the top two on the final ballot. I wonder if voting for Villaraigosa is the best way to achieve that.
RandySF
(58,464 posts)Remember that this is a wide open jungle primary with NPP voters participating. So Newsom and Villaragosa are not fighting over Democrats only.
TeamPooka
(24,205 posts)I know Gavin has ambition but I have never seen a more calculating ambitious man than Villaraigosa.
If he won the general election I do believe he would start running for POTUS right away in 2020.
Bucky
(53,936 posts)Gavin had an affair with the wife of one of his top supporters and aides. That's a stab-in-the-back too. And he is just as likely to start running for president 2020 as Villaraigosa.
Endorse the guy you want, but you have yet to show real difference between the two candidates
TeamPooka
(24,205 posts)to be raided and closed when he was mayor and refused to endorse medical or legal weed forever.
He is endorsed by police unions because he's that guy. Mr. Arrest people Law and Order.
He was letting LAPD and DEA raid shops complying with state law.
Current mayor Garcetti does not allow LAPD to work with DEA.
He's good at cashing in too.
Since leaving the Los Angeles mayors office in 2013, Antonio Villaraigosa has made more than $4 million by advising companies such as Herbalife, Banc of California and natural resources company Cadiz...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-here-s-how-antonio-villaraigosa-made-1511308703-htmlstory.html
Herbalife should say it all.
Bucky
(53,936 posts)We make better decisions when we go with governance issues rather than personality traits
TeamPooka
(24,205 posts)choices as a politician than the others.
And I want Kamala Harris to run for President in 2020 so both of these guys better stay out of that.
TeamPooka
(24,205 posts)Cha
(296,801 posts)Bucky
(53,936 posts)If you have two Democrats running for statewide office, it's a safe assumption (but not a slam dunk certainty) that the more moderate of the two will be favored to win.
That's exactly the point of California's run-off system, which they copied from Louisiana. The idea is to keep the extremes of both parties counter checked against the need to run with an eye toward the general election in November.
MurrayDelph
(5,292 posts)If so, it would again show they never consider the consequences of their actions.
Vogon_Glory
(9,109 posts)We Texas Democrats have been frozen out of state offices for the better part of two decades. Texas is a de facto one party state.
Yes, I have a message for California Republicans. We feel your pain, but we have no empathy. We wish it was your Texas Republican colleagues who were in your position.
sinkingfeeling
(51,436 posts)RandySF
(58,464 posts)we have a VERY good chance of making it a bad night for California Republicans in November, from the Senate all the way to Library Board.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)putin's favorite congressmen.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Their ability to have sufficient name recognition the next time.
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)So it is especially gratifying that the Demos are sweeping their politics, too. BTW: Mother Russia is not even in the top ten of world economies!
Beartracks
(12,797 posts)... are keen on increasing their influence across the globe, and a distracted, misled America leaves a power/influence vacuum that makes that possible.
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aggiesal
(8,907 posts)This will eventually happen to the rest of the nation,
once they figure out that the GOP stands for Greedy One Percent.
calimary
(81,099 posts)I think it might do these bastards some good to sit things out for awhile and do some brutally serious thinking. About who and what they are and what they tell everybody theyre all about, compared to what they actually wind up doing (as in - selling their souls - and selling out their country - for fame, fortune, and ESPECIALLY power).
They should wander in the wilderness from coast to coast until they sincerely come to their senses and repent.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)California. True were a blue state, just not a progressive state.
Blue Owl
(50,256 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)Completely wiped out...gone.
Upthevibe
(8,009 posts)Completely gone...........
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Upthevibe
(8,009 posts)His baggage is basically that affair he had with his campaign manager's wife. Villaraigosa did a crap job here in L.A. I was excited when he was elected and was so disappointed by the half-ass job he did. Newsom has been on the cutting edge for years: He ordered city hall officials to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples way back in 2004. On guns: My grandfather committed suicide, but not before putting his daughter my mother and her twin against the fireplace and saying he was going to blow their brains out, Newsom said. Thats how I grew up. Thats how I found out about guns. I cant stand em.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)and the world's smallest violin