Kevin de León formally launches bid to unseat Sen. Dianne Feinstein
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article179005781.html
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De León has made his mark as the leader of the Senate. Since Trump’s election in November, he’s helped lead the body’s resistance to the president. As a lawmaker, he is known for carrying far-reaching legislation on climate change, gun-control and immigration. His emergence from the Legislature comes at a time of relative productivity, a point he makes often when comparing the passage of legislation there with what’s moving in Congress.
Aides and strategists acknowledge he will not be able to keep pace with Feinstein in direct fundraising given her decades of raising money for federal office. But they expect outside progressive groups that believe Feinstein needs to go to step up and support him. She had $3.6 million in her account through June.
Democracy for America, a progressive group with nearly 300,000 members in the state, came out with an immediate endorsement Sunday of de León, citing his work as a young community organizer battling Proposition 187 and his leadership in the push for single-payer healthcare in the Legislature.
He “didn’t ask people to sit back and wait, hoping maybe Trump would someday turn out OK,” Executive Director Charles Chamberlain said. “He immediately began working to pass policies that would help the people most immediately affected by Trump’s bigoted, greedy policies.”
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Bio from his website:
http://sd24.senate.ca.gov/biography
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