California GOP sees Democrats Newsom and Harris as sitting pretty

[Zorro]

Republicans trying to unseat Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris share a common complaint: The two Democrats are so confident of reelection that they're already laying ground to run for governor in 2018.

"She's looking right past us," David King, a Harris challenger, told a recent gathering of Republican women in Thousand Oaks.

Newsom and Harris, two of the best-known Democrats on the June 3 ballot, insist they're taking nothing for granted. Both deny they're focused on 2018.

But the weak standing of their Republican challengers, all of them far behind in both fundraising and name recognition, is emblematic of this year's lopsided and low-key California elections, with Democrats well-positioned to keep their grip on every statewide office.

http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-newsom-harris-20140518-story.html

[Politicalboi]

1. LOL!

And they're right. I wish Newsom or Harris was running for Gov this time around. Sorry Jerry, people who smoke pot "can" function and vote your ass out. But I will vote for Jerry this year for the good of Ca.

[NBachers]

2. Be despondent, Republicans, be Very Very Despondent

May the season of despair and hopelessness be upon you all from now 'till the end of time.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Word!

[savalez]

8. Boom shakalaka!

[Galileo126]

4. The GOP in Cali is an endangered species

and I, for one, have no problem with that. It is by our design.

If only San Diego (CA-49th) would vote out Issa, we'd be clean of all that scum. Wake up, San Diego!

[Cleita]

5. When it becomes that, let's put Darryl Issa in the museum of extinct

species as the most noxious of them all.

[Zorro]

7. Issa's confederate-in-arms Duncan Hunter Jr.

(who represents a neighboring district) also needs to go. He's a douchebag who's continued his daddy's anti-immigrant posture and policies, and is a tea party favorite.

Unfortunately he's probably unassailable in his district.

[KamaAina]

6. Not as well-positioned as I would like

repukes are making noise in both the controller's and, worse still, SoS races. Got vote suppression?