GOP All but Cedes the Race to Feinstein

[Judi Lynn]

GOP All but Cedes the Race to Feinstein
By Scott Martelle, Times Staff Writer
October 15, 2006

The Republican candidate for one of California's two seats in the Senate — potentially one of the most powerful legislative positions in the country — walked alone into a banquet room at the Pomona Valley Mining Co. restaurant on a recent morning and looked around.

The regular meeting of the California Federation of Republican Women, Southern Division, was underway, and the candidate, Dick Mountjoy, portly beneath a shock of white hair, stood mostly unnoticed. As a woman at the head table talked of plans for an upcoming convention, Mountjoy slipped small stacks of pamphlets and bumper stickers from the pockets of his cream-colored jacket and placed them on the registration table.

There was no entourage. No scheduler clicking away on a Blackberry or campaign handler whispering into a cellphone. Just Mountjoy, a former state senator from nearby Monrovia and self-described "biblical constitutionalist," here to talk to the Republican faithful about his campaign to unseat incumbent Democrat Dianne Feinstein.

David had it easier against Goliath.

During a national election cycle marked by a bitter fight for control of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the campaign for California's senior Senate seat has the feel of a foregone conclusion as Feinstein, one of the state's most popular vote-getters, holds a commanding lead among likely voters in the race.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-guidesenate15oct15,1,6140016.story?coll=la-news-politics-california

[rpannier]

1. The unfortunate thing about this is... (IMLHO)

Feinstein could have beaten gov. numbnuts if she had run.
I think California could have found another person to run for Senate that would have beaten this schmuck quite easily.