Are You Trying To Figure Out Who To Vote For In Down-Ballot Races? This Is For Angelenos
OK, local elections in L.A. County. These are the candidates I voted for, not including federal races: Mayor- Kevin De Leon (worst...
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Howie Klein
Apr 24, 20226 min read
What's This About Juan Vargas At "The Corporate Pig Trough?" You Thought Only Republicans Did That?
San Diego Reader politics columnist Matt Porter quoted some Blue America material in his latest slash'n'bash: Juan Vargas challenged for...
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Howie Klein
Apr 14, 20228 min read
Dianne Feinstein Is 88 And In Severe Cognitive Decline-- Way Past Time To Retire
Feinstein shouldn't have run last time but she's one of those political freaks-- like Pelosi and most of the careerists in Congress who...
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Howie Klein
Apr 9, 20224 min read
19-Year-Old Starbucks Worker Challenges Democratic Establishment
My old friend John Laesch introduced me to an effective former volunteer who had worked for his campaign and who is now running for an...
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Howie Klein
Mar 18, 20225 min read
Putting People First! Meet San Diego Progressive Joaquín Vázquez
A decade ago, then Congressman Bob Filner described then state Senator Juan Vargas like this: "While Juan has not yet been convicted of a...
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Howie Klein
Feb 21, 20225 min read
Cristina vs Robert-- A Congressional Race You Should Expect To Hear A Lot About This Cycle
Yesterday's L.A. Times ran a nice "both sides now" piece about the Dem vs Dem congressional race in the newly created 42nd district...
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Howie Klein
Feb 2, 20223 min read
Which Democraps Killed Single Payer In California (Besides Newsom)?
Yesterday, there was a clear implication in a post about the death of California's single-payer bill that the mess could be lain at the...
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Howie Klein
Jan 19, 20224 min read
Mistakes We Made-- Jerry McNerney
Today Jerry McNerney announced he wouldn't be running for reelection. Other than DC politicos the folks in Stockton, Lodi, Brentwood,...
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Howie Klein
Jan 16, 20227 min read
Endorsement Alert: Cristina Garcia-- A Proven Progressive Takes On An Establishment-Backed DINO
With both Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) retiring from safe Blue districts-- Trump lost CA-40 with just 20.6%...
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Howie Klein
Dec 21, 20214 min read
3 More House Democrats Announced Their Retirements Yesterday-- Two Bad Ones & One Good One
Yesterday, Blue Dog chairwoman Stephanie Murphy-- under pressure from a gerrymandered seat and aware that many progressive constituents...
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Harvey Wasserman
Dec 18, 20216 min read
The Insane Diablo Canyon Nukes Need to Shut NOW!
-by Harvey Wasserman The nuclear power insanity is nowhere more dangerous that at California’s ancient, aging, embrittled Diablo Canyon...
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Howie Klein
Dec 12, 20214 min read
Goodbye & Good Riddance, Devin Nunes-- Hello & Welcome, Lourin Hubbard!
Devin Nunes' Central Valley district went from R+6 to D+7 and Nunes ran for his life, landing a make-believe job with Trump's...
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Howie Klein
Dec 5, 20216 min read
Does McCarthy Really Know Which Way The Wind Blows?
Undiscussed in the public forum is that the latest California redistricting maps-- less than a week from finalization-- draw Kevin...
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Howie Klein
Nov 12, 20213 min read
California's New Congressional Districts-- Big Loser: Nunes, Who'll Only Survive In A Red Wave Year
California's independent-- as in nonpartisan-- redistricting commission has been releasing myriad "visualizations" of the new districts...
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Howie Klein
Oct 27, 20212 min read
Is Issa FINALLY Facing Indictment After All These years?
By now, everyone who follows the political news knows that conservative Republican Jeff Fortenberry (NE) was indicted for lying to the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 25, 20213 min read
CA-21 Will Be One Of The Hottest Races In The Country
CA-21, a Central Valley district that stretches from the Hispanic neighborhoods of Bakersfield, north along the 5 in the west and the 99...
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Howie Klein
Oct 24, 20212 min read
California Democratic Party-- Where Democracy is Out of Order!
-by Dorothy Reik President, Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains Sadism was the order of the day. The party caucuses had...
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Howie Klein
Oct 20, 20213 min read
Want To Run For Office? Here's Some Advice
Isaac Bryan, a 29 year old academic high achiever who came from a huge foster family, was elected to the California Assembly in a special...
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Howie Klein
Oct 3, 20213 min read
Mayor Bryan Osorio vs The Conservative "Approach" To The Climate Crisis
Delano Mayor Bryan Osorio is the only progressive in a crowded race for the Republican-held congressional seat in the Central Valley...
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Howie Klein
Sep 26, 20217 min read
The Party Of Sickness And Death Dominates America's Whitest County
Yesterday I listed about 2 dozen counties with vaccination rates below 20%. What they have in common is that they are all counties that...
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