I am on the East Coast Boston area but still remember in California incumbent B1 Bob Dornan a freeper type right wing republican being beaten for representative in 1996 by Loretta Sanchez in a questionable fraudulent election and the Republicans not helping him out.
The gutless Republicans didn't want to offend the "Hispanics and illegal aliens who would become future voters.
From that time on I felt something bad was happening in Kalifornia. - Tom
Yeah, I remember that too. B-1 Bob could have toned it down a tad, and still been effective, but yes it was definitely Democrat fraud that brought him down, and then he was told to shut up, and disappear by the GOP.