Posted on 01/23/2024 3:08:35 PM PST by RandFan
Steve Garvey is sitting in the backseat of his Hyundai Genesis outside Ruben’s Bakery & Mexican Food in South Los Angeles; Ryan, his son, sits in the driver’s seat. Inside await a gaggle of TV cameras and on-lookers, eager for their chance to brush up against California baseball history.
It’s nothing Garvey, 75, hasn’t seen before. Since joining the Los Angeles Dodgers more than half a century ago, fans from all parts of the world have flocked to his side for a handshake or an autograph. But today is different. Garvey is on the campaign trail, promoting his Republican run for California’s open U.S. Senate seat.
He reaches back into the trunk, where he keeps a fresh case of tissue-wrapped Rawlings baseballs. He takes one, slides it into the pocket of his black puffer vest, and opens the car door.
It’s the third stop of what has already been a long day of campaigning in Southern California. As soon as Garvey steps into the bakery, cameras swarm. Smiling, he reaches across the metal countertop to shake the hand of Ruben Ramirez Sr., wearing a blue L.A. Dodgers ball cap for the occasion. Garvey then turns to shake the hand of Ramirez’s wife, Alicia, who is sporting a Dodgers’ scarf.
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I’m waiting for some former ballplayers to show up at his rallies. Doesn’t have to be just from his Dodger days or the Padres.
Like Herschel Walker is in Georgia.
If Garvey does have a chance, what makes you think they won’t steal it?
And Walker worked out how?
It feels like Garvey doesn’t have a “Chinaman’s chance”, so to speak.
For most voters younger than 40, Steve Garvey is probably a complete unknown. All they will know for sure is that he is a Republican.
As is the commissioner.
My point.
The deck is stacked, no doubt. My point being he has a far better chance than any other GOP, none of whose names I even know
No.
In 1980, the San Fernando Valley was still 75% White.
By 1991, it was down to 58%. “Latinos” were moving in en masse because of chain immigration created by the 1986 amnesty, and of course increasing illegal immigration.
That was 30 years ago. “Hispanics” as they are now called are at about 70% of the valley, White people (um, the “Americans”) are now about 20% and falling.
The proportions have reversed, for the first time in history. The Val Girls are gone! Can probably see a few of them in rest homes out in Coachella.
Reagan’s America doesn’t exist in California. Garvey is a relic, and the 19% he’s carrying merely tells you how many White people are still voting.
He cannot win in Kalifornia.
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True, but if IIRC the last California Senate election was democrat vs democrat in the general election.
Getting a Republican into the general looks like an improvement.
Being a long time LA boy, if I still lived in California I’d vote for Garvy.
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