Posted on 10/16/2017 9:50:31 AM PDT by qam1
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California legislative leader announced Sunday he will challenge U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, setting up a 2018 contest between two Democrats that will highlight generational, geographic and ideological contrasts in the party that dominates state politics.
The 84-year-old Feinstein, a former San Francisco mayor and grande dame of California Democrats, will face state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon, 50, a Los Angeles Hispanic who is largely unknown statewide.
In a brief video announcement posted online, De Leon promised to work for job growth and economic security in Washington, recalling his single immigrant mother who cleaned homes to pay the bills.
In an accompanying statement emailed to supporters, he vowed to aggressively fight the agenda of President Donald Trump, continuing the resistance of California government to Trump's proposals on health care, immigration and climate change. Democrats hold every statewide office and control both chambers of the Legislature.
The statement echoed criticism from liberal activists that the centrist Feinstein has been too accommodating in some of her assessments of the White House. De Leon was among the Democrats who berated Feinstein last summer after she suggested Trump could learn in time to become a "good president."
"We now stand at the front lines of a historic struggle for the very soul of America, against a President without one," De Leon wrote.
Trump "disregards our voices. Demonizes our diversity. Attacks our civil rights, our clean air, our health access and our public safety," he said.
The Senate leader enters the race, by standard measures, a long shot. De Leon is prevented by term limits from seeking another trip to Sacramento.
Feinstein has been a political fixture in the heavily Democratic state for years and is closely associated with issues that typically drive state voters......
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I'll pick a name for $200 BlueDragon....
Peter Theil..... Oh my, that might work in Cali. ..
he’s a pal who pays it forward
Yup. That's what's happening.
The pasty faced libs who objectify all Mexicans as desperate campesinos are finding out that they are really hyper macho thugs who don't believe in the leftist social liberal grievance list.
What they believe in is power for themselves and taking wealth at the point of a gun, including from cheese eating, wine sipping Marin county phonies like Di-Fi.
There's a reason South and Central America look the way they do.
The question of the century.
When California passed Prop. 187, this guy went apes**t and helped tear it down, which ultimately led to Gray Davis being de-governorized.
When Arizona passed SB1070, this guy and his buddies went apes**t again, and sent lawyers and agitators to Phoenix to file lawsuits and start riots over it.
So now he a) repeals 187 (destroying the will of 6 million voters) and b) turns California into a Sanctuary State repudiating the will of the entire Federal Union, and....nada.
Sessions say's he's sad.
Awwwwwww.....dat's tewibble.
And that's why the SOB is running for the Senate. The Americans should be rioting in the streets against this gang-banger and yet....silence.
We need to change that NOW.
Yes indeed I could say more from personal experience
Deleon makes Fienstien look good. He will probably win too. His radical views are in line with 80% of the people here.
I’m supporting DeLeon in the Democrat primary.
De Leon promised to work for job growth and economic security in Washington
Then we have:
statement emailed to supporters, he vowed to aggressively fight the agenda of President Donald Trump, continuing the resistance of California government to Trump's proposals on health care, immigration and climate change.
He contradicts himself.
He admitted half his Family are Illegal Invaders and they get Taxpayer funded Government goodies.
He also changed his name from Leon to Deleon to sound more authentic.
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