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Republican 'Superstar' Melissa Melendez Wins Special Election for California Senate
Newsmax ^ | May 14, 2020 | John Gizzi

Posted on 05/16/2020 5:47:25 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat

With all the attention focused Tuesday on Republican Mike Garcia’s smashing win in the special U.S. House election in California’s 25th District (Los Angeles), it was not surprising that the national press pretty much overlooked the big Republican win for state senate in the Golden State’s 28th District (Riverside).

With nearly all votes counted, conservative State Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez rolled up 56 per cent of the vote over Democrat and Riverside County Board of Education member Elizabeth Romero.

The special election was called to fill out the remainder of the term of Republican State Sen. Jeff Stone, who resigned earlier this year to become regional director of the U.S. Department of Labor. Melendez's winning percentage was four percentage points above that of Stone in his last trip to the polls.

“Assemblywoman Melendez was and is a superstar public servant,” California State GOP Chairman Jim Brulte told Newsmax, “She will serve her constituents well.”

A U.S. Navy veteran who earned her college degree nights from Chaminade University of Honolulu, Melendez flew on covert missions in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm and became fluent in Russian.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 25thdistrict; 28thdistrict; california; elizabethromero; iraq; jeffstone; jimbrulte; losangeles; melissamelendez; mikegarcia; navy; operationdesertstorm; riverside; unitedstatesnavy; usn; usnavy
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To: allendale

I don’t think so. Maybe LA and SF will be last, but CA is starting to get it.


21 posted on 05/16/2020 6:42:19 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Yes, I CAN take a joke /s)
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To: Grampa Dave

Thanks


22 posted on 05/16/2020 6:43:11 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: real saxophonist

Thanks


23 posted on 05/16/2020 6:43:26 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Grampa Dave

So what did the Navy fly for that mission? E-2Cs? P-3s?


24 posted on 05/16/2020 6:51:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Grampa Dave

Gonna be hard to gin-up the votes and extra-extra voters if the students are not clustered on campus.


25 posted on 05/16/2020 6:57:10 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: allendale

“Nice story but California is hopeless”.

Now that is the attitude the dimwits encourage. Things are difficult but we can see both in California and the Nation that the dimwits are committing political suicide. It will take time and effort but the ‘sheeple’ are waking up. Either accept commonsense or continued stupidity.


26 posted on 05/16/2020 7:00:20 AM PDT by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: DainBramage
She got her degree after being a navy pilot?

She is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute (DLI) and fluent in Russian.

She flew as a Cryptologic Technician Interpretive (CTI) and linguist aboard some special aircraft.

She is wicked smart.

27 posted on 05/16/2020 7:05:56 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: real saxophonist

My friend Michael did that in VietNam.


28 posted on 05/16/2020 7:07:00 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: ptsal

Gonna be hard to gin-up the votes and extra-extra voters if the students are not clustered on campus.
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You get an A+ for that comment. I’m embarrassed that it didn’t occur to me earlier.


29 posted on 05/16/2020 7:11:01 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: lonevoice

Excellent!


30 posted on 05/16/2020 7:12:06 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: Republican Wildcat

Fluent in Russian. That immediately qualifies her for accusations of collusion by the proggs.


31 posted on 05/16/2020 7:13:26 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: FreeReign; allendale
It’s another indication that voters are trending away from the democrats.
No we should all follow Allendale's lead, give up and cower in the corner while they beat us to death.
32 posted on 05/16/2020 7:14:36 AM PDT by lewislynn (STOP SUPPORTING CHINA AND ANTI-AMERICAN GLOBALISTS! DO IT NOW!)
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To: yardboyd

We need one and only one to primary Linda. Has anyone announced?


33 posted on 05/16/2020 7:21:22 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Republican Wildcat

She’s been on KFI’s John & Ken show several times. Smart lady, good conservative. Good for her.


34 posted on 05/16/2020 7:22:50 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (The words of the prophets are written on the Facebook walls and tenement halls.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

bookmark


35 posted on 05/16/2020 7:26:24 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: FreedomPoster

So what did the Navy fly for that mission? E-2Cs? P-3s?

I have no ideal, I was out of the land based guys in 1967.

Hopefully someone will let you know.


36 posted on 05/16/2020 7:26:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The CHICOM/PRCNN, controllers of America's Fake news media, CDCNN, WHO, are the Deep Staters!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

The one factor that may be tipping the scales is the fear factor. People are witnessing just how crazy democrats can be when they have power.


37 posted on 05/16/2020 7:29:53 AM PDT by robel
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To: Republican Wildcat

Nice to win by a bigger margin and let’s hope that is a sign but she replaced another Republican.

JoMa


38 posted on 05/16/2020 7:38:07 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: InterceptPoint

UCSB is and always has been a solid 20,000 votes in the election of district supervisors. In the past decade, CalPoly SLO has into that same trap.

In it is hard to beat a 20,000 vote head start. /#sad


39 posted on 05/16/2020 7:45:59 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Grampa Dave

Correct. That is exactly what she was and it was a hard job too. Listening to most Russian radio traffic is worse than any bad Hinglish radio station ever thought about being.

A large quantity of Russian military words are transliterations of English words into Russian and they sound horrific.

We are always so crystal clear in most of our radio traffic that we have to use crypto. Theirs is so bad even their own people can’t catch it sometimes.


40 posted on 05/16/2020 7:52:07 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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