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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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"Melendez's winning percentage was four percentage points above that of Stone in his last trip to the polls."
1 posted on 05/16/2020 5:47:25 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Nice story but California is hopeless.


2 posted on 05/16/2020 5:52:35 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Republicans have figured out how to play the voter harvesting game too.


3 posted on 05/16/2020 5:53:10 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Trend leading to the destruction of the Democrat Party. I foresee thousands of staffers joining the breadlines.

Next primarying the Republicrats like the pansy wanker Graham.


4 posted on 05/16/2020 5:53:43 AM PDT by yardboyd (Call me a rose.... or leave me alone.)
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To: 2banana

put out republican pro-life Hispanics and we can take over the state


5 posted on 05/16/2020 5:57:48 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: allendale

Maybe its a sign that the draconian measures instituted by Dem governors will start driving people away from the Democrats


6 posted on 05/16/2020 5:58:05 AM PDT by nhbob1
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To: allendale

Hey, I’ll take having two democrats being defeated in Commiefornia, any day. Baby steps, but something to build on.


7 posted on 05/16/2020 6:01:42 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: Republican Wildcat
Plus she's reasonably not guilty for 51.


8 posted on 05/16/2020 6:03:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PapaBear3625

Yeah, that’s so important.


9 posted on 05/16/2020 6:05:43 AM PDT by RealVirginia
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To: Republican Wildcat

She got her degree after being a navy pilot?


10 posted on 05/16/2020 6:09:11 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: ASA Vet

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.


11 posted on 05/16/2020 6:19:31 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: allendale

“Nice story but California is hopeless.”

Nonsense. Everything has to have a beginning, and every journey has to start somewhere.


12 posted on 05/16/2020 6:22:12 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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To: Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; arthurus; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Ax; ...
MI Ping

Covert missions over Iraq and learned Russian.

Maybe NSG?

13 posted on 05/16/2020 6:25:54 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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“Maybe its a sign that the draconian measures instituted by Dem governors, (Covidictators)
will start driving people away from the Democrats.”

They have probably lost most independent voters, and some liberal voters with half of a brain are souring on the Covidictators.

The closing of the Cal State universities and local colleges has been a big wake up call for many college students and their parents. This week they were told that there will only be classes via the internet for at least the first semester.


14 posted on 05/16/2020 6:26:58 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: allendale

It’s another indication that voters are trending away from the democrats.


15 posted on 05/16/2020 6:27:21 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: 2banana

Ok, now that I have my flame retardant pajamas on, let me try this crazy conspiracy theory on you.

California is a safe bet for Democrat control so one or two small losses won’t tip the balance.

So Democrats allow this election loss to happen so they can use this to say, “See! Voter ballot harvesting isn’t just so Democrats can steal elections!”

And Congress allows the use of mail-in ballots for the 2020 election and they find boxes of ballots in several battleground states that steals the election for Biden.

(Flame On!)


16 posted on 05/16/2020 6:29:02 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: DainBramage

She wasn’t a pilot. She was an enlisted linguist/translator who flew on “spy” missions.


17 posted on 05/16/2020 6:30:04 AM PDT by real saxophonist (If you don't have a gun, sell some toilet paper, and go buy a gun. - Colion Noir)
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To: Republican Wildcat

3 for 3 in the middle of a pandemic. I like the trend. What’s that you say? Trump is finished?


18 posted on 05/16/2020 6:31:08 AM PDT by hotsteppa
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To: DainBramage

She was probably what we used to call the Air Dale Navy Security Group, not a pilot, with a Top Secret Crypto clearance. They flew over and around listening and monitoring chatter from the unfriendliest.


19 posted on 05/16/2020 6:31:30 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: Grampa Dave

The fact that she was a Russian lingy flying in Iraq air space will get a big fat “NO COMMENT” from me.


20 posted on 05/16/2020 6:39:31 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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