Dope and casino funding is tough to fight. Since that is how CA greases it’s control at the state house level. They are all getting greased. Ask any farmer in CA. The pot heads run the show... they and the queers.
With a few extra resources we could have picked up five to six extra congressional districts that proved to be very tight.
Dope and casino funding is tough to fight.
So campaign for Congress on a platform of states' rights: 'CA can have its dope (but I'll fight to see that not a seed of it leaves the state).'
In addition to dope and casino funding, you left out the biggest source of funding for Dems in CA: The public employees unions. Behind that the trial lawyers and Hollyweird.