Posted on 02/22/2018 5:39:53 PM PST by mdittmar
California Democrats, united in their opposition to President Donald Trump, are gathering to chart a path for 2018 success while seeking to shore up fissures over the party’s direction that were exposed during the 2016 election.
The party’s biggest names are among 3,400 activists meeting for three days in San Diego for an annual convention that’s part pep rally and part political spectacle as candidates fight for the party’s endorsement. It follows a postelection year that began with a blistering battle over the party’s leadership and continued with bitter intra-party fights over single-payer health care, environmental policy and, now, sexual harassment.
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will deliver speeches to generate excitement and encourage unity in a year when Democrats expect to keep their hold on all statewide elective offices and hope to unseat seven California Republicans in U.S. House races and, maybe, give the party a congressional majority.
“That’s the huge question: Whether the common enemy of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress is enough to unite a Democratic Party that has been fractured on ideological, policy, and personal political grounds,” said Thad Kousser, chair of the political science department at the University of California, San Diego.
The gathering comes as personal tensions flare in Sacramento over a sexual misconduct scandal in the Legislature.
Los Angeles-area Sen. Tony Mendoza on Thursday became the third Democrat to resign after an investigation found he likely engaged in sexual harassment toward six women.
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Democrats: The Party of Hate. Hatred of moral, hatred of decent, hatred of freedom.
Like the GOP has a chance.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If you fail to fight to win, you won’t.
They’re fighting about how they can do even more damage to the state. The citizens—why should the Democrats care about them?
“House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will deliver speeches to generate excitement”..
I’m not seeing it.
It will involve lots of talk about lawnmowers and landscaping ...
Conservatives need to start running as Democrats in California given the “jungle primary” system they have invoked to try to have one party rule - since there is literally no winning a party nomination anymore in that state - that would essentially transform their scheme into a non-partisan ballot and undermine it.
A bunch of disgusting freeloaders fighting over oppressive positions in Excremento. Remember how the RATS voted themselves an ALL DEMOCRAT BALLOT...yes, they did away with the two-party system on the ballot. You can have two RATS running against each other for an office with NO REPUBLICAN based on popular vote....
Even though the Dems hate freedom, the people of CA either do not know that or endorse the extinction of freedom that Reagan once talked about with his “thousand years of darkness” quotation.
<>Whether the common enemy of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress . . . <> and not islam, not Isis or Mexican gangs.
Dear President Trump, please pull all ICE, law enforcement, and money that you can from the enemies of our republic.
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