Posted on 07/15/2018 9:43:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The California Democratic Party endorsed progressive candidate Kevin de León for Senate late Saturday in a stunning rebuke of 25-year incumbent and establishment favorite Dianne Feinstein.
De León, the state Senate president pro tempore, secured 65 percent of the party’s vote, while just 7 percent voted to endorse Feinstein.
A candidate needed 60 percent of the vote to win the endorsement. Twenty-eight percent of the body voted not to endorse any candidate.
“Today’s vote is a clear-eyed rejection of politics as usual in Washington, D.C.,” de León said in a statement. “Through years of hard-won progress, we have proven to the world that California can forge a path for the rest of the nation.”
“We have presented Californians with the first real alternative to the worn-out Washington playbook in a quarter-century,” he added.
The endorsement is a sign that the state’s politics are moving to the left as the country heads into a midterm showdown. De León has also secured endorsements from progressive environmental and labor groups.
Still, it is unlikely that he will beat Feinstein in the general election. In the state’s June primary, Feinstein won 44 percent of the vote, far ahead of de León’s 12 percent. The two candidates will face off in the November election because of the state’s top-two primary system.
Feinstein also has the backing of the most-recognizable Democratic names, including former President Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden and California Gov. Jerry Brown.
Feinstein’s campaign manager told SF Gate Saturday night that her team is “confident” in Feinstein’s re-election in November.
He is not progressive. He is ultra liberal.
They are taking over America, one state at a time.
We’re being softly invaded.
President Trump is our last hope.
We MUST replace the Bush League Republicans with patriots.
Trump cannot do this alone.
WE must send him reinforcements.
He has bragged that half of his family are illegal aliens.
Doesn’t make much difference. The November election for senator is democrat versus democrat, thanks to the jungle primary. DeLeon is more liberal than Feinstein but it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to conservatives.
We’ve pretty much said the left is bat-crap crazy and a bunch of communists, for years and years. These people are proving it.
The dinosaurs in the Dem party won't last another election cycle. The leftists are taking over, and are kicking the liberals to the curb.
The Dems are really going to be Marxist this year...could DiFi win now?
Progressive... LMAO... what a hoot.
Lets try the failed policies of the 20th Century. Who cares if they cost tens of millions of lives, perhaps over 100 million of them?
Progressive...
Shameful!
Think “South Africa”.
You're being frightened by mere theater. You're being shocked and awed by a very small minority of left liberal activists and the MSM, who do not represent the broad spectrum of thought amongst Democrat voters, many of whom are disenchanted, or even horrified at what their party has become.
The party's hard leftward turn under Obama, is the reason they've lost over 1,400 elective offices since 2010. Their response was to become even more radically leftist, which of course produced an even greater rightward reaction from the voters, who elected Donald Trump to save them.
Appearances can be deceiving. All is not well in La La Land. The #WalkAway movement is one very visible symptom of that. Internally, the ragtag coalition known as the Democrat party is splitting apart, and is in danger of losing its status as a major political party over the next couple of election cycles, if they can't steer back toward the center. I think we all know that's not happening.
The noise and fury you're now witnessing from the left, is really the desperate screams of a dying party.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A) is arguably backfiring in the faces of California Democratic lawmakers!
From related threads …
Note that one of the reasons that the Founding States had established the federal Senate was so that it would kill unconstitutional House appropriations bills. This is because such bills not only steal state powers, but also state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
California lawmakers need to wake up to the major constitutional problem that, as a consequence of 17A, the Senate now works in cahoots with the likewise corrupt House to pass bills that steal state powers and state revenues.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
When California lawmakers finally get a clue, they can support Pres. Trump in leading the states to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments, ultimately putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional federal interference in the affairs of the sovereign states.
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped then California and each of the other states should eventually find a tsunami of new revenues that they probably won’t know what to do with imo.
For starters, the states can establish their own individual healthcare and retirement programs, upgrade public schools, increase funding for police and fire departments, and repair infrastructure.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president.
More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the 2018 primary ballots, candidates who will be willing to support Pres. Trump in politically "forcing" Congress to surrender state powers that it has stolen from the states back to the states.
Patriots then need to pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day and give the care of the people back to the states.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
And until the states wise up and repeal the 17A, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of the outcome of Alabama's and Pennsylvania's special elections, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for the following concerns.
Keep Pelosi from becoming Speaker again.
Obama: Pelosi will be speaker again after November midterms
Keep Democrats from impeaching Trump.
Democratic Rep. Al Green says he will force House impeachment vote
Young, misguided, newly registered pro-gun control voters who are likely clueless about the fed's constitutionally limited powers.
Possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
Interference from people like Soros.
They have begun eating their own.
Best election evah.
5.56mm
The California Democratic Party endorsed progressive candidate Kevin de León for Senate late Saturday in a stunning rebuke of 25-year incumbent and establishment favorite Dianne Feinstein. De León, the state Senate president pro tempore, secured 65 percent of the party’s vote, while just 7 percent voted to endorse Feinstein... Twenty-eight percent of the body voted not to endorse any candidate... Still, it is unlikely that he will beat Feinstein in the general election. In the state’s June primary, Feinstein won 44 percent of the vote, far ahead of de León’s 12 percent. The two candidates will face off in the November election because of the state’s top-two primary system. Feinstein also has the backing of the most-recognizable Democratic names, including former President Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden and California Gov. Jerry Brown.
The party of the single party state has spoken. Thanks yesthatjallen.
If you examine any crackpot legislation in California you’ll find De Leon’s name on it as either author or spencer. Nearly every anti 2nd Amendment bill is authored by De Leon. First class Hispanic Communist.
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