Posted on 01/10/2015 5:34:08 AM PST by Libloather
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After all, a Senate seat is a plum job anywhere, but especially for Democrats in California, where it’s been decades since any of them lost a reelection bid for statewide office. Whoever takes Boxer’s place can expect to become the state’s senior senator after 2018, when the then-85-year-old Dianne Feinstein is also widely expected to retire.
But ambitious Democrats should beware: Their eagerness, even greed, could do in their party’s hold on Boxer’s spot. It has happened before in California, and very recently.
The field of potential Democratic candidates for Boxer’s slot is large, possibly going beyond obvious prospects like Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Attorney General Kamala Harris, state Treasurer John Chiang, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and his predecessor Antonio Villaraigosa. Less obvious might be Silicon Valley moguls like Facebook chief executive Sheryl Sandberg and billionaire hedge fund operator Tom Steyer, of late a financial angel for liberal causes.
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Is there any snowball’s chance in h3ll a Republican could get elected Senator in California?
No likely.
They’re giving away drivers licenses to illegals. Next stop; motor voter.
They have a strange system in CA. The top two vote getters in the primary battle in November. It’s possible the democrats could split their vote and two republicans could be on top.
I don’t think it will be a major problem because four major offices are likely opening in the next four years. Brown is term limited so both governor and lieutenant governor are opening in 2018. Boxer’s seat is opening in 2016 and Feinstein isn’t likely to run in 2018 when she’ll be 84. There should be opportunity enough for all of them.
Sen. Barbara Boxer is a milestone in the unfolding Idiocracy. I.e., it doesn’t get better from here.
Who?
Heck, I don’t know. California completely mystifies me, frankly.
” for Boxer’s slot is large, “. That’s a little more than I needed to know. :>} When I first heard about her bailing I immediately thought of kammi harris running for the position. She’d fit right in with these IPOS.
DEPOPULATE ‘Rats/progressives/socialists/criminals/deceivers/RINOS/totalitarians/scumbags/pigs/etc., etc. from the body politic.
YOU DID help build this…
…enslaving us, our children, our grandchildren.
ALL of your assets should be confiscated.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One - Freneau 1784-1796
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt,…
10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, and should be familiar in its use to every politician as the knife he carries in his pocket. In the work here to be executed, the best effects may be produced by this maxim, and with peculiar facility. An extensive republic made up of lesser republics necessarily contains various sorts of people, distinguished by local and other interests and prejudices. Let the whole group be well examined in all its parts and relations, geographical and political, metaphysical and metaphorical; let there be first a northern and a southern section, by a line running east and west, and then an eastern and western section, by a line running north and south. By a suitable nomenclature, the landholders cultivating different articles can be discriminated from one another, all from the class of merchants, and both from that of manufacturers.
One of the subordinate republics may be represented as a commercial state, another as a navigation state, another as a manufacturing state, others as agricultural states; and although the great body of people in each be really agricultural, and the other characters be more or less common to all, still it will be politic to take advantage of such an arrangement. Should the members of the great republic be of different sizes, and subject to little jealousies on that account, another important division will be ready formed to your hand. Add again the division that may be carved out of personal interests, political opinions, and local parties. With so convenient an assortment of votes, especially with the help of the marked ones, a majority may be packed for any question with as much ease as the odd trick by an adroit gamester, and any measure whatever carried or defeated, as the great revolution to be brought about may require.
It is only necessary, therefore, to recommend that full use be made of the resource; and to remark that, besides the direct benefit to be drawn from these artificial divisions, they will tend to smother the true and natural one, existing in all societies, between the few who are always impatient of political equality and the many who can never rise above it; between those who are to mount to the prerogatives and those who are to be saddled with the burdens of the hereditary government to be introduced - in one word, between the general mass of the people, attached to their republican government and republican interests, and the chosen band devoted to monarchy and Mammon. It is of infinite importance that this distinction should be kept out of sight. The success of the project absolutely requires it.
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
Declaration of Dependence?
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
I’m afraid California is lost in terms of a Senate seat. There is an outside chance that we could find a Mark Kirk type that could squeeze through - but I seriously doubt that any real conservative can any longer win at the state level in California.
Hoping I’m wrong but doubting that I am.
Yes, Tom McClintock in 2016!
Such as “Any Twosome” Newsome?
”... for Boxer’s slot is large, “
“...we could find a Mark Kirk type that could squeeze through”
This thread seems to be heading a certain way...
California needs Dirty Harry.
May the rat politico sharks eat/destroy each other in a feeding frenzy to become the new Californicator life time Jr $inator!
There is no way in hell CA will elect a Republican Senator.
Not even a RINO.
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