{"id":178933,"date":"2018-07-15T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/15\/and-now-the-post-primary-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2018-07-15T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T00:43:00","slug":"and-now-the-post-primary-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/15\/and-now-the-post-primary-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now the Post Primary Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state Democratic party has just endorsed Kevin de Le\u00f3n for US Senate over incumbent Dianne Feinstein by a 2:1 margin<\/a>:<\/p>\n

California Democratic Party leaders took a step to the left Saturday night, endorsing liberal state lawmaker Kevin de Le\u00f3n for Senate in a stinging rebuke of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. <\/p>\n

De Le\u00f3n\u2019s victory reflected the increasing strength of the state party\u2019s liberal activist core, which was energized by the election of Republican Donald Trump as president. <\/p>\n

The endorsement was an embarrassment for Feinstein, who is running for a fifth full term, and indicates that Democratic activists in California have soured on her reputation for pragmatism and deference to bipartisanship as Trump and a Republican-led Congress are attacking Democratic priorities on immigration, healthcare and environmental protections. <\/p>\n

De Le\u00f3n, a former state Senate leader from Los Angeles, received 65% of the vote of about 330 members of the state party\u2019s executive board \u2014 more than the 60% needed to secure the endorsement. Feinstein, who pleaded with party leaders meeting in Oakland this weekend not to endorse any candidate<\/a>, received 7%, and 28% voted for \u201cno endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear that the endorsement will have a significant effect on the general election. Feinstein crushed De Le\u00f3n in the June primary, winning every county and finishing in first place with 44% of the overall vote. De Le\u00f3n finished far behind with 12%, which was enough for a second-place finish and a ticket to the November election under the state\u2019s top-two primary system.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

This was the second go-around for an endorsement fight in the Senate race. Ahead of the primary at the party\u2019s February convention in San Diego, where a larger contingent of 2,700 delegates voted<\/a>, De Le\u00f3n won 54% \u2014 short of the 60% required to secure an endorsement. Feinstein received just 37%.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a scenario where only a Democrat can win this seat the calls for unity are bullsh%$, vote for the better Democrat.<\/p>\n

Feinstein’s time has passed.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Full disclosure, my great grandfather, Harry Goldman, and her grandfather, Sam Goldman were brothers, though we have never met, either in person or electronically. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The state Democratic party has just endorsed Kevin de Le\u00f3n for US Senate over incumbent Dianne Feinstein by a 2:1 margin: California Democratic Party leaders took a step to the left Saturday night, endorsing liberal state lawmaker Kevin de Le\u00f3n for Senate in a stinging rebuke of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. De Le\u00f3n\u2019s victory reflected …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,375,374],"class_list":["post-178933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}