Cisneros really hates this photograph"Ex"-Republican Gil Cisneros spent $10,494,157 to beat still-Republican Young Kim (who spent $2,158,357) in a suburban L.A. district that went for Hillary 51.5% to 42.9%, her best Orange County performance. Of that $10,494,157 Cisneros spent about 80% of it came out of his personal bank account ($8,852,762) and most of that wasted on expensive consultants who ripped him off.The former Frito-Lay's potato chip taster who lives in a beachfront mansion nowhere near his landlocked district, doesn't care; it's just a small part of the 2010 historic $266 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot haul that came just weeks after he was fired from the potato chip factory for tasting too many chips. He was immediately catapulted into the upper echelons of the California Democratic Party (which is never fussy about who writes the checks).He says he left the GOP in 2008-- although the math doesn't work and it was probably 4 or 5 years after that-- and he says the reason is because the Republicans had become "too ideological." Since the Democratic Party is so transactual and non-ideological, he figured he could use his money to bribe enough party support to get a congressional seat. It worked, albeit just barely and not in the Orange County part of the district.Yesterday, Washington Post reporters Robert Costa and Mike DeBonis broke the story that Cisneros breathed new life into Seth Moulton's moribund coup against Nancy Pelosi, signing the letter agreeing not to vote for her in tomorrow's party caucus nominating election nor in the January 3 floor vote. "Cisneros’s signature," wrote Costa, "gives a jolt of energy to the anti-Pelosi dissidents, who had seen the House minority leader’s relentless lobbying machine pluck off several of the rebels." Both Brian Higgins (Buffalo) and Stephen Lynch (Boston) withdrew their signatures and distanced themselves from Moulton, Rice and the other coup plotters.I asked a prominent activist in the district what she thought and she emailed me back: "Geez. That was quick. I assumed he would wait to disappoint. Considering the party spent around $5 million to get him elected plus all the SwingLeft support he had for the general (most volunteers were from LA and surrounding areas, not local), you would think he would find a way to be supportive." You would? I wouldn't. Last night, Politico reported that "The latest trouble for the rebels started when Moulton issued a statement Monday signaling he was open to holding talks with Pelosi and leaving the gavel in her hands. But multiple aides and lawmakers in the anti-Pelosi pack pushed back on Moulton’s statement, worrying it could make the rebels look like they’re already seeking an exit strategy. Moulton suggested that replacing her top lieutenants, Reps. Steny Hoyer of Maryland or Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, with new leaders might win her the group’s support. Sources close to Moulton also hinted that Pelosi could find success if she were to promise to serve only one more term."I asked a few congressmembers who Cisneros wrote checks for, what they thought about him throwing in his lot with the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. No one wanted to say anything on the record but one Democrat told me that "It says a lot about [Pelosi] that she bothers even to listen to people like that. If she were like Boehner, she would simply say, 'if you don’t vote for me for Speaker, then you’re off the Financial Services Committee. Go try selling your vote when you’re on the Joint Committee on the Library, and see what you get.'"Everything you need to know about Congressman-elect Cisneros, including the sexual harassment case that he seems to have bribed his way out of. Thinking of a primary challenge? Contact downwithtyranny@gmail.com/
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