Issa (left) and Hunter (right)We all love a good dirty brawl-- especially when the two dirty brawlers are so patently repulsive that you can literally hope they both rip each other's heads off. Welcome to California's 50th congressional district, First a little background on the district itself. It's an overwhelmingly suburban district, mostly (90%) in inland San Diego County, with a slice in Riverside County. It goes from Temecula in the northeast, skirts San Diego itself down thru Escondido to eastern El Cajon and then heads out into the desert where there's nothing but meth-manufacturers and a string of national wildernesses, state parks and a national forest. Its population is mostly white with a growing number of Latinos, almost a third now. The PVI is R+11 and Trump beat Hillary there 54.6% to 39.6%. Last year, though, something special happened that resulted in a near win for an unlikely Democrat.Considering that in 2016, Hunter beat his Democratic opponent 148,880 (63.9%) to 84,142 (36.1%), you can imagine just how special what happened was. Short version: Hunter, a drunken, womanizing crook was caught stealing campaign money to use on living expenses, hookers and God-knows-what-else. He was arrested, indicted and kicked off his congressional committees but is still refusing to resign in the hopes of using his membership in Congress as a bargaining chip when he makes his plea deal with the prosecutor.His opponent from last cycle, Ammar Campa-Najjar, is running again-- as are at least seven 3 Republicans, Carl DeMaio, a hate talk radio host who was a member of the San Diego city council, state Senator Brian Jones and-- according to the San Diego Union-Tribune-- a whale among candidates, and someone who might even be more crooked than Hunter: former Congressman Darrell Issa. Issa retired from an almost-neighboring district last year rather than face certain defeat by a Democrat. And now the former richest and crookedest man in Congress wants back in.This morning he announced at a press gaggle that he's not waiting for Hunter to retire voluntarily or to go to prison and that he's in it to win it. Candidates until this week, former Escondido Mayor Sam Abed, Temecula Mayor Matt Rahn, El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells and retired Navy SEAL Larry Wilske, were all paid off by Issa to end their own campaigns and endorse him. Both Hunter and Issa are solidly allied with Trump.
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