This pathetic mess somehow "forgot" to mention to California progressives that he's been begging the corrupt, anti-working family New Dems to endorse himDr. Ed Hernández, former president of the California Optometric Association, is the state Senator representing the 24th district, which stretches from East L.A. through Monterey Park, Rosemead, and El Monte out to Azusa and Covina.
Drunk? Stoned? Stupid? Draw your own conclusion but Steve Israel likes what he seesMore than a few congressmembers have been pissed off enough about Steve Israel's shady behavior to mention it to me. Maybe it's just the ones who I talk to but there sure does seem to be a consensus among normal Democrats that they guy is a one sleazy, untrustworthy character. And everybody just wrings their hands.
Pete Aguilar, another Steve Israel recruitLast cycle, Israel managed to do the seemingly impossible., losing a majority Latino D+5 district, CA-31 (the Inland Empire) in a spectacular debacle. President Obama won the new district 118,043 (57%) to 83,822 (41%) but on that same day-- thanks to Israel's bungling incompetence-- those 118,043 Obama voters had no Democrat to vote for on that same ballot-- just two unsavory right-wing Republican corporate whores, Gary Miller and Bob Dutton.
In the new ad above, the DCCC-connected SuperPAC, House Majority PAC, quotes AARP about the dangers seniors face if conservatives ever get their way in regard to privatizing Social Security. And they point out that the Republican candidate in the FL-13 special election, for the remainder of Bill Young's term, David Jolly, was a lobbyist who worked to privatize Social Security and who still favors that approach. All true.
The Inland Empire is represented in Congress by wanna-be Confederate General Gary Miller, a multimillionaire real estate swindlerThere are 4 serious candidates in the Inland Empire house race (CA-31), reactionary Arkansas Republican incumbent Gary Miller, progressive activist Eloise Reyes, former Congressman Joe Baca (Blue Dog), and the Steve Israel/DCCC recruit and last cycle's big loser, Pete Aguilar.
Republicans won 51.8% of the vote in a jungle primary because Steve Israel backed a candidate Democratic voters can't relate to. And he's doing it again this year.The Beltway committees like the DCCC and NRCC get their information about America from the Cook Report and the Cook Report gets its information from the Beltway committees like the DCCC and NRCC. It's a closed loop of cluelessness.
Corrupt Inland Empire conservatives rally around their boy Pete Aguilar, including his pal Jerry Lewis, Bill Emmerson, Mike Morrell and, of course, Gary MillerFriday I was busy blaming Steve Israel of the DCCC-- and his counterparts at the NRCC-- for the fact that more than half the Members of Congress are millionaires.
You may not remember Dick Gephardt, once a powerful congressman from Missouri with ambitions to be Speaker and vice president and president. None of that worked out for him and he's just a sleazy K Street lobbyist now working for Goldman Sachs and other criminal enterprises… but he was the House Democratic leader from 1989 until 2003.
Several months ago, when the DCCC endorsed Pete Aguilar for the D+5 Inland Empire congressional seat he lost last year to two Republicans because of his obvious inability to connect with Democratic voters, I tried calling him to ask him where he stands on issues. Like virtually all DCCC-manufactured candidates, his website is devoid of issue positions. I reached what I thought was a naive volunteer, a pleasant kid with a Chechen accent, named Boris.
