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The New Power of Incumbency: How COVID-19 Has Changed Voters’ Expectations for Politicians

April 2, 2020 3:06 pmApril 2, 2020 3:25 pm

Since 1964, voters have returned their incumbent representative to Washington 93 percent of the time. In recent years, however, the advantage typically belonged to the outsider candidate, the person vowing to drain the swamp from the state capital to Washington,...

Former Fighter Pilot Mike Garcia Running For Congress in California’s 25th

March 31, 2020 2:15 amMarch 30, 2020 4:51 pm

“This district has seen this movie before, and they’re not buying it.” “Katie Hill misrepresented herself and her platform,” said Mike Garcia, the Republican nominee for California’s 25th Congressional District. “She did not represent our moderate District.” In a California...

McClintock: Covid-19 Didn’t Kill Our Economy; Government Policies Did

March 28, 2020 8:42 amMarch 28, 2020 5:41 pm

California Republican Congressman Tom McClintock exposes the good, the bad and the ugly in the CARES Act. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klgGS-aO_wQ Covid-19 didn’t kill our economy. Government policies, however well intentioned, did. In just a few weeks, they derailed the most prosperous and...

U.S. House Candidate, Assemblywoman Christy Smith Campaigning Instead of Holding Hearing on Coronavirus Crisis

March 25, 2020 3:38 pmMarch 25, 2020 3:38 pm

California Assemblywoman Christy Smith (D-Santa Clarita) is campaigning to replace disgraced Democratic Representative Katie Hill in California’s 25th Congressional District. The special election will take place May 12th in an “all-mail ballot election” because of a new executive order by...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 3 Senate Colleagues Sold off Stocks Before Coronavirus Crash

March 24, 2020 11:02 amMarch 24, 2020 12:19 pm

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and three GOP Senate colleagues reported selling off stocks worth millions of dollars in the days before the coronavirus outbreak crashed the market, according to Fox News reports. Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, Georgia Republican...

CA Rep. Josh Harder supports another Democrat waterless water storage bill

March 21, 2020 2:20 amMarch 20, 2020 4:31 pm

HR 2473 is not targeted to benefit farmers but to provide public goods to constituencies of the Democrat Party: environmentalists, Indian tribes, scientists, fishing interests, rural immigrant enclaves with no water systems On March 11, 2020, Congressman Josh Harder...

Rep. McClintock Only Member of CA’s Congressional Delegation to Vote against the Families First Coronavirus Response Act

March 19, 2020 7:18 amMarch 19, 2020 7:24 am

Congressman Tom McClintock was the only member of California’s congressional delegation to vote against the Families First Coronavirus Response Act on Friday. Aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 the FFCRA expands funding of unemployment benefits, mandates testing the uninsured...