Calling My Representative

I’d like to call my representative and tell her to help fix the NASA appropriation disaster, but I don’t have one, because she resigned a few months ago.

There’s a special election to replace her tomorrow, though, and I want to encourage everyone to vote for Craig Hughey, a libertarian/Tea-Party type who managed to come in second in the free-for-all primary a few weeks ago, which pits him against the long-time LA County political hack (from a long-time family of political hacks), Janice Hahn. It should be a walk-in for her, given the way the district is carved to favor Democrats, but it’s actually a close race, partly because of internecine bitterness from the Democrats who supported Debra Bowen, but who came in third due to nasty attacks by the Hahn campaign. It’s entirely conceivable that Bowen supporters will either sit out the election, or actually vote for Hughey, in the hope that Bowen will get another shot at the seat next year (it’s unclear what redistricting will do, particularly in light of the new, supposedly less partisan plan to do so). Zombie has a lot more detail on the race, and Jim Geraghty has the rundown on the Hahn corruption, including her aiding and abetting LA gang members. On the other hand, she and her supporters may have turned off the black community in LA as well.

It will be very interesting to see the outcome, but as Geraghty notes, the weird circumstances won’t really tell us anything about general Republican prospects next year, even if Hughey pulls it off.

[Update a while later]

Taking a vet’s name in vain?

4 thoughts on “Calling My Representative”

  1. The real NASA appropriation disaster is that they have any appropriation at all. Cutting it back to the old NACA – doing fundamental research into aerodynamics – and adding a new agency whose sole responsibility is to administer an X-Prize system would make much more sense.

  2. Janice Hahn is a phuckin idiot who would deserve zero votes for the office of dog-catcher. She’s the poster child for everything that is wrong with government.

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