Four endorsements from Bernie Sanders

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Analilia Mejia began her campaign for Congress in New Jersey with virtually no name recognition. Yet, she defeated a former Congressman and a former Lieutenant Governor to win the Democratic primary. Now she has a general election coming up and once again needs our help.

Dr. Adam Hamawy has saved lives with great courage and honor - he did it as a 9/11 first responder, as a combat trauma surgeon in Iraq, as a volunteer in hospitals under bombardment in Gaza, and in emergency rooms in New Jersey. Now he is running for Congress where he is prepared to fight for real campaign finance reform to stop billionaires from buying elections, and will not waste billions of taxpayer dollars on endless and illegal wars.

Randy Villegas is an educator and small business owner from a working class family who understands the struggles that so many millions of Americans are facing everyday. He is running for Congress in California where early voting has already started and he needs our help.

While on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Jane Kim helped San Francisco become one of the first cities to make community college tuition free, negotiated record levels of affordable housing from major developers, and won California’s first $15 minimum wage ordinance. Today she is running for the state's Insurance Commissioner where she will stand up to powerful corporate interests.

Insurance commission, the one that never says no to insurers.
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OPINION:

While some object to primary endorsements, what I've seen from Bernie and Indivisible are candidates to inject life into a party that has gone weak, and indebted to corporate donors.

So, I decided to look up Randy VIllegas (outside my district) 22md district, roughly Bakersfield to Fresno or thereabouts (map shown at the Wikipedia link below)

Wikipedia says:

As of October 2024, the district had a Medicaid enrollment rate of 68%, the highest in the country and the highest rate by a wide margin among districts represented by Republicans. The new 22nd is a majority-Latino district.


Ethnicity
73.2% Hispanic
15.8% White
4.5% Black
3.6% Asian

Here's an endorsement in the Sacramento Bee
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-congressional-race-shows-why-the-democratic-party-lost-its-way-opinion/ar-AA232602

Villegas aligns himself with progressive values, but that alone should not make him polarizing. As a Central Valley native, he understands what his district needs from a representative: someone who will protect their way of life. You can’t protect your community without the conviction to stand by your beliefs-and Villegas has demonstrated exactly that.

Yet, his biggest challenge in this race isn’t the opposing party-it’s the Democratic establishment and the powerful PACs that bankroll it.

Last week, The Bee reported that the Democratic Majority for Israel Political Action Committee (DMFI PAC), a Washington, D.C.-based group, has spent $500,000 on ads targeting Villegas. The very idea that a national PAC believes it can buy influence in the Central Valley speaks to arrogance rooted in deep pockets.

To make matters worse, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chose to back Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains - the only Democrat who voted against Proposition 50, a measure widely supported by Democratic voters who authorized the state to redraw congressional districts to benefit Democrats.

And there you go.

Why? (Bains) Bains does not believe that what is happening in Gaza is genocide-

“I believe Israel is a critical ally and has the right to exist, defend itself, and live in peace,” Bains said in a statement on her website. “As a doctor, I also believe we have a moral responsibility to prevent human suffering and ensure aid reaches civilians in need and that we can and must achieve lasting peace for both Israel and Palestine. Those values are not mutually exclusive. We need leaders in Congress who approach these issues with the seriousness and thoughtfulness they deserve – not soundbites or false choices – and that will continue to be my focus.”

This is exactly the sort of cautious, ambiguous language that PACs like DMFI reward.

WIkipedia shows how the map is changing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_22nd_congressional_district