For 20 years, Loretta Sanchez owned her Anaheim/Santa Ana/Garden Grove district while, for most of her stint, serving as the lone Democrat in Orange County’s Ayn Rand-ish, neocon-loaded congressional delegation.
Oh, how Republicans desperately wanted to topple her from the seat but somehow sent in losing opponent after trounced losing opponent, and now she’s running to replace Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate.
The all-male, all-Democrat slate seeking to replace Sanchez–Jordan Brandman, Lou Correa, Bao Nguyen and Joe Dunn–participated in their first debate on Saturday.
Guess what?
Donald Trump isn’t admired and not just because of the way he combs his hair or pronounces “China.”
The candidates addressed issues like climate change, gun control, income inequality, criminal justice, immigration and education reform, corporate welfare, Middle East turmoil, voting rights, middle class woes, and marijuana legalization.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.