Politico is reporting this afternoon that Krom, the Irvine Democrat who is challenging incumbent Congressman John Campbell in November’s general election, has won the promised support of a liberal group tied to former presidential candidate Howard Dean.
Kasie Hunt, the author of the story, noted accurately that by coming to Krom’s aid, Democracy for America “didn’t choose a well-known challenger in a tight race.”
How true.
Nonetheless, the group has pledged to raise at least $25,000 for Krom, direct “a couple thousand hours in volunteer support” to her campaign and send 200 phone bankers, according to Hunt’s article.
To defeat Campbell, the feisty soldier in Larry Agran’s machine that runs Irvine with an oily, iron fist will need all the help she can get and then a miracle or two.
Republicans hold a massive, 20-plus percentage voter registration advantage in the district and, so far, Campbell hasn’t alienated them.
You can read the
Politico story
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–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
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.
