CA-SD31: Tom Umberg flips an Orange County State Senate seat from red to blue.

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Democrats Pick Hakeem Jeffries as Caucus Chair

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was elected Democratic Caucus chairman Wednesday, defeating Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) for the No. 5 leadership post in a 123-113 vote, Politico reports.

Jeffries, 48, has been in Congress for only six years but is already often mentioned by younger members as a future party leader.



https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/28/democrats-pick-jeffries-as-caucus-chair/

Nancy wins!

CA-21: Democrat TJ Cox defeats incumbent David Valadao

Cruz may have been re-elected, but it sure looks like Beto broke him

40 Years After Assassinations, Assessing the Legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone

This month, Colorado elected the nation's first openly gay governor and voters across the country sent a record number of LGBT candidates to Congress. Here in California, Los Angeles state Sen. Ricardo Lara was elected state insurance commissioner, making him the first openly LGBT candidate to win a statewide election.
It all comes 40 years after the assassination of the first openly gay elected official in California: Harvey Milk.

Back then, the recent success of LGBT candidates in the midterm elections would have been hard to imagine.

In California, a conservative state senator named John Briggs was pushing a statewide ballot measure, known as Proposition 6 or the Briggs Initiative, to ban gay and lesbian teachers. Milk, an openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, led the fight against the proposition, debating Briggs around the state, and that November, voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 6.

But just 11 days later, San Francisco was thrown into shock. More than 900 Peoples Temple followers of the Rev. Jim Jones died at Jonestown on Nov. 18, 1978, after following his orders to drink fruit punch laced with cyanide.

Then, nine days after that, Dianne Feinstein, then the president of the Board of Supervisors, announced to the world that Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone had been gunned down in City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White.




https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone

Nancy Pelosi's attitude on nurturing future leaders as described by a NYT reporter

“Anyone who wants a position is leadership is welcome to come and get it. Nobody *gave* me anything.”

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Collapse of the California GOP continues. Assembly District 77 is about to flip from red to blue