FFS can we PLEASE get some new Dem candidates for CA Senate in 2018?

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78. No, she's been through lots of elections since that IWR 15 years ago, when she and the other Dems

who voted for it were between a rock and a hard place. They knew that if the IWR didn't pass that fall, it would pass as soon as the Republican Congress was seated in January -- and that the GOP's IWR would be a simple blank check. So the Dems who voted for the IWR put conditions on it, hoping to make it stronger than the one the GOP would have passed anyway. As it turned out, Bush ignored the restrictions and did what he wanted to do anyway -- and the GOP didn't hold him accountable.

Feinstein's constituents have reelected her over and over since then. They are more aware of how she represents them than people outside the state.

As for her marijuana position, her opinion was nuanced. Regardless, it was a state law, not a federal, so her position on it doesn't much matter.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article89191002.html

"Feinstein said the measure, Proposition 64, lacked protections for children and motorists and would clash with medical marijuana guidelines signed last fall by Gov. Jerry Brown."