Christine Mai-Duc
Nov. 9, 2016, 10:38 a.m.
Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown (D-San Bernardino) has lost her long, expensive battle against fellow Democrat attorney Eloise Reyes.
Reyes secured 53.3% of the vote with all precincts reporting, and the Associated Press called the race Wednesday morning.
This was one of the most closely watched Assembly races of 2016, partly because it was seen as a proxy battle between environmentalists and labor unions, who supported the more progressive Reyes, and oil companies and business groups, who bankrolled committees supporting Brown.
Brown, who is a member of the Legislature’s informal moderate caucus of business-aligned Democrats, played a key role in watering down last year’s landmark climate change bill.
Labor groups and environmentalists helped fund an effort that spent more than $1.5 million in the general election to support Reyes and oppose Brown, dubbing her “Chevron Cheryl” and accusing her of doing the oil industry’s bidding.
Brown benefited from the bulk of the $6.1 million total independent expenditures in the race, most of it funded by Chevron and other oil companies and business groups.
Who cares?
Both are tax and spend liberals.
Both will bankrupt this state dry.
Democrats and unions never learn.
They believe taxing the rich is unlimited.
Promote your progressive, social agenda.
But keep in mind the famous saying of the Late Primer Minister Margaret Thatcher —
“Socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money.”
1. Republicans are ideological kamazee pilots.
2. Hand in hand with the Viva La Raza Democrats rats have sold out its own citizens.
3. GOP talks, I’m a small govt, conservative, against welfare, unless it is corporate welfare.
4. They love them some cheap under the table labor too. So zero, zip comprehensive immediately reform, no wall of enforcement. Let the middle class pay for the schools and hospital bills.
5. Cuck conservatives did now where to run when Trump Train blew threw.
6. Dump shits, instead of realizing in California you have legislative districts with preordained outcomes.
7. You had one little job, to vote for business friendly pro abortion candidate.
8. Chevron Cheryl tried to save the pocketbook of her commuter constituents from a huge gas tax. But no. Conservative values. Can’t mark the ballot for a democrat.
9. Loretta Sanchez, is another instance of the “lovable wacky democrat” you should pull the lever for. Against TARP, Iraq War and Patriot Act. Now we got Kamala Harris.
10. Donald Trump. How did he win.