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Who Replaces Jane Harman?
Hahn, Bowen and a cast of SoCal characters slug it out for Congress
Hahn said her focus will be on homeland security issues, expanding on her expertise at LAX and the Port of Los Angeles.
Each would have big shoes to fill. During her 16 years in office, Harman became a formidable voice on national security issues.
PHOTO BY MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Bye-bye, Jane
Hahn and Bowen have expressed their respect for Harman's legacy, but they have shied away from her hawkish record. Asked at one debate whether she would pattern herself after Harman, Bowen said, "I don't pattern myself after anyone." She went on to note that she would be much more of a civil libertarian than Harman, who endorsed the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
For her part, Hahn has sounded almost like Winograd, Harman's most persistent critic.
Winograd ran last year on a platform of "jobs, not wars." In one of Hahn's mailers, she vows to "invest in jobs, not war."
Perhaps because of their antiwar stance, neither candidate has won over the aerospace industry, which funded much of Harman's political career.
According to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, Harman's top contributor was Northrop Grumman. Boeing came in at No. 4, and Lockheed Martin was sixth. (The data reflect contributions from employees and corporate political action committees.)
So far in this campaign, Bowen and Hahn have received hardly anything from defense companies. (The only "aerospace" contribution for either one was a $500 check to Hahn from Jim Aldinger, a Boeing engineer and former Manhattan Beach councilman.)
"I think at this point they're waiting," Hahn says.
Hahn, Bowen and Winograd all talk about bringing troops home from Afghanistan and investing that money at home. They also argue that defense industry know-how can be refocused on nondefense applications, such as clean energy. And they talk about defending the El Segundo–based L.A. Air Force Base from closure.
To the aerospace industry, none lives up to Harman, who spoke the industry's language and had no trouble defending an aggressive military posture around the globe.
"Jane is special, for aerospace," Aldinger says. "She was just naturally interested in it. If her replacement is Debra or Janice, I think either one of those is capable of learning and being an advocate for aerospace. I don't know if they have the passion for it that Jane does."
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When will Debra Bowen admit she authored "three strikes" legislation and supported the death penalty during her entire time in the California legislature?
How about her support of Enron by accepting $14,000 in campaign donations while chairing the Senate's Energy Committee?
She opposed the lottery and she wanted to merge the Franchise Board with the Board of Equalization too!
Of course she doesn't like being branded.
She's just like Jane Harman.
thanks for the infoi'd never vote for a criminal loving death penalty opponent who believes we should keep the sociopaths alive at my expense
bowen bows to no one. i have always more than supported her - AND jane - i have - and do - believe in them.
imho, bowen is not only our best bet - she's the most able, and capable. and, for those really interested in the future of this district - and not politics as usual - astute.
bowen IS the brightest and most proven, the best of the lot.
and yes, there is a lot! well, there are many...
Aside from getting Bowen's home town wrong (she lives in Venice), the runoff will likely be between Hahn and Bowen. The wildcard are the large numbers of miniority voters who could turn out, and turn up their noses at the 14 out of 16 white candidates. If so, Ginn and Montano could reap the benefit even if they aren't big spenders.
Their was a State Senate special election which elected Ted Lieu. That district is contained within the 36th Congressional District - Voter turnout was about 13% - Democrats are less likely to turn out for special elections. Ted Lieu one because his only opponent who had any money to spend was a Gay Republican; in a district where Republicans are more conservative than there counterparts in more liberal areas of the state.
Not only do "Most" not expect Hahn and Bowen to be the two top vote getters, "Most" will tell you the outcome of this election is unpredictable.
Hahn, Bowen, Winograd and Adler are all Democrats dividing up the Democrat vote. Subtract further the votes that will go to the hand full of unknown Democrat and leftist candidates; not to mention the votes that will go to the openly gay mayor of Redondo Beach Mike Gin and it becomes conceivable that neither Hahn nor Bowen will make the run-off.
Even a large pie of Democrat votes doesn't go very far when there are a lot of Democrat candidates taking pieces from it.
Not so on the Republican side, there is only one well funded candidate - Torrance businessman Craig Huey.
Funny, this Charles guys "reports" and is a huge Craig Huey supporter! Aren't you mate? So all your reporting is biased and unprofessional.
I fully disclose my support for Debra Bowen.
Last I checked, Huey is only polling at around 4%. Mike Ginn, the Republican Mayor in Redondo Beach, is polling at 8%. Huey is just too much of an unknown quantity to be much of a credible threat, and he doesn't have enough time to build up a relationship with voters, no matter how much money he throws around.
Bowen hates labels because she's been exposed as a "right-of-center" Democrat and her tenure in the California legislature supports that fact.
She's spent the last three months denying a 14-year body of work in the legislature that had her working with Republicans and voting time and time again for policies that any Democrat would consider anything but progressive!
Bowen authored "three strikes" legislation, opposed the California Lottery, supported the death penalty and called for the merger of the Franchise Board & Board of Equalization during her 14 years in the legislature.
Even now Bowen is trying all she can to shed her pro-death penalty record while as a member fo the California legislature!
She accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Oil and specifically $14,000 from Enron while personally investing in WAL-MART, labor's biggest organizing foe.
There's no question Debra Bowen is a Blue Dog Democrat in the image of Jane Harman.
Maybe someone should chew on this:
If Bowen wins, will she reject a second federal pension courtesy of taxpayers after already qualifying for a first as a state official?
After 5 years of service in the House of Representatives she stands to gain a $142,000 annual pension for life on top of her pension here from her service as a legislator and statewide official.
Will she reject that pension?
Nice work if you could find it!
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