2022 CA Senate race: on Principles & Values
Alex Padilla:
Son of Mexican immigrants; taught him value of education
My parents, Ernesto and Lupe Padilla, came to California in 1968. They met in Los Angeles, both recently arrived from Mexico. They got married and applied for green cards in that order.
I grew up in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. It was there my parents taught us about the value of education. They taught us that no matter who you are or where you live you can be anything. That's the California Dream I was raised to believe in.
Source: 2022 California Senate campaign website Alex-Padilla.com
Dec 23, 2020
Alex Padilla:
Became a teenage activist on crime, environmental racism
It was the conditions in his neighborhood growing up and the feeling that the Northeast Valley was always overlooked and left behind that awakened Alex's political activism.
As a teenager, he had helped organize neighbors to take back the streets from crime. At the age of 15, he joined his mother to protest environmental racism and demand closure of the Lopez Canyon Landfill.
Source: 2022 California Senate campaign website Alex-Padilla.com
Dec 23, 2020
Alex Padilla:
Dedicated to having as an inclusive democracy as possible
Padilla sees his life as a "full circle": "I started off as a young man trying to organize, to register people to vote to today, where I serve as the chief elections officer for the state of California.
If Proposition 187 was an attempt by some to exclude Latinos and others from the California dream, I am dedicating myself to have as an inclusive democracy as possible."
Source: KCET San Bernadino on 2022 California Senate race
Oct 21, 2020
Alex Padilla:
What drives my public service passion are issues of equity
What drives my public service passion since day one is issues of equity. The inequities that I've witnessed as a young Latino growing up in Los Angeles, you know, born in the '70s, kind of raised in the '80s and '90s,
it was not always an easy experience to go through. And really inspired by the movement against Proposition 187, Latino scapegoating, anti-immigrant measure in the state of California.
Source: Washington Post on 2022 California Senate race
Mar 23, 2021
James Bradley:
Cardi B's "WAP" made me want to pour holy water in my ears
Bradley claimed to have heard the Cardi/Meg collab "accidentally," but it clearly unnerved him. "Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion are what happens when children are raised without God and without a strong father figure,"
[he] wrote on Twitter. "Their new 'song' The #WAP (which i heard accidentally) made me want to pour holy water in my ears and I feel sorry for future girls if this is their role model!"
Source: Los Angeles Times on 2022 California Senate race
Aug 7, 2020
Mark Meuser:
Vote twice: short-term and long-term Senate on same ballot
Please share to educate California voters:When Kamala Harris became Vice President, she resigned her Senate seat. The U.S. Constitution permits Gavin Newsom to appoint her successor but that appointment is only valid until Election Day (November 8th).
As such, I am on your ballot twice, once for the short term which covers November 9th to January 3. This means California can end the 50/50 Senate and make sure there is no lame duck session after the #RedWave2022.
You can vote for me a second time for the full term that begins January 3rd.
I am the only challenger to Gavin Newsom's appointed Senator who purchased a ballot statement for both the short term and the full term.
Do not split your vote, #VoteTwice for me to be your United States Senator.
Source: 2022 California Senate campaign website MarkMeuser.com
Jun 12, 2022
Mark Meuser:
Compared seized Trump documents to raid on Obama
A Republican candidate is facing criticism after comparing the FBI's raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence to hypothetical law enforcement action against top Democrats. "Imagine the backlash if while he was in office,
Trump had Obama's home raided and AOC's phone seized," Mark Meuser, a constitutional and election law attorney, wrote in a Twitter post. "Are you tired of the double standard?" he added.
Source: Newsweek magazine on 2022 California Senate race
Aug 11, 2022
Mark Meuser:
Calls those saying he can't win "uncircumcised Philistines"
Rev. Jerry Cook set the stage for "meet the candidates" at Freedom's Way Baptist Church in Santa Clarita, California. Meuser invoked a term David used to describe Goliath before killing the giant: "Many people say, hey, you live in
California, the home of the fruits, the nuts, and the flakes. You have no chance to win. And every time somebody tells me I have no chance I mutter under my breath, another uncircumcised Philistine."
Source: Word & Way on 2022 California Senate race
Aug 30, 2022
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