Rep. Darrell Issa To Retire, Adding To Record GOP Exodus From Congress

[Edge-]

In Issa’s case, the vote would not have mattered. As soon as Trump won the election, the grassroots effort to unseat Issa started. Every Tuesday since December 20, 2016 there has been a protest in front of Issa’s office. It started with a few dozens activist, and now it is averaging around 500 people. It is considered the longest running weekly protest against a US congressman the USA. No one seems to think it is worth their time to mount of counter protest in support of Issa. Go figure.

To show you how bad it is for the GOP in California. Royce, who has held his seat since 1993 and is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, won his 39th Congressional District by about 15 percentage points in 2016. Yet, he decided not to run.

Yep, grassroots progressive groups and local DNC chapters are mobilizing in a big way in California to try to flip districts and defend seats. It's pretty awesome to watch. A lot of the activity from the start of the year has died down as folks left many of the groups, but it left a lot of smaller groups that have banded together and are filled with dedicated organizers/campaigners. Democracy man, it can be beautiful to watch in action.

[BrerBear]

All of us in the Bay Area are gunning for Jeff Denham.
That smug little prick is #2 on the SwingLeft fundraising scoreboard behind Issa for good reason...

[Anevers]

Theres a tide of red fleeing the House...this is interesting to say the least:

https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp20...08.html#item-8

The table is pretty thorough.

[cubby]

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/10/57688...ntent=20180110



Seems the GOP see's the ship is on fire and sinking so they are abandoning it.

I know of three very large movements that are targeting all GOP House Rep positions that they feel are weak/vulnerable - everyone that is resigning falls under that category. What don't know is how powerful the anti-trump tide will be when November rolls around. It could subside - anything is possible. But more than likely it will grow.

Taking the House is now a viable possibility by the Dems. Ironically, the Senate is much less possible.

[Rasulis]

All of us in the Bay Area are gunning for Jeff Denham.
That smug little prick is #2 on the SwingLeft fundraising scoreboard behind Issa for good reason...

Denham should not have been reelected in 2016. In 2016 his district voted for Hillary pretty overwhelmingly. CA DNC made the mistake of putting a no name out of towner against him.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Issa voted against it as a way to try to save himself, but the political climate is too polarizing. Issa was stuck between a rock and a hard place where his district is leaning more blue every week so he would lose head to head against a Democrat but taking a more moderate stance would get him primaried by the Trumpkins.

We need more Republicans who follow their morals and constituents desires. Same for Democrats, but I seriously doubt people following their morals would have them voting for far right agenda. This toeing the line shit just makes politics predictable. If a party controls government, everyone is going to step in line. It was actually a very recent thing that parties voted along party lines all the time. Used to be a lot more cross voting. But the recent powers that be will end your career as a legislator if you don't vote along party lines. That's been demonstrated time and again the last few decades.

This to be honest, is probably the biggest reason so many people have started voting with "their party" rather than voting for policy. They realize it's all about jamming as many of "their guys" into the house as possible, rather than voting for say a Republican that will vote against shitty social laws that are anti-gay and anti-abortion, but will vote for conservative fiscal laws. We don't have those because if anyone votes against any policy not in their party, they have someone from their same party run against them who will do the bidding of their masters, and the other person will be heavily monetarily supported, and the original person will be smeared into mud.

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The usual alt-right posters must be banned currently. I fully expected them to come in and declare this is a good thing because he's a RINO (or possible a liberal).

Many of them are, but many aren't. The ones who aren't have been oddly quiet.

[Mormolyce]

Out of that list, only one is in a state that has a Democrat lean on the Cook index.

So either they're expecting a strong swing or that they'll have a primary challenge from within the party, eg from what was until recently called the "Bannon" wing (ahaha).

Which might well be just as bad. If the party doubles down on Roy Moore candidates, they might win the party primaries but prove hard to elect in the actual vote.

That's the trouble with divisive fringe candidates... they may give your hardliners a stiffy but they alienate everyone else...