Commentary: Too many Democrats in California governor's race? That's a great thing
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After months of fretting, California Democratic leaders are now truly freaking out about too many of their own running for governor, potentially allowing two MAGA Republicans to advance to the general election.Someone find me the world’s smallest violin.It’s the latest mess created by a party that has held supermajorities in the state Legislature and the governor’s mansion for most of the last 15 years, yet has done little to make life better for its constituents while blaming President Trump for everything.
What does it say about them that no Democratic candidate of color is considered a favorite to succeed Gov.Gavin Newsom, when whites are only a third of California’s population? That a party casting itself as the champion of the working poor against Trump’s oligarchic reign isn’t telling a billionaire like Tom Steyer — who spent $341 million of his own money on a failed 2020 presidential run — to bow out and throw his support and moolah behind someone else, just because he’s polling in the top five? California A big field of candidates makes it possible for a Republican to be elected governor.
California’s Democratic Party leader told unviable candidates to bow out.California voters have made the state Republican Party as relevant as the Angels in baseball — yet under Democratic rule, life keeps getting harder for too many.Especially galling is how the state Democratic Party has done next to nothing to help Latinos become household names who can win.Three Latinos with distinguished resumes — former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and State Supt.
of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond — are running for governor, yet they stand as much a chance of moving on to the general election as Alfred E.Neuman.
Latinos are a plurality of California’s population and the bedrock of the Democratic Pa...