I was going to headline this by calling Rep. Barbara Lee the most radical, leftist and anti-American member of the House, but I’m not so sure that’s true anymore.
Rep. Lee is still a serious contender, as her Discover the Networks profile shows, but it’s a tough race.
In 1973 Lee worked on the Oakland mayoral campaign of Panther co-founder Bobby Seale and served as a confidential aide to the organization’s “minister of defense,” Huey Newton. (Panther members at the time referred to Lee as “Comrade Barbara.”)
David Horowitz has called Barbara Lee “an anti American communist who supports America’s enemies and has actively collaborated with them in their war against America.”
From 1983-85, Lee was an executive board member of the U.S. Peace Council, a Soviet front which was dominated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
When Ron Dellums retired from Congress in 1998, Lee won his vacated congressional seat (in California’s 9th District) and has held it ever since.
Republican nominee John Duarte is projected to win the race in California’s 13th Congressional District, beating his Democratic opponent, state Assemblyman Adam Gray.
Duarte, a farmer and businessman, will take over a seat long held by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who was forced to run in the 12th District due to the state’s redistricting.
The district has not elected a Republican since 1974, and Democratic voters outnumber Republicans 42 percent to 24 percent, with more than 21 percent identifying with no party preference.
It’s a redistricted seat so it’s not as exciting, but it’s still an example of how the midterms actually were surprisingly good in parts of New York and California at the local level for Republicans. There was a backlash and it did materialize, it just occasionally did so in unlikely places, while fizzling out in the more likelier ones. There were some really bad Senate candidates and poor messaging in other areas. And obviously ballot harvesting, mail voting and other shenanigans have deeply poisoned the voting system.
But there is good news.
And considering how hard the feds persecuted Duarte, going to the House has a certain amount of poetic justice.
When John Duarte of Duarte Nursery plowed 22 acres of his land in Tehama County near Red Bluff to plant wheat in 2012, the US Army Corps of Engineers filed a lawsuit alleging those actions damaged wetlands and a permit was required.
A judge sided with the Corps last year.
Now, the trial begins to determine whether to uphold a $2.8 million fine. Duarte could also be forced to pay tens of millions of dollars to restore wetlands.
Tony Francois with the Pacific Legal Foundation, who represents Duarte, says the trial could set a precedent by requiring farmers to obtain costly permits just to plow.
Francois says the steep fine will shut down Duarte’s business and leave hundreds of people unemployed.
Now he’s going to D.C.
“Wetlands” produce far more methane than cows. The left’s fanatical ‘protection’ of every mud puddle (in some cases, litterally) is another clue that leftists’ pretend concern for methane, isn’t really about methane. It’s all about stopping Western prosperity, productivity, development, land use, and controlling food.
I remember reading about a farmer in the 90s(East Texas, I think) who was prohibited from plowing his field because an EPA survyor found an endangered field mouse his tractor had run over. Before the court case was resolved the field overgrew into a young forest. With its’ habitat destroyed, the local field mouse population zeroed out. It wasn’t really about the field mouse.
Absolutely! Look at Holland, the insane government stealing 6000 farms because their “Nitrogen Minister” says nitrogen is harmful to the environment. In Holland which has spread its agricultural know how across the globe, has come to this…
Since about 78% of the atmosphere we breathe is Nitrogen, their “Nitrogen Minister,” (lol, it’s kinda sad that Monty Python were as much prophets as comedians), will be very busy. That’s an even bigger coup than labelling CO2 a pollutant. Watch, they’ll go for O2 at some point. There is no limit switch on absurdity with these people.
I’m mostly wondering what she’s going to replace it with. Helium, so we can all talk funny? And how is she going to produce that much of it or any other gaseous element?
Is this the long-term effect of lysergic acid?
So, the Beautiful People turned out not so groovey?
You misspelled groovy;-)
Groovin, on a Sunday Afternoon 🙂
Good example of how government makes up fake causes to justify its existence.
Jerru Pournelle ‘introduced’ me to David Horowitz and Robbert Collier, who in turn ‘introduced’ me to barbara lee and ron dellums in the late 80s. They went completely under most people’s radar.
Imagine what the dems and msm would do if any Republican said and did what they did.
Jerry Pournelle. Really?
Pretty cool, huh?
Yep, “There Will Be War,” series, “Volume 7: Call To Battle.”(1988). It was a great series of short and not so short scifi stories, nonfiction articles, and poems(Kipling). The series introduced me to a lot of my favorite scifi authors.
A great Pournelle article I read in it, and still reference sometimes, is “The Voodoo Sciences,” regarding education and the soft ‘sciences’ like sociology. It’s worth a read.
The Horowitz article was, “Another Dishonest Decade on the Left.” Great article, and one I also still reference.
I first read Horowitz in the SF Chronicle when he was the only conservative in the SF Bay Area getting published. I “remember” it as being during the 1970s but it may have really been in the 1980s. They were great articles, as I had somewhat of a similar background so it all rang true.
Sounds like an interesting combination. I had no idea that existed. Thank you for introducing me.
Democrats should remember what happened to Mussolini and his mistress.
There may be no opportunity to secure a lawyer. At least wear clean underwear. There are more photographers than ever.
That the east bay continued to re-elect Lee is no surprise. So the farmer was destroying wetlands according to this administration?. Meanwhile, California continues in a long term drought and they are eliminating water supplies by destroying dams for salmon. I guess their new motto is “no baths, no drinking water or water for crops but, let them eat fish”. So glad we bailed on that state 4 years ago before this, the open border and the reparations chickens come home to roost.
But let’s import millions of people a year.
It was a con by the Democrats, I remember it starting during the 1960s with the “Save the Wild Rivers” movement. We all got suckered into taking it seriously, we had a bunch of kayakers in my neighborhood and one time they all went kayaking on one of those rivers to support the cause.
lets see the Buricrats get busted and break the commies
Didn’t Barbara Lee take the Dellums’ “report” whitewashing the runaway Comrade Brother Maurice Bishop was allowing the Russians to build for its strategic bombers on Grenada to Bishop so he could edit it before it was released? I seem to recall that.