Ex-Clinton aide launches surprise bid for California governor

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I met Amanda back in 2015 at a high dollar Clinton fundraiser https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/14/clinton-aide-governor-california-409789

LOS ANGELES — Amanda Renteria, a former top campaign aide to Hillary Clinton, has filed paperwork to run for governor of California.

The unexpected filing, which came without any announcement, puzzled many Democrats in a state where a large field of higher profile Democrats have been running — and raising millions of dollars — for more than a year.


Renteria, who ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. House seat in California’s Central Valley in 2014, has worked most recently as an aide to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. She did not respond to a request for comment, and following news of her filing Wednesday, she wrote on Twitter, “For questions coming in right now: I am still serving as the Chief of Operations at the California Department of Justice."

But within hours Becerra told the Los Angeles Times that Renteria was stepping down from her post to run for governor.

She is very bright

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1. Nope. Not going to work.

It’ll be hard for anyone to beat either former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
or Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom with their strong support and millions in funding.