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California Senate leader Kevin de Leon kicks off U.S. Senate campaign in Los Angeles
Democratic state Senate leader Kevin de León held his first official campaign event Wednesday and went right to his core criticism of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein ahead of what promises to be a bitter and expensive battle.
“We are living in unique times, facing unprecedented challenges that require new ideas and new energy,” he told the crowd, which campaign spokesman Roger Salazar said included a few hundred supporters, at the launch of his U.S. Senate bid. “The D.C. playbook is obsolete.”
The event, held at a community college in downtown Los Angeles, paid homage to De León’s humble upbringing and alluded to chief complaints De León has had about Feinstein, who at 84 is making her sixth run for the Senate.
...Speaking to reporters afterward, De León remarked that he doesn’t have the “ability to pick up a pen and write myself a personal check…. That is the contrast in this campaign, from someone who is a billionaire, to someone who grew up in the most humble neighborhoods in California.”
State Sen. Toni Atkins, who was among De León’s colleagues in the crowd, said Feinstein’s work over the past 25 years “can’t be questioned.”
“But we are in a new day and a new time, and I think Kevin de León has shown the leadership to actually move an agenda forward,” Atkins said. “He’s got a good story for California, and he’s got a good story for our place in history, and I think that’s going to resonate.”
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-de-leon-announces-feinstein-challenge-20171018-story.html
“We are living in unique times, facing unprecedented challenges that require new ideas and new energy,” he told the crowd, which campaign spokesman Roger Salazar said included a few hundred supporters, at the launch of his U.S. Senate bid. “The D.C. playbook is obsolete.”
The event, held at a community college in downtown Los Angeles, paid homage to De León’s humble upbringing and alluded to chief complaints De León has had about Feinstein, who at 84 is making her sixth run for the Senate.
...Speaking to reporters afterward, De León remarked that he doesn’t have the “ability to pick up a pen and write myself a personal check…. That is the contrast in this campaign, from someone who is a billionaire, to someone who grew up in the most humble neighborhoods in California.”
State Sen. Toni Atkins, who was among De León’s colleagues in the crowd, said Feinstein’s work over the past 25 years “can’t be questioned.”
“But we are in a new day and a new time, and I think Kevin de León has shown the leadership to actually move an agenda forward,” Atkins said. “He’s got a good story for California, and he’s got a good story for our place in history, and I think that’s going to resonate.”
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-de-leon-announces-feinstein-challenge-20171018-story.html
