Key Obama staffers working to unseat one of the top progressive Dems in Congress
Not The Onion. 
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_22979879/ro-khannas-congressional-campaign-team-looks-like-obama
General consultant Jeremy Bird -- Obama 2012's national field director
Campaign chairman Steve Spinner -- Obama 2012 fundraising "bundler" and national finance committee member...
Consultant John Kupper -- message/ad consultant to Obama's 2004 Senate and 2008 presidential campaigns; still advises Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former White House chief-of-staff, since helping him win office in 2011
At this point you must be saying,
Welcome to California, home of the all-new "top two" electoral system in which primaries are meaningless. A repuke state senator got that passed as his pound of flesh for a key budget vote back in the Ahh-nuld era. Khanna is a Democrat, or at least has a D after his name. Rep. Honda is one of the 15 most progressive Dems on the hill, with a 96% rating. Khanna, with his Rahmbo adviser and glitzy Silicon Valley fundraisers: not so much.
The way this generally shakes out, in the sapphire-Blue Bay Area, is that both of the top two finishers are Dems. Then the repukes, who are just numerous enough to swing the runoff, go with the DINO, in this case Khanna. That's how an unknown city councilman from the small city of Dublin toppled Pete Stark. Khanna is now wishing he had made that race. And so are many of us here in the South Bay.
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Since Obama literally has nothing to do with this. Indeed, he's endorsed Honda! Must be a secret trick, I know...
indeed.
Um, OK?
comprehensive article!
but that so many of them have flocked to the banner of a political novice who is targeting a Dem with a proven progressive track record gives me the willies. 
and then against a repuke in the fall.
But the repuke might actually have won.
Dumbest primary so far: State Senate District 15. There were exactly two candidates: Asm. Jim Beall, Jr. and former Asm. Joe Coto (both Dems, with Beall the progressive and Coto more DINO-ish). Guess who the top two finishers were in the June primary? Why, Beall and Coto, in that order! So they both moved on to the November general lection. Beall won again.
No names are on the ballot yet. This is for next fall.
Also, the local grapevine has it that Zoe Lofgren may not run for re-election in her neighboring district. That would give a whole new meaning to the phrase "Shark Tank" (also our local hockey arena 
), with Khanna in the role of the great (non)white.
He's the newly elected rep from Marin and Sonoma counties north of SF.
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/04/10/jared-huffman-rips-ro-khanna-bid-in-south-bay/
In an interview, Huffman, who won his North Bay district after Rep. Lynn Woolsey retired, said he found Khanna’s challenge “troubling.”
“You already get the sense that that burn rate from a huge team of consultants and all of the fundraising firepower, millions of dollars that Democrats need around the country to win races and take back the House, are instead going to be diverted to an intramural fight between Democrats,” Huffman said. “For no real reason. Mike Honda is a great member of Congress.”...
Huffman said he was dismayed that “this expensive battle is even going to take place.” He said he had no idea how much it would cost but, “obviously we’re talking millions of dollars and those dollars really could make a difference in unseating Republicans in seats that we hope to take away. I think that’s probably going to cost Mr. Khanna among Democrats who understand that context.”
I hadn't even thought of the money angle. I guess that's why they pay Jared the big bucks.
