In politics, reminiscences are quick.
So right here’s a stroll down reminiscence lane.
Again in 2018, Dave Min squared off within the major election in opposition to fellow Democrat Katie Porter within the major election the forty fifth Congressional District, then represented by Republican Rep. Mimi Walters, which Porter finally received.
On the time, Min was the favourite of the California Democratic Social gathering and believed he was the rightful option to be a member of Congress due to his expertise working underneath Sen. Chuck Schumer and on the Middle for American Progress.
Min went on the assault in opposition to his fellow Democrats in a surprisingly destructive marketing campaign.
Take into account this current CalMatters abstract of the race between Min and Porter: “The 2 Harvard-educated regulation professors battled it out for the Orange County congressional seat in a bruising 2018 major that included Porter marketing campaign staffers accusing Min of ‘intimidation,’ insinuations that Porter’s political opponents had been utilizing her previous home abuse in opposition to her, and assault adverts the likes of that are not often seen in intraparty contests.”
Min denounced Katie Porter as the popular candidate of “Washington Insiders” in a tv advert, citing important spending by Washington, D.C.-based teams on her behalf.
In a single mailer, headlined “What Katie Porter says just isn’t what she does,” Min attacked Katie Porter for misrepresenting herself as a shopper safety legal professional, saying, “Porter is NOT a licensed legal professional in California, has NOT handed the California bar, and isn’t allowed to symbolize purchasers within the state.”
This was a line of assault Min emphasised in a tv advert attacking Porter for not having a California license or passing the bar.
Min’s marketing campaign additionally highlighted a Katie Porter advert by which she allegedly claimed, “I received $18 billion for owners and helped 1000’s of households hold their properties.” Min’s marketing campaign countered, “Porter was a monitor for California’s share of the nationwide mortgage foreclosures settlement. 49 state attorneys normal negotiated that settlement. Not Katie Porter.”
Porter responded in an announcement denouncing Min’s assaults on her as “sexist” for calling into query her credentials.
“These techniques make Dems appear like GOP thugs,” political marketing consultant Douglas Herman mentioned of Min’s alleged “intimidation” of feminine Porter staffers.
Regardless of all of this, Katie Porter is now endorsing Dave Min to succeed her within the Home now that she’s operating for Senate. Assuming Katie Porter has progressive ideas she actually cares about, it’s an odd name. It’s not like Dave Min has been some principled progressive within the California Senate. He’s been something however.
Keep in mind, Dave Min was elected to the California Senate in 2020 with the assistance of practically $1 million in California jail guard union spending. Progressives with any mental integrity ought to despise the California Correctional Peace Officers Affiliation for its function as a key participant in California’s mass incarceration increase throughout the Nineteen Nineties and first decade of the 2000s.
In 2021, Min voted to provide the jail guard union a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in giveaways, regardless of warnings from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Workplace that such giveaways weren’t justified. Principled progressive legislators like Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, didn’t vote for the deal.
It’s actually simply authorized corruption on the a part of Min.
