Good morning all! I just need five minutes of your time to make a HUGE difference in helping a local grassroots Assembly candidate overcome the machine in Sacramento.
If you've been reading my blog this month, you know I support community organizer Torie Osborn for the 50th Assembly District race. Osborn has an uphill battle against - ironically enough - my current Assemblywoman, Betsy Butler.
Please go to this link to help Torie Osborn win the Democracy for America endorsement.
I actually voted for Butler in 2010, but I can't support her decision to abandon our district and move north to a "safer" Democratic area because she wants to avoid running for reelection against a couple of Tea Party candidates.
As a party insider, Butler has the full backing of Sacramento, and the machine is working overtime to clear the field for her. Assembly Speaker John Perez has engineered the California Democratic Party's endorsement for Butler by pulling delegates from Assembly members as far away as San Francisco and Riverside. Grassroots delegates will do what they can to help Torie, but it's widely believed they won't be able to block the CDP endorsement when it comes up for a vote at the annual convention next month.
Winning the DFA endorsement would go a long way towards countering Sacramento's outsized influence in this local race, making sure it's the voters of the 50th Assembly District, not lobbyists and special interests, who will choose who they want to represent them.
Please go to this link to help Torie Osborn win the Democracy for America endorsement.
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