Federal Candidates – 2022 General Election

(Indivisible Conejo) Alex Padilla – CA Senator (D) – YES

Padilla’s so nice, you gotta vote for him twice! (once to complete Vice President Harris’ term, and again for a full term)

GOP opponent – Mark P. Meuser

Meuser co-led the unsuccessful 2008 anti-abortion campaign to change the Colorado state constitution to define a fertilized human egg as a legal person, an incredibly dangerous concept that criminalizes women who abort and have already led to prison terms for women who miscarry (1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriages).

He took a job at Dhillon Law Group, the law office of California’ Republican National committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon, where he worked on cases challenging the state’s COVID public health restrictions in churches, Gov. Newsom’s executive order to mail every registered voter a ballot and the state’s voter registration system, which he argued, without evidence, enables non-citizens to illegally vote.

Source: https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-senate/mark-meuser/

• Age: 48
• City of residence: Pasadena
• Occupation: Attorney
• Education: Oak Brook College of Law. Their motto – “Quality, Christian legal education delivered through an online platform” https://www.obcl.edu
• Funding: here 
• Complete list of endorsements: Nothing on his website
• Website: https://markmeuser.com

			Republican Party of San Diego County
California Pro-life Council	Republican Party of Riverside County

District CA-24 – Brad Allen (R)

Carbajal’s opponent Brad Allen – Seriously! Please don’t put another “Ben Carson”-style disaster of a candidate – a doctor with zero experience in solving problems outside his field, but with a huge ego, in a public office. He was a one-trick-pony critic of the Affordable Health Care Act during the primary but, like other newbie candidates, has expanded his line of regressive phrases to guarantee GOP backing. We not here to provide training wheels for a man who doesn’t share our values, and hasn’t put in the work. We’re sure his skin care line is the bomb, but he has never bothered to serve his community in local public office, like Salud did. Instead, he tries to shame a dedicated public servant and leapfrog to the national stage.

As for his support of reproductive justice: “Allen said he supported the Supreme Court reversal of Roe that puts abortion rights in the hands of the state. He said end-of-term abortions should not be allowed but procedures that save the life of the mother should be. He won’t label himself as “pro-choice” or “pro-life.” “It’s all about scaring people and saying you’re this or that in order to get more money or votes,” he said. Hahahaha, seriously? He is perfectly willing to say all sorts of other nonsense to get votes. If he were to be elected, expect him to be standing right next to the worst forced-birthers.

Education: He takes issue with school policies regarding transgender identity (why would a doctor worry about gender issues affecting kids’ health and education?) and CRT being taught in K-12 schools. We worry that the a doctor who prides himself, over and over, on research, would know that the panic over CRT was a scam started by a GOP operative. It’s all just the same lazy, morally bankrupt and manipulative mush we’re seeing in all the conservative websites. The rest of his education spiel is on promoting programs that would help kill off public education. No surprises there.

Other misses: Not a word on immigration or protecting our DACA community. Also, the new “Ben Carson” should share his thoughts about Social Security and Medicare, especially since he seems entranced by becoming the new “Dr. No’ – taking over from the late Tom Coburn, a physician and an Oklahoma conservative so nicknamed for his opposition to federal spending. We already have too many politicians who would force women to give birth, but won’t spend a dime on maternal leave, health care, child care, early education, after-school programs, parental leave, etc…

Representing us should not a game for rich, bored men who think they’re the smartest guy in the room. Go start a line of something new, (orthopedic shoes maybe?) and leave us alone.

Article where he outlines his stances: https://newspress.com/determined-to-make-america-better/

• Age: 68
• City of residence: Summerland and Los Angeles
• Occupation: Surgeon 
• Education: Finch University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School, Residency: UCLA Hospital
• Funding: here
• Website: https://www.drbradallen.com
• Complete list of endorsements: https://www.drbradallen.com/endorsements

			Santa Barbara News-Press

District CA-26G – Matt Jacobs (R)

Matt Jacob’s website is a textbook study of a GOP candidate trying “not to be seen.” At least not seen as what he really is or what he will really do if elected. But buzzwords float in his bland paragraphs, and what’s missing is just as important as what’s there.

• THE HOLOCAUST CARD: Sigh. Matt is now representing the side that is rapidly devolving into open antisemitism. (“Jewish space lasers for a 100, Alex.”) A word about this would have been great. Also, could he explain exactly how Julia Brownley does NOT believe in the “goodness of our people and the greatness of our country,” or was this just an opportunity to install a GOP-fake-CRT dogwhistle?
• GOP vs. PUBLIC EDUCATION: “… In Congress, Matt will support public school teachers — like his mother — who put children first.while embracing school choice and charter education, (Can’t do both, Matt. The GOP is using charter schools and school choice to destroy public education) “…and ensuring that schools teach children how to think, not what to think.” – oh, that was a little shout-out to those who see the GOP’s perverse definition of “Critical Race Theory” everywhere.
• IMMIGRATION: Hmmm. Not a word about DACA recipients. Not a word about asylum seekers. (Listen…is that the wind?)
• REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: Hey, Matt, this is only one of the most consequential issues of the year, and not a word? (We’re just going to mark him as a forced-birthers unless he gets brave enough to say differently.)
• PUBLIC HEALTH: Not a word…COVID has killed over a million Americans, beating the 1918 Spanish Flu as our country’s most lethal pandemic by almost 400,000. We gotta assume he’s down with the “Nothing to see here” GOP agenda.
• INFLATION: He repeats standard GOP dogma on how he’s going to solve inflation, a world-wide issue that he and fellow GOP members has zero control over. How amazing is that?
• GOP’s WAR ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE: No, it’s not the wind…now it sounds like when you put a shell up to your ear.
• “REDUCE REGULATIONS”: Which ones is Matt thinking of? The recent court decision the ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) can no longer protect consumers against predatory lenders? Those that make sure our food and water is safe? Equipment like cribs for kids won’t choke them? Environmental regulations so kids can grow up with clean air, water and food?
• TRUMP/GOP: ELECTION DENIAL, VOTING RIGHTS, SEDITION, POSSIBLE TREASON, JAN. 6 COMMITTEE, CHEATING ON HOTEL BILLS, ETC, ETC: Silence. Disappointing for someone who says he earned “Prosecutor of the Year” and “True American Hero” from law enforcement agencies, to display literally zero backbone here.
• Best response to all his commercials on how he is really going to DO SOMETHING!!! (See below…)

• Age: 37
• City of residence: Westlake Village
• Occupation: Federal Prosecutor
• Education: UCLA, Princeton, NYU
• Funding: https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2CA26133/?tab=summary
• Complete list of endorsements: https://mattjacobsforcongress.com/endorsements/
• Website: https://mattjacobsforcongress.com (Sample below)

Los Angeles County Republican Party,
Kevin McCarthy (Legislative nightmare, Forced-birther, proud supporter of antisemitic and Christian nationalist Margorie Taylor Greene	Newt Gingrich (Forced-birther, Christian Nationalist)	Asa Hutchinson Governor of Arkansas, forced-birther,anti-LGBTQ
Ventura County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association	Ventura County Professional Peace Officers’ Association,	Oxnard Peace Officers’ Association,	Port Hueneme Police Officers Association
Mike Judge Simi Valley Councilmember	Kelly Long Ventura County Supervisor	Keith Mashburn Mayor of Simi Valley
Dallas Lawrence Las Virgenes Unified School District Board Member

(Indivisible Conejo) District CA-27 – Christy Smith (D) YES

Will the third time be the charm for Smith, as she tries to rescue her northern-L.A.-County district from the clutches of election-denying Republican Mike Garcia? The newly redrawn district is bluer than it used to be, but Garcia has incumbency going for him. If there’s an outside-Ventura-County campaign to support with your money and time, this is (once again) the one!

District CA-27 – GOP opponent Mike Garcia

You can only use the “fighter pilot” analogy for so long, when you’re afraid to answer a question. GOP opponent Mike Garcia is one of three CA GOP congressmembers who now don’t answer questions about their forced-birther views that endanger women’s reproductive freedom and health care.

• POLITICAL COURAGE…MAYBE NOT SO MUCH: “Mike Garcia did not provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2022 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.” See this site for a listing of inferred positions from public record.
• FORCED BIRTHER ACTIONS:
  • He signed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe and Casey.
  • He is a co-sponsor of the Life at Conception Act, the federal personhood bill that would ban all abortions and certain types of birth control such as IUDs, which he is now retreating on.
  • He has an A+ rating from the force-birth Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Group
  • He voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act – which would codify Roe v. Wade.
  • He promotes the lie that reproductive justice advocate for killing live children.
• TRUMP (I declassify with my mind) LOVES HIM. THINK ON THAT: (Knock-LA) “Republican Congressmember Mike Garcia is a Trump-backed conservative who voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election results. He is a co-sponser of the Life at Conception Act, which would ban abortion nationwide — even in California. He also opposes student debt relief and is supported by weapons manufacturers, fossil fuel interests, and one of the Koch brothers.”
• ELECTION DENIAL/INFRASTRUCTURE: In a LA Times questionaire, his opponent Christy Smith also stated that in addition to his appalling reproductive justice record, he also voted against certifying two states’ electoral results in the 2020 presidential election and opposed the American Rescue Plan and Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal.
• SAFETY NET: Does not describe whether his demonization of “socialism” includes the continued existence of Social Security, Medicare or affordable health care, but he’s on the GOP study committee the wants to raise Social Security eligibility age, and he refuses to fully support Medicare. Likes to concentrate on inflation, which is a world-wide issue he has zero control over.
  • Voted against HR 1425 “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act” (votesmart.org)
  • Voted against HR 6833 “The Affordable Insulin Now Act” (votesmart.org)
  • More here.
• GUNS:
  • Rated 92% by National Rifle Association (NRA). (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • “I support the 2nd Amendment, not to be infringed upon.” (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Voted against HR 1446 “Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021.” (votesmart.org)
  • Voted against S 2938 “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” (votesmart.org)

• District CA-27 – Age: 46
• City of residence: Santa Clarita
• Occupation: Member of Congress (incumbent), Former Navy Pilot
• Education: US Naval Academy, Georgetown University
• Funding: here
• Complete list of endorsements: No endorsement page on his website, but he did publish his endorsement from Donald Trump
• Website: https://www.electmikegarcia.com
• Endorsements from other sites:

Los Angeles County Republican Party,	Donald Trump ex-president, alleged thief of federal records, alleged grifter of hotel room rates, alleged conspirer to election fraud…so mch more!	Susan B. Anthony List
AIPAC PAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee)	Combat Veterans for Congress	House Conservatives Fund
National Defense PAC	National Rifle Association (NRA)	National Right to Life Committee	Republican Jewish Coalition

District CA-32 – Lucie Volotzky – (R)

Volotzky on Mike Lindell’s webcast discussing the conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro: https://frankspeech.com/video/lucie-volotzky-candidate-ca-joins-and-discusses-trudeaus-oppression-canada

• Age: ?
• City of residence: Chatsworth
• Occupation: Business Owner
• Education: Certified, Residential-Elderly Administrator, CA Department of Social Services, Certified, Bar and Restaurant Service Clinic, Quebec Tourism Institute and Hotellerie, Attended, Chatelain Business Collège
• Funding: here
• Website: https://www.voteforlucie.com
• Complete list of endorsements: https://www.voteforlucie.com/endorsements
• Endorsements sampling below

			LA GOP