The following comes from a November 7 posting on SFGate.com.
Democrat Ami Bera is ahead by a razor-thin 184-votes against California GOP stalwart Dan Lungren in Sacramento, with 88,406 votes to Lungren’s 88,222. Lungren is not conceding.
Bera is part of a new generation of Indian American and Mexican American immigrants or children of immigrants who are knocking on the political gates. They reflect the broader national demographic shift that handed President Obama re-election.
Bera’s advantage is due in part to a fresh district redrawn along community lines by a citizen redistricting commission. It was already a swing district but it became more evenly divided when Lungren lost some of his rural strongholds.
Lungren has been a fixture of California politics for decades, serving two terms as state attorney general and two stints in Congress, the first from Southern California, and making a failed bid for governor. A conservative Catholic who opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, leading the fight by House Republicans to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, Lungren sought to downplay social issues in his campaign.
Lungren campaign manager Jeff Wyly just put out this statement:
“Dan asked me to update you on the state of our race, which is currently one of the closest contests in the nation. There are tens of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots still to be counted, and we may not know the outcome of this race for days or even weeks….”
To read the original posting, click here.
As an American Indian (Mother’s side) and a “recent” immigrant (Father from Mexico), I certainly understand and am constantly confused by the behavior of so many minority voters. Sadly, far too many Hispanics have LOST their faith. They have become welfare “victims” and only seek “something for nothing” from the government! (We call it the “Poor Little Mexican” Syndrome!) They do NOT reflect the proud, Catholic Heritage of Traditional Hispanics, but rather the socialistic heresy of the secular communists that have plagued Mexico for 150 years! Even worse, there are for too many pseudo-priests in Mexico who promote heresy via humanism where doctrine can be “questioned” if they provide sufficient distortions of doctrine…In other words, NO doctrine is beyond questions! It’s ALL up for grabs! (Of course, it is always associated with some sort of “racism” or “unfair” competition!) Too many Hispanics have LOST their Catholic roots/values and inserting humanism and socialism at the core of their corrupt culture they lead people further and further from God!
It is even worse for my Indian Brothers! They have reversed they cultural evolution. God allowed them to connect their pagan culture in appropriate ways and to grow in God’s love and grace. Many of the “radical” natives citing racism, etc. are rejecting God’s teachings and returning to PAGAN ways!!! (Once you know Christ, to deny Him is CERTAIN DEATH!) At the center of everything is GREED! They will do and accept anything for another casino! Are ANY of the reservations “better off” since the casinos were allowed? NOT all all! The money goes to fraud, scandal, ever increasingly expensive facilities and in taxes. The “cost”? Now Natives and tossing their checks away in the casinos! Alcoholism, unwed mother, drug addiction, poverty, and ignorance are growing at alarming rates!!!
The challenges are complex for the church. First, Bishops MUST get a better handle on heretic priests!!! Second, they need to establish groups of minority priests to work with minority leaders to change the present trends. Will it be easy? NO WAY! But, it is worth while!
Thank you, Rick Flores, for standing up for life — all life.
Rick Flores, to be fair I would add that many non Hispanics have given up their Christian heritage,too, because they, too, have become steeped in sinful behavior. Of course I am sure you know that. God bless you, though, for pointing out the need to return to the Lord for all of us.
100% of the precincts have reported, and give it to Bera 50.1% to 49.9%. No doubt Rep Lungren will challenge the count. A tangent issue is the “citizen committees” that determine the redistricting: Who controls these?
CalCatholic, don’t forget “Who, What, When, Where, Why, How” of news reporting. For what office is this man and his opponent running?
He’s not the typical California politician, where conservatives are hard to find. I hope he wins.
Good, don’t give up until the last ballot is counted. Everyone’s vote should count.
Viva Christo Rey! I am pro-choice for the true Christian code. Would that more CINO practicioners suck it up and hang in there-and join us Catholics! I don’t care how LONG it takes-it will be a gift to all your progeny.
My own fifth great-grandmother was an Algonquin in Nova Scotia
and married Charles Guidry-who had immediatly baptized her conditionally. Her name was Morning Star, born 1n 1696 near the time and place where our newest Indian saint was born (she, too, was Algonquin-married a Mohawk). When she died at 95 years old, she certainly must have had a faith that passed on to an enormous number of Cajuns (Arcadians) (over 3,000 Guidry families in Louisiana alone) who have her last name and her faith-Roman Catholic.
Beautiful, what a link with St. Kateri Tekakwitha!
Our prayers go out to Dan … We need to mantain/elect as many pro-life Members to Congress as possible…. the inmates are close to taking over.
Dan Lungren should not concede until it is actually proved he has lost.and that there was no fraudulent voting.on either side.
Anne T.,
There is one thing you can count on, there was fraudulent voting on the other side, but God allowed it because of our sins.
I pretty much sensed what was going to happen on Monday morning while attending a class in “Power Point”. I say this because in the class we presented “Our Favorite Vacations” presentations.
The presentations of those who favored Beach resorts pretty much told the story that they were all but totally naked and thought it was great.
I shuddered when I had to view those presentations because I realized that we had not yet repented enough to even expect God to intervene. Indeed, just as He did in the Old Testament, He is letting us punish ourselves through our spiritual blindness.
The Scriptures tell us “they will have eyes but will not see”, and as I watched those presentations, that is exactly what came to my mind. Any woman that actually sees herself in one of those pictures and is not brought to self shame is mostly spiritually dead!
May God have mercy on our poor Country!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
I agree, Kenneth, single women who want to get married and married women who want to please their husbands should dress attractive and classy in public but not cheap and vulgar.
Dan is hanging tough, which is what all us Catholics will be asked to do in the near future. We can all pray for him, and offer him our support. Whatever it takes, let us continue to support good men and women like him who actually PRACTICE their faith and seek to serve their fellow citizens.
there are some GREAT POSTINGS here today! And I’m still in shock, not to mention a great BLUE FUNK, over, in the para-phrased words of Monica Crowley, “WHAT THE HAY JUST HAPPENED?!*+ in regard to this debacle of an election. I know some will say “well what did you expect with over 75,000,000 innocent preborns butchered in their mother’s wombs in the land of the free, home of the brave?” And I guess I foolishly expected Almighty God to answer my various Litanies said for the success of Romney and Ryan, not daring to dwell on what was REALLY in the back of my mind; this must be what the beginning of a SERIOUS CHASTISEMENT is like! For make no mistake, brothers and sisters in Christ, this MAY WELL be what we’re called on to face. A tremendous CHASTISEMENT that we’ve averted thus far,but to be put off NO LONGER. It would seem to be that some time in the next four years, OUR TEST as Catholic Christians will possibly be THRUST UPON US. And obviously SOME WILL CAVE and SOME WILL STAND FAST. It’s really now in God’s hands, as they say. But also it really ALWAYS IS in His Hands, IS IT NOT? MAY JESUS DIVINE SAVIOR GIVE US ALL THE STRENGTH WE’LL NEED. GOD BLESS, MARKRITE
Markite,
That is why I am blessed to be producing a prayer card to “Blessed Jose Luis Sanchez de. Rio” that asks for his and Fr. Pro’s intercession for us.
Contact me at kmfjmj@att.net or 714-776-8855 if you want more information.
Dios e Maria Bendiga, God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher