The November 4, 2014 election in California assembly district 78 presents one of the most extreme choices of candidates in the culture wars now raging in the United States.
AD 78 is one of 80 California assembly districts and includes 40 miles of the most beautiful Pacific Ocean beaches in the world, from Solana Beach extending south to Del Mar, La Jolla, Mission Beach, Point Loma, Coronado, and Imperial Beach.
The Democratic incumbent is Toni Atkins who was the manager of Womancare, a radical feminist abortion clinic in San Diego, starting in 1987 and worked to expand and open new clinic sites.
Atkins followed lesbian San Diego city councilmember Christine Kehoe onto the city council, was elected to the California assembly in 2010 and re-elected in 2012. She became the Democrat majority leader of the assembly on September 1, 2012, and became speaker of the assembly on May 12 of this year.
Atkins pushes the homosexual agenda and is married to Jennifer LeSar, president and CEO of LeSar Development Consultants which provides consulting for local governments.
Atkins authored AB 154 to allow non-physician midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to perform abortions – even on 12 year-old girls, without even parental knowledge.
Atkins promoted AB 980 to repeal all California abortion service regulations for primary care clinics.
When she was sworn in as the first lesbian speaker of the California assembly, Atkins was accompanied by LeSar in front of the California assembly chambers alongside the first gay assembly speaker John Perez, standing on the dais and applauding.
The Republican 78th candidate, Barbara Decker, could hardly be more opposite to Toni Atkins.
Decker has been married for 33 years to her husband Chris and has two adult daughters and two granddaughters.
Decker states her main political goal is “to create an environment where other young families can live and raise their children as she was able to do in San Diego.”
Decker has been endorsed by the California Pro Life Council and pro-life and pro-family legislators and public figures.
Toni Atkins has raised over $2 million dollars for her campaign and donated almost all of it to other Democrat candidates and organizations to buy their loyalty to maintain her speaker position. She has spent almost nothing on her 78th AD campaign.
Barbara Decker has depended on small contributions from friends and self-funding for her campaign and has not reached the $25,000 limit for campaign finance reporting.
The voter turnout is expected to be low. However, Republicans are expected to turn out in large numbers because of concern for and against the candidacy of Carl DiMaio for the 52nd Congressional District which overlaps with most of the 78th AD.
This is a very interesting article that shows what it takes to have an impact in the political world. The first role of any candidate is to have a platform that represents his/her values and vision. But, just as important is to have a program that will ensure that s/he is elected. If a candidate is not elected, they can have little or no impact no matter how high their moral stature. Time and time again, especially in the highly populated parts of the state (read big city) the Democrats have been better organized, better funded, attracted more volunteer, done a better job of strategic planning and getting to the people. We may hate their platform, but we have to give them their due when it comes to getting elected. Other parties, if they wan to win, must become just as good or better at getting to the electorate. We can’t sit around ringing our hands and complaining when we hardly try to get out the vote. There are exceptions that prove the rule, but for the most part we live with what others want, not what we want.
It’s hardly the candidate’s fault, the Republican Party picks winners & losers by its own questionable standards and offers sincere, decent candidates NO support financially, no support with the press at any level, no instruction or advise, no assistance in networking opportunities – nothing. You pretty much have to have a Carl DiMaio bio to impress party bosses theses days. And the Dems love a Toni Atkins career path, she is their dream girl and she by that virtue gets their full court press. It’s disgusting, Bob, you really have no clue what you’re talking about. Even
this article as informative as it is does little good the day of the election!
No Retreat in to Piety – No Abandoning the Good Fight against Pepper & Darkness.
Today’s Church Militant Vortex
https://www.churchmilitant.tv/platform/?today=2014-11-03
– Exposes the role of a ‘catholic’ (very small ‘c’) media outlet best known as Pepper & Darkness (not salt-lite) and its leader Fr. Rosica – making a badly botched English Translation from the recent Synod.
Michael Voris also makes a passionate reasoned plea to the Faithful – That they should “Not Retreat In To Piety” as an answer to the Gaystapo Attack on the Church, but Stand Up to Evil and Fight Back.
I know the cost of Retaliation for Telling the Truth – having been Reported & Retaliated against (It took years to get email copies) to the Leadership of the US Department of Commerce / Census 2010 –
– For attending the (09) Conference of the Catholic Diocese of Boise and ironically interview with Salt & Light about the Anti-Catholic Bias I encountered at the Census…
This was after my Termination in a Retaliatory Political Vendetta after completing Phase 1 as Assistant Manager for Field Operations for Idaho – with the Best Quality in the Northwest region
BTW – Purging the ranks of Non-Obama-Partisan Census Workers and “Tweaking the Tabulation Software” – led to a costly failure of the rest of the system and return to the old paper Census.
Then they deliberately Over Counted (50-100%) SSAD couples as pretend ‘married’ – and then Statistically Adjusted Down their admitted ‘mistake’.
No Mistake; the ObamAcorn Census was an Uber-Partisan Scam.
After last night’s elections nation wide, “open mouth, insert foot” comes to mind. It’s a reminder not to push -post comment- too quickly.
Perez,
Will get his “reward” in the next life if not in this one and so will the rest of the sodomite lobby!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher