That’s right: as the Press-Telegram’s John Canalis writes today, June Pouesi–who lost a Carson City Council race 14 years ago–is throwing her hat in the ring as a second write-in candidate in the 37th Congressional District race to unseat Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach).
This makes the score one Democratic write-in candidate (Peter Mathews); one Independent [...]

Hard to believe, but in less than two months, our own congressional Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) is up for re-election, in a race she’s expected to win despite financial woes that earned her a recent dishonorable mention from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics.
The Washington watchdog group gave Richardson the frowning of a lifetime for, [...]

At least, that’s what people who know him might call the man who wants to unseat Laura Richardson

They really do call him Mr. Dibs–at least, his students do, and somewhere more than 1,000 of his potential constituents. You, on the other hand, might say “Who are you?” and “Stop trying to touch my ballot!”

You might have missed this, but The Associated Press’s Erica Werner covered the annual release Monday of congressional disclosure reports, in hopes it would shed some light on that whole Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) thing.
“In earlier disclosure forms filed in May, the first-term Democrat listed no liabilities, although reports emerged late last month she [...]

Those of you who read my story on Congresswoman Laura Richardson and the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, in The District Weekly on Wednesday, might have sensed something was awry.
Two former candidates for higher office–Al Austin, contender in April for the Long Beach Sixth District City Council seat, and former Green Party Congressional candidate Daniel [...]