We’re just as eager as you are to put this election behind us, but we’re not so done with democracy that we won’t be glued to our TVs and/or stuck in smoke-filled rooms to get you all the fresh election info we can on everything from the presidential race to the statewide contests all the [...]

Two days before the election, onetime longshot Debbie Cook has convinced even her most-dismissive critic that she may be on the verge of upsetting 20-year incumbent Republican Dana Rohrabacher in the race for the 46th district seat in the House of Representatives.
That critic? Rohrabacher himself, who admits to Press-Telegram reporter Joe Segura that he is [...]

Walking a legal, ethical and political tightrope just before Election Day, Long Beach City Councilmember Gary DeLong has suddenly invited the candidate he supports for congress—conservative incumbent Republican Dana Rohrabacher—to speak Thursday at DeLong’s monthly lunchtime meeting with his Third District constituents.
Debbie Cook, the Huntington Beach mayor who is presenting Rohrabacher with his strongest challenge [...]

Where in the world is Congressional Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach)?
Well, thanks for asking, and we don’t know how to tell you this, but we know you’d want us to be the ones to tell you that last night, Rohrabacher wasn’t in Long Beach. (Oh, don’t act so surprised!)
The incumbent congressman–who divides our city with [...]

District Weekly reader DWR suggests we need a profile of Debbie Cook that’s more expansive than her Best of Long Beach entry in the current issue. We’ve written about her twice before (w/r/t her stand on the breakwater and a few weeks later, in March, on her congressional campaign).
Cook is the mayor of Huntington Beach, [...]

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Debbie Cook (debbiecookforcongress.com) is the mayor of Huntington Beach, but her run for the 46th congressional seat occupied by Dana Rohrabacher (R-Embarrassment), offers residents of Long Beach’s East side and coastline their best chance of actual representation in Washington, D.C., in a generation. While Rohrabacher has ignored Long Beach, Cook has roots [...]

Did Congressman Dana Rohrabacher present himself as a woman, take the name “Diana” and visit the convicted assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at Corocoran State Prison in 2007, trying to get the now-64-year-old Sirhan Bishara Sirhan to finally confess and implicate others in the 1968 murder?
That’s what Long Beach/Orange County’s representative in Washington, D.C., tells reporter Carl Kozlowski [...]

The California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV) today announced its endorsement of Debbie Cook, the socially progressive and fiscally conservative Huntington Beach mayor who is opposing the generally doddering incumbent Dana Rohrabacher (R-Loss) for the 46th Congressional District.
Cook, a graduate of Long Beach State, has been emphasizing increased representation for the part of the Orange County-based 46th district that includes [...]

For the right to represent Long Beach in Congress, HB Mayor Debbie Cook says she’s ready to take on Rohrabacher the invisible

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
The joggers and dog-walkers from nearby McMansions are doing their daily laps around the golfers at Recreation Park, and Debbie Cook seems to fit right in as she arrives at the [...]

Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook’s just-announced candidacy for Dana Rohrabacher’s 46th District seat in Congress could translate into some long-awaited movement for the Long Beach Breakwater.
“I was one of the original supporters of the effort to reconfigure the breakwater,” says Cook, who has distinguished herself as a practical environmentalist during two terms on the Huntington [...]