Variety Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton to Return to Los Angeles for Fundraisers

On Tuesday, Clinton will attend an early evening event at the home of entrepreneur Sean Parker and his wife Alexandra, a musician, according to an invite. Tickets start at $2,700 per person.

Bloomberg  Sheryl Sandberg Wants to See Hillary Clinton in the White House

Ho-hum.  That was all well known in real time.  And very much approved of by Hillary supporters/advocates.

Meanwhile, those same Hillary supporters were aiming to take a scalp.  And on that one they succeeded.

US House Representative Mike Honda is a good guy if one values dedicated public officials that try hard to favor “the people” over all the corporate and military special interests.  He had a tough race in 2014 and barely held off his challenger.  But they came back even harder against him in 2016.

LATimes, August 2015

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Honda already has the backing of the California Democratic Party and more than a third of the California congressional delegation, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco). His campaign has been funded largely by retirees and union and corporate PACs

Khanna’s donors, on the other hand, comprise a who’s who of Silicon Valley executives, including Sandberg, Pichai and former Facebook president Sean Parker. Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, ker. Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, a self-described libertarian who addressed the Republican National Convention last month in endorsing Trump, is also a Khanna supporter, a fact the Honda campaign happily seized upon. Khanna, whose parents emigrated from India, has also had success fundraising within the district’s sizable Indian American community.
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Putting some dollar figures on that money, from Open Secrets as of 10/19/16

Honda: raised  $2,753,470 and spent $2,388,677
Khanna: raised $3,484,384 and spent $3,303,700

In addition to that Californias for Innovation raised and spent $498,153, all for the benefit of Khanna.

Here are the 2016 primary election numbers.  Guaranteed that Khanna or blank got every one of those GOP votes in the general election.

CA SOS -general election results:

Honda 39.8% — 64,704 votes
Khanna 60.2% — 97,826 votes

Given a choice between a real Democrat and a fake Democrat, Republicans go with the fake Democrat every time.  Pathetic that a goodly chunk of Democrats also prefers a fake Democrat.

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