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Leno-Migden election fight roils Democrats
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| Contributor | Patrick |
| Last Edited | Patrick Mar 17, 2007 02:43pm |
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| Category | Election Guide |
| Media | Newspaper - San Francisco Chronicle |
| News Date | Saturday, March 17, 2007 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A looming battle between two of San Francisco's best-known gay and lesbian officeholders already is splitting the Bay Area's Democratic faithful more than a year before their June 2008 face-off.
Assemblyman Mark Leno, 55, is taking on state Sen. Carole Migden in her bid for re-election, and plenty of Democrats are unhappy at the prospect of two powerful progressives duking it out in a bloody party primary.
In a statement after Leno's public announcement earlier this month, state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, urged Leno to reconsider. Or else.
"I am disappointed by Mark Leno's challenge of a fellow Democrat with Carole's experience, accomplishments and skill,'' said Perata, who warned that all 25 Senate Democrats "will vigorously defend Sen. Migden. To get her, Mark must come over us.''
Leno, a former San Francisco supervisor, bristled at the suggestion that there's something wrong with challenging another Democrat, particularly someone like Migden, who's been in the thick of the city's political scene since her days as a gay and lesbian rights activist in the 1980s.
"Very simply, this is democracy in action,'' he said in an interview. "Political seats don't belong to the people who hold them, they belong to the voters. An incumbent needs to make the case and earn a second four-year term.'' |
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