Esquire magazine's congressional issue has two California Democrats among its 10 worst members of Congress. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, and Rep. Joe Baca, D-San Bernardino County, make the list.
Here are the others in the Bad-10 list: Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut; Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia; Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota; Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas; Rep. William Jefferson, D-Louisiana; Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, and Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.
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Esquire also endorses congressional candidates in this issue. Click here to read the endorsements in California House races.
In our region, Esquire supports Democratic House members Dennis Cardoza of Merced and Jim Costa of Fresno, and Republican House member Devin Nunes of Visalia. In Rep. George Radanovich's re-election race, Esquire urges a vote for the write-in candidate. The Democrats didn't field a candidate in the 19th District.
This is the magazine's assessment of the Mariposa Republican: "Radanovich has rarely met a pesticide, irrigation ditch, or development in an environmentally sensitive area that he didn't like."
Jim,
Who do you suggest would be a good write in candidate against Congressman Radanovich?
How about suggesting someone who is "Mavrikee" that will "go to Washington and shake things up"?
I don't subscribe to the magazine, but who is there to write in? It takes so dammed much money
to run for political office that as a tragic consequence, we are loosing out on good people who are
able and willing to serve.
Only two?