Democratic Free-For-All Expected to Succeed Millender-McDonald in Congressional Special Election

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Almost a dozen Democrats may throw their hats into the ring to succeed the late Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald in the 37th Congressiona district, Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, reports today.
 
According to the newspaper, among possible candidates are five sitting and two former state legislators, two current municipal officehoders and one well-known law enforcement official. Included on the list are State Senator Jenny Oropeza, who was just elected to the State Senate in November, Senator Alan Lowenthal, Assemblyman Merv Dymally, and Assemblywoman Laura Richardson. Other possibilities mentioned in the article include: Assembly Democratic Majority Leader Karen Bass, State Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas, ex-Assemblyman Jerome Horton, and ex-Senator Kevin Murray.
 
Handicappers say a Long Beach-based candidate has the best shot. Some 56 percent of the district's voters are from that community.