38 Years is Too Much and Not Enough for the 33rd District

One more term of Henry Waxman is too much for the residents of the Santa Monica Bay.

38 years -- he's been in Congress longer than the growing number of unemployed college students have been living and breathing -- and still looking for a job during one of the most economically regressive presidential administrations in modern times.

He was kicking around in Congress when Barack Obama was living in Honolulu. Henry Waxman has carried water for the amateur junior Senator-turned-chief executive ever since he took office in 2009. Waxman has not demonstrated an independent frame of mind on anything noteworthy will in Congress, a partisanship which has stalled any meaningful debt reducation, deficit relief, and economic recovery over the past three years.

Waxman entered Congress the same year that Nixon resigned from the Presidency. It's time for Waxman to take a well-deserved departure from Congress. Nixon lied about covering up the Watergate break-in. Waxman has aggressively hounded witnesses and subpoenaed government officials over the most inconsequential of matters. As chairman of the Oversight  Committee, he dragged out an unnecessary investigation into steroid use in Major League Baseball, an unconscionable waste of time and taxpayer dollars..

Then again, for a politician who has bragged about refusing to run even a meager campaign to retain his seat, he certainly still commands a great deal of elected arrogance.

The United States, from coast to coast, has manifested a growing willingness to throw out the old and tired incumbents, men who have overstayed their welcome, giving off an easy complacency, as if their seat in Congress now belongs to them by virtue of birthright.

Congressman Waxman has not faced a real challenge in forty years. That kind of non-campaigning would make anyone soft and easy to dispense with. Certainly it turns attentive politicians into complacent pols who are convinced that they need not spend any time or money keeping their place in office.
Independent challenger Bill Bloomfield wants to end Mr. Waxman'seasy  reign in Washington. He takes into account the latent frustrations of West Los Angeles and the Malibu-Pacific Palisades coastline in taking down the former chairman of the House Energy Committee. Sooner or later, a politician cannot take every vote for granted. Mr. Bloomfield certainly will not, as Mr. Waxman has for the past thirty plus years.

Daily Kos Underestimates CA 33rd Competition

The Daily Kos has underestimated the contest brewing in the 33rd Congressional District.

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Run-down statistics on the 33rd Congressional District (April 23, 2012). No


The Daily Kos provided the following stats on the 33rd:

California's 33rd Congressional District: Henry Waxman (D), Beverly Hills, Redondo Beach.
President: Obama 64%, McCain 33%
Governor: Brown 55%, Whitman 40%
Senate: Boxer 55%, Fiorina 39%
(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/23/1084596/-Golden-State-Smackdowns-A-Guide-to-the-2012-Congressional-Races-in-California)

The Daily Kos predicted that the political fight would be negligible at best. Of course, the writer did not yet know who was going to win the June primary. Despite the widespread Democratic element in this district, Independent Bill Bloomfield has fielded his resume, a diversity of coalitions and attachments which will certainly draw out a greater number of voters than the ones who voted in the June 5th primary.

The turnout for the June 5th primary was very low -- about 90,000, compared to the 600,000 plus residents who currently live and vote in the district.

Mr. Waxman will have a real challenge in the general election for the first time in office, enough to compel him to justify, or at least explain, his poor bipartisanship and excessive promotion of legislation which neither helps the country nor his Southern California base.

The man has been in office for too long. Mr. Waxman is certain to wear thin come November, when voters throughout the district realize how out of touch and unaccountable he has been.

Waxman vs. Bloomfield in the 33rd Congressional District

[Previous Post -- May 15, Before June 5th Primary]

The state of California, including the wealthy and well-off Beach Cities, can ill-afford any more welfarism and state-sponsored intervention. We need economic liberty, and less governmental probity in our district. Even though the Dockweiler Strip of Shame has gerrymandered the Western half of Torrance with Beverly Hills and Malibu in the newly crafted 33rd Congressional District, the residents of the South Bay may not have to resign themselves to rule by the liberal cabal of years past.

I hope that Manhattan Beach businessman and community activist Bill Bloomfield can pull of a respectable upset to take on Democratic stalwart Henry Waxman in the primary run-off. The last thing that the Beach Cities need is another micromanaging politician who knows and cares very little for the community and concerns stretching from Rancho Palos Verdes to El Segundo.

There seems to be an air of anti-incumbency in the nation. In 2010, California resisted the anti-liberal, anti-Democratic wave which swept the House of Representatives backs into Republican hands. Perhaps this year, voters will take this opportunity to finish what the Tea Party and fiscally-minded advocates started in 2009, and sweep from office every representative not focused on limiting government and restoring the preeminence of constitutional rule and state sovereignty.

A non-partisan like Mr. Bloomfield is just what the South Bay needs. The district has hovered in the no-man's-land of fiscal conservatism and social tolerance long enough to signal that this state, this nation, needs leadership that will cut spending, cut regulations, and cut government out of our lives as much as possible.

We cannot afford two more years of Big Government, Big Spending, and Bigger Regulations. Bill Bloomfield is the best choice to represent the 33rd Congressional District.

No to Waxman for the CA 33rd Congressional District

Henry Waxman, one of the most provocative, confrontational, and uncompromising legislators in Congress, will be facing stiff competition for the first time in nearly 40 years.
Following the passage of Proposition 11 in 2008, California voters signalled to the political class that they were tired of politicians' backroom deals which protected incumbents and rendered Congressional districts uncompetitive, and thus allowing Congressional representatives like Waxman to remain unaccountable.



Democratic Incumbent Henry Waxman

There is no greater example of a career politicians who has taken advantage of safe redistricting than West Los Angeles based Congressman Henry Waxman, a politician who opposed not only Proposition 11, but also opposed the successful 2010 jungle primary initiative, which empowers voters to choose any candidate they prefer in the primary, regardless of party affiliation. Proposition 14 allows for the top two primary vote getters to face off in the general election, even if the contenders are members of the same party. Many long-standing politicians will face opposition, even if within their own party. Mr. Waxman is facing off against established businessman and civic activist Bill Bloomfield, an Independent who recognizes that the gridlock and dysfunction in Washington D.C. stems in large part from entrenched incumbents like Henry Waxman.

Following the California Citizens Redistricting Commission's efforts to redesign congressional districts instead of the politicians and the interest groups, the Commission has expanded the power of the California voters. Now Congressman Waxman has been moved into the newly drawn 33rd Congressional district, a wide coastal district that takes in the entire Santa Monica Bay, from Palos Verdes to Malibu. Waxman now must  expand his base to include the more moderate and economically Beach Cities, where residents have long expected their representatives to protect and foster the corporate and aerospace industries without harming the environment or impinging on their liberties.

Throughout his tenure, Waxman has authorized legislation which would do great harm to this country, increasing government size and power at the expense of the individual citizen, the states, and the country. His efforts to protect the environment, including the ill-conceived Cap and Trade Waxman-Markey legislation would have created an expansive bureaucracy while contributing negligible protection to our environment. Protecting the environment and weaning the United States off of foreign energy are two of Mr. Bloomfield's policy

A staple of the Beverly Hills-Malibu Westside ever since he came to Congress following the GOP Watergate shellacking of 1974, Waxman has faced token opposition for every term in office. For too long, Waxman has taken advantage of sympathetic constituencies throughout his overly extended tenure in Congress.

The purpose of this blog will be to inform all voters in the newly crafted 33rd Congressional district of the uninspiring, and in some cases disturbing and disappointing, acts and activities of Congressman Waxman, a politician who has grown so out of touch with the needs of his constituents as well his responsibilities as their representative in Congress, that he to be retired. Independent Bill Bloomfield representatives a transformative shift in the type of representative that the voters in the 33rd district deserve. An individual who has founded and expanded private enterprise, an advocate who has worked across the aisle with Democrats and Republicans to endorse and enforce reform in public education, crime prevention, and fiscal discipline. A founder of the "No Labels" interest group, Mr. Bloomfield is a more than adequate challenger and replacement for the bombastic and irresponsible Henry Waxman, a partisan who has guarded his dominance in Washington at the expense of the American people, particularly his constituents in every Southern California district that he has "represented" since 1975.

Mr. Waxman has perpetrated the statist status quo of tax, spend, government growth, waste and fraud. He has no business spending one more term in Congress pushing an illiberal agenda which is not in the best interests of the American people or the voters of the 33rd Congressional district.

Entire Santa Monica Bay in One District

Former Energy Chairman and Environmentalist Henry Waxman has thrown his hat into the ring for the 33rd Congressional district. The current incumbent in the 30th Congressional district, Waxman has commanded an imposing and long-standing presence in the Beverly Hills region, where has faced token opposition so often that every election cycle he hardly invests in campaigning.

His recent interest in the South Bay is a new development of the Congressman, one which will force him to focus his time and resources over a larger swath of constituencies. For decades, the 36th Congressional district centered around the Port regions and the LAX area. Now, voters throughout the entire Santa Monica Bay will cast their vote for the same representative. Wealth and privilege accentuate the greatest link for the voters throughout this well-position region of Southern California.

Will the more rural yet elite regions of the Northern side of the bay find a compromise candidate with the more urban and engineer-based voters in the South, or will the differing economic and cultural interests pit the distinct communities up and down the Santa Monica coast and prompt a second-tier candidate to surge ahead? No matter what the outcome, voters across the South Bay will be able to vote for their preferred candidate of any party. Should their candidate fail to get into the top-two general contest, everyone will be able to settle on a compromise candidate.

For the record, I support independent Bill Bloomfield, a well-respected businessman with connections to education, community policing, and small business interests. His well-rounded savvy positions him appropriately to represent the widespread needs of the sprawling district from Malibu for Rancho Palos Verdes.

Bill Bloomfield for the 33rd Congressional District

The non-partisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission has redrawn the western half of the South Bay and attached the Beach Cities to Beverly Hills and Malibu. The entire Santa Monica Bay is now encapsulated in the newly-designed 33rd Congressional district. For South Bay residents, we may have to endure future representation under another conceited and confirmed liberal, Henry Waxman.

The Democratic incumbent has served in Congress for nearly forty years, pressuring baseball players for autographs instead of crafting an independent energy policy for this country. He has voted in lock-step with the Beltway for years. Now, he will be running to present not just the old haunts of West Los Angeles, but the rest of the South Bay.

Independent Businessman and government reformer Bill Bloomfield is challenging this hegemony of Washington tax-and-spend statism. Commanding an impressive resume in the private sector while targeting lawsuit abuse and wasteful agencies and agendas in the public sector, Mr. Bloomfield wants to end the partisan gridlock in Washington while assuring that there is still money left to run this country in the future.

This country is heading down a wasteful and dangerous path, with budget deficits, national debt, and entitlement liabilities that threaten our nation's way of life and the efficacy of our local leaders in providing basic services for the voters. On November 6th, I am asking every voter in the Santa Monica Bay to elect Bill Bloomfield for Congress, a resident who commands an impressive resume both in private and public interests.















Stupid Take on the Keystone Pipeline

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/27/1059081/-Henry-Waxman-calls-latest-Republican-move-on-Keystone-pipeline-stupid

The rank stupidity of blocking a pipeline because the oil is "dirty" would be like forbidding one's child to go outside and play because there are traces of Carbon Dioxide in the air.

Human beings breathe out Carbon Dioxide, and oil will always be dirty.

If Mr. Waxman is so concerned about dirty oil, perhaps he is suggesting that the United States should shut down every oil derrick and drive every oil company out of business.

A clean environment is a win-win for the United States, but not at the risk of harming consumers, killing jobs, and bankrupting businesses.

If Mr. Waxman loves the environment so much, let him run the Sierra Club.

He has no business representing the constituents of the Santa Monica Bay.