I used to live in Jane Harman's district and I hated that there wasn't a challenger to her.  I once even thought about challenging her even though I didn't have any money or experience in politics.  A couple of years ago I moved out of her district and into Maxine Waters district and I am much happier to have her as my Representative.

I hadn't heard about the challenge, but now I will donate some money to Winograd's campaign.  I didn't know about the Calitics website either so thanks for the link.

Signs are going up here in venice and I know a few people here who are very excited, as am I, to have a solid challenger  to DINO Harman.

I hear code pink is going to be working on winograd's behalf which is great.

My worry is she'll play very well here in venice, santa monica. yet the CD extends south in to some much less classically liberal areas.

But in a low turnout, the energized grassroots folks could have a pretty sizable effect.

There substantial Grassroots anger at anyone who doesn't bow down to their rhetoric. Sorry. I've seen and been to too many 'Grassroots' meetings filled with ill-informed people fueled only by emotion and anger. No logic. No sense of history of a topic. Certainly no political sense.

And I've yet to see ONE 'Grassroots' candidate win. Some me a dozen or so of those and my attitude will change.

I think Jane Harman has served this country well in a very difficult position where she can't talk about 99% of what she has learned in committee.

Once againg we form the Democratic Circular Firing Squad and given aid and comfort to the Republicans. Dumb.

I doubt anyone has taken that into consideration.

From Calitics as a clarification:

Just to be clear, the vote this weekend was not about endorsing anyone this weekend.  The vote was about putting candidates on the consent calendar for endorsements at the party convention at the end of this month.  (For those who don't know, a "consent calendar" is a list of non-controversial things that can be passed by the body en masse).  Even had Harman won the vote this weekend, any five delegates to the Party Convention from the district could have pulled her off the consent calendar.  And given that Winograd received over 30 votes, it's likely that she could have found 5 delegates to the convention out of those 30+ people who voted for her to pull Harman from the consent calendar.

Note, at the convention only a subset of those who voted this weekend will be eligible to vote.  Also note that there is a 60% threshold at the convention for endorsement.

Without knowing for whom (Harman, Winograd, no endorsement) each of the convention delegates voted for, it's hard to know whether Winograd has a shot at denying Harman the endorsement at the convention.  If she has the votes to do so, that really would be a coup for her.  But in any case, everything turns upon what happens at the convention at the end of this month.

At the end of the month at the Convention, Jane Harman will get the endorsement of the State Party. That's almost a lead-pipe cinch.

After having spent yesterday afternoon at a campaign event with Marcy in Mar Vista, I can tell you the frustration, if not outright anger with Jane Harman from my neighbors was palpable.  

Aside from her support of the Patriot Act and positions on the war, and her vote on bankruptcy legislation, Jane's presence in my district is barely felt.  I have never heard of her appearing anywhere in my neighborhood, nor speak to any local issues.  She seems to me to be the consummate beltway insider.  

On the other hand, it took exactly 15 minutes of hearing Marcy speak before I volunteered for her campaign.  I think Marcy is the real deal, and I think she can, and will win.  She's pure grass roots.

I live in CA-36, and will be stopping by Marcy Winograd office before the primary -- may be she'll appreciate the help of this wet-behind the ears volunteer, that's not yet selected his favorite "how to" campaign manual.

My least tasteful experience with Jane Harman was around the time of the Bankruptcy Bill, which she supported and voting for.  I, of course, wrote a letter seeking a clarification for her support of the bill and I also urged her to vote against it.  Now, I certainly didn't expect to change her mind -- though am still wet behind the ears, am also a realist -- but it wouldn't been nice to have received some sort of substantive explanation, even it came in the form of a canned response.  In stead, what I got was a canned response from her office, explaining how Jane Harman supported the bill because it would ensure that people take personal responsibility, and that it was for that reason that she supported the bill, blah, blah, blah.

At any rate, though politics is about the art of possible, I also believe in accountability... and I also believe in holding my representatives to their end of the bargain.  Jane Harman has not represented me very well, so I owe her nothing during the primaries.  Come the general election, well, that's a different animal.

bedobe- don't wait! There's less than eight weeks!

Personally, my ears are so wet my neck is wearing scuba gear.

Didn't stop me.  Might be the first time I ever volunteered for anything, much less a political campaign.

Volunteer now!  After she wins, we'll write our own damn book!

I only recently moved out of CA-36 after years living in El Segundo under the shadows of Jane Harman's benefactors: Chevron, Boeing and Raytheon. Several family members still live there and are voting for Winograd. (I have never voted for Harman and never will.)

About winning, I don't know what is required to deny Harman the endorsement of the party, but I'd say it is a vital step. Whom do we contact? The state party? Local party officials? Do I have to physically show up in Sacramento protesting Harman, or can we do this in L.A.?

In Jane Harman, we have one of the worst representatives, but one who is particularly soaked in corporate cash and being groomed for either a statewide elected office or a choice committee chair once the Democrats take over Congress.

We don't want her to be the next Dianne Feinstein squandering a reliably progressive Senate seat. Nor do we want her in charge of any committees, especially not the Intelligence Committee.

The good news is that her positions are incredibly unpopular with everyone who doesn't work for a newspaper or play golf all day. I'd like to see how she wins running on bankruptcy reform and Iraq.

I've not been happy with Ms. Harmon in a while -- Patriot Act and Bankruptcy bill come to mind.

I haven't heard anything about Ms. Winograd's campaign, but I will certainly be looking in to it!

Jane Harmon is hated by the progressive community in her district, she has been horrible on our issues.  Since Marcy entered the race many of the communities have been very responsive to her, the volunteers who come each weekend to pick up their precinct packets are fired up.  

CODEPINK can't get involved, it is a non-profit, but all the women and men from CODEPINK are giving what they can of time, money and connections.  This race is very important, the possibility is here, it is all about the numbers, so get to her nearest headquarters and give your time, or your money, get involved.  Show the hawk Harmon she can't behave that way and keep her job, and show other Hawks out there, that the progressive movement can be effective in holding them responsible.  Don't complain get out there and make a difference, it can happen in CA-36!