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Rhoda Nazanin announces decision to drop from CA-25 race
In a statement issued by her campaign, 25th Congressional District candidate Rhoda Nazanin announced on Wednesday she is no longer running in the 2022 election. “Unfortunately, as we look at our third-quarter fundraising numbers, it made it clear that our campaign is not on a path to compete in this primary and to beat (Rep. […]
Marcy Rothenberg: Carpetbagging, the gift that keeps on hurting CA-25 Dems
When our founding fathers wrote Article 1, section 2, clause 2 of the United States Constitution, they had no idea that a state as geographically expansive as California might one day exist. If they had, they’d likely have added a requirement that House candidates not just live in the state they’re running to serve, but […]
Navy veteran Quaye Quartey enters CA-25 race
With the start of June came the launch of Quaye Quartey’s campaign for the United States House of Representatives with an eye on CA-25. Quartey spent 20 years in the Navy, spending half of his career overseas serving primarily abroad as an intelligence officer in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and, most recently, Europe. He […]
“I am that candidate”: How Rhoda Nazanin sees victory in CA-25 race
Santa Clarita has never seen anyone like Rhoda Nazanin. And that’s the point. Nazanin is an Iranian immigrant whose family fled persecution from the Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime in 1993. The daughter of a pastor, she became the first queer Iranian female pastor in the world to be credentialed by the Assemblies of God. And she’s […]