If you are a registered voter in the 14th Congressional district (i.e. ours) you probably got a pamphlet from Kevin Mullin's State Assembly office in the last day or two. It's as innocuous as one could imagine, titled "At Your Service – A Guide to Constituent Services" and lists a bunch of state agencies phone numbers and websites–sort of like Google would render if asked. It has standard pre-paid postage paid by the State of CA – meaning us.
Mr. Mullin is running against our councilor Emily Beach and supe David Canepa for the congressional seat being vacated by Jackie Speier. The primary is June 7th. You are seeing lawn signs pop up and now a non-political mailer lands with Mullin's office return address. A month ago, the Post noted the fundraising back then as
Canepa $427,956
Beach $276,887
Mullin $245,204 including self-funding of $65K
Mattammal $16,416
Watters $10,000
Name recognition is going to be key since you would probably need a very small ruler to measure the total differences in any 20 positions between the three Democrats. So expect more bits of mail, local newspaper articles written from candidates' press releases and whatever else they can think of to nurse the campaign funds into June. Here is today's example of how the game is played, neighbor.
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