Former MLB MVP Steve Garvey Announces Run for California Senate Seat

Steve Garvey, former Most Valuable Player (MVP) of Major League Baseball (MLB), joined the race for the Senate seat that for many years belonged to Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat who recently died at the age of 90.

On an interim basis, Governor Gavin Newsom chose to appoint Laphonza Butler as senator until next year when Feinstein’s term expires.

Looking ahead to the elections where a new senator will be sought, Katie Porter, Adam Schiff and Barbara Lee will enter the race and perhaps even Laphonza Butler herself.

In this sense, Steve Garvey announced his intention to run for the Republican Partya complicated mission, since in the last two elections to the California Senate, the candidates of his party were swept by the Democrats.

In fact, The most recent time a Republican won a Senate race representing California occurred in 1988.

However, Garvey hopes to translate the success he achieved in professional baseball into politics.

With 74 years on his back, he launched his campaign through a video full of images of MLB games alluding to his career as an All-Star as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres.

“I never played for Democrats, Republicans or independents. I played for all of you. It is going to be a common sense campaign,” said the idol of the “King of Sports” who He played his last game in the MLB in 1987, the year he said goodbye after 18 seasons in the Major Leagues.

It should be noted that, In 1974, Steve Garvey was named MVP of the National League.

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The former first baseman Now you will face the challenge of raising millions of dollars to allocate them to a good campaign advertising, but first he must create an organization that will allow him to attract the necessary voters to support his candidacy for the Senate.

Currently, in California, Democrats hold all state offices and dominate the legislative and congressional delegations.

Proportionately, Republicans are outnumbered by Democrats about 2 to 1 in the state. Additionally, they have failed to win a state race since 2006.

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2023-10-11 04:26:10
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