{"id":1126097,"date":"2021-12-16T17:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1126097"},"modified":"2021-12-16T17:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:59:29","slug":"pelosis-majority-crumbles-california-democrat-rep-alan-lowenthal-will-not-seek-reelection-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosis-majority-crumbles-california-democrat-rep-alan-lowenthal-will-not-seek-reelection-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi\u2019s Majority Crumbles: California Democrat Rep. Alan Lowenthal Will Not Seek Reelection in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosis-majority-crumbles-california-democrat-rep-alan-lowenthal-will-not-seek-reelection-in-2022%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1126097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">California Rep.&nbsp;Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) announced Thursday he will not&nbsp;seek reelection in the 2022 midterms,&nbsp;becoming the twentieth&nbsp;Democrat to leave the House and casting more doubt on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-CA) ability to maintain the majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as every journey has a beginning, so too does it have an end.&nbsp;I am announcing today that I will not be running for reelection to Congress in 2022,\u201d&nbsp;Lowenthal <a href=\"https:\/\/lowenthal.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/congressman-alan-lowenthal-announces-he-will-not-seek-reelection-congress-2022\">said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cIt is time to pass the baton. It is time to rest and surround myself with the benefits of a life well lived and earned honorably in the service of my fellow citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhile I am stepping aside from the front lines of that struggle, I will continue to be at your side, fighting for what is right, for what is just, and for what makes us better as both a people and a nation,\u201d the 80-year-old congressman said.&nbsp;\u201cIt has been a distinct honor and a true privilege to serve you and all of the people of Los Angeles and Orange counties in the 47th District during my time in Congress,\u201d he added, noting that he\u2019s been in the&nbsp;Congress since 2013 but has been in&nbsp;politics for roughly 30 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.241758241758\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After serving the 47th District of California for almost 10 years in Washington, D.C., I have decided not to run for reelection to Congress in 2022. Read my full statement to my constituents: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jZm8VdXvz7\">https:\/\/t.co\/jZm8VdXvz7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Alan Lowenthal (@RepLowenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLowenthal\/status\/1471528316343623687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, while Lowenthal&nbsp;has been in Congress since 2013, he has been a close confidant to the Pelosi-Biden partisan agenda.&nbsp;Lowenthal has voted with Pelosi 98 percent of the time, so far, in the current 117th Congress, <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/represent\/members\/P000197-nancy-pelosi\/compare-votes\/L000579-alan-lowenthal\/116\">according to voting records<\/a>&nbsp;kept by ProPublica.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some of those votes include the&nbsp;disastrous&nbsp;$1.2 trillion, 2,702-page&nbsp;so-called&nbsp;bipartisan infrastructure bill earlier this year&nbsp;\u2014 which President Joe Biden signed into law \u2014 and the&nbsp;$1.75 trillion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/19\/house-passes-behemoth-build-back-better-act\/\">Build Back Better Act<\/a>&nbsp;(BBB) \u2014 also&nbsp;known as the Democrats\u2019 reconciliation infrastructure bill. The BBB is also considered the&nbsp;\u201cmarquee legislation\u201d to Biden\u2019s legislation agenda and would&nbsp;ultimately&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/12\/bidens-build-back-better-will-raise-taxes-on-30-of-middle-class-families\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">increase<\/a> taxes on the middle class, expand and prolong the effects of inflation, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/18\/cbo-build-back-better-act-adds-750-billion-to-deficit-over-five-years\/\">add<\/a> hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Torunn Sinclair, a spokeswoman from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), said, \u201cDemocrats have a full-blown retirement crisis on their hand because voters are rejecting their agenda of higher prices, higher crime, and open borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News has extensively reported on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2021\/12\/01\/19-democrats-leave-house-2022-three-committee-chairs\/\">Pelosi\u2019s majority crumbling<\/a>&nbsp;in the past and the Democrats\u2019 struggles to&nbsp;keep members in the House and find new candidates to run for office.&nbsp;While Lowenthal becomes the twentieth Democrat to announce they will not seek reelection in the House, he is only the twelfth Democrat to announce actual retirement from the public eye&nbsp;\u2014 including three committee chairs&nbsp;\u2014 while eight more Democrats announced they would run for a different office, either in a local or state election.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16596740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nancy-Pelosi-staredown-mask-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16596740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nancy-Pelosi-staredown-mask-getty.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wears a cloth mask to cover her mouth and nose to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol April 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. While she and Democratic House leaders are not going to reconvene next week due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she said committee chairs are working on the next piece of economic rescue legislation. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHouse Democrats\u2019<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>retirement crisis has reached fever pitch,\u201d Congressional Leadership Fund communications director Calvin Moore said. \u201cDemocrats can\u2019t convince anyone to run again because they know their record of higher prices, higher crime, and higher taxes will be impossible to defend back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Rep.\u00a0Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) announced Thursday he will not\u00a0seek reelection in the 2022 midterms,\u00a0becoming the twentieth\u00a0Democrat to leave the House and casting more doubt on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-CA) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}