Alejandra Campoverdi

2014 Tea Party Favorite Chris Mcdaniel Mulls A Primary Against Roger Wicker

... guess how well that went. If Mc Daniel challenges Wicker, he will likely have a much tougher time getting traction. Wicker just came off a stint chairing the NRSC, so he should have all the connections he'll need to raise money. Perhaps more importantly, Wicker has had contact with the far-right forces that Cochran ignored for years. Wicker doesn't have the type of relationship with black voters that Cochran had, but it's a lot less likely that he'll be relying on them to save his career. There's also no guarantee that Mc Daniel will run: Last cycle, he expressed interest in challenging Rep. Steven Palazzo in the primary, but ended up sitting the race out. Still, there's one big orange x-factor out there. Wicker doesn't seem to have alienated Donald Trump, but if that changes and senator finds himself on the wrong end of some nasty tweets, he could get a lot more vulnerable. And while Mc Daniel backed Ted Cruz in the presidential primary, his ties to neo-Confederate groups and sexist rhetoric (during his radio career, Mc Daniel uttered such gems as "It's so ...

Congressional Candidate Alejandra Campoverdi On Previously Modeling For Maxim

... said Campoverdi, adding, “I was now stamped as the ‘White House Maxim Model.’ I had been reduced to a stereotype.”. She continued, “After crying for a week, I put my head down and worked even harder. The only thing that ever got me anywhere was working hard, showing up when I said I would or earlier, and doing more than just the job I was hired to do. And that’s what I did for my next four years at the White House.”. FROM COINAGE: This Is How Much It Would Cost to Paint the White House (And More Crazy Facts). Campoverdi is one of 23 candidates running to fill the seat vacated by now-California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, in the April 4 special election. The top two candidates will continue onto a runoff election in June. She wrote in Cosmo that now, eight years on, she understands “a lot more about the systemic sexism in politics than the young woman who beat ...

A Woman Running For Congress Faces A Double Mastectomy

... to 85 percent. Because of this pre-existing condition, I could be denied coverage without Obamacare. If Donald Trump wants to have a conversation about women's bodies, let's start with mine.". Like many women in America watching the tumultuous negotiations over the fate of health insurance, Campoverdi is afraid to lose many of the gains ushered in by the Affordable Care Act. From Trump’s proposed “ deal ” to preserve Planned Parenthood federal funding strictly if they stop providing abortion (something that could put the health of women at risk ) to the potential gaps in coverage for people cannot afford “continuous coverage,” there’s a lot to lose. Although the Republicans’ proposed American Health Care Act would preserve Obamacare’s pre-existing condition provision, Campoverdi says she is worried about access to preventative services that women need to thwart diseases like the one that runs in her family. “I don't trust Donald Trump and Republicans to be honest about my health care,” she told Vox. “They have chosen to play political games with women's health by cutting funding for Planned ...

Former White House Aide, Also A Former L.a. Times Employee, Joins Candidates Vying To Succeed Xavier Becerra

... Washington works," said Campoverdi, 37, who grew up in Santa Monica. "I was raised by a single mother who emigrated from Mexico and by my grandmother. Every day I saw the sacrifices they made for our family and for the community.". Campoverdi worked in the White House from 2009 to 2012, first as an assistant to a deputy chief of staff and later as deputy director of Hispanic media. While at The Times in 2015, she worked with the publisher's office on a video project about immigration and the American identity. She left in July to pursue opportunities with other media outlets. Campoverdi strikes a similar tone to many of her fellow candidates, vowing to "stand up against Donald Trump and his politics of hate.". Other candidates vying for the seat include. Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles). Wendy Carrillo, a Democratic labor ...

Daylight Time Edition

... The Times revisited an old perennial story — conservatives in Hollywood — and says they have a harder time with Trump in. The schedule for this year's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is due out on Thursday. The LA Times had a South Korean political ad on A 1 one day last week. Media people doing stuff. ESPN senior writer Ramona Shelburne had great inside details on the Lakers front-office turmoil and the move by Jeanie Buss to install Magic Johnson. J. A. Adande , now director of sports journalism at Medill School of Journalism, talks at Mashable about The Players Tribune after two years. Sam Quinones suggests in Foreign Policy that Donald Trump Is the Opportunity Mexico Has Been Waiting for. Ex-KNBC reporter Doug Kriegel did a 30-minute freelance piece for KPFK titled California vs Trump. Terry Anzur has left KFI's Saturday "Handel on the Law" program. AP's John Rogers wrote the wire's story on the (long) retirement of LA photographer Nick Ut. Justin Tinsley at The Undefeated talks ...

Congressional Candidate Faces Double Mastectomy And Trump’s ‘disastrous’ Health Policies

... is taking President Trump ‘s plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act very personally. The 37-year-old former White House aide to President Obama publicly revealed last week that she has a genetic mutation called BRCA 2, which means she has an 85-percent likelihood of developing breast cancer. The disease claimed the lives of her grandmother and great-grandmother and almost took her mother’s, and now Campoverdi is making her BRCA 2 diagnosis — and her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy in two years — the centerpiece of her campaign to fill Xavier Becerra’s vacant congressional seat in California’s 34 th district. “Health care is a life or death issue for so many Americans, so many people in my district in Los Angeles,” Campoverdi tells PEOPLE. “Sometimes we can get into debates that are very theoretical about issues, and forget that there’s a lot personally on the line for people every day — that every day someone doesn’t have access to health care, or that every day somebody has a bill that puts them in the position of going bankrupt.”. ...

Who Will Be Most Affected By Gop Health Plan

... accounts to applicants or determined whether posts should be grounds for blocking admission to the U. S., the agency's inspector general found. A PATH TO DEBT-FREE COLLEGE. California Assembly Democrats are wading into the college affordability debate with a new proposal that aims to tackle costs beyond tuition that are forcing students to take out loans. The plan would build upon California's existing higher education assistance for students in the CSU and UC systems. It would also make community colleges tuition-free for full-time students' first year. Melanie Mason and Teresa Watanabe have an advance look at the measure. SANCTUARY STATE SPLIT. Law enforcement leaders across the state are torn on proposed legislation in the state Senate that would ban law enforcement agencies from using resources to enforce federal immigration laws. Jazmine Ulloa has the story on the reaction to the legislation, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) in response to Trump's executive orders on immigration, one of which pledged to cut federal dollars from so-called ...

Wednesday's Tv Highlights

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Alejandra Campoverdi Is Running For Congress. And Facing Down The Threat Of Cancer

... official says as the doors slide open and she enters the hallway. “French fries! I’m so hungry.”. She’s always uneasy when she walks down hallways like this one. Within a few minutes, a nurse will be X-raying her chest and pumping a dye into her veins that will leave her a little lightheaded, but that might give her some answers. Two years ago, Campoverdi learned that she has a genetic mutation, known as BRCA 2, that means she is extremely likely to develop breast cancer, the disease that took the lives of her grandmother and great-grandmother, and nearly took her mother’s. She inherited the grit of those three Mexican American women, but they also bequeathed her a gene that could kill her. Campoverdi’s diagnosis and her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy in the near future, which she is discussing publicly for the first time in a Washington Post interview, forms the emotional and intellectual foundation of her campaign to represent a portion of her native Los ...