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A challenge from the anti-Israel Left
By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
02/25/10 5:06 PM EST
California
36th district Congresswoman Jane Harman is being challenged in the
Democratic primary by left-wing Democrat Marcy Winograd. Harman has
paid some political price for her strong positions on national security
issues. Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed her as the lead Democrat on the
House Intelligence Committee; Harman had been ranking minority member
from to , but Pelosi denied her the chairmanship when Democrats won
their majority in 2006, instead naming Silvestre Reyes of Texas, whose
knowledge of the issues was far inferior to Harman’s. Also in 2006
Winograd ran against Harman in the Democratic primary, attacking her
for her support of the Iraq war resolution, and held Harman to a
62%-38% victory—by no means an overwhelming margin for an incumbent in
a primary.
Harman was unopposed in the 2008 primary, but this year Winograd is
running again. It looks like one key issue will be Israel. Harman’s
colleague Henry Waxman, of the 30th district and Chairman of the House
Energy and Commerce Committee, has sent out a letter criticizing Winograd for
a February 2008 speech in which she, as Politico writes, “lamenting the
violence from both sides of the Middle East conflict, deemed a
two-state solution ‘unrealistic’ and ‘fundamentally wrong’ and called
for a one-state solution in which Israel and Palestine would coexist.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/A-challenge-from-the-anti-Israel-Left-85404547.html