Brezenoff Breaks 5 Percent in Congressional Run-Off

Green Party congressional candidate Daniel Brezenoff got 5.4 percent in Tuesday's run-off. As expected, Democrat Laura Richardson won the election, amid very low voter turnout.

See full results here.

Daniel Brezenoff for Congress: election Tuesday

The runoff in the special election for Congress in the 37th district is this Tuesday. The Green Party candidate is Daniel Brezenoff.

From Brezenoff's website:

Daniel Brezenoff has been active in the civil rights, labor, environmental, and peace movements literally since the age of ten. Raised in a family of civil rights, labor, and anti-war activists, he has organized, marched, spoken out publicly and published essays in newspapers about issues of justice, integrity and nonviolence in government and society. He was the founder of Long Beach Citizens for Peace and a principal organizer for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign. Daniel has worked on several national and local political campaigns for progressive Democratic, left-Libertarian and Green candidates.

As a clinical social worker, Daniel has worked closely with some of the most challenging populations in the mental health field, including men and women struggling with addiction, young adults leaving the juvenile incarceration system, and children who have been severely abused. Daniel has facilitated healing, understanding, and solutions with groups and families dealing with violence, trauma, and poverty. He has also been an advocate on the macro level for people with mental illness, especially veterans and women fleeing violence.

Daniel was selected by mental health professionals to serve on the North Carolina Governor’s Crime Commission committee on domestic violence from 1999-2001.

As a historian and journalist, Daniel has given his time and energy to the cause of truth in media and government, tirelessly challenging the myths created to support the status quo by researching and publishing accurate information for the public on the Internet and in periodicals.

Daniel was active in helping to pass the federal Clean Air Acts and in advocating for full disclosure in food and drug labeling in the 1990’s. He helped organize the successful nationwide drives on college campuses to encourage fair trade and labor practices by merchandisers.

Daniel has never held public office, but the dire situation in Washington, and the request of local Greens that he run, caused him to feel that the time is now to take his public service to a new level.

37th Congressional District - Special Election results

Green Party candidate Daniel Abraham Brezenoff will be joining Democrat Laura Richardson, Republican John M. Kanaley, and Libertarian Herb Peters in the August 21 special Congressional election run-off, according to the results on the CA Secretary of State's website.

Here are the full "Semi - Final Official Canvass" results, as of this moment:

United States Representative District 37
As of June 26, 2007 at 11:35 p.m. * Precincts Reporting 100% (334 of 334)
Registered Voters 266,017 * Ballots Cast 29,637 * Turnout 11.14%

Candidate	Party	Votes	Percent
Laura Richardson	Dem	11,027	37.76%
Jenny Oropeza	Dem	9,144	31.31%
Valerie Mc Donald	Dem	2,743	9.39%
John M. Kanaley	Rep	2,230	7.64%
Peter Mathews	Dem	1,031	3.53%
Teri Ramirez	Rep	560	1.92%
Daniel Abraham Brezenoff	Grn	352	1.21%
Jeffrey "Lincoln" Leavitt	Rep	345	1.18%
Leroy Joseph "L.J." Guillory	Rep	334	1.14%
Ed Wilson	Dem	334	1.14%
Herb Peters	Lib	315	1.08%
George A. Parmer, Jr.	Dem	220	0.75%
Lee Davis	Dem	181	0.62%
Jeffrey S. Price	Dem	128	0.44%
Bill Francisco Grisolia	Dem	125	0.43%
Felicia Ford	Dem	109	0.37%
Mervin Evans	Dem	26	0.09%
Total		29,204	100.00%

Special Congressional Election Tomorrow!

The primary in the Special Congressional election in the 37th District (Long Beach, Compton) is tomorrow (6/26). The election is being watched closely by Greens because Green Party candidate Daniel Brezenoff is running a strong grassroots campaign.

The Democrats are strongly favored to retain the seat formerly held by Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, who died from cancer in April, but with 17 candidates a run-off is likely. The leading Democratic candidates are state Sen. Jenny Oropeza (D-Long Beach) and Assemblywoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach).

If no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote tomorrow, the top vote-getter from each party will go on to the general election in August. This means that Brezenoff does not need to finish in second place to get to the run-off.

Check back here Tuesday evening for preliminary results.

Daniel Brezenoff for Congress press conference

Green Party member Daniel Brezenoff is running for Congress in the 37th Congressional District (South Los Angeles and Long Beach). A special election is being held on June 26 (with a potential runoff in August) to fill the seat formerly held by Juanita Mellender-McDonald (D), who died of cancer in April.

Green joins field in Special Election for Congress

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA NEWS RELEASE
Green joins crowded field in 37th Congressional District Special Election; War, climate change among major issues candidate will address

LONG BEACH (May 23, 2007) - Clinical social worker Daniel Brezenoff, a member of the Green Party of California, has announced his candidacy in the 37th Congressional District Special Election to replace Juanita Mellender-McDonald (D), who died of cancer in April.

Brezenoff becomes one of 19 candidates in the June 26 election in a district that encompasses South Los Angeles and Long Beach. If no candidate garners more than 50 percent, a runoff between the top vote-getters in each party will be held in August.

At least 55 California Greens hold elected office currently in the state, including five mayors or mayors pro-tem, 11 members of city councils/boards of supervisors and 13 on boards of education.

A campaign worker for Green Party and progressive Democratic candidates, Brezenoff opposed the war in Iraq before it began and has written extensively about climate change. His platform emphasizes sustainability, peace and social justice.

Brezenoff has taken a stronger stand opposing the war than others in the large field, and has also taken firm positions on lesser discussed issues, including prison reform, the war on drugs, immigration, public health and patents, torture, and campus recruiting. Brezenoff is a strong supporter of LGBTIQ equality and women's reproductive health rights.

Brezenoff has selected a diverse campaign staff for his grassroots campaign, including Donna Warren, former Green candidate for Congress and Lieutenant Governor, and Families To Amend California's Three Strikes, as his campaign treasurer, and Long Beach native Steven Delgado, a former campus activist and close friend of Brezenoff's, as campaign manager.