Some House challengers eager to push California further left
LOS ANGELES (AP) ” U.S. Rep. Jim Costa is something of an outlier in liberal-minded California ” a centrist Democrat who supported the Keystone XL pipeline and was one of the last holdouts to line up behind President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.Costa has survived tough campaigns before, but the greatest threat to his future representing a district from California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley isn’t coming from a Republican this year. It’s coming from his own party. […]
