Ex-Republican Turned Democratic Congressman Explains California GOP’s Demise: ‘We Chose Short-Term Expediency and Racism’

In 1994, Republican Mark DeSaulnier – now a Democrat representing California’s 11th congressional district in the San Francisco Bay Area – was working at the restaurant he owned in Concord, California when he took a phone call in the kitchen from Republican Gov. Pete Wilson’s office. The eatery was called TR’s Bar and Grill, named […]