By Dan Bluemel
Luis Rodriguez, the Green Party’s pick for governor in 2014, stopped in Los Angeles this week to raise money for his campaign. Appearing at a news conference in Venice, Rodriguez said his campaign will be about an often unheard demographic in American politics: the poor.
“It is … important that we have new voices in this political process; it is missing the poor,” Rodriguez said. “This is why I am running, to be that voice for the disenfranchised, the forgotten, the pushed-out, the pissed-off, that they [too] get represented.”
Rodriguez’s goal is not an easy one, nor is it new. He wants to end poverty in California, a largely ignored objective in a California gubernatorial campaign since Upton Sinclair ran for governor in 1934.
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