Here’s a pre-primary column explaining and exploring California’s unbroken modern-day history of rejecting rich candidates, with no prior elected office, trying to become governor or U.S. senator
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Over the past half-century, rich political neophytes have consistently tried and failed to be elected governor or U.S. senator. What makes California so inhospitable to the upper-crust aspirants?