I view Williamson’s candidacy for public office as a very welcome bellwether. Is the political conversation about to change? I also applaud her extraordinary bravery. Only last year I was asked to run for our local City Council, and declined. Cannot imagine the cultural hornet’s nest she will encounter by running for national office in southern California.
Spiritual author Marianne Williamson, running for Rep. Henry Waxman’s Congressional seat, to appear in Redondo Beach
Noted spiritual author Marianne Williamson is running for the 33rd Congressional District seat held by Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman.
REDONDO BEACH — Spiritual author and lecturer Marianne Williamson will discuss her campaign for the 33rd Congressional District seat held by Rep. Henry Waxman during an appearance tonight at the Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in Redondo Beach.
Williamson is scheduled to be at the bookstore at 2810 Artesia Blvd. from 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Williamson declared her candidacy Sunday, telling supporters at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, “it’s time for a politics of conscience, a new chapter in our history in which love is not minimized, the voices of women and children are not marginalized and the future of the United States is not bartered for a pot of unrighteous gold.”
Williamson said her main issue is the undue influence of moneyed interests on the political system.
“We have developed over the last few decades a system of legalized corruption in the United States in which those with money are accorded much more political influence than those who are without,” Williamson said. “And that is not democracy.”
Williamson said she also plans to discuss gerrymandering, the economy, climate change and sustainable energy, child poverty and higher education in her campaign in the district that stretches along the coast from Malibu to Rancho Palos Verdes and also includes Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Beverly Hills and other portions of the Westside.
Williamson described herself as a lifelong Democrat, but said she will appear on the June primary ballot without a party designation because of her belief that both parties are too beholden to corporate interests.
“I’m not just concerned by where the parties are different,” Williamson said. “I’m even more concerned by where they are too much the same.”
There was no immediate response from Waxman, D-Beverly Hills, to Williamson’s candidacy.
Williamson is the author of 10 books, six of which have appeared on The New York Times best-sellers list. She founded Project Angel Food in 1990, which provides food to homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area.
Williamson is also the founder of the The Peace Alliance, which supports creation of a United States Department of Peace.
Williamson said she does not think of Waxman, who has been in the House since 1975, as her opponent.
“We’re simply candidates for the same position,” Williamson said.
“Mr. Waxman has been a good congressman for 38 years and I believe he deserves appreciation and respect. But a new conversation is required now and the political status quo — even the best of it — cannot provide that.
“Waxman knows many things because he’s been in Congress for 38 years, but I know many things because I have not been. Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.”
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I couldn’t agree more…Bring spirit back into all things and the world will straighten out. Hope she gets the seat…It’s a beginning. Gotta start somewhere 🙂 VK
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Thanks Ann….
Political choices, for me at least, have come to form such a complex political knot of choice.
Both major parties seem to always, always, always be locked in mortal combat by party leadership shills who believe nothing, parrot platitudes, and end up leading us to serve the same core corruptions which only appear to grow more intense every season.
These comments are not extended to impair the candidate reviewed in your article.
But I do so want to be lifted emotionally with a vessel carrier that carries my water from an endless upwheling spring of truth to the dry fields where the sun-baked seeds of hope await the next spring flood.
No one I throw my support to ever seems to win anymore. This is the price I pay in backing my truth talkers. As a young man I seem to just go with the masses. As an old man I believe in the power of one. Now I feel it’s better to be trampled in the dust than to submit.
I don’t see how my truth talker (so far) this political season will possibly rise above the dust cloud with his pledge to reform the Federal Reserve by replacing it with a “publicly owned” Federal Reserve in his seemingly implausible run for Presidential office.
Surely they will kill him first.
The old saying “Too soon we grow old, too late we grow wise,” works more like “Too soon we grow old, and wisdom is a grace beyond reach.”
This must all be a dream anyway.
Yeah, remember Bill Hicks: “It’s just a ride.”
…”Some people come back and tell us, ‘Don’t worry cause it’s just a ride’ ….. and we, kill those people.”…..
Is it possible to marry truth-talkers to politics and survive?
Perhaps Marianne is the test. I’m sure she’s aware of the extreme danger. I ache for her vulnerability, just looking at her fresh faced photo.
And perhaps my guy too. My guy appears pre-ordained to win, speaking personally and not under the corporate logo of my posted name of course:
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She’s trying to unseat one of the best, most responsible members of congress. Where’s the conscience in that.
Good point. Thanks.