Loretta Sanchez

Loretta Sanchez

Loretta Sanchez (born January 7, 1960 in Lynwood , California ) is an American politician . She was a Congresswoman for California from 1996 to 2017. In 2016 she ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate .

Career

Loretta Sanchez is the older sister of Congresswoman Linda Sánchez . Your family is from Mexico . She has six siblings in total. Sanchez attended Katella High School in Anaheim and then studied at Chapman University in Orange until 1982 . This was followed by studies at the American University in the federal capital Washington, DC until 1984 . From 1984 to 1996 she worked as a financial analyst. Politically, she was initially a member of the Republican Party . In 1992 she ran unsuccessfully for the Anaheim City Council. In 1996 she joined the Democrats .

In the 1996 congressional election , Sanchez was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the 46th  constituency of California, where she succeeded Bob Dornan on January 3, 1997 . After nine re-elections, she was able to exercise her mandate in Congress until January 3, 2017. There they sat in the Armed Services Committee , the Committee on Homeland Security and the Joint Economic Committee . She was also a member of the International Conservation Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus . During her time as Congresswoman, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the Iraq war and the military operation in Afghanistan fell . Her political work focused on education, the fight against crime, economic development and the protection of older citizens. Loretta Sanchez voted against the Iraq war in 2002. After representing her state's 47th constituency in Congress between 2003 and 2013, she returned to the 46th constituency after re-election in 2013.

Sanchez announced that he would run for a seat in the US Senate to succeed her party colleague Barbara Boxer in the 2016 elections . In the primaries on June 7, 2016, she came second after Kamala Harris (40 percent) and qualified for the main election in November. Since 2012, with the exception of the president , California has no longer applied primary elections for all electoral posts : all candidates are voted on in a single primary, regardless of their party affiliation (so-called nonpartisan blanket primary ). In the actual election, the two most successful candidates in the area code compete against each other, while the remaining applicants are eliminated. Since Sanchez took second place with around 16 percent and thus left all candidate Republicans behind, Harris and Sanchez were the first two Democrats to meet in the actual Senate election. Harris won the election with 62.6% of the vote. Unlike Harris, Sanchez could count on little support from large democratic parties in the election campaign; in addition to US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden , California Governor Jerry Brown and his deputy Gavin Newsom also spoke out in favor of Harris. The outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer also promoted Harris as a successor. In July 2016, Sanchez sparked public controversy when she accused President Obama of supporting Harris only because of her African-American identity. Since Sanchez no longer ran for the House of Representatives in favor of the Senate candidacy, she had to leave Congress on January 3, 2017.

Together with her sister Linda , she formed the only female siblings to date who also belong to the congress.

Web links

Commons : Loretta Sanchez  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Loretta Sanchez in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Web presence at the congress

Individual evidence

1. ↑ US Senate Primary results ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , California Secretary of State (English) 
2. ↑ Rep. Loretta Sanchez implies Obama endorsed Senate rival because they are both black , LA Times, July 22, 2016 (English)