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April 13, 2026

Swalwell Out

Timothy Birdnow

Eric Swallows, er, Swalwell, the home of the Fang Fang, is out of the California gubernatorial race.

The deranged Trump-hating, Chinese spy loving has been brought down by accusations of sexual abuse by staffers, who have accused the Congressman of very inappropriate behavior.

No surprise; this is a guy who took up with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.

There is no word from Democrats if they will support Republican efforts to remove him from Congress but you can bet your bottom dollar (all that you have left if you are from California) that they will fight to keep him in, arguing it's the "people's decision" and not theirs. On the other hand maybe they will choose to go the special election route after all, since they still have a good chance of winning the seat with a replacement.

Even Adam Schiff called for Swalwell to step down. That's something to lose Schiff.

One must suspect that the Democrats looked at internal polling and decided Swalwell would lose and forced him out this way. It's their MO.

We'll know if they don't hold a special election to replace him in Congress; if they do then it means his numbers were too low. If they don't it means they just feared the political fallout. But the point is moot; either way they threw this guy under the bus.

I wish he'd stayed in, frankly; we'd have a great opportunity to retake the Governorship there if he had.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 07:30 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 Well, with their nutsy primary system, there are still two Republicans at the top of the heap. And they are good ones! It must have cost the Donkeys a lot of soul-searching to abandon Swalwell the way they did.

I would imagine things are rather cool at the Swalwell home these days, even without air conditioning...

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 13, 2026 10:52 PM (nxbxX)

2 Yeah; it was quite a thing for the Dems to dump the old boy.
I would imagine Mrs. Swalwell is none too happy.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 14, 2026 08:44 AM (oflqW)

3 Tell me, Tim: am I a Bad Guy for wishing that Mrs. Swalwell would pull a Lorena Bobitt on Eric?

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 14, 2026 10:53 PM (+uala)

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