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Democratic Clubs The only two South Bay Democratic Clubs to endorse in this race, Torrance Democratic Club and Beach Cities Democratic Club; Progressive Democratic Club; Bruin Democrats; California State University, Northridge Democrats; Gardena Valley Democratic Club; and University of Southern California Democrats

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Fluke, who holds an undergraduate degree in policy analysis from Cornell and a law degree from Georgetown, also has an impressive grasp of the city’s most pressing issues: the extraordinary gutting of the school system, with California having shockingly dropped to 49th in the nation in “per pupil spending” (the Los Angeles Unified School District laid off approximately 5,000 teachers, librarians, and nurses in 2011); the uptick in gang violence; the importance of tax credits for the film industry, now pending before the legislature; the need to attract other industries to Los Angeles, off-shore drilling at Manhattan Beach, a moratorium on fracking, preserving the Ballona Wetlands, and to do “what we can about climate change.” She wants to “make progress environmentally, but also create jobs.”

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“I don’t think that my time in that situation is what in any way qualifies me for office, but I think it gives voters an example of what my leadership looks like,” Ms. Fluke said. “You can see that I don’t back down from my position, that I’m willing to stand for my community’s needs regardless of the consequences for me.”

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Fluke turned that 15 minutes into something more, and is now a candidate in California for a state senate seat. Today, over at Post-Everything, she weighed in on the court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case, which granted certain companies the right to refuse birth control coverage on religious grounds.

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On Monday, after the Supreme Court announced its ruling in the Hobby Lobby case, Erickson used Twitter to summarize his interpretation of the decision: “My religion trumps your ‘right’ to employer subsidized consequence free sex.” It wasn’t the first time a prominent conservative in the media suggested the contraception controversy was actually about personal responsibility. Back in 2012, Rush Limbaugh famously attacked Sandra Fluke, then a college student advocating for contraception coverage, as a “slut” because “She's having so much sex she can't afford contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."

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Sandra appeared on Hardball on June 30th, 2014 in order to show the devastating fallout of the Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court.

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“I’m not someone who thought for a long time about running for office,” said Fluke. “I’ve been devoted to public interest work. I’ve done legislative advocacy and represented indigent clients. And I’ve seen what I can accomplish as a lawyer and advocate and thought of how much more I could accomplish as a legislator and that is why I chose to run for office. The decision is not more complicated than giving voice to people without voice."

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