Ro Khanna is running for Congress…again. It’s nothing new. He’s been running for Congress since he graduated law school 13 years ago. It’s what he does.
Right after law school Khanna spent two years campaigning to unseat Congressman Tom Lantos in the 2004 election. After five years at a San Francisco law firm and a brief stint at the U.S. Department of Commerce, he spent another year and a half campaigning to unseat Congressman Pete Stark. When Stark lost to Eric Swalwell in 2012, he spent two more years campaigning to unseat Congressman Mike Honda. All the while Khanna was raising millions of dollars and forcing his opponents to raise similar amounts.
Now he’s gearing up to do it again. During the recent Assembly District Election Meetings (ADEM) to elect delegates to the state Democratic party, Khanna orchestrated a massive effort to get his handpicked slate elected, one that will presumably endorse him for a 2016 Congressional run. And he’s been talking with everyone he can to curry favor for another run. Khanna is no longer “Of Counsel” at the peninsula law firm of Wilson, Sonsini. It was never much more than a façade, but now he is not even trying to create the appearance of having a real job.
Between college, law school and campaigning, Khanna has spent very few years of his adult life doing anything that could be described as contributing to society. No other South Bay candidate in memory has had the chutzpah to campaign so long with so little accomplishment to campaign on. Khanna’s ambition is blind, blind to the fact that he is not qualified for Congress and blind to the fact that his efforts to get there divert vital resources from Democrats who need them.
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